David Weber

Last Updated on January 9th, 2019

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.

With the many books by David Weber published so far, you will be in his world for many hours (days, and weeks) to come.

Here are the David Weber books in order for his books starting from Insurrection, his debut novel, all the way to A Call to Vengeance, the latest book in the Honorverse universe published in 2018.

David Weber New Books

Uncompromising Honor (Honor Harrington #14), 2018

A Call to Vengeance (Manticore Ascendant #3), 2018

Dahak Series

Mutineer’s Moon (Dahak #1), 1991
The Armageddon Inheritance (Dahak #2), 1994
Heirs of Empire (Dahak #3), 1996

Honorverse

Honor Harrington Series

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

Honorverse

Worlds of Honor Anthologies

More Than Honor (Worlds of Honor #1), 1998
Worlds of Honor (Worlds of Honor #2), 1999
Changer of Worlds (Worlds of Honor #3), 2001
The Service of the Sword (Worlds of Honor #4), 2003
In Fire Forged (Worlds of Honor #5), 2011
Beginnings (Worlds of Honor #6), 2013

Honorverse

More Honorverse Books

Crown of Slaves, 2003 (with Eric Flint)
The Shadow of Saganami, 2004
Storm from the Shadows, 2009
Torch of Freedom, 2009 (with Eric Flint)
Shadow of Freedom, 2013
Cauldron of Ghosts, 2014 (with Eric Flint)
Shadow of Victory, 2016

Honorverse

Manticore Ascendant

Honorverse

Honorverse Young Adult Novels

Honorverse

Honorverse Companion Book

House of Steel: The Honorverse Companion, 2013

Safehold Series

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

Starfire Series

Insurrection (Starfire #1), 1990
Crusade (Starfire #2), 1992
In Death Ground (Starfire #3), 1997
The Shiva Option (Starfire #4), 2002

War God Series

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

Empire of Man Series

co-authored with John Ringo

March Upcountry (Empire of Man #1), 2001
March to the Sea (Empire of Man #2), 2002
March to the Stars (Empire of Man #3), 2003
We Few (Empire of Man #4), 2005

Assiti Shards/Ring of Fire Series

co-authored with Eric Flint

1633, 2002
1634: The Baltic War, 2007

Multiverse Series

Furies Series

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

Bolo Series

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

Other David Weber Books

The Apocalypse Troll, 1998
The Excalibur Alternative, 2001
Worlds of Weber, 2008
Out Of the Dark, 2010
The Gordian Protocol, 2019 (with Jacob Holo)

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 character.

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 American sci-fi and fantasy author David Weber (website) 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 Weber realized (at the gentle nudging of his publisher, Baen), 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 is A Call to Vengeance, which will be published in 2018 as part of the Manticore Ascendant series, which is part of the Honorverse universe. The Manticore series is a prequel to the Honor Harrington series, 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.

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

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)
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)

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