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I am just starting a Chaos Space Marine army (World Eaters) and I am wanting to do some reading about Chaos, what books do you guys recommend from Black Library about the Chaos. Any and all suggestions will be much appreciated.

Lord of Night is a good book.

It's about just A Chaos Marine however. So you might want to look further then that.

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Storm of Iron is great.

Dark Disciple is great. The next two books in the series are not as good, but worth a read if you like the first one.

I also recommend Palace of the Plague Lord to anyone interested in Chaos. It's part of the Fantasy setting but it's too good to pass up.

Noisy_Marine wrote:Dark Disciple is great. The next two books in the series are not as good, but worth a read if you like the first one.

Jeez, really? I'm about halfway through and to be completely honest, I'm borderline forcing myself to pick it up to get through it. It reads like poorly written Fandex fluff, IMO. Maybe I'm missing key pieces of the puzzle but the author barrels headlong into the Word Bearers chapter with little explanation or description as to the chapter's functional structure or hierarchy, and the character introduction and development is flat out abysmal. Perhaps some of this was meant to be carried over from other books like Battle for the Abyss, but it would have been nice if the author had included some sort of cursory summation of the chapter's deeds, whereabouts and general structure since the time of the Heresy.

I really dont know what books I'd recommend for CSM. I was (am?) in the same boat, looking for some decent fluff to motivate me while building a CSM army for 40k. I'm starting to think that quality 40k books from Black Library are few and far between, unfortunately...and CSM are in a minority of that minority. I've heard good things about Fulgrim but havent read it to vouch personally. I havent heard much about Legion, but it's an Abnett novel, so that leads me to believe it's good stuff if it meets his typical standards for quality. Again, I havent read it myself. Sorry if I'm not giving you much to work with, but I'm burned out on some of the crappier 40k books like Dark Disciple, False Gods, Galaxy in Flames, and Flight of the Eisenstein, and decided to head back to Black Library's WFB novels where I feel like the bulk of the books are of a much higher quality.

There is a new book coming out in march that looks promising.
Its called Blood Gorgons.
Not realy read many Chaos books, The HH novels are always good to get a bit knowlage about the worldeaters.
Galaxy in Flames has world eaters in it alot. There is a short story in Tales of heresy about angron and in Battle for the abyss there are a few loyalist world eaters.

Dark Apostle has its good points*, but I found the ending to be absolutely abysmal**.

Daemon world was really good. and the ultramarines novel ( i think black sky something) where they are trapped on an IW world.

ChaosGalvatron wrote:Daemon world was really good.

Really? I'd heard it was really bad. As in atrociously-written, interesting-characters-die, canon-defiling-author-avatar-wins bad.

AlexHolker wrote:

ChaosGalvatron wrote:Daemon world was really good.

Really? I'd heard it was really bad. As in atrociously-written, interesting-characters-die, canon-defiling-author-avatar-wins bad.

I liked the writing. Basically everyone dies. and im not sure what canon was in it. The author-avatar (i can only think of 1 character it could be) only popped up at the end, and i dont remember what about him was canon breaking. The story was a bit of a weird amalgam of 40 and normal warhammer, until the CSM show up it could have been set in the chaos wastes.

I liked only one thing in Daemon World...


Otherwise, I'd only suggest Storm of Iron, it blows everything else out of the water IMO.

Word Bearer: Dark Apostle, Dark Disciple and Dark Creed had been quit good.
Night Lords: Lord of the Night and Soul Hunter, i loved to read both.
[i]Heroes of the Space Marines includes some short stories about different CSM fractions (renegates, Black Legion and Night Lords IIRC)
Fear the Alien includes also a Night Lords short story. And you listen to The Dark King or Throne of Lies (both about Night Lords)

ChaosGalvatron wrote:Daemon world was really good. and the ultramarines novel ( i think black sky something) where they are trapped on an IW world.

I'm with you on this one! I think it's Ben Counters best one to date.

The way he portrays the Word Bearers seems spot on as does the way he explains what its like to be a cultist of Slaanesh and a Prince of Khorne.

Dead Sky Black Sun is where Uriel meets Honsou of the Iron Warriors.

Storm of iron probably is the best, just so well written with great characters and the Dies Irae

Dead sky black sun sucked boring and difficult to read without going blind. Yes it was that .