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#Best warhammer 40k novels on audible plus#
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I would suggest a few books/omnibus-es to begin with.Įisenhorn and Ravenor (two Inquisition books, WONDERFUL reads) and Titanicus (About the Legio Titans.

Follows the warlord Honsou of the Iron Warriors legion, with his warband as they assault a world held by the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Fists Space marine chapter.

Follows a squad of Night Lords as they fight against the Imperium, features antagonists from Space Marines, humans, Eldar, Deamons and other Chaos Marines.

Night Lords trilogy, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.

#Best warhammer 40k novels on audible series#

Series features antagonists from the necrons, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, Chaos Marines, Daemons and Grey Knights so far.

Series following Captain Uriel Ventris of the 4th company of the Ultramarines.This is a series of stand alone books by various authors, detailing battles in the history of various chapters of Space Marines that are not connected to each other.Far less detail than the novels above, but gives a broader summary (and is finished). Summarises the entire build up to and events of the Horus Heresy.The Horus Heresy, Collected Visions (a hardback book, not a novel).This covers (in great detail) the backgrounds to most of the 9 Space marine legions and the 9 traitor legions, with some books covering run ins with Daemons, Eldar, Orks, assassins and the start of the Imperial religion. Set 10,000 years before warhammer 40k, this series covers humanities war to conquer the galaxy, the build up to the civil war (The Heresy) and the 7 years of civil war that led up to the attack on Earth for the throne.Follows a unit of Cadians (Imperial Guard elite regiments) and an Inquisitor as they attempt to deal with a planet gone rogue, due to the presence of the Death Guard (chaos space marines).A variety of antagonists are featured, including: Tyranids, Genestealer cults, Chaos, Orks, Necorns, Tau and renegade inquisitors. The series follows his attachment to Imperial Guard regiments and one Space Marine chapter. It is the memoirs of the hero of the Imperium, commissar Ciaphus Cain, as edited by the Inquisition.

This series is not always written in chronological order, but this doesn't matter too much.

It also touches on the culture of other guard regiments they interact with. This gives a very good introduction and overview into the Imperial Guard, primarily following one unit as it is sent through war zones to fight traitor guard and chaos.

This is set before most of Warhammer 40k, (Set roughly around 41,776), but not a lot is different.

Gaunt's ghost series,, by Dan Abnett (with the exception of The Sabbat Worlds, which is a short stories collection).

Deals with the Eldar and the Black library, as well as chaos marines of the Thousand Suns legion and several daemon worlds.

Follows the party of renegade Inquisitors Czevak and Klute.

Similarly focusses on him and the people he works with, with some aliens, but mostly chaos antagonists.

Follows the career of Eisenhorn's former apprentice.

Better, but not necessary to read before the Ravenor trilogy. Focuses on him and the characters he interacts with, includes a few aliens, but mostly chaos antagonists.

Follows the career of the Inquisitor Eisenhorn.

There are other books available, but I'm not going to detail anything I can't guarantee will be in the series: Here is a selection of books, categorised by protagonist, with a brief overview of what each will tell you and who the antagonists are. For a fairly detailed overview of the history of the Imperium, the civil war and why things are as ruined for humanity as they are, I'd recommend The Horus Heresy, Collected Visions, which is not a novel. There is no correct reading order outside of any particular series, it is dependent on what you want to read about within the universe.įor the series with the greatest number of races involved in it, I would recommend the Ciaphus Cain series of novels.

#Best warhammer 40k novels on audible plus#

Different books focus on the different races, with the most prevalent being Space Marines and Imperial Guard, plus whoever they happen to be fighting against. There are a large number of novels in the Black Library for you to choose from, broken down into either stand alone books, parts of long running series or trilogies. (Named after the Eldar repository of knowledge in the lore itself, in case you wonder why some books talk about it directly). Games Workshop maintains a publishing arm called the Black Library.