Dresden Files Books in Order
Dresden Files contains 33 books, published between 2000 and 2025: 19 in the Dresden Files series and 14 related titles. The first book is Storm Front (2000) and the newest main-line book is Twelve Months (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
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- Books
- 33
- Published
- 2000–2025
- Confirmed
- 33 of 33 titles
- Pages on record
- 8,386 in 25 of 33 books
- Reading time
- 140–210 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,386 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 25 of 33 titles with a page count on record.
The Dresden Files centres on Harry Dresden, a wizard working as a private investigator in Chicago. The Jim Butcher listing holds 33 books from Storm Front (2000) to Twelve Months (2025), with Fool Moon (2001) and Grave Peril (2001) following the opener. Butcher is credited on 25 titles. Mark Powers is credited on 9 others, including The Gathering Storm (2009), Ghoul Goblin (2013) and War Cry (2014), and shares Fool Moon, Vol. 2 (2013) with Butcher. Catalogue subjects tag contemporary fantasy, mystery and graphic novels.
How many Dresden Files books are there?
Dresden Files has 33 books, released between 2000 and 2025. 19 of them belong to the Dresden Files series, and 14 related titles sit outside it: graphic novels and short stories and novellas.
Dresden Files Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 33 Dresden Files books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 120003724/4
- 220013424/4
- 320013784/4
- 420023714/4
- 52003–4/4
- 62004–4/4
- 720054484/4
- 820065474/4
- 920074074/4
- 102008–4/4
- 112008704/4
- 1220084234/4
- 132009–3/4
- 1420094204/4
- 15Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden FilesDresden Files Short Stories/Novellas #12010 · 418 pages · confirmed 4/420104184/4
- 1620104484/4
- 172011–3/4
- 1820111283/4
- 1920114814/4
- 2020126404/4
- 2120131203/4
- 2220131523/4
- 2320141364/4
- 2420141363/4
- 2520144544/4
- 2620151443/4
- 2720161443/4
- 2820184374/4
- 292018–3/4
- 3020203524/4
- 3120204184/4
- 322022–4/4
- 332025–4/4
Dresden Files Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the books of the Dresden Files series run from Storm Front (2000) to Twelve Months (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Dresden Files in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Dresden Files books in order?
You should read the Dresden Files series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 14 related titles (graphic novels and short stories and novellas) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Dresden Files book also stands alone.
Where to start with Dresden Files
Start with Storm Front (2000), the earliest published book in the Dresden Files series.
What is the newest Dresden Files book?
Twelve Months (2025) is the newest book in the Dresden Files series.
Is there a new Dresden Files book coming?
No next Dresden Files book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Dresden Files has won
Wikidata records 1 award and 2 nominations for Dresden Files. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel2021Wonfor Battle Ground
- Locus Award for Best Collection2019Shortlistedfor Brief Cases
- Hugo Award for Best Novel2015Shortlistedfor Skin Game
Dresden Files at a glance
- Still running
- Dresden Files is still running, with a main-line title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Dresden Files books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 8,386 pages across the 25 of 33 books with a recorded length, a median of 378 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dresden Files books, 15 of 33, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 24 of the 33 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
- Attribution
- Of the 33 titles, 25 are credited to Jim Butcher and 9 to Mark Powers.
What the Dresden Files books are about
31 of the 33 Dresden Files books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: wizards is tagged on 24 of 31. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Wizards 24 of 31 books
- Chicago (Ill.) 20 of 31 books
- Harry Dresden (Fictitious character) 16 of 31 books
- Private investigators 14 of 31 books
- Fantasy 13 of 31 books
- Comics & graphic novels, fantasy 9 of 31 books
- Dresden, Harry (Fictitious characters) 7 of 31 books
- Comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery 6 of 31 books
- Comics & graphic novels 5 of 31 books
- Fantasy, contemporary 4 of 31 books
- Mystery & detective 4 of 31 books
- Wizards in fiction 4 of 31 books