[ The Dresden Files ]
edited 2026-05-21A complete reading and viewing order for The Dresden Files — Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series following Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, across 18 novels, two short story collections, a Sci-Fi Channel TV adaptation, and a run of comics. Covers both publication order and a combined novels-plus-collections chronological variant for readers who want every short story in context.
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01NOVEL
2000The first Dresden Files novel, published April 1, 2000 by Roc. Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard listed in the phone book, is hired by a…
322 pp›02NOVEL
2001The second Dresden Files novel, published January 1, 2001. A series of violent murders in Chicago — bodies found savaged as if by an enormou…
352 pp›03NOVEL
2001The third Dresden Files novel, published September 1, 2001. Chicago's ghost population is being stirred into violent frenzy by an unknown fo…
378 pp›04NOVEL
2002The fourth Dresden Files novel, published September 3, 2002. Harry Dresden, deep in depression after the events of Grave Peril, is press-gan…
371 pp›05NOVEL
2003The fifth Dresden Files novel, published August 5, 2003. The Shroud of Turin has been stolen, a Red Court vampire has challenged Harry Dresd…
374 pp›06NOVEL
2004The sixth Dresden Files novel, published August 3, 2004. Harry Dresden is hired by a vampire pornography director to investigate a series of…
372 pp›07NOVEL
2005The seventh Dresden Files novel, published May 3, 2005. A senior Warden of the White Council is murdered in Chicago and a gang of necromance…
396 pp›08NOVEL
2006The eighth Dresden Files novel, published May 2, 2006. As the war between the White Council and the Red Court vampires intensifies, Harry Dr…
406 pp›09NOVEL
2007The ninth Dresden Files novel, published April 3, 2007. Minor practitioners with magical ability are dying across Chicago in what appears to…
416 pp›10NOVEL
2008The tenth Dresden Files novel, published April 1, 2008. Queen Mab calls in a favor owed by Harry Dresden: he must find and retrieve the Summ…
432 pp›11NOVEL
2009The eleventh Dresden Files novel, published April 7, 2009. Morgan — the White Council Warden who has spent years watching Harry Dresden for…
545 pp›12COLLECTION
2010The first Dresden Files short story collection, published October 26, 2010 by Roc Hardcover. Collects eleven short stories spanning the full…
418 pp›13NOVEL
2010The twelfth Dresden Files novel, published April 6, 2010. Harry Dresden receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Susan Rodriguez: they have an…
432 pp›14NOVEL
2011The thirteenth Dresden Files novel, published July 26, 2011. Harry Dresden is dead — shot at the end of Changes — and returns as a ghost to…
432 pp›15NOVEL
2012The fourteenth Dresden Files novel, published November 27, 2012. Harry Dresden returns to life as the Winter Knight — Queen Mab's mortal enf…
528 pp›16COLLECTION
2018The second Dresden Files short story collection, published June 5, 2018 by Ace Books. Collects twelve short stories arranged in approximate…
437 pp›17NOVEL
2014The fifteenth Dresden Files novel, published May 27, 2014. Queen Mab loans Harry Dresden out to Nicodemus Archleone — the Denarians' leader…
608 pp›18NOVEL
2020The sixteenth Dresden Files novel, published July 14, 2020. Harry Dresden juggles his duties as Winter Knight, his role as an Accorded neutr…
340 pp›19NOVEL
2020The seventeenth Dresden Files novel, published September 29, 2020. The Titan Ethniu leads the Fomor army in a full military assault on Chica…
432 pp›20NOVEL
2026The eighteenth Dresden Files novel, published January 20, 2026. Set in the year following the Battle of Chicago, the novel follows Harry Dre…
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