The Library

Dune

Frank Herbert · 1965

The book I measure every other one against. Power, ecology and religion, all on one desert planet.

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert · 1969

The hero's victory, seen from the other side. Short, dark and the most honest book in the series.

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert · 1976

What an empire does to the next generation, and a son willing to pay the price his father wouldn't.

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert · 1981

The long game, played over thousands of years and told from inside the tyrant's head. Strange and brilliant.

Heretics of Dune

Frank Herbert · 1984

Fifteen hundred years on, the old institutions regroup. Herbert at his sharpest on how power survives.

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert · 1985

How a civilization keeps its memory when almost everything else is gone.

Red Rising

Pierce Brown · 2014

Mars, a caste system and a miner who refuses to stay in his place. I couldn't put it down.

Golden Son

Pierce Brown · 2015

Every chapter raises the stakes. The best middle book of any series I've read.

Morning Star

Pierce Brown · 2016

The ending the first two books earned: loyalty, friendship and a revolution that actually costs something.

Iron Gold

Pierce Brown · 2018

After the revolution comes the harder part: governing. The series grows up.

Dark Age

Pierce Brown · 2019

Brutal and relentless — what happens when a young republic's dream meets reality.

Light Bringer

Pierce Brown · 2023

Hope, after the darkest book in the saga. Worth every page of the wait.