Jim Butcher Books in Order

Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is hired to consult on a brutal double murder committed with black magic. Clearing his name means hunting a killer who knows exactly how deadly real sorcery can be.

When mutilated bodies start turning up under the full moon, Harry gets pulled into a case involving werewolves, mobsters, and hostile cops. It is a rough, early Dresden story that pushes him past his limits.

Ghosts across Chicago turn violent, and too many of the victims connect back to Harry. His investigation drags him into a deadly supernatural plot and opens the door to far bigger trouble.

Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness, orders Harry to solve the murder of the Summer Knight. To survive faerie politics and stop a looming war, he has to work a case where almost everyone lies.

Harry faces a Red Court duel, hired killers, a missing Shroud of Turin, and Susan's return, all at once. It is one of the series' busier cases, and the pressure never really lets up.

What starts as a favor to Thomas sends Harry undercover onto an adult film set where a curse is killing women around the producer. The case gets stranger fast, then turns sharply personal.

In a world where nearly everyone commands elemental furies, young Tavi has none. When war and betrayal reach the Calderon Valley, he survives by wits alone and becomes part of something much bigger.

Tavi arrives at the Academy and finds politics, danger, and unrest simmering beneath imperial order. While Alera starts to fracture, he has to rely on nerve and intelligence in a world still built for the gifted.

Necromancers are hunting the Word of Kemmler, and Harry has one night to keep Chicago from paying the price. This is a fast, crowd-pleasing Dresden case with dark magic, big action, and zero breathing room.

Civil war erupts across Alera, and Tavi is pulled into the legions as the realm starts to break apart. Bigger battles, shifting alliances, and new enemies push the series into full military fantasy mode.

Now a Warden, Harry investigates horror movie monsters that are somehow becoming real. The case tangles with the White Council, Molly Carpenter, and questions that get more dangerous the longer he asks them.

Peter Parker's brief stretch of normal life ends when Morlun's deadly kin come looking for revenge. Jim Butcher turns Spider-Man loose in a fast supernatural thriller packed with pressure and momentum.

Now a captain, Tavi sees that the Canim are not the only threat facing Alera. To stop the Vord, he must build an alliance no one wants and lead soldiers on both sides of the divide.

Minor magic users are disappearing across Chicago, and the deaths look like suicides. Harry digs deeper, finds Thomas in the frame, and gets trapped in White Court politics and temptation.

Told from Thomas Raith's point of view, this novella follows Harry's half brother as he tries to protect Dresden from a hidden threat. It adds secret-war lore and gives Thomas the spotlight for a change.

The final Codex Alera novel brings Tavi's rise and Alera's war with the Vord to a head. It is the payoff book, full of siege pressure, political reckoning, and large-scale last stands.

Recognized at last as Gaius Octavian, Tavi escorts the Canim home and finds their land ravaged by the Vord. Survival means Alerans and Canim fighting together, whether history likes it or not.

An old debt to Mab comes due, and Harry is forced into a job that puts him between the faerie courts and the Denarians. Small Favor starts tight and quickly turns into a brutal test of loyalty.

A grisly murder at the Chicago zoo gives Harry one of his earliest recorded cases. This prequel graphic novel shows him and Murphy before Storm Front, already dealing with monsters that do not stay in cages.

This multi-author urban fantasy anthology includes Butcher's Dresden story The Warrior. Harry checks on Michael Carpenter after someone starts watching him, and the case becomes a quiet, sharp look at faith and responsibility.

Morgan, Harry's old enemy on the White Council, is accused of treason and comes to Harry for help. Hiding him is hard enough. Proving who the real traitor is may get them both killed.

Susan's secret catches up with Harry when the Red Court kidnaps a child tied to them both. The title says it all: this book hits hard, moves fast, and permanently reshapes the series.

A side Dresden story steeped in old monster lore, Heorot drops Harry into a compact supernatural mess with mythic overtones. It is short, punchy, and built around the kind of case that goes bad in a hurry.

Harry is dead, disembodied, and still trying to save his friends. As a ghost in a damaged Chicago, he has to solve his own murder and face what his absence has done to the city.

Harry and Murphy investigate a string of lovers' deaths and find magic twisting desire into something lethal. It is a short, bittersweet case that puts their partnership and Harry's heart under pressure.

Brought back as Mab's Winter Knight, Harry is ordered to do the impossible: kill an immortal. Cold Days throws him back into Chicago with new power, old enemies, and a threat tied to the island Demonreach.

Mab loans Harry to Nicodemus for a supernatural heist aimed at an impossible vault. It is part caper, part trap, and one of the series' sharpest mixes of teamwork, betrayal, and pressure.

This collection gathers Harry Dresden's three linked stories about Irwin Pounder, the half-human son of Bigfoot. Across school, adolescence, and college, Harry keeps getting hired to help when ordinary problems turn supernatural.

Captain Grimm and the crew of the Predator are drawn into a mission that could decide the fate of Spire Albion. Airships, warriorborn, crystal powered tech, and intelligent cats make this a very different Butcher adventure.

Coedited by Jim Butcher, this anthology opens with his Dresden tale Cold Case, starring Molly Carpenter after Cold Days. The collection leans into morally gray heroes, but Butcher's entry is the big draw for series readers.

River Shoulders asks Harry to watch over his half-human son, Irwin, at a regular school. Harry expects bullies. He gets a stranger, meaner problem, and one of the warmest early short stories in the series.

When the peace conference collapses, Chicago becomes a war zone. Harry and his allies stand against a Titan and an invading army in one of the biggest, loudest, and most consequential Dresden books.

The supernatural nations gather in Chicago to negotiate peace, and Harry joins the security team. Diplomatic tension, family complications, and hidden agendas quickly turn the summit into a powder keg.

This graphic novel adapts Harry's three stories about helping Bigfoot's son, Irwin Pounder, at different stages of his life. It mixes humor, monsters, and a surprising amount of heart.

Toot-Toot gets the lead role when a threat slips into Harry's home and endangers pizza, territory, and pride. It is a funny, surprisingly heroic miniature adventure with Mister right in the middle of it.

In a Chicago still wrecked by recent war, Harry takes a smaller, more grounded case where courts, contracts, and muscle matter as much as spells. It is a bruised, street-level Dresden story with personal stakes.

Mouse takes center stage when Cerberus asks for help tracking an escaped lion from the Underworld. Told from a dog's eye view, this short adventure is playful, mythic, and surprisingly tender.

War looms between the Spires as Grimm and the crew of the Predator head to Spire Olympia on a diplomatic mission. Airship combat, politics, and showy heroics drive this bigger, broader Cinder Spires sequel.

Newly promoted Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster is sent on a secret mission to the silent colony Spire Dependence. His backup, three dangerous Warriorborn with criminal pasts, may be as risky as the job itself.

Trying to recover in his new castle, Harry is reluctantly pulled into a favor for Marcone. What looks like a redemption job turns into a fight with a hungry demonic enemy tied to Harry's past.

This urban fantasy anthology includes a new Dresden Files story told from Goodman Grey's point of view. If you want a shorter side trip into Butcher's world, this is the hook.

A year after the Battle of Chicago, Harry tries to help his city recover while grief, ghouls, family trouble, and Mab's political plans close in. More reflective than usual, it makes recovery itself the main fight.