Jim Butcher Reading Order

24 books (2006–2023)

Start with My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, the first of 23 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Many Bloody Returns 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Blood Lite 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Mean Streets 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Strange Brew 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Dark and Stormy Knights 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Songs of Love and Death 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Hex Appeal 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Dangerous Women 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Beyond the Pale 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Magic City: Recent Spells 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Shadowed Souls 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Unbound 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Straight Outta Tombstone 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Urban Enemies 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Heroic Hearts 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2004–2008)

Start with Furies of Calderon, the first of 6 books in the Codex Alera series.

#	Title
1	Furies of Calderon 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Academ's Fury 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Cursor's Fury 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Captain's Fury 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	First Lord's Fury 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Princep's Fury 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2010–2018)

Start with Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files and read in order.

#	Title
1	Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Working for Bigfoot 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Brief Cases 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2026–2026)

1 book (2006–2006)

#	Title
1	Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2015–2023)

Start with The Aeronaut's Windlass and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Aeronaut's Windlass 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Olympian Affair 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Warriorborn 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

18 books (2000–2026)

Start with Storm Front, the first of 18 books in the The Dresden Files series.

#	Title
1	Storm Front 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Fool Moon 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Grave Peril 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Summer Knight 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Death Masks 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Blood Rites 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Dead Beat 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Proven Guilty 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	White Night 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Small Favor 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Turn Coat 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Changes 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Ghost Story 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Cold Days 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Skin Game 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Battle Ground 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Peace Talks 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Twelve Months 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

12 books (2008–2022)

Start with Backup, the first of 12 books in the The Dresden Files Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Backup 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Welcome to the Jungle 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Gathering Storm(By: Mark Powers) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Fool Moon, Vol. 1(By: Mark Powers) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Maelstrom(By: Mark Powers) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Fool Moon, Vol. 2(By: Mark Powers) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Ghoul Goblin(By: Mark Powers) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	War Cry(By: Mark Powers) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Down Town(By: Mark Powers) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Wild Card(By: Mark Powers) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Dog Men(By: Mark Powers) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Bigfoot(With: Mark Powers) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

26 books (2010–2026)

Start with A Restoration of Faith, the first of 25 books in the The Dresden Files Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	A Restoration of Faith 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Aftermath 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Heorot 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Last Call 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Something Borrowed 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Vignette 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Love Hurts 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	A Fistful of Warlocks 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	AAAA Wizardry 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	B is for Bigfoot 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Bigfoot on Campus 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Bombshells 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Christmas Eve 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Cold Case 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Curses 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Day One 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Even Hand 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	I Was a Teenage Bigfoot 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Jury Duty 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Zoo Day 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Everything the Light Touches 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Mike 2020
23	Little Things 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Law 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Fugitive 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Out Law 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (2010–2024)

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible