Wargaming: A Warhammer Book Question

When it comes to 40k novels, where is the best place to start?

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[Bluedruid13]

The Space Wolf Novels are great. I started with them and enjoy Ragnar's adventures.

[boltorange]

Soul Hunter by Aasron Dembski-Bowden is great. I started with the anthology "Let the Galaxy Burn." There are some good stories in there.

[squidgybidge]

The Horus heresy series I found a good place to start off, as it gives you a taste for multiple authors, as the series is a collaborative effort. That way you get to see what Black Library authors you like best. It is also a good scene setter for the entire universe we play in.

[meleck1]

I second the Gaunt's Ghost series. I read 5 of the books in the series and I like them a lot. I started the Horus Heresy and I find that I have a harder time getting into the story. Yet the first Horus Heresy novel is by the same author as the Ghost series (Dan Abnett).

[krushido]

Read the The Inquisition War, an omnibus of three novels written by Ian Watson and the best written of any games workshop books I have read, it is based on old lore of the 40k universe, with a squat, an assassin, and all sort of strange original imaginative stuff. Then the Eisenhorn trilogy is well written also, and very intriguing. Finally the Horus Heresy is a fun read if not the best written always.

[Gerrcinn]

Gaunts Ghosts is a fantastic set for 40k, for fantasy see if you can lay your hands on the old old old set of Konrad, Ignorant Armies and Warblade, it was pre Black Library by nearly 20 years but those along with the Genevieve Undead series are, for me at least, still the best WFB novels ever published. have fun exploring where ever you chose to start

[Jedijim252]

The only 40K novels I have read are Space Wolves novels by William King...there are six altogether. I have read the last two of the last 3 and looking for 2 at half priced books. I found them entertaining, quick to read, and interesting characters...I think they have been combined into two "omnibus" combined books, if you can find them....happy new year, buddy...Jim.

[archaeolas]

i have only read one 40K novel, i enjoyed it, but i cant for the life of me remember what it was called! :/

...id definitely recommend reinhardts blackhearts for when you get to warhammer fantasy books though :)

[Tsuthoggua]

Gaunt's Ghosts all the way! Great characters developed in an ongoing series that reached its 14th book! As a fast reader You should get a lot of enjoyment out of it ; )

Then Horus Heresy, it's mostly very good. Eisenhorn Trilogy is great, and I also like the Inquisitor Books by Watson a lot, though they are a bit outdated.

Cheers!

[BlueLabelDrinker]

Ultramarines omnibus...not necessarily because they are the most popular chapter or army, but because they're a good intro to the 40k universe, and include a lot of the other races as well. I'm almost finished, myself. I'd also recommend a couple of other novels for Imperial Guard in particular, but it sounds like you aren't looking to be that specialized yet.