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Jim Butcher is a popular American author. The martial arts enthusiast was born in October 1971 in Missouri, where he still lives. Jim Butcher started his writing career in April 2000, specializing in contemporary fantasy and speculative fiction genres.
Jim Butcher is best known for the Dresden Files, a contemporary fantasy book series. The series began in April 2000 with Storm Front as the first novel. Dresden Files has since had a total of 15 novels in the series, the latest of them being Skin Game. Jim Butcher’s second series, Codex Alera, debuted in 2004. The Dresden Files and Codex Alera sequels have had incredible books. It is for this reason that Jim Butcher remains a favorite author for many contemporary fantasy readers. In addition, a number of books in the sequels have received nominations for reputable awards.
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Order of The Dresden Files Series
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storm Front | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Fool Moon | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | Grave Peril | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Summer Knight | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Death Masks | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | Blood Rites | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
| 7 | Dead Beat | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
| 8 | Proven Guilty | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 9 | White Night | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 10 | Day Off (Short Story) | 2008 | Takes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat. Also published in Side Jobs. | |
| 11 | Small Favor | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 12 | The Warrior (Short Story) | 2009 | Novelette following Small Favor. | |
| 13 | Turn Coat | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 14 | Changes | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 15 | Ghost Story | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 16 | Cold Days | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 17 | Skin Game | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 18 | Journal (Short Story) | 2020 | A little insight into what was going on in Morgan’s head during the events of Turn Coat. WARNING: Contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Turn Coat, Changes, and Cold Days! | |
| 19 | Goodbye (Short Story) | 2020 | Microfiction #3 Concurrent with the end of Changes and contains RADIOACTIVE-LEVEL SPOILERS for Changes and Ghost Story. | |
| 20 | Peace Talks | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 21 | Battle Ground | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 22 | Job Placement (Short Story) | 2020 | Spoilers for the short story “Bigfoot on Campus,” which appears in the Brief Cases anthology. Set between Skin Game and Peace Talks, but doesn’t require knowledge of either. | |
| 23 | The Good People (Short Story) | 2020 | This Molly-POV story takes place concurrently with "Christmas Eve," so expect Battle Ground spoilers aplenty. | |
| 24 | The Law (Short Story) | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Dresden Files Collections
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Working for Bigfoot | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | Brief Cases | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dresden Files Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love Hurts (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Christmas Eve (Short Story) | 2018 | Free on JimButcher.com |
Order of Codex Alera Series
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furies of Calderon | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Academ's Fury | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | Cursor's Fury | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Captain's Fury | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Princep's Fury | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | First Lord's Fury | 2008 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Cinder Spires Series
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Aeronaut's Windlass | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Warriorborn | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | The Olympian Affair | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Jim Butcher Standalone Novels
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dresden Files Graphic Novels
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome to the Jungle (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Backup | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | The Gathering Storm | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Maelstrom (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Fool Moon, Vol. 1 (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | Fool Moon, Vol. 2 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 7 | Ghoul Goblin | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 8 | War Cry | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 9 | Down Town | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 10 | Wild Card | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 11 | Dog Men (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 12 | Bigfoot | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Jim Butcher Anthologies
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Many Bloody Returns | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Blood Lite | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Mean Streets | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | Strange Brew | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 7 | Dark and Stormy Knights | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 8 | Songs of Love and Death | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 9 | Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 10 | Hex Appeal | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 11 | Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 12 | Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 13 | Dangerous Women | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 14 | Magic City: Recent Spells | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 15 | Beyond the Pale | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 16 | Unbound | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 17 | Shadowed Souls | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 18 | Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 19 | Straight Outta Tombstone | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 20 | Urban Enemies | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 21 | Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
| 22 | Heroic Hearts | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
| 23 | Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology | 2023 | Description / Buy |
JIM BUTCHER AWARDS
Jim Butcher has received various awards in the span of his writing career. At least 6 of his novels have also received nominations for various internationally recognized awards. First, Storm Front was a finalist at the Crompton Crook Stephen Tall memorial Awards in 2001, best first novels category. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Skin Game and The Aeronaut’s Windlass received nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards in 2009, 2015 and 2016 respectively. It is also important to note that Jim Butcher’s Changes and Cold Days impressively faired in the SF Readers Poll in 2011 and 2013.
JIM BUTCHER BOOKS INTO MOVIES/TV:
Remarkably, The Dresden Files hit the screens as a television series in America, Canada and later in the UK. The television series, based on Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files book series, premiered in 2007. This series ran for a complete season. All the twelve episodes, running for 45 minutes each, are currently available on DVD in selected stores. This incredible achievement highlights Jim Butcher’s successful career as an author.
BEST JIM BUTCHER BOOKS
Jim Butcher has had a wonderful writing career with many popular books for fantasy readers. However, the following three books stand out;
Storm Front: As the first book in the Dresden Files series, Storm Front set the pace to the series and introduced the characters. The plot revolves around Harry Dresden, a listed, professional wizard whose main work involves helping Chicago Police Department and Residents to solve mysterious murders. Harry Dresden is called by Lt. Karrin Murphy of the Chicago Police Department to assist unravel the mysterious deaths of two victims. Dresden arrives at the gruesome scene of murder, a hotel room, to find Jennifer Stanton and Tommy Tomm(Johnny Marcone’s bodyguard) in a bloody scene. Both victims have their hearts ripped out, evidently during intercourse. The use of magic is visible in the dark magic remnants in the room. He receives instructions from Lt. Murphy and leaves the room hurriedly for a due appointment. He is forced into a car on his way out. In the car, he meets Johnny Marcone who offers Dresden a lot of monetary reward on the condition that he keeps away from the murder. He declines and this marks the beginning of the drama. On his next appointment, he gets hired by Monica to help find Victor Sells, a harmless magician who has gone missing after stints of queer behavior. Harry becomes a victim of mysterious attacks from strange creatures. He is torn between saving his life and pursuing his flourishing career. Things get murkier when he is accused of murders!
Changes: The 12th book in the Dresden Files series is another blockbuster. It was released in 2010 and was a #1 New York Times fiction best seller in its debut week. Susan Rodriguez seeks the help of Harry Dresden for the rescue of their daughter, Margaret Angelica, from the hands of kidnapper Duchess Ariana. The plot widens when Dresden’s office is destroyed by an explosion which puts Harry in the FBI list for investigation. When he finds out that a police officer, Rudolph, framed him for the investigation, he begins to investigate Rudolph too. The book gets to a turning point when his house is firebombed.
The Astronaut’s Windlass: It is impossible to mention celebrated works of Jim Butcher without mentioning The Astronaut’s Windlass. This classic steampunk fantasy novel is the first book in Jim Butcher’s last series, The Cinder Spires. Released in 2015, The Astronaut’s Windless brings together steampunk technologies, intelligent cats and magical wars in a single extraordinary blend. The book is centered around Captain Grimm, Commander of merchant ship Predator. Grimm is successfully lured by the Spirearch of Albion into joining their side of the war against other spires. He later learns that the unending war of the Spires is an astonishing premonition of worse things.
When Does The Next Jim Butcher book come out?
Jim Butcher doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Olympian Affair and was released on November, 7th 2023. It is the newest book in the The Cinder Spires Series.