David Weber Books in Order

David Weber is a prolific science-fiction and fantasy author known for popular series like Honor Harrington, Dahak, and Safehold. Reading the David Weber books in order is a wonderful journey into this amazing world of military science-fiction, space opera, and even fantasy novels written over several decades.

With the many books by David Weber published so far, you will be in his world for many hours to come. Also, especially in the Honor Harrington series, there are so many books written that newcomers to the Honorverse might find it a bit difficult knowing which books to start with.

Here are the David Weber books in order for his books starting from Insurrection, his debut novel, all the way to his latest novels written to date.

New David Weber Books

The Thermopylae Protocol (Gordian Division #6), 2024

Rebel (Ascent to Empire #2), 2024

Dahak Books in Order

1. Mutineer’s Moon, 1991
2. The Armageddon Inheritance, 1994
3. Heirs of Empire, 1996

Honorverse

Honor Harrington Books in Order

1. On Basilisk Station, 1993
2. The Honor of the Queen, 1993
3. The Short Victorious War, 1994
4. Field of Dishonor, 1994
5. Flag in Exile, 1995
6. Honor Among Enemies, 1996
7. In Enemy Hands, 1997
8. Echoes of Honor, 1998
9. Ashes of Victory, 2000
10. War of Honor, 2002
11. At All Costs, 2005
12. Mission of Honor, 2010
13. A Rising Thunder, 2012
14. Uncompromising Honor, 2018
15. Toll of Honor, 2024

Honorverse

Worlds of Honor Anthologies in Publication Order

1. More Than Honor, 1998 (with David Drake and S M Stirling)
2. Worlds of Honor, 1999
3. Changer of Worlds, 2001
4. The Service of the Sword, 2003
5. In Fire Forged, 2011
6. Beginnings, 2013
7. What Price Victory?, 2023

Honorverse

Crown of Slaves Books in Order

co-authored with Eric Flint

1. Crown of Slaves, 2003
2. Torch of Freedom, 2009
3. Cauldron of Ghosts, 2014
4. To End in Fire, 2021

Honorverse

Saganami Books in Order

1. The Shadow of Saganami, 2004
2. Storm from the Shadows, 2009
3. Shadow of Freedom, 2013
4. Shadow of Victory, 2016

Honorverse

Manticore Ascendant Books in Order

1. A Call to Duty, 2014 (with Timothy Zahn)
2. A Call to Arms, 2015 (with Thomas Pope and Timothy Zahn)
3. A Call to Vengeance, 2018 (with Thomas Pope and Timothy Zahn)
4. A Call to Insurrection, 2022 (with Thomas Pope and Timothy Zahn)

Honorverse

Star Kingdom Books in Order

1. A Beautiful Friendship, 2011
2. Fire Season, 2012 (with Jane Lindskold)
3. Treecat Wars, 2013 (with Jane Lindskold)
4. A New Clan, 2022 (with Jane Lindskold)

Honorverse

Honorverse Companion Book

• House of Steel: The Honorverse Companion, 2013

Safehold Books in Order

1. Off Armageddon Reef, 2007
2. By Schism Rent Asunder, 2008
3. By Heresies Distressed, 2009
4. A Mighty Fortress, 2010
5. How Firm a Foundation, 2011
6. Midst Toil and Tribulation, 2012
7. Like a Mighty Army, 2014
8. Hell’s Foundations Quiver, 2015
9. At the Sign of Triumph, 2016
10. Through Fiery Trials, 2019

Starfire Books in Order

co-authored with Steve White

1. Insurrection, 1990
2. Crusade, 1992
3. In Death Ground, 1997
4. The Shiva Option, 2002

War God Books in Order

1. Oath of Swords, 1998
2. The War God’s Own, 2004
3. Wind Rider’s Oath, 2012
4. War Maid’s Choice, 2015
5. Sword of the South, 2015

Empire of Man Books in Order

co-authored with John Ringo

1. March Upcountry, 2001
2. March to the Sea, 2002
3. March to the Stars, 2003
4. We Few, 2005

Assiti Shards/Ring of Fire Books in Order

co-authored with Eric Flint

1. 1633, 2002
2. 1634: The Baltic War, 2007

Multiverse Books in Order

1. Hell’s Gate, 2006 (with Linda Evans)
2. Hell Hath No Fury, 2007 (with Linda Evans)
3. The Road to Hell, 2016 (with Joelle Presby)

Furies Books in Order

1. Path of the Fury, 1992
2. In Fury Born, 2006 (expanded version of Path of the Fury)

Bolo Books in Order

1. Bolo! (Bolo #14), 2005
2. Old Soldiers (Bolo #15), 2007

Gordian Division Books in Order

co-authored with Jacob Holo

• The Gordian Protocol (#1), 2019
• The Valkyrie Protocol (#2), 2020
• The Janus File (#3), 2022
• The Weltall File (#4), 2023
• The Thermopylae Protocol (#6), 2024

Ranks of Bronze Books in Order

• Foreign Legions (#2), 2001 (with David Drake and Eric Flint)
• The Excalibur Alternative (#3), 2001

Janissaries Books in Order

co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Phillip Pournelle

• Mamelukes (#4), 2020

Ascent to Empire Books in Order

co-authored with Richard Fox

1. Governor, 2021
2. Rebel, 2024

Out of the Dark Books in Order

1. Out Of the Dark, 2010
2. Into the Light, 2021 (with Chris Kennedy)
3. To Challenge Heaven, 2024 (with Chris Kennedy)

Other David Weber Books

• The Apocalypse Troll, 1998
• Worlds of Weber, 2008

Short Story Anthologies in Publication Order

Graphic Novels

• Tales of Honor 1, 2014 (with Matt Hawkins)

Non-Fiction Books

• Conversations From the Edge: The Galaxy’s Edge Interviews, 2019

What Are Some of the Best Books by David Weber?

David Weber has written a lot of books, most of them in the science-fiction genre, but also a few in the fantasy genre. So, if you are new to reading David Weber books, first you need to decide which genre is your favorite.

If you are here for the sci-fi genre, like most of the readers of this author, you’ve got to start with the Honorverse series. Honor Harrington is one of David Weber’s most long-lasting and most loved characters.

Once you’ve read the currently 10 published books in the series, then you can pick up the rest of the Honorverse-universe books. Alternatively, for a more light-hearted and shorter series, you could never go wrong with his Dahak series, also called Mutineer’s Moon based on the series’ first book.

In fact, Mutineer’s Moon was my first introduction to this author, following which I went on to devour everything else David Weber has written. I love his writing because let’s face it, no one’s doing space opera better than him (well, except for maybe Orson Scott Card in his Ender’s series).

David Weber Biography

The sci-fi and fantasy American author David Mark Weber was born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. When David was 2 years old, his family moved to Greenville, South Carolina.

He always wanted to write, and, in fact, he began writing while attending the  Simpsonville Elementary School in the fifth’s grade. Next, he went to the Hillcrest Junior High School, and then to Hillcrest High School. At the age of 16, he won the first place awards for poetry and short story in the Greenville Arts Festival.

After graduating from high school in 1970, David Weber held several jobs in the writing and advertising world. He worked as a copywriter, a proofreader, typesetter and also a paste-up artist, a job that predated the current computer graphics design and desktop publishing programs. He got encouraged to write sales letters from his mom who had a job as a copywriter with a popular advertising agency.

David then went to college at Greenville Tech, then at Warren Wilson College, following which he enrolled at the Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina where he got his M.A. in history.

Besides writing ads for radio, television, newspapers, and magazines, David Weber also wrote articles, government and annual reports, white papers and all sorts of other business and political related papers.

Later on, he worked in creating wargame designs for the Starfire tabletop board games (upon which he later on also wrote several Starfire books). In fact, Insurrection was the author’s debut novel, published in 1990 with Steve White, a military science-fiction book which would become the first in the Starfire series which currently includes four books.

Soon the author David Mark Weber realized (at the gentle nudging of his publisher, Baen Books), that writing books in a series is more his style than writing standalone novels. Thus he started thinking of various series he could discuss with the publisher as possibilities of next works.Maybe the most popular of these proposals was the one to become the Honor Harrington series.

In the 1990s, the author suffered a severe injury to his wrist which left him unable to write for a long time. During this time, he instead used voice recognition software to dictate this books since there was an immediate deadline to deliver his manuscript to the publisher.

Most of the David Weber books are part of the military science-fiction genre, one which is loved by many fans who also enjoy the books by Greg Bear.

Currently, David Weber has around 60 books written and published, many of which have been translated into different languages. Most books, besides being military sci-fi novels, have at their heart topics as religion, as well as decision making at a personal level. The author is a religious person, and he even mentioned in various interviews that he is trying to make religious statements in his books. In real life, David Weber is also a United Methodist lay preacher, so religious themes are second nature to him to explore in his stories.

Also, he likes to challenge the stereotypical genre roles. Honor Harrington is a strong woman who is often the focus of the Honorverse series of military sci-fi books. She is a born leader, one who never complains, never whines, but takes responsibility for her actions.

David’ Weber’s latest book in the Manticore Ascendant series is A Call to Vengeance, which was published in 2018, as part of the Honorverse universe. The Manticore series is a prequel to the Honor Harrington books, predating it by 400 years in the past. The series follows the tales of Travis Long, who enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy and is now an officer who, along with Lisa Donnelly and other officers and friends, has to defend the Star Kingdom and the Navy from outside attacks.

The whole Honorverse series by the science fiction author David Weber should be read in order of books for each separate series within the universe, at least for the Honor Harrington books.

In 2019, David Weber wrote a standalone sci-fi novel with author Jacob Holo titled The Gordian Protocol. The book is a story of alternate realities, of time travel, and of numerous universes. It features Benjamin Schröder who was plagued by what psychologists call false memories until he realizes they aren’t false at all. All those things he dreamt about are real, and if he doesn’t do something to stop the temporal storm front rushing towards the distant future, everything will be gone.

One of my favorite set of books is the Safehold series by David Weber, however, they are not part of the Honorverse world.

It is interesting that David Weber has never considered himself writing short stories. He even mentioned that the Honor Harrington series doesn’t lend itself to write a short story within at all. Still, over the years, he wrote several short stories, including Sir George and the Dragon, The Traitor, and A Certain Talent, some of which he wrote for the Bolo Anthology created by Baen Books.

In 2001, Ashes of Victory was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

In 1998 David Weber married Sharon, with whom he has three children. They live together in Greenville, South Carolina. where David is working on his next book.

Praise for David Weber

Vast, complex, intricate, subtle, and unlaydownable. This looks like the start of the biggest thing in science fiction since Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Dave Duncan on the Safehold series)

. . . everything you could want in a heroine. . . . Excellent . . . plenty of action. (Science Fiction Age on the Honor Harrington series)

A complex and fascinating epic about change, identity, and the nature of faith. (Publishers Weekly)

Effortlessly exceeds the magnificence of its predecessor…I cannot emphasize how much I want to read the next chapter in the Safehold saga. (Fantasy Book Critic)

Tom Clancy-esque exposition of technical details . . . absurd humor and bloody action. Echoes of Robert Heinlein . . . lots of exploding temporal spaceships and bodies . . . action-packed . . . (Booklist on The Gordian Protocol)

References

• David Weber’s official author site
• Honorverse Fandom site
• Author’s Baen Books publisher page

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