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The Horus Heresy Books in Order

by Graham McNeillScience Fiction & Fantasy

54 books from Horus Rising (2006) to The Buried Dagger (2019). Rated 4.7 across 163,779 listener reviews.

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  1. Horus Rising

    Book 1 2006 by Dan Abnett 4.8 (18.6k)

    It is the 31st millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium of Man hasstretched out across the galaxy....

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  2. False Gods

    Book 2 2006 4.8 (12.2k)

    The Great Crusade that has taken humanity into the stars continues....

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  3. Galaxy in Flames

    Book 3 2012 by Ben Counter 4.8 (10.5k)

    Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III....

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  4. The Flight of The Eisenstein

    Book 4 2017 by James Swallow 4.8 (9.8k)

    Having witnessed the terrible massacre of Imperial forces on Isstvan III, Death Guard Captain Garro seizes a ship and sets a course for Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus' treachery....

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  5. Fulgrim

    Book 5 2014 4.6 (7.4k)

    Under the command of the newly appointed Warmaster Horus, the Great Crusade continues....

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  6. Descent of Angels

    Book 6 2014 by Mitchel Scanlon 4.6 (5.7k)

    The planet of Caliban exists much as it has for thousands of years - the knightly orders protect the common people, fighting back the beasts that lurk in the depths of the endless forests....

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  7. Legion

    Book 7 2008 by Dan Abnett 4.7 (6.4k)

    A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man....

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  8. Battle for the Abyss

    Book 8 2008 by Ben Counter 4.4 (4.1k)

    Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come....

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  9. Mechanicum

    Book 9 2017 4.7 (4.7k)

    As the flames of treachery spread throughout the Imperium, Horus plots to subvert or destroy all those who would stand against him....

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  10. Tales of Heresy

    Book 10 2019 by Dan Abnett 4.7 (2.4k)

    When Horus the Warmaster rebelled against the Emperor, the ensuing civil war nearly destroyed the Imperium. War raged across galaxy, pitting Astartes against their battle-brothers in a struggle where death was the only victor....

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  11. Fallen Angels

    Book 11 2009 by Mike Lee 4.7 (3.5k)

    With news of Horus' treachery spreading across the galaxy, the Great Crusade grinds to a halt as the primarchs and their Legions decide where their loyalty lies....

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  12. A Thousand Sons

    Book 12 2009 4.7 (4.4k)

    Censured at the Council of Nikaea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld....

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  13. Nemesis

    Book 13 2010 by James Swallow 4.6 (2.5k)

    After the horrors of Istvaan V, Horus declares outright war against the Imperium. In the shadows of the Emperor's Palace, powerful figures convene....

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  14. The First Heretic

    Book 14 2017 by Aaron Dembski-Bowden 4.8 (5.1k)

    Amidst the galaxy-wide war of the Great Crusade, the Emperor castigates the Word Bearers for their worship....

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  15. Prospero Burns

    Book 15 2011 by Dan Abnett 4.7 (3.7k)

    The Emperor is enraged. Primarch Magnus the Red of the Thousand Sons Legion has made a terrible mistake that endangers the very safety of Terra....

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  16. Age of Darkness

    Book 16 2017 by John French 4.6 (1.7k)

    After the betrayal at Isstvan, Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor, a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra....

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  17. The Outcast Dead

    Book 17 2017 4.6 (2k)

    The galaxy is burning. The Emperor's loyal primarchs prepare to do battle with Warmaster Horus and his turncoat Legions on the black sand of Isstvan....

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  18. Deliverance Lost

    Book 18 2011 by Gav Thorpe 4.7 (2.5k)

    As the Horus Heresy divides the Imperium, Corax and his few remaining Raven Guard escape the massacre at Isstvan V....

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  19. Know No Fear

    Book 19 2012 by Dan Abnett 4.8 (4.1k)

    Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster's increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guilliman returns to Ultramar to muster his Legion for war....

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  20. The Primarchs

    Book 20 2017 4.5 (1.5k)

    Created in the Emperor's own image, the primarchs had long thought themselves to be princes of the universe and masters of their own destiny....

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  21. Fear to Tread

    Book 21 2012 by James Swallow 4.7 (2.5k)

    Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius - angelic primarch of the IXth Legion - was ever among the closest and most loyal of Horus' brothers....

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  22. Shadows of Treachery

    Book 22 2017 by John French 4.7 (1.4k)

    From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself - the greatest war in the history of mankind rages on....

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  23. Angel Exterminatus

    Book 23 2013 4.8 (2.4k)

    Perturabo - master of siegecraft and the executioner of Olympia. Long has he lived in the shadow of his more favoured primarch brothers....

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  24. Betrayer

    Book 24 2013 by Aaron Dembski-Bowden 4.9 (4.4k)

    While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron's surprise attack on Calth, Lorgar and the rest of the Word Bearers strike deep into the realm of Ultramar....

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  25. Mark of Calth

    Book 25 2017 by Guy Haley 4.5 (1.3k)

    Heresy came to Calth without warning....

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  26. Vulkan Lives

    Book 26 2013 by Nick Kyme 4.5 (1.7k)

    In the wake of the Dropsite Massacre at Isstvan V, the survivors of the Salamanders Legion searched long and hard for their fallen primarch, but to no avail....

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  27. The Unremembered Empire

    Book 27 2013 by Dan Abnett 4.8 (2.5k)

    Far out on the Eastern Fringe, the realm of Ultramar stands alone....

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  28. Scars

    Book 28 2014 by Chris Wraight 4.7 (2.3k)

    Of all the Legiones Astartes, the White Scars of Jaghatai Khan remain the most enigmatic and elusive....

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  29. Vengeful Spirit

    Book 29 2014 4.7 (1.9k)

    Once the brightest star in the Imperium and always first among his primarch brothers, Horus has dragged the Space Marine Legions into the bloodiest conflict that the galaxy has ever seen....

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  30. The Damnation of Pythos

    Book 30 2014 by David Annandale 4.3 (1.1k)

    In the aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre at Isstvan V, a battered and bloodied force of Iron Hands, Raven Guard and Salamanders regroups on a seemingly insignificant death world....

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  31. Legacies of Betrayal

    Book 31 2019 by David Annandale 4.5 (421)

    Only from out of great conflict can true heroes arise. With the galaxy aflame and war on an unimaginable scale tearing the Imperium apart, champions of light and darkness venture onto countless fields of battle in service to their…

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  32. Deathfire

    Book 32 2015 by Nick Kyme 4.6 (1.2k)

    Vulkan lies in state beneath the Fortress of Hera, and yet many of his sons still refuse to believe that he is truly dead....

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  33. War Without End

    Book 33 2016 by David Annandale 4.6 (741)

    The Emperor's vision of mankind ascendant lies in tatters. The Great Crusade is naught but a fading memory....

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  34. Pharos

    Book 34 2016 by Guy Haley 4.8 (1.5k)

    With the noble Emperor Sanguinius ruling from Macragge, Imperium Secundus stands as a lone beacon of hope even as the Warmaster's forces continue to ravage the galaxy....

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  35. Eye of Terra

    Book 35 2017 by David Annandale 4.5 (674)

    The galaxy burns at Horus' command, and a billion more lives are lost with each passing moment - though it was not always so....

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  36. The Path of Heaven

    Book 36 2016 by Chris Wraight 4.7 (1.6k)

    For too long had the Vth Legion ranged out beyond the sight of the wider Imperium, remaining ignorant of the Warmaster's rebellion and the war that inevitably followed....

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  37. The Silent War

    Book 37 2017 by C Z Dunn 4.7 (776)

    While loyalist and traitor forces clash on a thousand battlefields across the galaxy, a very different kind of war is being fought in the shadows....

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  38. Angels of Caliban

    Book 38 2016 by Gav Thorpe 4.6 (1.5k)

    With the Dark Angels spread across a hundred systems, primarch Lion El'Jonson stands as Lord Protector of Ultramar....

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  39. Praetorian of Dorn

    Book 39 2017 by John French 4.7 (1.8k)

    Recalled from the Great Crusade after Ullanor, Rogal Dorn and the VIIth Legion were appointed as the Emperor's praetorians....

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  40. Corax

    Book 40 2017 by Gav Thorpe 4.7 (866)

    After Isstvan, after Deliverance, the Raven Guard still endure....

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  41. The Master of Mankind

    Book 41 2017 by Aaron Dembski-Bowden 4.8 (3.2k)

    While Horus' rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace....

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  42. Garro

    Book 42 2011 by James Swallow 4.8 (1.6k)

    From out of the shadows of the Silent War, a hero emerges....

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  43. Shattered Legions

    Book 43 2017 by Dan Abnett 4.6 (706)

    Driven almost to the brink of self-destruction at Isstvan V, the Iron Hands now seek vengeance for the murder of their primarch Ferrus Manus....

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  44. The Crimson King

    Book 44 2017 4.6 (1.1k)

    After the razing of Prospero, Magnus the Red spirited the Thousand Sons away to the aptly unnamed Planet of the Sorcerers, deep within the Eye of Terror....

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  45. Tallarn

    Book 45 2017 by John French 4.4 (794)

    As the Warmaster's campaign of galactic domination continues, his generals seek out fresh battlefields to conquer....

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  46. Ruinstorm

    Book 46 2017 by David Annandale 4.7 (1.4k)

    Imperium Secundus lies revealed as a heretical folly. Terra has not fallen, though it remains inaccessible....

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  47. Old Earth

    Book 47 2018 by Nick Kyme 4.7 (965)

    Reborn in body and spirit beneath Mount Deathfire, the primarch Vulkan gathers his most trusted sons and prepares for the final part of his journey....

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  48. The Burden of Loyalty

    Book 48 2018 by Dan Abnett 4.7 (549)

    As the darkness of the war slowly consumes the galaxy, those who still serve the Throne are faced with a struggle for their survival and the continued existence of everything they hold dear....

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  49. Wolfsbane

    Book 49 2018 by Guy Haley 4.8 (2k)

    The time has come for Leman Russ, primarch of the Space Wolves, to fulfil his vow and attempt to stop Warmaster Horus before he breaks through to the Segmentum Solar....

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  50. Born of Flame

    Book 50 2018 by Nick Kyme 4.4 (549)

    Born of the fiery world of Nocturne, the Salamanders believe in self-sacrifice and the sanctity of human life.

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  51. Slaves to Darkness

    Book 51 2018 by John French 4.7 (1.4k)

    After a long and gruelling conflict, the traitors at last close upon Terra. But time is dwindling for an attack....

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  52. Heralds of the Siege

    Book 52 2018 by John French 4.7 (769)

    A galaxy burns and brother turns on brother as the conflict brought about by a beloved son’s betrayal reaches its fateful end....

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  53. Titandeath

    Book 53 2019 by Guy Haley 4.6 (1.3k)

    War is unleashed on Beta-Garmon as the armies of the Emperor attempt to hold back the tide of Chaos in the last major clash before Horus reaches Terra itself - and the God-machines of the Adeptus Titanicus are on the front line....

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  54. The Buried Dagger

    Book 54 2019 by James Swallow 4.8 (1.9k)

    For long years, the Horus Heresy has ground on. Now, the Death Guard have been sent to begin the final battle. But Mortarion and his sons must face their gravest challenge first - for Nurgle has claimed them as his own, and he will not be…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Horus Heresy 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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