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Halo Books in Order

by Troy DenningLiterature & Fiction

26 books from Halo: The Fall of Reach (2008) to Halo: The Rubicon Protocol (2022). Rated 4.7 across 76,952 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Halo: The Fall of Reach

    Book 1 2008 by Eric Nylund 4.8 (12.6k)

    The New York Times bestselling origin story of the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! The 26th century.

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  2. Halo: The Flood

    Book 2 2019 by William C. Dietz 4.7 (4.9k)

    The bestselling adaptation of the iconic video game Halo: Combat Evolved featuring the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series! 2552.

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  3. Halo: First Strike

    Book 3 2008 by Eric Nylund 4.9 (6.1k)

    The New York Times bestselling aftermath of Halo: Combat Evolved featuring the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series! 2552.

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  4. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

    Book 4 2007 by Eric Nylund 4.8 (8.9k)

    The New York Times bestseller—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! The twenty-sixth century: Once considered clandestine, the Spartan-II program has now gone public.

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  5. Halo: Envoy

    Book 6 2017 by Tobias S. Buckell 4.7 (1.9k)

    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It has been six years since the end of the Covenant War...and yet on the planet Carrow, a world on the edge of the Joint…

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  6. Halo: Cryptum

    Book 7 2010 by Greg Bear 4.4 (3.6k)

    Fully 100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings. But one species - eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge - achieved dominance.

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  7. Halo: Primordium

    Book 8 2012 by Greg Bear 4.4 (2.7k)

    I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies - a greater reach than any human before me. You have asked me to tell you...

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  8. Halo: Silentium

    Book 9 2013 by Greg Bear 4.5 (2.3k)

    In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood - a horrifying shape-changing parasite - has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.

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  9. Halo: Glasslands

    Book 10 2011 by Karen Traviss 4.6 (3.4k)

    The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible.

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  10. Halo: The Thursday War

    Book 11 2012 by Karen Traviss 4.7 (2.8k)

    Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from…

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  11. Halo: Mortal Dictata

    Book 13 2014 by Karen Traviss 4.7 (3.2k)

    Wars end. But hatred, guilt, and devotion can endure beyond the grave. With the Covenant War over, the Office of Naval Intelligence faces old grievances rising again to threaten Earth.

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  12. Halo: New Blood

    Book 14 2015 by Matt Forbeck 4.7 (3.5k)

    The New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster Xbox games continues with the acclaimed story of Spartan Edward Buck—first seen in HALO: ODST and reappearing in HALO 5: GUARDIANS! While Spartans get all the glory, no…

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  13. Halo: Bad Blood

    Book 15 2018 by Matt Forbeck 4.8 (2.4k)

    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! Just hours following their climactic battle on the Forerunner planet Genesis, the Spartans of Blue Team and Fireteam…

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  14. Halo: Last Light

    Book 16 2015 4.7 (2.1k)

    An original novel set in the Halo Universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It is 2553, and the three-decade long Covenant War that defined a generation has suddenly drawn to a close.

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  15. Halo: Retribution

    Book 17 2017 4.7 (1.6k)

    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! December 2553.

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  16. Halo: Divine Wind

    Book 18 2021 4.7 (1.6k)

    An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. With the galaxy in the suffocating grip of a renegade artificial intelligence, another perilous threat has quietly emerged…

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  17. Halo: Smoke and Shadow

    Book 19 2016 by Kelly Gay 4.7 (1.2k)

    The thrilling novella from author Kelly Gay in the expansive universe of the New York Times bestselling sci-fi/action video game series! Find. Claim. Profit. In a post-war galaxy littered with scrap, it’s the salvager’s motto.

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  18. Halo: Renegades

    Book 20 2019 by Kelly Gay 4.5 (1.2k)

    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! Find. Claim. Profit.

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  19. Halo: Point of Light

    Book 21 2021 by Kelly Gay 4.8 (1.1k)

    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! August 2558.

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  20. Halo: Silent Storm

    Book 22 2018 4.8 (3.1k)

    A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2526.

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  21. Halo: Oblivion

    Book 23 2019 4.7 (1.9k)

    A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2526.

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  22. Halo: Shadows of Reach

    Book 24 2020 4.7 (2.9k)

    USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Everyone wants better meetings, but no one seems to know how—until now.” —Reid Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author and cofounder of LinkedIn “Warning: This read may save you countless hours.” —Adam Grant, #1…

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  23. Halo: Edge of Dawn

    Book 25 2025 by Kelly Gay 4.7 (297)

    An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2560. After eliminating War Chief Escharum and sending the Banished leadership into chaos, the Master Chief continues the fight on Zeta…

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  24. Halo: Battle Born

    Book 26 2024 by Cassandra Rose Clarke 4.3 (81)

    Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren’t exactly friends at their small high school on the middle-of-nowhere colony world of…

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  25. Halo Battle Born: Meridian Divide

    Book 27 2019 by Cassandra Rose Clarke 4.5 (522)

    It's been three months since the colony world of Meridian was invaded by the alien alliance known as the Covenant. Under the close watch of the military, Evie, Dorian, Saskia, and Victor have been put into an accelerated training program…

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  26. Halo: The Rubicon Protocol

    Book 28 2022 by Kelly Gay 4.7 (989)

    USA TODAY BESTSELLER An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! A HALO INFINITE STORY December 2559.

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Adapted for screen

  • Halo TV series · Paramount+ · 2022–2024 · 2 seasons

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Halo is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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