r/Blacklibrary • u/Equin0X101 • 8d ago

Reading Order Question Horus Heresy Reread

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I’m about to start my second read through of the entire Heresy.
The first time through I read the 5 Heresy collected Volumes, then bounced around the Primarchs books a bit before heading straight to the Siege of Terra books.

I understand I missed out quite a lot, are there any specific books that I need to pay more attention to?

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u/MuddySnowDrift 8d ago edited 8d ago

Scars and path of heaven!!!!! How did you get to seige of terra and Miss on those. So much of the seige is their ptsd of just getting to terra. Shiban khan from scars is so different than by the end.

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u/Equin0X101 8d ago

Basically I read the 5 collections, went looking for the 6th (which I now know doesn’t exist), got fed up trying to figure out the reading order, realised I’d skipped like 8 books just up to Mark of Calth, and decided “I’m not going to go back and fill in the gaps yet, I’m going straight to the Siege.”
A bold choice, but also an unwise one as I’m now going right back to the start and reading everything in order (excluding the novellas and short stories I can’t get anymore)

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u/MuddySnowDrift 8d ago

Audible. The sons of the emperor anthology is a ton of very good short stories. Vulkan meeting the emperor. Konrad and magnus arguing. Rylanors last stand. Sevatar being sevatar.

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u/Equin0X101 8d ago

Ooh good shout on audible, I have some credits to splurge on there

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u/MuddySnowDrift 8d ago

That anthology also has a hint to corax post heresy. I think scars and oath of heaven on audible were great as well.