Urban Fantasy
The Dresden Files Books in Order
by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard for hire, takes on cases involving ghosts, faeries, vampires and worse.
About the series
Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files is the urban-fantasy series that helped define the genre. Harry Dresden is the only wizard listed in the Chicago phone book — a hard-boiled investigator who solves supernatural cases involving faeries, vampires, ghosts, and worse, while reluctantly serving the wizards' governing White Council.
Recommended reading order
Read the seventeen novels in publication order. Storm Front and Fool Moon are decent introductions but the series finds its footing around book three or four; readers who bounce off early are encouraged to push through. The short-story collections Side Jobs and Brief Cases slot between the main novels.
Reading order
17 books · Ongoing