Best 40k single novels or short series?

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>>51606041
The Siege of Castellax.

>>51606041
Read the Eisenhorn omnibus. The most 40k novel there is. It's a nice novel that translates the setting so unbelievably well. Not just because it follows an inquisitor, but because it shows day-to-day life in the Imperium as well.

>>51606041
Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.
Alternatively, the first Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus.

>>51609037
>>51608985
>omnibus
>short

Storm Of Iron is an old classic that strongly defined Iron Warriors.
Lord Of Night is the same but for Nightlords.
Space Marine is way old, really good but probably different than much else warhams you've read. Ian wattson's p fucked up.
Daemon World is an interesting conanesque novel about, well, a Daemon World.
The First Shira Calpurnica(sp) novel is a neat attempt at police procedurals but with arbites.
Kharn Eater Of Worlds is some good killmainburn with minimal strings attached.

Titaninus, by Dan Abnett.

>>51606041
Anything by Dan Abnett, really. I'd say pick up the first Gaunt's Ghosts book, but I'm not sure you can even get them separately anymore, just as 1000+ page omnibus'.

>>51606041
>40K
>Short

Those two things don`t go together.

>>51612282
Dan Abnett's endings suck in everything but the Eisenhorn series and the Gaunt's Ghosts series portrays the Imperium in a way so different from his HH, Eisenhorn, and Ravenor series that it's bizarre. Gaunt's Ghosts really disappointed me after Eisenhorn, it had much lower quality.

Ciaphus Cain is funny. It gets kind of repetitive once you get to the second book, but it's still funny even then.

>>51612335
Eh, there's plenty of perfectly good stand alone novels that you could knock out in an afternoon or two. I think Titanicus qualifies.

Word to the wise, stay far away from the Salamanders books. They're my favorite chapter, but the books are damn near unreadable. Ditto for anything by C.S. Gotto.

>>51606041
BEWAR OF C.S.GOTO
15 Hours from some great imperial guard grimdark.
Titanicus for stuff on the god machines, and a great look at the mechanicus.

Any Gaunt's Ghost novel, they can stand alone pretty well.

Helsreach is good for black templars and armageddon.

Legion of the damned for a cool story involving the Legion of the damned.

Rynn's World is good for the Orks and Crimson fists.

All of the above are good one off books.

>>51606041
Best 40k reads:
Eisenhorn - short series, just 3 novels, you can start with that, It's probably best start for anyone going into reading 40k.
You can go then and read Ravenor trilogy, it's kinda a sequel but stand-alone series on it's own.

Gaunt's Ghost is pretty great overall but it's a long series. How long it is currently 13 novels? 14? It's better to start with something smaller.

If you want some evil chaos fuckery then Night Lords trilogy is the thing, or if you want something shorter go with Storm of Iron or Lord of the Night.

Space Marine Battles series is kinda hit or miss but there are some decent starting points and all of those novels are stand-alone stories about different chapters, different characters and stuff. Rynn's World is pretty good, it's kinda basic bolter-porn but it's good at it. Helsreach is another nice example.

I you want something light-hearted you can't go wrong with Ciaphas Cain series, although it's gotten somewhat long and repetitive.

Overall there are a few Black Library authors that I can honestly recommend: Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Graham McNeill, Gav Thorpe and John French. Sure they may have some flops but most stuff is at least decent with most of them being pretty good or great even.

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>>51606041
Pdf related. It's everything a novel about an unknown chapter should be. Fleshes the Dark Hunters perfectly, and is self containe, it's near perfect.

Deathwatch by Steve Parker and the few short stories about Kill Team Talon are absolutely great. Read the book before the short stories.

Baneblade by Guy Haley is goddamn good as well. Inspired my group and I to do an Only War tank based campaign, lasted a year and a half, it was absolutely a blast. Book is full of details about tanks and it's great.

>>51606041
Don't know what you're into, if you like the human side of 40k then Eisenhorn would be good, if you like spehhs muhreens then I recommend the Night Lords stuff by Dembski-Bowden. They're sold in an omnibus or apart, so you can also just read the first book and see from there.

>>51606041

15 Hours is great. Gritty and realistic 40k warfare, I loved it.

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Litteraly just bought this one, right out of the epub converter.

It's the guy's first 40k novel, I know jackshit about him, but I thought I'd be nice and buy it. If you liked it, buy it as well I guess?

Good reading lads.

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>>51606041

>>51615858
Thanks anon. Is it the one from Jurgen POV? It was pretty good IIRC.

You guys pretty much covered it all...also from Abnett there's Titanicus, standalone and cool as an ice world.

Does anybody manage to find Shadowsword in epub?

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Anyone hyped for the Talon of Horus sequel?

>>51616325
Eeeeeh not really honestly.

I love ADB's writing style, I really do. For me, he's the one that has the best way to write 40k, the only one capable of trasmitting the grandeur, the "OOOMPH" of the setting.

However, his chaos boner, daddy issues, recurring schemes (waifus, SM characters being essentially the same melancholic snowflake) kinda ruined his last books for me.

>>51616244
Give me about an hour or two and I'll buy it and upload it as a pdf anyway.

I loved Baneblade and the short story related so it'd be my pleasure.

I liked dead men walking. Pretty short

>>51616325
Eh. I've enjoyed pretty much everything of ADB's that I've read, but this one didn't stick with me.

>>51616617
I wouldn't call ot short. It was a normal 40k sized novel. I'll add it to my top novels, depressing as fuck but fuck me it was good. Kinda bummed the author never did more.

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>>51616418
That would be exceedingly nice of you.
I really enjoy these kind of novels where the story is realistic enough to be credible and meanwhile you learn so much about the fluff..it has been only 8 years since I began to delve into WH, reading almost every single novel I could find and still I feel like I miss so much knowledge...

Also from the legendary Dan, these new trilogy shows good promise...pic related

>>51616741
Thinking about best and worst ADB novels.... I haven't read Cadian Blood and Master of Mankind yet but out of all other stuff I think Betrayer is the worst for me. I mean it's still really good but.... I don't know.

>>51612388
I enjoy Giant's Ghosts but I do think it suffers from being mostly guard vs traitor guard.

>>51616325

I really enjoyed it, personally. I like his style and I enjoyed how he wrote Abaddon a lot better than how he was portrayed in Gathering Storm.

>>51616818

>Not liking Betrayer

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

But then I'm a sucker for Heresy-era Kharn stuff.

>>51616818
I'm partial to MoM because of the retcons and chaos boner.

Cadian Blood is great though.

>>51616807
I don't think it's ever coming.

Eisenhorn trilogy:
Xenos - 2001
Malleus - 2001
Hereticus - 2002

Ravenor trilogy:
Ravenor - 2005
Ravenor Returned - 2006
Ravenor Rogue - 2007

Bequin trilogy:
Pariah - 2012
Penitent - ?
2017 and counting....

Same with the new Gaunt's Ghost novel:
First and Only - 1999
Ghostmaker - 2000
Necropolis - 2000
Honour Guard - 2001
The Guns of Tanith - 2002
Straight Silver - 2002
Sabbat Martyr - 2003
Traitor General - 2004
His Last Command - 2005
The Armour of Contempt - 2006
Only in Death - 2008
Blood Pact - 2009
Salvation's Reach - 2011
The Warmaster - ?
2017 and counting

>>51617096
That's what I was afraid of...too many years passed...

>>51606041
I thoroughly enjoyed Brothers of the Snake by Dan Abnett.

>>51606041
15 hours and dead men walking were great. Then again i love anything guard

>>51616617
>>51617171
Adding on to Dead Men Walking. Best 40k book I've read, and I loved how it had me in a depressed stupor for a couple of days after reading it. Very effective.

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>>51606041

This is the best 40k literature has to offer. Each character is interesting and different, despite most of them beign Traitor Marines. The writing is good and smooth, and the story is interesting. Read it a couple of times, I recommend it with my dark heretical heart.

Other than that, Gaunt's Ghosts books are nice, Dead Men Walking if you are in for grim darkness turned up to eleven without going all grimDERPNESS.

Also, Ahriman series. Really nice, as befits books about Ahriman so fucked up in some parts you have to concentrate to keep up.

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>>51616807
As promised.

Once again, if you guys liked it, think about buying some books from him since, y'know, the guy needs money to live.