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Dresden Files

16 books in reading order by Butcher, Jim

New to Dresden Files? Start with book 1, Storm Front.

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  1. Storm Front

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    Storm Front

    by Butcher, Jim

    A crime version of the Urban Fantasy sub-genre. Harry Dresden is a wizard and a private investigator

    Harry Dresden is a wizard. He has decided to use his power to solve minor crimes to make a living, so he opens up his own private eye firm, the...

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  2. Fool Moon

    Book 2

    Fool Moon

    by Butcher, Jim

    “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves,”(Cinescape) the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and nonstop fun. Fool Moon...

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  3. Grave Peril

    Book 3

    Grave Peril

    by Butcher, Jim

    Wizard for hire Harry Dresden gets mixed-up with the dead in this “haunting, fantastical novel”(Publishers Weekly) in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying...

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  4. Summer Knight

    Book 4

    Summer Knight

    by Butcher, Jim

    In the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring everyone's favorite wizard for hire, Harry Dresden is suckered into the tangled—and dangerous—affairs of Faerie... Ever since...

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  5. Death Masks

    Book 5

    Death Masks

    by Butcher, Jim

    The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye...

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  6. Blood Rites

    Book 6

    Blood Rites

    by Butcher, Jim

    In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a...

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  7. Dead Beat

    Book 7

    Dead Beat

    by Butcher, Jim

    “The wildest, strangest, best Dresden adventure to date...Butcher’s blending of modern fantasy with classic noir sensibilities ensures that there’s never a dull moment.”—SF Site Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden’s business...

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  8. Proven Guilty

    Book 8

    Proven Guilty

    by Butcher, Jim

    Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There’s...

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  9. White Night

    Book 9

    White Night

    by Butcher, Jim

    Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series....

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  10. Small Favor

    Book 10

    Small Favor

    by Butcher, Jim

    In this novel in Jim Butcher’s #1 New York Times bestselling series, an old debt puts Chicago wizard Harry Dresden in harms way... Harry’s life finally seems to be calming...

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  11. Turn Coat

    Book 11

    Turn Coat

    by Butcher, Jim

    Accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council, Warden Morgan goes in search of Harry Dresden in a desperate attempt to clear his name and stop the deadly...

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  12. Ghost Story

    Book 13

    Ghost Story

    by Butcher, Jim

    A ghost story of four men haunted by the death of a young woman decades earlier.

    Horror. Early novel about four men who inadvertently cause the death of a young woman in the 1920s.

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  13. Cold Days

    Book 14

    Cold Days

    by Butcher, Jim

    After a brief interlude in the afterlife, Harry Dresden’s new job makes him wonder if death was really all that bad in this novel in the #1 New York Times...

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  14. Skin Game

    Book 15

    Skin Game

    by Butcher, Jim

    Chicago’s only professional wizard is about to have a very bad day in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files... As Winter Knight to the...

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  15. Peace Talks

    Book 16

    Peace Talks

    by Butcher, Jim

    A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that...

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  16. Mirror

    Mirror

    by Butcher, Jim

    An innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village. Somewhere in Sydney,...

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