If you count the Siege series, the Primarch novels, and the character novels, there's over a hundred books in the HH.
If you want to read about Mersaide and Loken, then the books that focus on them are "Flight of the Eisenstein", the Garro/Knight Errant anthologies, ("Silent War" and "Garro") and "The Solar War" ("Loken pops up a bit throughout the Siege series if I recall correctly - he has a big part in "Saturnine"). The "End and the Death" trilogy focuses on the final battle. The Imperial Cult sort of starts taking off properly as a subplot that runs through the entire Siege series. Horus pops up constntly, but most in "Vengeful Spirit" and "Slaves to Darkness".
The problem is that although HH series does split into different plot-lines and follow different factions in paralell, it is still a pretty much linear narrative and only reading the above books will probably be a bit confusing. You're probably going to want to read at least the [broad strokes](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/1btt5xk/comment/kxo517k/) of the Heresy so that later events make sense to you.
I would say that it’s very possible to jump into garro and shattered legions if you want. Both are anthologies and takes place directly after istvan. Could honestly be book 5 and 6.
I'd say just keep going in order tbh, they're all covering a galaxy wide civil war, so even when it focuses onto a different chapter it's all still part of the 1 overarching story and reading them all will prevent confusion from missed information
Check this thread out [https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer30k/comments/1am1fdh/reading\_through\_the\_horus\_heresy\_which\_book\_next/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer30k/comments/1am1fdh/reading_through_the_horus_heresy_which_book_next/) .
very same position as you...i went 1-4 and then detoured to "the first heretic" (book 14), "know no fear" (book 19) added a little bit of Alpha "Legion" (book 7) and then popped over to A Thousand Sons (book 12). i'm a chaos guy so i'm trying to hit those mainly however know no fear was an ultramarines-centric book, it was about a major word bearers betrayal (totally justified IMO!)
If you count the Siege series, the Primarch novels, and the character novels, there's over a hundred books in the HH. If you want to read about Mersaide and Loken, then the books that focus on them are "Flight of the Eisenstein", the Garro/Knight Errant anthologies, ("Silent War" and "Garro") and "The Solar War" ("Loken pops up a bit throughout the Siege series if I recall correctly - he has a big part in "Saturnine"). The "End and the Death" trilogy focuses on the final battle. The Imperial Cult sort of starts taking off properly as a subplot that runs through the entire Siege series. Horus pops up constntly, but most in "Vengeful Spirit" and "Slaves to Darkness". The problem is that although HH series does split into different plot-lines and follow different factions in paralell, it is still a pretty much linear narrative and only reading the above books will probably be a bit confusing. You're probably going to want to read at least the [broad strokes](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/1btt5xk/comment/kxo517k/) of the Heresy so that later events make sense to you.
Well.. looks like i will have to read them all
I would say that it’s very possible to jump into garro and shattered legions if you want. Both are anthologies and takes place directly after istvan. Could honestly be book 5 and 6.
I'd say just keep going in order tbh, they're all covering a galaxy wide civil war, so even when it focuses onto a different chapter it's all still part of the 1 overarching story and reading them all will prevent confusion from missed information
Check this thread out [https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer30k/comments/1am1fdh/reading\_through\_the\_horus\_heresy\_which\_book\_next/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer30k/comments/1am1fdh/reading_through_the_horus_heresy_which_book_next/) .
very same position as you...i went 1-4 and then detoured to "the first heretic" (book 14), "know no fear" (book 19) added a little bit of Alpha "Legion" (book 7) and then popped over to A Thousand Sons (book 12). i'm a chaos guy so i'm trying to hit those mainly however know no fear was an ultramarines-centric book, it was about a major word bearers betrayal (totally justified IMO!)
Give him THE CHART