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Subject: Order of Halo Books

What order should I read all of the Halo books in?

  • 08.11.2011 8:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
Cryptum

  • 08.11.2011 8:08 PM PDT

Contact Harvest, then all 3 Eric Nylund books in the order that they were released. Then The Forerunner Saga. The rest of the books suck.

  • 08.11.2011 8:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man
The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
Evolutions
Cryptum

  • 08.11.2011 8:35 PM PDT

No, the list above is not the correct one. Thats just the list of release order.
The chronological order you should read them in is as follows (quoting myself)

These are all the books in chronological order:

Forerunner Trilogy
1: Cryptum
2: Primordium (release: Jan. 3rd 2012)
3: yet to be announced.

main series
4: Contact Harvest
5: Cole Protocol
6: Fall of Reach
7: The Flood
8: First Strike
9: Ghosts of Onyx

10: Evolutions (spans all the way from the very beginning to after Ghosts of Onyx/Halo 3)

Karen Traviss Trilogy
11: Glasslands (release: Oct. 28th 2011)
12: yet to be announced.
13: yet to be announced.

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This is the common list for the books. However, Fall of Reach and Ghosts of Onyx both span large periods of time which also means overlap in timeline with books listed above them. I order them on their main focus however.

  • 08.12.2011 12:10 AM PDT


Posted by: A Random Turtle

Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man
The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
Evolutions
Cryptum
Thats what i read them in.

  • 08.12.2011 12:13 AM PDT

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Posted by: DonVinzone1
No, the list above is not the correct one. Thats just the list of release order.
The chronological order you should read them in is as follows ...


What I read: "Your opinion is wrong! Mine is correct!"

OP: You can read them in release order, chronological order or in a random order. The only real restriction is that you should read The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx in that order (followed by Glasslands when it comes out).

  • 08.12.2011 12:21 AM PDT


Posted by: Snyder Chips
What order should I read all of the Halo books in?


Doesn't really matter, as long as you read the original 3 Halo novels in the order of The Fall of Reach, The Flood (you could actually skip this or come back to it later, it's basically just Halo: CE in novel form, wasn't written that well imo), and then First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx before Glasslands, and the Forerunner Saga in the correct order.

[Edited on 08.12.2011 1:22 AM PDT]

  • 08.12.2011 1:21 AM PDT

Contact Harvest and the cole protocol happen within the time period of TFOR.

  • 08.12.2011 4:24 AM PDT