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Looking for some reading reccomendations im going to buy a few books for christmas from ebay/amazon and have drawn up a shortlist. I cant get them all and nor would i want t. Im aware the black library has a lot of filler and average books so im wondering which of the following list are truly worth getting.
I know a lot of novels are tie in fiction which personally i dont enjoy for example the unburdened and the honored were not great.
Any Help much appreciated.


Bastion Wars Novel Series
Dark Heresy Series
Enforcer: Shira Calpurnia
Gothic War
Relentless
Blood of Asaheim
Malodrax
The Death of Antagonis
Wrath of Iron
Faith and Fire
Hammer and Anvil
Salamanders Novels
Rogue Trader series
Macharian Crusade Series
Gunheads
Iron Guard
Commissar
Ahriman Series
Baneblade
Daemon World
Imperial Glory
Straken

Non BL Books im considereing
Armada Ernest Cline
Riddley Walker
The Black Cloud
Dog Soldiers (Robert stone)
Nobody Move(Dennis Johnson)
Hive Construct

Books ive previously Enjoyed
Ciaphas Cain
Dark Eldar
Anything by Dan abnett and ADB
Horus Heresy everything

Books ive actively Disliked
Dawn of War
Of mars series
Dead Men Walking
Adeptus Mechanicus novels by Rob Sanders

If you scroll down just a Little you'll find a "which books doyou reccomend" thread. That one might help you out.

From the ones listed above I liked Gothic War [especially first book] and Iron Guard.

If you disliked the 'Of Mars' series, then Gunheads may not be for you.

It's very similar in that the Ad Mech are on a mission (with lots of their own little secret motives, etc), escorted by a big IG force. Obviously it's a lot shorter than that series, but it's the same presentation basically minus Space Marines and a space fleet.

Wrath of Iron is most definitely worth reading.

I've got blood asaheim and the 2nd in the Macharian Crusade Series brand new and in hardback. You can have them if you are willing to pay the postage. I'll never read them.

The Enforcer series is alright the first novel is pretty good but the second one is awful and the third is mediocre.

The Rouge trader is a good read especially the second novel!

I didn't much enjoy wrath of iron but I'm not a iron hands fan.

I love the Macharian Crusade Series and anything William king I know a lot of people don't like his works(outside of the G&F series) but I've always been a fan.

Daemon world is probably the must-read on that list. I'd compare it to some of the Ghosts books, or some of the cheesier Abnett shorts. It's a lot better than some of the other books by the same author.

Have not read Gothic War. Is it Gordon Rennie? If yes then read, it sounds like it might be the execution hour + shadow point compilation.


The Henry Zou book seemed to me like it was trying to force in what the setting should be, instead of being about the characters. I actually tossed it more or less right away.

The reactions I have seen to the Salamanders novels are at best that they are moderately good, and then they get more negative in rough correlation to how good the reader in question is. I have not read the Salamanders novels because Nick Kymes writing in Sabbat Worlds was awful.


Relentless was pretty entertaining.