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The Dune Sequence Books in Order

by Brian HerbertScience Fiction & Fantasy

19 books from Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2003) to Sandworms of Dune (1994). Rated 4.6 across 243,504 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

    Book 1 2003 4.5 (5.2k)

    The war against the thinking machines The betrayal that turned House Atreides and House Harkonnen into mortal enemies The discovery of spice—the most valuable substance in the known universe The birth of the Sisterhood, Suk Doctors,…

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  2. Dune: The Machine Crusade

    Book 2 2003 4.5 (3.4k)

    The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right.

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  3. Dune: The Battle of Corrin

    Book 3 2004 4.5 (3.1k)

    Dune: The Battle of Corrin It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place.

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  4. Sisterhood of Dune

    Book 4 2012 4.6 (2.9k)

    The inspiration for the MAX original series DUNE: PROPHECY, coming Fall 2024! It is 83 years after the last thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as…

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  5. Mentats of Dune

    Book 5 2014 4.7 (2.7k)

    In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues.

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  6. Navigators of Dune

    Book 6 2016 4.6 (2.7k)

    Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.

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  7. Dune: House Atreides

    Book 7 2009 4.6 (3.6k)

    Capturing all the complexity and grand themes of the original, this prequel to the Dune series weaves a new tapestry of betrayal, passion, and destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than 30 years ago...

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  8. House Harkonnen

    Book 8 1925 by Kevin J. Anderson 4.6 (2.9k)

    Returning to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, this title continues the saga begun in Dune: House Atreides. As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House…

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  9. Dune: House Corrino

    Book 9 1999 4.7 (2.7k)

    Continuing the events leading up to Frank Herbert's immortal Dune saga, the exciting conclusion to this trilogy finds the cruel Tleilaxu overlords on Ix manufacturing a synthetic form of amal to supplant the spice from Dune.

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  10. Paul of Dune

    Book 10 2008 4.4 (2.1k)

    Paul of Dune is a sci-fi adventure novel everyone will want to read and no one will be able to forget. "Scott Brick delivers a powerful and entertaining reading reminiscent of a theatrical performance in a brilliant one-man show.

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  11. The Winds of Dune

    Book 11 2009 4.5 (1.4k)

    With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder.

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  12. Dune

    Book 12 1965 by Frank Herbert 4.7 (127.2k)

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård,…

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  13. Dune Messiah

    Book 13 1969 by Frank Herbert 4.4 (31.8k)

    The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment.

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  14. Children of Dune

    Book 14 1976 by Frank Herbert 4.6 (18.4k)

    Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile.

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  15. God Emperor of Dune

    Book 15 1981 by Frank Herbert 4.5 (12.8k)

    More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the…

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  16. Heretics of Dune

    Book 16 1984 by Frank Herbert 4.6 (8.2k)

    Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again.

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  17. Chapterhouse Dune

    Book 17 1985 by Frank Herbert 4.5 (6.7k)

    The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.

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  18. Hunters of Dune

    Book 18 2006 4.4 (2.5k)

    Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's…

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  19. Sandworms of Dune

    Book 19 1994 4.4 (3.1k)

    Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Dune Sequence is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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