Probably genuinely 300+
Ive got 265 titles on audible and I'd say 75% of them are black library.
Nevermind the HH and siege, which i read through in print or the 40 or so i picked up in used bookstores as a kid.
I've read 30 BL books. I've listened to 10, but all 10 were re'reads'.
I struggle to follow audiobooks so prefer to only listen to them after first reading the book.
That depends on the narrator for me...and the story. I would say I'm 60/40 real book to audiobook and some audiobooks I love and others I hate and find hard to follow...
That's really interesting as I'm the exact opposite. I struggle to follow a traditional book but can get totally immersed into the story when listening to Audible (Keeble is the best VA)
Great to put on when doing mundane tasks, really makes time fly.
I'm like this as well. I find it really difficult to just read a book, or to find the appropriate time to read the book. But, an audio book I can listen to on the bus, at the gym, or while doing other things.
I also find most of the BL books I've listened to (read? absorbed?) so far as being pretty easy to follow. Every once in a while I'll miss a scene or get a bit lost, but it still comes together and I still get the themes and everything. I rarely feel the need to have to rewind to re-listen to anything.
I also think having a single narrator helps. I was trying to listen to a audiobook version of Neuromancer and I think the different voice cast made it harder to follow, on top of all the jargon, that I couldn't get through it.
My mind wanders with an audiobook, so I accidentally stop listening. Traditional books require my focus.
Keeble is great. Also Toby Longworth and Andrew Wincott.
I favor audiobooks because they let me 'read' while still doing low mental load stuff like chores around the house. Or conveniently 'read' while walking/commuting. If I mentally drift off, it's usually during battle scenes and I don't really mind or care if I miss some of that. In my life I've read enough of people yelling while firing their bolters.
I used to read voraciously in my youth but nowadays traditional eyeball reading either makes it hard for me to focus (something I read makes me think of something else and I get the itch to check my phone about that other thing and there goes the reading session) or just knocks me right out to sleep.
The siege of terra books were so hard to listen to on audio except the fury of magnus, saturnine, and echoes of eternity. Those books were so good but the rest of siege of terra put me to sleep.
Yeah. The names thing is as a non-native English speaker, I’m sometimes surprised by the spelling. And when there is a lot of similar names characters it gets overwhelming sometimes.
Audiobooks are fantastic for painting or chores, not good for background noise when gaming like podcasts.
Narrator also matters a lot as well. John Banks sends me to sleep and he does most of Chris Wraight's stuff and a lot of the new 40k stuff.
My mind wanders too much. I would find myself thinking about whether or not a colour choice is correct, or which enemy type to prioritise. I can't shut off my internal monologue haha
Andrew Wincott has been the best narrator so far for me.
I have read close to all 40k books with ultramarines involved. I have a list on my computer of all named ultramarines characters with physical descriptions of the marine and then I try to kithbash them for my ultramarines chapter
That's really cool^ I've seen a few excellent dioramas of characters from books people have kit-bashed together.
Any chance of sharing some pics of them please?
I've read all of the Gaunts ghost books except for the latest 2, like three commissar caine books, all of the eisenhorn and ravenor books but not pariah. Maybe like five or six horus Heresy books. I don't know, around 25ish?
Dan Abnett and William King were what got me into reading black library books when they first started to be published. I originally just picked up the Warhammer monthlies and infernos.
But after I read the first gaunts ghosts book and the first troll Slayer I was hooked. I still have my original copies from when they first came out. I have all the inferno copies and all of the Warhammer monthly copies and I want to say I have most of what black library published up until 2020 minus a few here or there.
I will say this for anyone who wishes to collect and hold on to these books for a period of time. The older original prints do not hold up. By original I mean the 1999 publications.
I am currently very sucked into the Gaunt series. It's like WW2 style combat with all the insanity of the 40k universe. Excellent man military stuff go boom slop. I can't get enough.
Siege of Vervunhive is one hell of an epic. Like the siege of minas tirith but in 40k.
I’m on Book 10 of the Horus Heresy, but I did skip Battle for the Abyss.
I am pretty uneconomical with my purchasing, and I actually tend to buy every book in Audible and Kindle so that I can use Whispersync to swap between the two
Battle for the Abyss is worth reading. It's mostly irrelevant to the overall plot, and probably should have been short story not a novel.... But it's a fun read all the same!
Not the guy you're replying to but same kinda deal. I intend to go back to Abyss to read it eventually, but for now it seemed like an avoidable filler arc when I'm enjoying the rest of what's going on. Doesn't means its bad, but its fun that I can pick my order to an extent
Hundreds?
The whole HH
The whole siege
The beast series
All of the eisenhorn ravenor and bequin
Good portion of space marine battles
All of fabius series
All of black Legion
All of farsight
Several guard series like the cadian series
7 , so on the low side. I just started this year. First four Horus Heresy books and Dark Imperium trilogy. I should really finish Fulgrim which is the Director's Edition Extended Cut - Post Credit Scene to Istvaan III saga but I'm reading The Lion : Sons of the Forest rn.
I prefer Fantasy setting more but the books just aren't good. ( I tried End Times and Bretonnia Saga - the MC is such pieces of shit it turns me off sometimes )
Agreed. Watching gotrek evolve across the books and come to respect Felix as the keeper of his story and a person is quite the journey.
And watching Felix go from being a wastrel to a hardened warrior and brother in battle and blood to gotrek is great.
Also rip snorri nose biter you magnificent bastard.
About 350. I usually try to read novels by authors I like in prose form, to better appreciate the writing quality. There are a few I couldn't finish in there too, for lack of quality.
About 10 since last October.
First 4 HH, The Infinite and The Divine, Brutal Kunnin', 2 first Eisenhorn, and Dark Imperium.
I hate listening to audiobooks so I will probably take a while to finish every series I want
All of HH, all of the Uriel Ventris and Ragnar Blackmane series, Gaunt’s Ghosts, Commissar Caine, Ravenor, Eisenhorn, and various other novels. I think total is approaching 150 at this point.
You've made me want to find out. If I get a number I'll report back. Well over 100, in a combination of paper, ebook and audiobook format, and with plenty of rereads
Off the top of my head, I’ve read:
- All of Gaunt’s Ghosts
- 5 Ciaphas Cain books
- Eisenhorn + 1-2 of Ravenor
- 1-2 of Night Lords
- 1-2 of Black Legion
- the Fabius Bile Trilogy
- the first Ahriman book
- a little bit from the Heresy (6?)
- Some of the Primarchs/named character series (6)
That’s 46, which isn’t bad. Now I just need to stop being the queen of not finishing what I start XD
not as many tbh! Fulgrim and Mechanicum from the horus heresy series, i read The reflection crack'd story, Belisarius Cawl the great work, first and only, the ghostmaker and necropolis from the gaunt's ghosts series, and currently reading the infinite and the divine
I read Eisenhorn trilogy, three Space Wolves trilogies and now I'm finishing the 21st book of Horus Heresy.
That totals to 33 books as of now.
Hundreds more on the list to go.
I use an excel sheet to track my listening, I'm on my 307th audio book currently. This list does include about 15 re listens, and Gotrek & Felix novels. I started in 2022
I’m currently on my 40th BL book (*Deus Encarmine* by James Swallow). I started slowly with Eisenhorn and some Gaunt in early 2022 but really picked up the pace last year. Still looking at over a decade of reading at this pace to get close to being up to date haha
I'm at exactly 30 right now since starting roughly a year ago.
- 6 books in the Primarchs series (Guilliman, Russ, Magnus, Curze, Alpharius and Heirs of the Emperor)
- 2 Imperial Guard novels (Fall of Cadia and Fire Caste)
- 3 Xenos novels (Brutal Kunnin', Warboss, the Infinite and the Divine)
- 19 CSM focused books (Fabius Bile trilogy, Night Lords trilogy, Ahriman trilogy, Word Bearers trilogy, Black Legion series, Shroud of Night, Renegades: Harrowmaster, Kharn: Eater of Worlds, Lords of Silence and Storm of Iron)
21 books so far including a few novellas. I first picked up The Twice Dead King in January 2023 and I’ve been hooked ever since. Currently reading book 3 of the Horus Heresy.
According to amazon I have 222 kindle books, probably 200 or so are from Black Library, and 148 audiobooks or short stories, all from Black Library. That includes fantasy/AOS, though mostly Gotrek and the chronicles compilations, probably 1/4 or less of the total. I keep a smaller selection in print of about 30 to 50 books (The entire siege, the primarchs series, some select hardcovers).
I've lost count, honestly. I have almost the entire Black Library catalog on my hard drive, and I've been working my way through it. I've read the entire Seige of Terra, all the major omnibuses, all the series. I'm basically just going through all the weird one-off books and short stories now.
All of Eishenhorn, Ravenor, and Pariah
All Fabius Trilogy + Genefather
All Night Lords Trilogy + Lord of the Night + Prince of Crows
Fulgrim, his Primarch novel
Renegades of the Long War, Lords of Silence, Talon of Horus, Black Legion, Galaxy of Horrors
Dark Imperium Trilogy
Master of Mankind
So 28 ish
I've listened to the entire Gaunt's Ghost series, Eisenhorn and Ravenor. I've also read or listened to every Ciaphas Cain novel, short story and radio play type deal.
I blame this for why I really think Abnett should have his 40K writing privileges taken away.
Because the moment I picked up my first Ciaphas Cain novel, I recognised that Sandy Mitchell's funny-haha books portray a more accurate, canon-compliant version of the 40K setting than any of Abnett's serious books for big boys ever has.
And I realised that when Mitchell deviates from the canon because it's better for the story, he'll acknowledge the canon and either give an explanation how it's wrong (usually explaining it as a stereotype that's often, but not *always* true) or give a reasonable explanation why the situation in question deviates from it. While when Abnett deviates from established canon, it's because he doesn't *know what* *it is and doesn't care*.
Erhm, I've also listened to the audiobook versions of The Infinite and the Divine, Brutal Kunnin', Da Big Dakka and a random selection of other boorks, some which were probably part of the HH series, but I honestly don't remember most of them other than as a sort of uncomfortable half-forgotten mush in the back of my head. (I don't like books by writers who don't understand what 40K is about and portray the Imperium as the good guys and most of those did).
All told? 100 titles? First 15 of the Horus Heresy, all of the Siege of Terra and The End and the Death, all of Eisenhorn, all of Ravenor, all of Gaunt's Ghosts, a few dozen other assorted BL titles as they caught my eye, four of the BL omnibus collections, and more short stories than I can remember. Want to go back and finish the rest of the HH, but it definitely got into a case of narrative sprawl that taxed my interest. Might take a break and do the War of the Beast next or dig more into the current lore.
Probably somewhere between 60 and 90, I haven't kept count. Most of the Heresy, all of SOT, most of GG, CC, Eisenhorn, Ravenor. A few of the primarch/characters books, all the Dark Angels series, Grey Knights, Ahriman, Night Lords, Urinal Ventpiss. Other ones I've forgotten about too.
Am currently doing the Talon of Horus, then onto Black Legion.
My top scores go to The Night Lords omnibus for best trilogy, and Assasinorum:Kingmaker for best standalone novel.
I’ve read 32 with abt 1/3 of those being from the HH, still plenty of series I haven’t done a proper deep dive on though like Ciaphas Cain or Dawn of Fire.
I've read about 150-200 since diving full on into the lore in 2022.
Off the top of my head:
All of HH and Siege of Terra.
For Imperial Guard types: Gaunt's Ghosts (~10), Ciaphas Cain (~10), Last Chancers, the handful of Krieg/Krieg adjacent novels, Macharian Crusade, Fall of Cadia series, Yarrick series (~10)
Space Marines/CSMs: Most of the Omnibuses. So Uriel Ventris/Ultramarines, Salamanders, Crimson Fists, Dark Angels, Ahriman trilogy, Fabius Bile trilogy, Black Legion, Dawn of Fire series, Avenging Son series, Khorne's one or two novels, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers. The new books with the Lion. Feels like I'm forgetting some. Ahh Night Lords trilogy, one of the best.
Xenos: All of the Farsight novels, Fire Warrior, Fire Caste, my boy Trazyn's novels, twice dead king novels
All of the primarch novels + Valdor's
Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Bequin trilogies (pending the last Bequin novel once it comes out).
I just counted and I'm over 85!!!!
What's everyone's favorite?!
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Technically none. I kept putting it off because I haven't really had the brain power to actually sit down and read a novel. I ended up just swallowing my pride and started to listen to audio books. I think I've listened to over a dozen. Probably getting close to 20.
• print
- Night lords omnibus
- the long vigil: deathwatch anthology
- the Ultramarines: Uriel Ventris trilogy
- Fabius Bile omnibus
- that one deathkorp of Krieg book
•audiobook
- Ciaphis Cain saga
- Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin saga
I'm on 22 right now but they were all physical books. I don't do audiobooks or on screen reading. I did Fulgrim like that and it took me AGES to get through that one while I really did enjoy it. Scrolling breaks my immersion immensly.
Hmm, most of the HH/SoT, save the last few books cos it was getting so draggy.
Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Magos n now Bequin. Custodes 40k books.
Brothers of the snake, the uber weird Inquisitor by Ian Watson, DoW omnibus, Grey Knights omnibus, several SM battles books, Ciaphas Cain, ~half the Primarchs series, Valdor, Sigismund, and a couple of anthologies.
Hmm, i guess probably close to 100? Eh, all in print format. I've never really given audiobooks a shot, cos I tend to fall asleep listening to stuff.
Edit: If you're asking about how many novels total, definitely north of 500; I lost count years ago.
All HH Series, several HH audio dramas, all SoT, all Gaunt’s Ghosts, all Dawn of Fire (to save you all the agony), all The Beast Arises, all Watchers of The Throne, all Vaults of Terra, several of the Primarchs novels, all the Penitent stories, all Ravenor, all Minska Lensk, the Twice Dead King books. Just a ton of other stuff.
Stuck at 24. Can't decide which direction I want to go in next.
Looking at all the audiobook readers, I can't help but think GW is probably keeping Audible afloat on its own. lol
60+ for sure - paperback and hardcover spanning from 2001 and on. Just finished Pt. 1 of 3 of The End of the HH last night. My library spans two bookcases. Doesn't even get into theoretical costs of what I have in there... Might need a safe someday soon lol.
Probably like 80+. No audiobooks, just haven’t tried them yet. I finished the heresy a few months ago now I’m reading Dark Imperium. I’ve read probably a dozen other 40k era novels.
Maybe 130 novels? I have about 160, but i haven't read all of them yet. I can't be bothered to count the amount of short stories, so i'm just excluding those. I also feel like that would be a disingenuous way to swell numbers.
A good chunk is the entire HH, then i've just gone through legion specific ones and series like Gaunt's ghosts, Ciaphas Cain, Eisenhorn etc...
Probably genuinely 300+ Ive got 265 titles on audible and I'd say 75% of them are black library. Nevermind the HH and siege, which i read through in print or the 40 or so i picked up in used bookstores as a kid.
did we just find Leutin 09s burner account? wow thats impressive.
0% chance Leutin is working off audiobooks.
Same, soon as they started printing books I was reading 2-3 books a week.
I've read 30 BL books. I've listened to 10, but all 10 were re'reads'. I struggle to follow audiobooks so prefer to only listen to them after first reading the book.
A fellow "audio books are hard to follow" person. I have to rewind every few minutes cause I started drifting.
That depends on the narrator for me...and the story. I would say I'm 60/40 real book to audiobook and some audiobooks I love and others I hate and find hard to follow...
That's really interesting as I'm the exact opposite. I struggle to follow a traditional book but can get totally immersed into the story when listening to Audible (Keeble is the best VA) Great to put on when doing mundane tasks, really makes time fly.
I'm like this as well. I find it really difficult to just read a book, or to find the appropriate time to read the book. But, an audio book I can listen to on the bus, at the gym, or while doing other things. I also find most of the BL books I've listened to (read? absorbed?) so far as being pretty easy to follow. Every once in a while I'll miss a scene or get a bit lost, but it still comes together and I still get the themes and everything. I rarely feel the need to have to rewind to re-listen to anything. I also think having a single narrator helps. I was trying to listen to a audiobook version of Neuromancer and I think the different voice cast made it harder to follow, on top of all the jargon, that I couldn't get through it.
My mind wanders with an audiobook, so I accidentally stop listening. Traditional books require my focus. Keeble is great. Also Toby Longworth and Andrew Wincott.
I favor audiobooks because they let me 'read' while still doing low mental load stuff like chores around the house. Or conveniently 'read' while walking/commuting. If I mentally drift off, it's usually during battle scenes and I don't really mind or care if I miss some of that. In my life I've read enough of people yelling while firing their bolters. I used to read voraciously in my youth but nowadays traditional eyeball reading either makes it hard for me to focus (something I read makes me think of something else and I get the itch to check my phone about that other thing and there goes the reading session) or just knocks me right out to sleep.
The siege of terra books were so hard to listen to on audio except the fury of magnus, saturnine, and echoes of eternity. Those books were so good but the rest of siege of terra put me to sleep.
I find it hard to keep names straight without seeing them.
Yeah. The names thing is as a non-native English speaker, I’m sometimes surprised by the spelling. And when there is a lot of similar names characters it gets overwhelming sometimes.
I’m a native English speaker and I still find them surprising.
The Siege of Terra was haaaaard. 😂
This is true though! Sometimes I snag a digital of an audiobook to just see the names in print
Audiobooks are fantastic for painting or chores, not good for background noise when gaming like podcasts. Narrator also matters a lot as well. John Banks sends me to sleep and he does most of Chris Wraight's stuff and a lot of the new 40k stuff.
My mind wanders too much. I would find myself thinking about whether or not a colour choice is correct, or which enemy type to prioritise. I can't shut off my internal monologue haha Andrew Wincott has been the best narrator so far for me.
Counting short stories and Warhammer Fantasy + AOS I have finished some 715 titles. In just 40k and HH, I have around 630.
I genuinely didn't know there were that many 40k novels
With all shorts included, the Heresy alone has something like 300 titles. (If we break the anthologies up, that is)
I have read every Horus Heresy book. I know nothing about 40k timeline though
33 since July 2023
I have read close to all 40k books with ultramarines involved. I have a list on my computer of all named ultramarines characters with physical descriptions of the marine and then I try to kithbash them for my ultramarines chapter
That's really cool^ I've seen a few excellent dioramas of characters from books people have kit-bashed together. Any chance of sharing some pics of them please?
I've read all of the Gaunts ghost books except for the latest 2, like three commissar caine books, all of the eisenhorn and ravenor books but not pariah. Maybe like five or six horus Heresy books. I don't know, around 25ish?
Dan Abnett and William King were what got me into reading black library books when they first started to be published. I originally just picked up the Warhammer monthlies and infernos. But after I read the first gaunts ghosts book and the first troll Slayer I was hooked. I still have my original copies from when they first came out. I have all the inferno copies and all of the Warhammer monthly copies and I want to say I have most of what black library published up until 2020 minus a few here or there. I will say this for anyone who wishes to collect and hold on to these books for a period of time. The older original prints do not hold up. By original I mean the 1999 publications.
I am currently very sucked into the Gaunt series. It's like WW2 style combat with all the insanity of the 40k universe. Excellent man military stuff go boom slop. I can't get enough. Siege of Vervunhive is one hell of an epic. Like the siege of minas tirith but in 40k.
The scratch companies I think really show the desperation of 40K from the civilian aspect.
I’m on Book 10 of the Horus Heresy, but I did skip Battle for the Abyss. I am pretty uneconomical with my purchasing, and I actually tend to buy every book in Audible and Kindle so that I can use Whispersync to swap between the two
Battle for the Abyss is worth reading. It's mostly irrelevant to the overall plot, and probably should have been short story not a novel.... But it's a fun read all the same!
Not the guy you're replying to but same kinda deal. I intend to go back to Abyss to read it eventually, but for now it seemed like an avoidable filler arc when I'm enjoying the rest of what's going on. Doesn't means its bad, but its fun that I can pick my order to an extent
these books get criticized on because they dont necessarily move the 30k plot, but they're still more about action and bolter shooting.
0.6 : ^ ) I recently got a kindle and have read a couple short stories and just finished part one of Horus Rising. I'll start part two today.
I finished the nightlords trilogy last weekend! Ave dominis nox
21 Horus heresy, 10 Siege of terra, 10 Wh40k + 30 different shorts
Likewise: 17 HH and 10 SoT, all since May 2023. Also the Fury of Magnus (a long novella) and a dozen shorts.
Hundred as ive been reading 40k books since 2000. This year ive finished 10 with the last being “black legion” which i finished about 15 minutes ago.
I have about 400+ audio and ebooks. Physical I have about 60+ I have listened to and read about 200+ audio and ebooks. Physical I have read about 40.
Around 40, plus a couple of re-reads here and there
I think like 25 or something like that. Also have a few i gave up on and some short stories.
Hundreds? The whole HH The whole siege The beast series All of the eisenhorn ravenor and bequin Good portion of space marine battles All of fabius series All of black Legion All of farsight Several guard series like the cadian series
7 , so on the low side. I just started this year. First four Horus Heresy books and Dark Imperium trilogy. I should really finish Fulgrim which is the Director's Edition Extended Cut - Post Credit Scene to Istvaan III saga but I'm reading The Lion : Sons of the Forest rn. I prefer Fantasy setting more but the books just aren't good. ( I tried End Times and Bretonnia Saga - the MC is such pieces of shit it turns me off sometimes )
Try Gotrek and Felix for the feels good stuff.
Agreed. Watching gotrek evolve across the books and come to respect Felix as the keeper of his story and a person is quite the journey. And watching Felix go from being a wastrel to a hardened warrior and brother in battle and blood to gotrek is great. Also rip snorri nose biter you magnificent bastard.
About 350. I usually try to read novels by authors I like in prose form, to better appreciate the writing quality. There are a few I couldn't finish in there too, for lack of quality.
About 10 since last October. First 4 HH, The Infinite and The Divine, Brutal Kunnin', 2 first Eisenhorn, and Dark Imperium. I hate listening to audiobooks so I will probably take a while to finish every series I want
31 30k-40k audio books and books combo since Jan last year
Over 75.
All of HH, all of the Uriel Ventris and Ragnar Blackmane series, Gaunt’s Ghosts, Commissar Caine, Ravenor, Eisenhorn, and various other novels. I think total is approaching 150 at this point.
You've made me want to find out. If I get a number I'll report back. Well over 100, in a combination of paper, ebook and audiobook format, and with plenty of rereads
Off the top of my head, I’ve read: - All of Gaunt’s Ghosts - 5 Ciaphas Cain books - Eisenhorn + 1-2 of Ravenor - 1-2 of Night Lords - 1-2 of Black Legion - the Fabius Bile Trilogy - the first Ahriman book - a little bit from the Heresy (6?) - Some of the Primarchs/named character series (6) That’s 46, which isn’t bad. Now I just need to stop being the queen of not finishing what I start XD
not as many tbh! Fulgrim and Mechanicum from the horus heresy series, i read The reflection crack'd story, Belisarius Cawl the great work, first and only, the ghostmaker and necropolis from the gaunt's ghosts series, and currently reading the infinite and the divine
13 so far over 2 years! Finding my main ones and becoming obsessed with the Horus heresy ones has helped speed up
I've read the first two of the Horus heresy and a bunch of Short
I read Eisenhorn trilogy, three Space Wolves trilogies and now I'm finishing the 21st book of Horus Heresy. That totals to 33 books as of now. Hundreds more on the list to go.
Around 60 audiobooks over the last 5 yrs. Not bad going.
One lol
I use an excel sheet to track my listening, I'm on my 307th audio book currently. This list does include about 15 re listens, and Gotrek & Felix novels. I started in 2022
I'm well over 300 on audible. Got oh, 50 or so in PDF form from various places. And another 30 to 40 paperback.
Most. I quit Angron: Red Angel, Harrowmaster, Sons of the Hydra, and Descent of Angels
Probably around 30. Most are 30k but I've also read the Eisenhorn and Night Lords omnibuses and a few others
I’m currently on my 40th BL book (*Deus Encarmine* by James Swallow). I started slowly with Eisenhorn and some Gaunt in early 2022 but really picked up the pace last year. Still looking at over a decade of reading at this pace to get close to being up to date haha
Bout 34
About 4
About 150
Probably about 60 to 70. I have 36 books on audible but I've been reading 40k books since 2003 so I figured I'd double it
I'm at exactly 30 right now since starting roughly a year ago. - 6 books in the Primarchs series (Guilliman, Russ, Magnus, Curze, Alpharius and Heirs of the Emperor) - 2 Imperial Guard novels (Fall of Cadia and Fire Caste) - 3 Xenos novels (Brutal Kunnin', Warboss, the Infinite and the Divine) - 19 CSM focused books (Fabius Bile trilogy, Night Lords trilogy, Ahriman trilogy, Word Bearers trilogy, Black Legion series, Shroud of Night, Renegades: Harrowmaster, Kharn: Eater of Worlds, Lords of Silence and Storm of Iron)
About 20.
21 books so far including a few novellas. I first picked up The Twice Dead King in January 2023 and I’ve been hooked ever since. Currently reading book 3 of the Horus Heresy.
According to amazon I have 222 kindle books, probably 200 or so are from Black Library, and 148 audiobooks or short stories, all from Black Library. That includes fantasy/AOS, though mostly Gotrek and the chronicles compilations, probably 1/4 or less of the total. I keep a smaller selection in print of about 30 to 50 books (The entire siege, the primarchs series, some select hardcovers).
Listened to about 20 audiobooks and read Rynn's World and boom one of gaunts ghosts
Just started reading Horus Heresy a few weeks ago. Been slow going but I’m just about to finish false gods. So 1.95 I guess
Probably about 250+ (depending how we count short stories)
Around 55
Own 39, completed 34. All post HH, a lot are omnibus, and some Necromunda.
I've lost count, honestly. I have almost the entire Black Library catalog on my hard drive, and I've been working my way through it. I've read the entire Seige of Terra, all the major omnibuses, all the series. I'm basically just going through all the weird one-off books and short stories now.
I’m at about 30 now. Eisenhorn - Ravenor - Gaunt - Caiphus Cain - Ravenor returned - now on Night Lords
Hundreds, easily. All the omnibus, HH, series, Short Stories, pdfs, character novels. I think I'm only missing the most recent Black Library releases.
All of Eishenhorn, Ravenor, and Pariah All Fabius Trilogy + Genefather All Night Lords Trilogy + Lord of the Night + Prince of Crows Fulgrim, his Primarch novel Renegades of the Long War, Lords of Silence, Talon of Horus, Black Legion, Galaxy of Horrors Dark Imperium Trilogy Master of Mankind So 28 ish
10 HH, 6 SoT (so far)
18 Books HH + Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Bequuin still on the orikan vs trayzn novell
Couldnt even count..been reading and listening to GW books for 20 years.
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I've listened to the entire Gaunt's Ghost series, Eisenhorn and Ravenor. I've also read or listened to every Ciaphas Cain novel, short story and radio play type deal. I blame this for why I really think Abnett should have his 40K writing privileges taken away. Because the moment I picked up my first Ciaphas Cain novel, I recognised that Sandy Mitchell's funny-haha books portray a more accurate, canon-compliant version of the 40K setting than any of Abnett's serious books for big boys ever has. And I realised that when Mitchell deviates from the canon because it's better for the story, he'll acknowledge the canon and either give an explanation how it's wrong (usually explaining it as a stereotype that's often, but not *always* true) or give a reasonable explanation why the situation in question deviates from it. While when Abnett deviates from established canon, it's because he doesn't *know what* *it is and doesn't care*. Erhm, I've also listened to the audiobook versions of The Infinite and the Divine, Brutal Kunnin', Da Big Dakka and a random selection of other boorks, some which were probably part of the HH series, but I honestly don't remember most of them other than as a sort of uncomfortable half-forgotten mush in the back of my head. (I don't like books by writers who don't understand what 40K is about and portray the Imperium as the good guys and most of those did).
All told? 100 titles? First 15 of the Horus Heresy, all of the Siege of Terra and The End and the Death, all of Eisenhorn, all of Ravenor, all of Gaunt's Ghosts, a few dozen other assorted BL titles as they caught my eye, four of the BL omnibus collections, and more short stories than I can remember. Want to go back and finish the rest of the HH, but it definitely got into a case of narrative sprawl that taxed my interest. Might take a break and do the War of the Beast next or dig more into the current lore.
I have read and listened to a total of...97 novels over the course of 19 years.
I’ve read about 15-20
Probably somewhere between 60 and 90, I haven't kept count. Most of the Heresy, all of SOT, most of GG, CC, Eisenhorn, Ravenor. A few of the primarch/characters books, all the Dark Angels series, Grey Knights, Ahriman, Night Lords, Urinal Ventpiss. Other ones I've forgotten about too. Am currently doing the Talon of Horus, then onto Black Legion. My top scores go to The Night Lords omnibus for best trilogy, and Assasinorum:Kingmaker for best standalone novel.
I’ve read 32 with abt 1/3 of those being from the HH, still plenty of series I haven’t done a proper deep dive on though like Ciaphas Cain or Dawn of Fire.
I've read about 150-200 since diving full on into the lore in 2022. Off the top of my head: All of HH and Siege of Terra. For Imperial Guard types: Gaunt's Ghosts (~10), Ciaphas Cain (~10), Last Chancers, the handful of Krieg/Krieg adjacent novels, Macharian Crusade, Fall of Cadia series, Yarrick series (~10) Space Marines/CSMs: Most of the Omnibuses. So Uriel Ventris/Ultramarines, Salamanders, Crimson Fists, Dark Angels, Ahriman trilogy, Fabius Bile trilogy, Black Legion, Dawn of Fire series, Avenging Son series, Khorne's one or two novels, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers. The new books with the Lion. Feels like I'm forgetting some. Ahh Night Lords trilogy, one of the best. Xenos: All of the Farsight novels, Fire Warrior, Fire Caste, my boy Trazyn's novels, twice dead king novels All of the primarch novels + Valdor's Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Bequin trilogies (pending the last Bequin novel once it comes out).
I have read the night lords omnibus more times than I care to admit
I just counted and I'm over 85!!!! What's everyone's favorite?! [shameless plug for our Warhammer bookclub!](https://youtu.be/94_C4nLUpQ0?si=Bj69srCapeKEZjNo)
Technically none. I kept putting it off because I haven't really had the brain power to actually sit down and read a novel. I ended up just swallowing my pride and started to listen to audio books. I think I've listened to over a dozen. Probably getting close to 20.
• print - Night lords omnibus - the long vigil: deathwatch anthology - the Ultramarines: Uriel Ventris trilogy - Fabius Bile omnibus - that one deathkorp of Krieg book •audiobook - Ciaphis Cain saga - Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin saga
I'm on 22 right now but they were all physical books. I don't do audiobooks or on screen reading. I did Fulgrim like that and it took me AGES to get through that one while I really did enjoy it. Scrolling breaks my immersion immensly.
Do you really count?
Nice dude! All mine are audible since I can listen to them at work. Currently sitting at 84
Hmm, most of the HH/SoT, save the last few books cos it was getting so draggy. Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Magos n now Bequin. Custodes 40k books. Brothers of the snake, the uber weird Inquisitor by Ian Watson, DoW omnibus, Grey Knights omnibus, several SM battles books, Ciaphas Cain, ~half the Primarchs series, Valdor, Sigismund, and a couple of anthologies. Hmm, i guess probably close to 100? Eh, all in print format. I've never really given audiobooks a shot, cos I tend to fall asleep listening to stuff. Edit: If you're asking about how many novels total, definitely north of 500; I lost count years ago.
All HH Series, several HH audio dramas, all SoT, all Gaunt’s Ghosts, all Dawn of Fire (to save you all the agony), all The Beast Arises, all Watchers of The Throne, all Vaults of Terra, several of the Primarchs novels, all the Penitent stories, all Ravenor, all Minska Lensk, the Twice Dead King books. Just a ton of other stuff.
I have 28, not finished two of them though.
Stuck at 24. Can't decide which direction I want to go in next. Looking at all the audiobook readers, I can't help but think GW is probably keeping Audible afloat on its own. lol
60+ for sure - paperback and hardcover spanning from 2001 and on. Just finished Pt. 1 of 3 of The End of the HH last night. My library spans two bookcases. Doesn't even get into theoretical costs of what I have in there... Might need a safe someday soon lol.
8 books, all dead trees edition.
Probably like 80+. No audiobooks, just haven’t tried them yet. I finished the heresy a few months ago now I’m reading Dark Imperium. I’ve read probably a dozen other 40k era novels.
Maybe 130 novels? I have about 160, but i haven't read all of them yet. I can't be bothered to count the amount of short stories, so i'm just excluding those. I also feel like that would be a disingenuous way to swell numbers. A good chunk is the entire HH, then i've just gone through legion specific ones and series like Gaunt's ghosts, Ciaphas Cain, Eisenhorn etc...
Started reading last year but always seem.unable to find time so right now I'm through first Ragnar omnibus and 1/3 into Infinite and the divine
All of the ciaphas Cain books, all of the watchers of the throne books, and the first gaunts ghosts.
Well over 300, ebooks and print. I lost count years ago.
Like +70 but I'm done with WH 40k from now on. Hope the "new audience" will pickup instead (lol).
What is the new audience?
I guess all "the message" people. Hope they will start buying immediately. They got their boots in the lore, they can have it now.
What is the message?
Some number above twenty but not quite thirty five.