Top 8 Best Warhammer 40k Beginner books - How to start reading Warhammer 40k

I'm glad i stumbled into this video. I started listening to Horus Rising. Its good, but good lawd, the Horus Heresy is a long series. Most likely, i'll be skipping around lol. Chatgpt made a list of books with the characters that im looking to read about.

I'd definitely recommend The Infinite And The Divine for anyone interested in Xenos and obviously especially Necrons. The Imperium has tons of good books, good Xenos books are rarer and should always be mentioned

The Night Lords Omnibus was a banger.

Thanks. Very useful list and you do a good job explaining why you recommend them without spoiling them. I'll be picking up some of these.

Great selection of key black library tomes with sufficient diversity to help the new initiates become accustomed to the broader Warhammer 40k universe. Would also add in Valdor: Birth of the Imperium, and Horus Rising to introduce the 30k Horus Heresy arc too. If I were to suggest where the new reader should start their journey, I would also suggest Eisenhorn, Ciaphas Cain & Night Lords trilogies for mix of “serious”, hilarious and grim dark proper, respectively. Look forward to your upcoming book reviews! 🤘🏼

a lot of contemporary 40k book consumption is the audiobook format it feels like as the access to these titles is so much wider... also- LOVE the inclusion of Double Eagle. It is so great

Thanks for this video Benjamin! Since I have come back to the fold of reading, I've been tempted to pick up some Warhammer but just felt overwhelmed and intimated. Thanks for breaking it down for a novice like myself!

I think Dante, and later the Devastation of Baal buy Guy Haley are pretty good introductory books also. Dante is mainly about the trials Dante had to undergo to become a space marine, so it's a pretty good way of learning about the space marines from a human perspective, and the Devastation of Baal is a maybe a little overstuffed for a new reader, but it's got good action and introduces some of the more recent plot developments that are still being explored in the current story arcs of the game.

Ooh, recommendations 👀. I want to read this world

The first 40k books I read were Space Marine, Inquisitor and the Death Wing omnibus None of these would be appropriate for new readers today, given much of them are no longer canon

I think all (at least most) of these are also available as audiobooks

Abnett is sooo overated. Night Lords is great though as is everything by ADB. Forges of mars seems to be the best entry point as it shows of so many of the different factions. All the Necron books are also great especially the infinite and the divine.

Do not bother reading. The material that is currently available you will fall in love with. Within the next few months it will look nothing like that

I don't want to be harsh... but for me atleast... with the latest things... I.... well... sorry... I cant really recommend it any more. Sorry