Jim Butcher Books in Order

Read each series in publication order. The Dresden Files: Storm Front (2000) through Twelve Months (2026). Codex Alera: Furies of Calderon, Academ’s Fury, Cursor’s Fury, Captain’s Fury, Princeps’ Fury, First Lord’s Fury. The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass, then Warriorborn (novella) and The Olympian Affair. The series are independent, so pick whichever appeals and start at book one.

Twelve Months (January 2026), the eighteenth Dresden Files novel. Before that came The Olympian Affair (2023), the second Cinder Spires novel, and the Cinder Spires novella Warriorborn (2023). The Dresden novella The Law appeared in 2022.

Yes — it is a complete six-book series, published from Furies of Calderon (2004) to First Lord’s Fury (2009). It is a great choice if you want a Jim Butcher series with an ending.

Butcher has said the Cinder Spires is planned as a longer series, and The Olympian Affair (2023) sets up more to come, but no release date for a third novel has been announced.

He wrote Storm Front as a student in a writing class taught by novelist Deborah Chester, largely to prove her structured approach would not work — and it worked. It then took him more than two years to find a publisher; the series launched in 2000 and has been running ever since.