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Last Updated eight months ago.Do y'all remember, a few years back, at that place was a TV show on the Sci-Fi Aqueduct called The Dresden Files with Paul Blackthorne. I quite like it and I'd hoped to see more, simply information technology was canceled afterward a curt flavour. Information technology was an adaptation and the book series is much bigger than the TV show, so here we get…

What are the Dresden Files?

Urban fantasy serial written past Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files follows the investigations of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago's first (and just) Wizard P.I. The books take pace in a universe where magic is evidently real, also are vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves and other kinds of monsters.

Harry Dresden is walking the line between humans and supernatural beings by taking jobs from both sides, including the Chicago PD'southward Special Investigation unit. He works to protect the full general public as he faces against a big diverseness of creatures.

What is the Dresden Files reading order?

The easiest fashion to read the Dresden Files is to follow the novels. Nevertheless, there are also curt stories and a few comic books that you tin can read in order, if yous like. I made two lists, you choose the one you prefer.

I. Only the novels

1. Storm Front – When the police bring Harry Dresden in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with blackness magic, He's seeing a solution to his financial difficulties. But where there's black magic, in that location's a black mage behind information technology. And now that mage knows Harry'southward proper name…
2. Fool Moon – Lately, Harry hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work – magical or mundane. But just when information technology looks like he tin't afford his next repast, a murder comes along that requires his particular make of supernatural expertise. A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Have three guesses. And the start two don't count …Magic – information technology tin get a guy killed.
3. Grave Peril – All over Chicago, ghosts are causing problem—and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting multifariousness. These ghosts are tormented, fierce, and deadly. Someone—or something—is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. Just why? And why do so many of the victims take ties to Harry? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself…
4. Summer Knight – The Wintertime Queen of Faerie has an offer Harry can't refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural concord his faerie godmother has over him—and hopefully terminate his run of bad luck. All he has to do is discover out who murdered the Summer Queen's correct-paw man, the Summertime Knight, and articulate the Winter Queen'south proper noun.

5. Expiry Masks – For Harry Desden, whenever things are going good, the only mode left for them to go is bad. Mode bad. Recent examples: a duel with the Red Courtroom of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards; professional hit men using Harry for target practice; the missing Shroud of Turin (less missing than expected) and a headless corpse the Chicago police need identifying . . . Not to mention the return of Harry's ex-girlfriend Susan, still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature. And who seems to have a new human being. Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. No matter how much y'all're charging.
6. Blood Rites – Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going hush-hush on the fix of an adult picture. Still, there'due south something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The picture's producer believes he'south the target of a sinister curse—simply it's the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways. Harry's doubly frustrated because he only got involved with this baroque mystery every bit a favor to Thomas—his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity.
7. Dead Beat – Karrin Spud is the caput of South. I. and Harry'due south good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Tater's reputation unless Harry does her bidding, he has no option. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler (whatever that is) and all the power that comes with it. Now, Harry is in a race confronting fourth dimension—and half dozen merciless necromancers—to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead…
8. Proven Guilty – The White Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to expect into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. As he adjusts to his new part, another problem arrives in the class of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault directly out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it'south all in a 24-hour interval's piece of work for a sorcerer, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob…

9. White Night – Someone is targeting the members of the metropolis's supernatural underclass—those who don't possess plenty power to get full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But at present the culprit has left a calling carte du jour at ane of the crime scenes—a message for Harry Dresden. He sets out to find the apparent serial killer, merely his investigation turns up prove pointing to the i suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half-brother, Thomas.
10. Small Favor – The White Council's war with the vampiric Red Court is easing up, no ane's tried to kill Harry lately, and his eager amateur is starting to learn real magic. For once, the future looks adequately bright. But the past casts one hell of a long shadow. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an sometime favor from Harry he tin can't reject…ane that will trap Harry Dresden between a nightmarish foe and an every bit deadly marry, and one that will strain his skills—and loyalties—to their very limits.
11. Turn Coat – None hold Harry Dresden in more than disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules. But now, Morgan has been accused of cold-blooded murder. He'due south on the run, wanting his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. So it's upwardly to Harry to uncover a traitor within the Council, continue Morgan nether wraps, and avert coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may toll someone his caput.
12. Changes – Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry'southward Dresden'southward lover. She disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage souvenir and those who cursed her with it. Now, she needs Harry's help more ever. The vengeful Duchess of the Red Court has discovered a secret Susan has long kept from everyone—including Harry—and she plans to use it.

13. Side Jobs – a collection of short stories – see Bulletin 34 of this post for more detail.
14. Ghost Story – After someone puts a bullet through his chest and leaves him to die in the waters of Lake Michigan, things actually beginning going downhill for Harry Dresden. Trapped betwixt life and decease, he learns that his friends are in serious trouble. Only by finding his murderer can he save them and move on. Worse notwithstanding are the malevolent shadows that roam Chicago, controlled by a dark entity that wants Harry to endure fifty-fifty in death. At present, the late Harry Dresden will take to pull off the ultimate play tricks without using whatever magic—or face an eternity as just some other lost soul…
15. Cold Days – Harry Dresden is now Wintertime Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. Her word is his control. And her first control is the seemingly impossible: kill an immortal. Worse nonetheless, there is a growing threat to an unfathomable source of magic that could hateful the deaths of millions. Beset by enemies new and old, Harry must assemble his friends and allies, prevent an apocalypse, and notice a fashion out of his eternal subservience before his newfound infinite powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own…
16. Skin Game – Mab has traded Harry's skills to pay off a debt. And at present he must help a group of villains led by Harry'southward near despised enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, to break into a high-security vault so that they tin can then access a vault in the Nevernever. Problem is, the vault belongs to Hades, Lord of the Underworld. And Dresden is dead sure that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his coiffure to survive the experience.

17. Peace Talks – When the Supernatural nations of the world see up to negotiate an finish to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago'southward just professional magician, joins the White Council'due south security team to make sure the talks stay civil. Merely can he succeed, when nighttime political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago—and all he holds dear?
18. Boxing Ground – Harry has faced terrible odds earlier. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. But this time it's unlike. A being more powerful and dangerous on an club of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she's bringing an army.

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II. With short stories and comic books

Update, in june 2022 : A new album, Brief Cases, is at present collecting twelve brusk stories.

1. "Restoration of Faith" – Short story in Side Jobs
2. Welcome to the Jungle – Graphic Novel
3. Tempest Front
4. Fool Moon
5. Ghoul, Goblin – Graphic Novel
6. "B is for Bigfoot" – Short story in Brief Cases
7. Grave Peril
8. Summer Knight
9. Death Masks
10. "A Vignette" – Short story in Side Jobs
11. Blood Rites
12. Dead Trounce
13. "I Was a Teenage Bigfoot" – Short story in Brief Cases
14. War Cry – Graphic Novel (contains spoiler for Plough Coat)
15. "Something Borrowed" – Curt story in My Big Fat Supernatural Nuptials
16. Proven Guilty
17. White Nighttime
18. Down Town – Graphic Novel
19. "It's My Birthday Too" – Short story in any Bloody Returns
20. Wild Menu – Graphic Novel
21. "Mike" (Micro-fiction)
22. "Heorot" – brusk story in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
23. Small Favor
24. "Backup" – Novella is a story from Thomas'southward POV, in Side Jobs
25. "Day Off" – Short story in Side Jobs
26. "The Warrior" – Brusque story in Side Jobs
27. "Curses" – Brusque story in Cursory Cases
28. "AAAA Wizardry" – in Brief Cases
29. "Terminal Call" – Brusk story in Side Jobs
30. Domestic dog Men – Graphic Novel
31. Turn Coat
32. "Bigfoot on Campus" – Brusk story in Cursory Cases
33. "Job Placement" (Micro-fiction)
34. "Even Mitt" – Short story in Brief Cases
35. "Love Hurts" – Brusk story in Side Jobs
36. Changes
37. "Aftermath" – Short story in Side Jobs
38. Ghost Story
39. "Bombshells" – Short story in Cursory Cases
40. "Farewell" (Micro-fiction)
41. "Periodical" (Micro-fiction)
42. Cold Days
43. "Cold Case" – Short story in Adumbral Souls
44. Skin Game
45. "Jury Duty" – Short story in Brief Cases
46. "Twenty-four hours I" – Short story in Brief Cases
47. "A Fistful of Warlocks" – Short story in Brief Cases
48. "Zoo Solar day" – Short story in Brief Cases
49. "Everything the Light Touches" (Micro-fiction)
50. Peace Talks
51. Battle Footing
52. Christmas Eve (online short story)

Did I make a mistake? Did I forget something? To help me to complete this reading guide, leave a comment!

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