The Warcraft Books

[SergeantStogie]

I am looking for a list (in order) of the Warcraft books. I have never been one for Lore but recently I have this desire to go back to the beginning and check it out. I have searched for a complete list many a time and have found different lists with different books and orders and most are posts from a few years back. If anyone could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

[Trassk]

you'd be surprised how often this gets asked OP. heres a general list

some of these are comics, but most are outright novels and online short stories.

War of the Ancients : The Well of Eternity (Novel, 10,000 Years)
War of the Ancients : The Demon Soul (Novel, 10,000 Years)
War of the Ancients : The Sundering (Novel, 10,000 Years)
War of the Shifting Sands (SS)

Rise of the Horde (Novel, Pre-First War)
Unbroken (SS, Pre-First War)
The Last Guardian (Novel, First War/WC1)

Beyond the Dark Portal (Novel, Second War/WC2)

Lord of the Clans (Novel, Post-Second War)
Day of the Dragon (Novel, Post-Second War)
Of Blood and Honor (SS, Post-Second War)
Road to Damnation (SS, Post-Second War)

Arthas: Rise of the Lich King (Novel, WC3/Third War)
Death Knight (Manga, Third War)
Vol'jin: The Judgment (SS, Third War)

Sunwell Trilogy (Manga, Post-Third War)

Cycle of Hatred (Pre-Vanilla)
Ashbringer (Comic, Third War & Vanilla)

Night of the Dragon (The Burning Crusade)
Garrosh: Heart of War (SS, Post-TBC, Pre-WotLK)
World of Warcraft: The Comic (The Burning Crusade & Pre-WotLK)
Lor'themar: In the Shadow of the Sun (SS, Pre-WotLK)

Sylvanas Windrunner: Edge of Night (SS. Immediately post-WotLK)
Stormrage (Pre-Cataclysm, Post-WotLK)
Shaman (Manga, Pre-Cataclysm, Post-WotLK)
The Shattering (Pre-Cataclysm, Post-WotLK)

Curse of the Worgen (Comic, Cataclysm)
Genn Greymane: Lord of his Pack (SS, Cataclysm)
The Council of Three Hammers: Fire and Iron (SS, Cataclysm)
Tyrande & Malfurion: Seeds of Faith (SS, Cataclysm)
Baine Bloodhoof: As Our Fathers Before Us (SS, Cataclysm)
Gallywix: Trade Secrets of a Trade Prince (SS, Cataclysm)
Wolfheart (Novel, Cataclysm)
Velen: Prophet's Lesson (SS, Cataclysm)
Varian Wrynn: Blood of Our Fathers (SS, Cataclysm)
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects (Novel, Cataclysm)

Quest for Pandaria (Comic, Pre-MoP, Post-Cataclysm)
Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War (Pre-MoP, Post-Cataclysm)

The Trial of the Red Blossoms (SS, Mists of Pandaria)
Bleeding Sun (SS, Mists of Pandaria)
Dawn of the Aspects (E-Book, Mists of Pandaria/Pre-History)
Vol'jin: Shadow of the Horde (Novel, Mists of Pandaria)
The Blank Scroll (SS, Mists of Pandaria)

[SergeantStogie]

wow that is a lot more than i thought... gonna need to find somewhere selling used copies for cheap >.>

[Trassk]

Well as said, some of them are online short novels you can read for free on the warcraft website. Some are in archives like war of the ancients, and the warcraft archive.

[Thimagryn]

Day of the Dragon
Lord of the Clans
The Last Guardian
(Read the above in any order)

War of the Ancients Trilogy
Well of Eternity
The Demon Soul
The Sundering

Chronicles of War/Warcraft RTS Timeline
The Last Guardian (Also mentioned above, technically self-contained story)
Rise of the Horde
Tides of Darkness
Beyond the Dark Portal

WoW continuity
Of Blood and Honor (E-Book by Metzen)
Cycle of Hatred
Night of the Dragon
Arthas: Rise of the Lich King
Stormrage
The Shattering
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects
Wolfheart
Tides of War
Dawn of the Aspects
Shadows of the Horde

You can look more into em here http://wowpedia.org/Novels

[Calzaeth]

Many of them are available in e-book format, so if you have a kindle, any kind of smartphone/tablet, or Windows 8, you can get them there for cheaper than physical copies would be.

Happy reading!

[SergeantStogie]

eh i dont have a kindle but i have a smartphone. The thought of squinting at a 5 inch screen for long periods of time sounds dreadful though..

[Calzaeth]

eh i dont have a kindle but i have a smartphone. The thought of squinting at a 5 inch screen for long periods of time sounds dreadful though..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000426311

Kindle for PC. Cheap books to the people!

[Deleted]

How about we toss in the more relevant comics as well?

Like Return of Varian Vrynn and Pearl of Pandaria.

And plz don't start with whole Medan thing. I know it's cringe worthy, but Cho'gall and Twilight Hammers return as well as Garona is still relevant to the main plot.

[Raggamasta]

Novels part starts at 3:09

[Deleted]

I asked this aswell a few days ago, in chronologicol order --' and they said Rise of the horde was the first novel..?

[Knaby]

Trassk, where would Tides of Darkness - Novel fall into your timeline?

[wych]

I asked this aswell a few days ago, in chronologicol order --' and they said Rise of the horde was the first novel..?

Rise of the Horde is probably the best place to start IMO.

Whilst books like War of the Ancuients and Dawn of the Aspects might be set prior to it they're technically time travel stories with modern day characters involved including orcs (Brox, Krasus, Rhonin).

Rise of the Horde details the corruption of the Eredar and the orcs on Draenor