Jim Butcher

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  • Bibliography:
    68 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2000
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Cinder Spires

1 - The Aeronaut's Windlass (Oct-2015)
2 - The Olympian Affair (Nov-2023)

The Codex Alera

1 - Furies of Calderon (Oct-2004)
2 - Academ's Fury (Jul-2005)
3 - Cursor's Fury (Dec-2006)
4 - Captain's Fury (Dec-2007)
5 - Princeps' Fury (Dec-2008)
6 - First Lord's Fury (Dec-2009)

The Dresden Files

0.2 - Restoration of Faith (Jan-2004)
0.5 - Welcome to the Jungle (Oct-2008)
1 - Storm Front (Apr-2000)
2 - Fool Moon (Jan-2001)
3 - Grave Peril (Sep-2001)
4 - Summer Knight (Sep-2002)
5 - Death Masks (Aug-2003)
6 - Blood Rites (Aug-2004)
7 - Dead Beat (May-2005)
7.5 - Something Borrowed (Oct-2006)
8 - Proven Guilty (May-2006)
9 - White Night (Apr-2007)
9.25 - Heorot (Jan-2008)
9.5 - It's My Birthday Too (Sep-2007)
10 - Small Favor (Apr-2008)
10.5 - Curses (Jul-2011)
11 - Backup (Nov-2008)
11.33 - Day Off (Nov-2008)
11.66 - The Warrior (Jan-2009)
12 - Turn Coat (Apr-2009)
12.33 - Bigfoot on Campus (Jun-2012)
12.66 - Last Call (Jul-2009)
13 - Changes (Apr-2010)
13.5 - Even Hand (Jul-2010)
14 - Side Jobs (Nov-2010)
14.5 - Love Hurts (Nov-2010)
15 - Ghost Story (Aug-2011)
16 - Cold Days (Dec-2012)
17 - Skin Game (Jun-2014)
17.5 - Brief Cases (Jun-2018)
18 - Peace Talks (Jul-2020)
19 - Battle Ground (Oct-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

Marvel's Spider-Man

The Darkest Hours (Jul-2006)

Book List in Order: 68 titles

  • Storm Front

    The Dresden Files - 1

    HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates, No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Or Other Entertainment Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what...

  • Fool Moon

    The Dresden Files - 2

    HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undea...

  • Grave Peril

    The Dresden Files - 3

    HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpio...

  • Summer Knight

    The Dresden Files - 4

    HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for ...

  • Death Masks

    The Dresden Files - 5

    HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy ...

  • Restoration of Faith

    The Dresden Files - 0.2

    Harry Dresden is a wizard and P.I who specialise on looking for kid. When he and his mentor/employer Nick have to find a young girl who presumably ran away, they quickly get more than they bargained for: the kid herself being just the beginning....

  • Blood Rites

    The Dresden Files - 6

    HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse ass...

  • Furies of Calderon

    The Codex Alera - 1

    In this extraordinary new fantasy epic, USA Today bestselling author Jim Butcher leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have...

  • Dead Beat

    The Dresden Files - 7

    Paranormal investigations are Harry 'Dresden's business, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don't believe in...



  • Academ's Fury

    The Codex Alera - 2

    In Furies of Calderon, bestselling author Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of nature take physical form. But now, it is human nature that threatens to throw the realm into chaos... For centuries, the people of Alera have ...

  • Proven Guilty

    The Dresden Files - 8

    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Wa...

  • The Darkest Hours

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Peter Parker's life has hit a peaceful stretch. No evildoers have tried to flatten him in weeks, his marriage to Mary Jane is stronger than ever, and he's enjoying his job as a high school science teacher. Life is good. Naturally, that doe...

  • Something Borrowed

    in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
    The Dresden Files - 7.5

    Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that questi...

  • Cursor's Fury

    The Codex Alera - 3

    In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. But even magic cannot sway the corruption that threatens to destroy the realm of Alera once...

  • White Night

    The Dresden Files - 9

    Someone is targeting Chicago's magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a c...

  • It's My Birthday Too

    in Many Bloody Returns
    The Dresden Files - 9.5

    Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others. Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or bir...

  • Captain's Fury

    The Codex Alera - 4

    In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the elemental forces of nature take physical form and are used for protection. Now, as enemies become allies, and friends become foes, a dang...

  • Heorot

    in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
    The Dresden Files - 9.25

    What newly married couple doesn't dream of a romantic retreat where they can escape the world for a while--but what happens when supernatural forces intrude on their wedded bliss? Nine of today's hottest paranormal authors answer that question in...

  • Small Favor

    The Dresden Files - 10

    The novels of the Dresden Files follow the cases of Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, and his never-ending battle against the evil that plagues his world.... Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down. The White Council...



  • Welcome to the Jungle

    The Dresden Files - 0.5

    When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can’t handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there’s just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only profession...

  • Backup

    The Dresden Files - 11

    Let's get something clear right up front.

    I'm not Harry Dresden.

    Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit i...

  • Day Off

    in Blood Lite
    The Dresden Files - 11.33

    BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard env...

  • Princeps' Fury

    The Codex Alera - 5

    In the acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York. Times bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the people of Alera use their unique bonds with the elemental forces of nature for protection. But even nature may not be ...

  • The Warrior

    in Mean Streets
    The Dresden Files - 11.66

    These paranormal private investigators walk the streets no one else can walk and take the jobs no one else will take. Of course, if your case involves werewolves, zombies, demons, or other "unusual" circumstances, it may cost you a bit extra. --#1 ...

  • Turn Coat

    The Dresden Files - 12

    When it comes to the wizard's White Council, Harry Dresden is thought of as either a black sheep or a sacrificial Iamb. And no one holds him in more disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules. But now Morga...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front Vol. 1

    The bodies are piling up in the Windy City and Harry's key witness is one of them! How will he prove his innocence and find the real killer now? The Dresden Files: Storm Front continues to grab readers with the gripping mix of mystery and adventure t...

  • Last Call

    in Strange Brew
    The Dresden Files - 12.66

    Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line...

  • First Lord's Fury

    The Codex Alera - 6

    Now the people of Alera -- who use their unique bonds with the elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal for protection -- must face the ultimate conflict... For Gaius Octavian, life has been one long struggle. Battling ancient foes, fo...

  • Changes

    The Dresden Files - 13

    Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover -- until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her caught between humanity and the relentless bloodlust of the yampiric Red Court. She disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her...



  • Even Hand

    in Dark and Stormy Knights
    The Dresden Files - 13.5

    It was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most perilous quest….

    They're the ultimate defenders of humanity―modern day knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine o...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front Vol. 2

    Battered and beaten, Harry Dresden faces his final showdown with the Shadow Killer. With his own life on the line can Harry possibly stop him in time? The Dresden Files: Storm Front reaches a shattering climax loaded with all of Jim Butcher's tradema...

  • Side Jobs

    The Dresden Files - 14

    Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher-a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the abs...

  • Love Hurts

    in Songs of Love and Death
    The Dresden Files - 14.5

    IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyp...

  • Jim Butcher's the Dresden Files: Storm Front, Volume 2: Maelstrom

    • Harry Dresden is a wizard, the only one in the Chicago phone book. He uses his arcane powers to investigate the supernatural, often assisting the Special Investigations Unit of the Chicago P.D. with cases that are beyond their comprehension....

  • Curses

    in Naked City
    The Dresden Files - 10.5

    Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hot...

  • Ghost Story

    The Dresden Files - 15

    When an unknown someone shoots him and leaves him to die, Harry Dresden hopes he might be heading to a better place. Unfortunately being dead doesn't make Harry's life any easier. Trapped between life and death, he learns that his friends are in s...

  • Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Fool Moon, Part 1

    • Harry Dresden`s life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council co...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Fool Moon Vol. 1

    Harry Dresden`s life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council continues t...

  • Bigfoot on Campus

    in Hex Appeal
    The Dresden Files - 12.33

    Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal…

     

    In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss -- or raise him back...



  • Cold Days

    The Dresden Files - 16

    HARRY DRESDEN LIVES!!! After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad. Because he is no lon...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Fool Moon, Volume 2

    • The star of Jim Butcher’s New York Times bestselling novel series, The Dresden Files, Harry Dresden is a private investigator whose clients require a detective with supernatural expertise ― in other words, he’s a wizard for hire. The W...

  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror

    • The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in this outstanding ann...

  • Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin

    From the mind of best-selling author Jim Butcher, an ALL-NEW, COMPLETELY ORIGINAL Dresden Files story that pits Chicago's mystical detective against bloodthirsty rural monsters.
    Harry Dresden, a Chicago private investigator and wizard, heads to a...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Fool Moon Vol. 2

    The star of Jim Butcher's New York Times bestselling novel series, The Dresden Files, Harry Dresden is a private investigator whose clients require a detective with supernatural expertise - in other words, he's a wizard for hire. The Windy City has b...

  • Skin Game

    The Dresden Files - 17

    Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day. Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. Mab has...

  • Beyond the Pale

    Beyond the Pale is an anthology of fantasy, urban fantasy and paranormal stories that skirt the border between our world and others. Was that my imagination, or did I hear something under my bed? What was that blurred movement in my darkened closet? ...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: War Cry

    What do you do when you're outnumbered by scores of vampires and your only allies are three inexperienced wizards and some frightened scholars? If you're Harry Dresden...you attack! But even as Harry risks everything in an attempt to shatter the Red ...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Down Town

    Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden and his new apprentice, Molly Carpenter, intend to end the havoc caused by a mad sorcerer - one whose ambitions would have the Windy City streets carved out as his own private kingdom. But when the magical upstar...

  • Jim Butcher's Dresden Files Omnibus Vol 1

    When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking down and f...



  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files Omnibus, Volume 1

    • When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking d...

  • Working for Bigfoot

    Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here. But when it turns out the long hair covers every square inch of his latest client's body, and the legs contribute to a nine-foot height, even the ...

  • The Aeronaut's Windlass

    Cinder Spires - 1

    Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors… Since time immem...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Wild Card

    The conclusion! Trickster demigod Puck has cut a swath of paranoia and destruction through Chicago, setting the White Court of Vampires against the Mob against the Police. If Puck is to be defeated, Harry Dresden is going to have to convince these th...

  • Shadowed Souls

    Featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman, this dark and gritty anthology proves that nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil... In #1 New York Times bestselling aut...

  • Urban Enemies

    Villains have all the fun -- everyone knows that -- and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from seventeen urban fantasy series get their own stories -- including the baddies of New York Times bestselling a...

  • Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Omnibus Vol 2

    When the Chicago Police Department are baffled by cases, they turn to Harry Dresden: private investigator and wizard! Armed with vast yet unrefined mystic skills, Dresden doggedly pursues every lead in his search for answers, crossing mobsters, reneg...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files Omnibus, Volume 2

    When the Chicago Police Department are baffled by cases, they turn to Harry Dresden: private investigator and wizard! Armed with vast yet unrefined mystic skills, Dresden doggedly pursues every lead in his search for answers, crossing mobsters, reneg...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Dog Men

    New York Times-bestselling author Jim Butcher expands his beloved "Dresden Files" novel series with the all-new "Dog Men" story set within official continuity, created exclusively as a graphic novel! Harry Dresden is a man on the edge -- and that is ...

  • Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Dresden Dog Men signed

    New York Times-bestselling author Jim Butcher expands his beloved "Dresden Files" novel series with the all-new "Dog Men" story set within official continuity, created exclusively as a graphic novel!

    Harry Dresden is a man on the edge―and ...

  • Brief Cases

    The Dresden Files - 17.5

    An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City’s favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue -- and creatures of all superna...

  • Parallel Worlds

    Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within "Parallel Worlds" explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them -- and what keeps ...

  • Peace Talks

    The Dresden Files - 18

    When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, w...

  • Battle Ground

    The Dresden Files - 19

    THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS FOR HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO’S ONLY PROFESSIONAL WIZARD, in the next entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above hi...

  • Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Bigfoot

    Chicago’s only professional wizard, IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times best-selling Dresden Files.  Harry Dresden, Is working for Bigfoot. Three hard to find Dresden short stories reimagined and interwoven ...

  • Heroic Hearts

    An all-star urban fantasy collection featuring short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, and more . . .In this short story collection of courage, adventure, and magic, h...

  • Instinct

    Danger. Evil. Death. Heroes can face it all, but they cannot do it alone.Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-ne...

  • Warriorborn

    From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Dresden Files comes an all-new, action-packed fantasy adventure set in the Cinder Spires universe.Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster hasn’t even broken in his lieutenant’s insignia when ...

  • The Olympian Affair

    Cinder Spires - 2

    An instant New York Times bestseller!The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordpla...

Award-Winning Books by Jim Butcher

The Aeronaut's Windlass
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Fantasy Adventure
Battle Ground
2021 Dragon Award -- Fantasy Novel
Cold Days
2013 Goodreads Choice Award -- Paranormal Fantasy
Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Wild Card
2017 Dragon Award -- Graphic Novel


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Jim Butcher has published 68 books.

Jim Butcher does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Olympian Affair, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Jim Butcher, Storm Front, was published in April 2000.

Yes. Jim Butcher has 3 series.
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