Series
The Dresden Files
Jim Butcher & Mark Powers (comics) · 18 novels · 10 novellas · 17 novelettes · 8 short stories · 3 collections · 2000–2026
The Dresden Files is an urban fantasy series written by American author Jim Butcher. The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago. The first entry, Storm Front, was published in 2000 by Roc Books.
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Reading order
The order events happen in the world.
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
The novels run in one continuous sequence, and the shorter pieces published alongside them are set between specific books. This route places each piece where its events fall, so nothing arrives before the story it follows from. The Side Jobs and Brief Cases collections are not listed as steps of their own, because their stories appear here individually at their own points.
- Omnibus editions(7 editions)
Map
The Dresden Files at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s21
- 2010s28
- 2020s7
Shape
18 novels · 10 novellas · 17 novelettes · 8 short stories · 3 collections
2 authors
reads like:urban fantasywizardsnorth americacontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book51 of 56 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Ghost Storydarkest
- Vignettebrightest
- The Lawcalmest
- Proven Guiltymost intense