John Ringo Reading Order

3 books (2007–2016)

Start with The Best of Jim Baen's Universe and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Citizens 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Black Tide Rising 2016Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2013–2025)

Start with Under a Graveyard Sky, the first of 15 books in the Black Tide Rising series.

#	Title
1	Under a Graveyard Sky 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Islands of Rage & Hope 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Strands of Sorrow 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	To Sail a Darkling Sea 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Black Tide Rising(With: Gary Poole) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Valley of Shadows 2018Buy 🇺🇸
7	River of Night 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Voices of the Fall 2019Buy 🇺🇸
9	At the End of the World(By: Charles E. Gannon) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
10	At the End of the Journey(By: Charles E. Gannon) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
11	We Shall Rise(With: Gary Poole) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
12	Mountain of Fire(By: Jason Cordova) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
13	United We Stand(With: Gary Poole) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
14	Across an Ocean of Stars(By: Robert E. Hampson) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
15	Perdition's Storm(By: Brian Trent) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1976–2010)

Start with Bolo(By: Keith Laumer), the first of 10 books in the Bolo series.

#	Title
1	Bolo(By: Keith Laumer) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rogue Bolo(By: Keith Laumer) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Stars Must Wait(By: Keith Laumer) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Unconquerable(By: Keith Laumer) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bolo Brigade(By: Keith Laumer) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bolo Rising(By: Keith Laumer) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bolo Strike(By: William H. Keith Jr.) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Road to Damascus(With: Keith Laumer,Linda Evans) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Old Soldiers(By: David Weber,Keith Laumer) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Their Finest Hour(By: Keith Laumer) 2010Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2001–2004)

Start with March Upcountry, the first of 4 books in the Empire Of Man series.

#	Title
1	March Upcountry 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	March to the Sea 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	March to the Stars 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	We Few 2004Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2011–2015)

Start with Clan of the Claw(With: Harry Turtledove,S.M. Stirling,Jody Lynn Nye,Michael Z. Williamson) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Clan of the Claw(With: Harry Turtledove,S.M. Stirling,Jody Lynn Nye,Michael Z. Williamson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	By Tooth and Claw(With: Mercedes Lackey,S.M. Stirling,Jody Lynn Nye,Eric Flint) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

59 books (1992–2022)

Start with On Basilisk Station(By: David Weber), the first of 59 books in the Honorverse series.

#	Title
1	On Basilisk Station(By: David Weber) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Honor of the Queen(By: David Weber) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Field of Dishonor(By: David Weber) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Short Victorious War(By: David Weber) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Flag in Exile(By: David Weber) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Honor Among Enemies(By: David Weber) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	In Enemy Hands(By: David Weber) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	"A Beautiful Friendship"(By: David Weber) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	"A Grand Tour"(By: David Drake) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	"A Whiff of Grapeshot"(By: S.M. Stirling) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Echoes of Honor(By: David Weber) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	"Deck Load Strike"(By: Roland J. Green) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	"Queen's Gambit"(By: Jane Lindskold) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	"The Hard Way Home"(By: David Weber) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	"The Stray"(By: Linda Evans) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	"What Price Dreams?"(By: David Weber) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	Ashes of Victory(By: David Weber) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	"Changer of Worlds"(By: David Weber) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	"From the Highlands"(By: Eric Flint) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
20	"Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington"(By: David Weber) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
21	"Nightfall"(By: David Weber) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
22	War of Honor(By: David Weber) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
23	"A Ship Named Francis"(With: Victor Mitchell) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
24	"Fanatic"(By: Eric Flint) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
25	"Let's Go to Prague" 2003Buy 🇺🇸
26	"Promised Land"(By: Jane Lindskold) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
27	"The Service of the Sword"(By: David Weber) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
28	"With One Stone"(By: Timothy Zahn) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
29	Crown of Slaves(By: David Weber,Eric Flint) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Shadow of Saganami(By: David Weber) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
31	At All Costs(By: David Weber) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
32	Storm from the Shadows(By: David Weber) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Torch of Freedom(By: David Weber,Eric Flint) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	Mission of Honor(By: David Weber) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
35	"An Act of War"(By: Timothy Zahn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
36	"Let's Dance"(By: David Weber) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
37	"Ruthless"(By: Jane Lindskold) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
38	A Beautiful Friendship(By: David Weber) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
39	A Rising Thunder(By: David Weber) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
40	Fire Season(By: Jane Lindskold) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
41	"A Call to Arms"(By: Timothy Zahn) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	"Beauty and the Beast"(By: David Weber) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
43	"By the Book"(By: Charles E. Gannon) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
44	"I Will Build a House of Steel"(By: David Weber) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
45	"Obligated Service"(By: Joelle Presby) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
46	"The Best Laid Plans"(By: David Weber) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
47	Shadow of Freedom(By: David Weber) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
48	Treecat Wars(By: David Weber,Jane Lindskold) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
49	A Call to Duty(By: David Weber,Timothy Zahn) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	Cauldron of Ghosts(By: David Weber,Eric Flint) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
51	A Call to Arms(By: David Weber,Timothy Zahn,Thomas Pope) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
52	Shadow of Victory(By: David Weber) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
53	"Our Sacred Honor"(By: David Weber) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
54	A Call to Vengeance(By: David Weber,Timothy Zahn,Thomas Pope) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
55	Dark Fall(By: David Weber) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
56	Uncompromising Honor(By: David Weber) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
57	"Recruiting Exercise"(By: David Weber) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
58	To End in Fire(By: David Weber,Eric Flint) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
59	A Call to Insurrection(By: David Weber,Timothy Zahn,Thomas Pope) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

4 books (2005–2008)

Start with Into the Looking Glass, the first of 4 books in the Looking Glass series.

#	Title
1	Into the Looking Glass 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Vorpal Blade(With: Travis S. Taylor) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Claws That Catch(With: Travis S. Taylor) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Manxome Foe(With: Travis S. Taylor) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2016–2023)

Start with Grunge(With: Larry Correia), the first of 4 books in the Monster Hunter Memoirs series.

#	Title
1	Grunge(With: Larry Correia) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sinners(With: Larry Correia) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Saints(With: Larry Correia) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fever(By: Larry Correia,Jason Cordova) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2005–2012)

Start with Ghost, the first of 6 books in the Paladin Of Shadows series.

#	Title
1	Ghost 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Choosers of the Slain 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kildar 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Unto the Breach 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Deeper Blue 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Tiger by the Tail(With: Ryan Sear) 2012Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2000–2009)

Start with A Hymn Before Battle, the first of 12 books in the Posleen War series.

#	Title
1	A Hymn Before Battle 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gust Front 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	When the Devil Dances 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hell's Faire 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cally's War(With: Julie Cochrane) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Hero(With: Michael Z. Williamson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	Watch on the Rhine(With: Tom Kratman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Sister Time(With: Julie Cochrane) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Yellow Eyes(With: Tom Kratman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Eye of the Storm 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	Honor of the Clan(With: Julie Cochrane) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Tuloriad(With: Tom Kratman) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2009)

Start with Cally's War(With: Julie Cochrane) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cally's War(With: Julie Cochrane) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sister Time(With: Julie Cochrane) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Honor of the Clan(With: Julie Cochrane) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2005–2007)

Start with Watch on the Rhine(With: Tom Kratman) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Watch on the Rhine(With: Tom Kratman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Yellow Eyes(With: Tom Kratman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2025–2025)

Start with Not that Kind of Good Guy and read in order.

#	Title
1	Not that Kind of Good Guy 2025Buy 🇺🇸
2	Welcome to the Jungle 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2006–2012)

Start with Princess of Wands and read in order.

#	Title
1	Princess of Wands 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Queen of Wands 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2024)

Start with The Road to Damascus(With: Keith Laumer,Linda Evans) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Road to Damascus(With: Keith Laumer,Linda Evans) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Last Centurion 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Beyond the Ranges(With: James Aidee) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2006)

Start with There Will Be Dragons, the first of 4 books in the The Council Wars series.

#	Title
1	There Will Be Dragons 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Emerald Sea 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Against the Tide 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	East of the Sun, West of the Moon 2006Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2022–2026)

Start with Into the Real, the first of 4 books in the TransDimensional Hunter series.

#	Title
1	Into the Real 2022Buy 🇺🇸
2	Through the Storm 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	Behind the Veil 2025Buy 🇺🇸
4	Beyond the Rift 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2010–2011)

Start with Live Free or Die and read in order.

#	Title
1	Live Free or Die 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Citadel 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Hot Gate 2011Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2006–2006)

#	Title
1	Von Neumann's War(With: Travis S. Taylor) 2006Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1998–2025)

Start with More Than Honor(By: S.M. Stirling,David Weber,David Drake), the first of 8 books in the Worlds of Honor series.

#	Title
1	More Than Honor(By: S.M. Stirling,David Weber,David Drake) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Worlds of Honor(By: David Weber,Jane Lindskold,Linda Evans,Roland J. Green) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Changer of Worlds(By: David Weber,Eric Flint) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Service of the Sword(With: David Weber,Jane Lindskold,Eric Flint,Timothy Zahn,Victor Mitchell) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	In Fire Forged(By: David Weber,Jane Lindskold,Timothy Zahn,Andy Presby) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	Beginnings(By: David Weber,Timothy Zahn,Charles E. Gannon,Joelle Presby) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	What Price Victory?(By: David Weber) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
8	Challenges(By: David Weber) 2025Buy 🇺🇸