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Dune

edited 2026-05-22

A complete reading and viewing order for Frank Herbert's Dune — the six original novels from Dune (1965) through Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson expanded-universe novels across the Prelude, Legends, Heroes, Great Schools, and Caladan trilogies plus the Hunters/Sandworms posthumous completion of Frank Herbert's Dune 7 notes, the Sands of Dune novella collection, all theatrical and miniseries adaptations from David Lynch's 1984 Dune through Denis Villeneuve's 2021 and 2024 films, the 2000 and 2003 Sci Fi Channel miniseries, HBO's Dune: Prophecy, and the Dune video games from Cryo and Westwood's foundational Dune II through Funcom's Dune: Awakening. Books section offers both publication order and in-universe internal chronology.

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01NOVEL
2002Published in October 2002 by Tor Books. The first Legends of Dune novel is set over ten thousand years before the original Dune and chronicl…
624 pp
02NOVEL
2003Published in September 2003 by Tor Books. Twenty-four years into the Butlerian Jihad, humanity continues its war against the thinking machin…
624 pp
03NOVEL
2004Published in August 2004 by Tor Books. The thinking machine Omnius releases a retrovirus across the human worlds and humanity discovers mela…
620 pp
04NOVEL
2012Published in January 2012 by Tor Books. The first Great Schools of Dune novel is set eighty years after humanity's victory over the thinking…
496 pp
05NOVEL
2014Published in March 2014 by Tor Books. The second Great Schools of Dune novel as the anti-technology Butlerian movement under Manford Torondo…
448 pp
06NOVEL
2016Published in September 2016 by Tor Books. The third and final Great Schools of Dune novel resolves the post-Butlerian-Jihad founding arc: Jo…
448 pp
07NOVEL
1999Published in October 1999 by Bantam Spectra, the first novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson set in Frank Herbert's universe. Set rou…
624 pp
08NOVEL
2000Published in October 2000 by Bantam Spectra. Set eighteen years into Emperor Shaddam IV's reign, the second Prelude to Dune novel follows Du…
624 pp
09NOVEL
2001Published in October 2001 by Bantam Spectra. The final Prelude to Dune novel opens one year after the War of Assassins as Duke Leto Atreides…
512 pp
10NOVEL
2023Published in October 2023 by Tor Books. The third Heroes of Dune novel is set two years before Frank Herbert's Dune and tells the parallel y…
400 pp
11NOVEL
2020Published in October 2020 by Tor Books. The first Caladan trilogy novel focuses on Duke Leto Atreides in the year before the events of Frank…
425 pp
12NOVEL
2021Published in September 2021 by Tor Books. The second Caladan trilogy novel shifts focus to Lady Jessica as her Bene Gesserit conditioning co…
416 pp
13NOVEL
2022Published in November 2022 by Tor Books. The concluding Caladan trilogy novel closes the gap to Frank Herbert's Dune. Emperor Shaddam IV com…
416 pp
14NOVEL
1965Frank Herbert's first Dune novel, published in August 1965 by Chilton Books after serialisation in Analog magazine (1963-65). In the far-fut…
412 pp
15NOVEL
2008Published in September 2008 by Tor Books. The first Heroes of Dune novel alternates between two timelines: in the present, Emperor Paul-Muad…
512 pp
16COLLECTION
2022Published in July 2022 by Tor Books. A four-novella collection by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson set across the era of Frank Herbert's…
176 pp
17NOVEL
1969The second Frank Herbert Dune novel, published in 1969 by Putnam. Twelve years after the events of Dune, Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib presides over…
256 pp
18NOVEL
2009Published in August 2009 by Tor Books. The second Heroes of Dune novel opens immediately after Paul-Muad'Dib walks into the desert at the en…
448 pp
19NOVEL
1976The third Frank Herbert Dune novel, published in 1976 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Nine years after Paul walked into the desert, his pre-born twi…
444 pp
20NOVEL
1981The fourth Frank Herbert Dune novel, published in 1981 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Leto II Atreides has ruled the universe as a human-sandworm h…
496 pp
21NOVEL
1984The fifth Frank Herbert Dune novel, published in 1984 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fifteen hundred years after the death of the God Emperor, huma…
480 pp
22NOVEL
1985The sixth and final Frank Herbert Dune novel, published in 1985 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mother Superior Darwi Odrade leads the surviving Ben…
464 pp
23NOVEL
2006Published in August 2006 by Tor Books. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's first half of the two-novel completion of Frank Herbert's plann…
528 pp
24NOVEL
2007Published in August 2007 by Tor Books. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion to the Dune 7 duology and to the larger narrative th…
496 pp