It was also issued as a separate giveaway “chapbook” (booklet).ģ. “Hunting Harkonnens” – short story prequel in The Road to Dune and Tales of Dune. Short stories were written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J.

I kept the information in this section to a minimum. The sections after this all-in-one link list give more extended bibliographic material (publishers, publication years, ISBN, and miscellaneous notes. Audiobook versions for most of the print books are available at and many of your favorite bookseller sources. For used copies, and especially out-of-print items, also check abebooks. Most links are to hardcover editions available on Amazon. All other items written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. The six novels and few additional Dune stories by Frank Herbert himself are so noted. Short stories are found in quotation marks. Sometimes there are different descriptions available for the short stories, and it is difficult to determine whether a particular story should be viewed as an inquel or midquel, so those designations on short stories are still tentative until I can get the entire Duniverse read in order. So, this reader’s guide includes prequelsand sequelsto Frank Herbert’s original six-book series, as well as “inquels” (additional stories and deleted scenes that coincide with the timeline of an existing novel) and “midquels” (additional stories and novels that bridge the timelines found in two novels). I started this reader’s guide with the chronology and various trilogy/series titles found on the official Dune novels website and then added other specific details about promotional editions, other versions, and various sources into the chronology. But I decided to share it, and posted an earlier edition of this visual bibliography in 2011 on my futuristguy blog, and have been working at completing it since then. I created this list initially as a reader’s guide for when I complete a book project I’m writing - as reading the entire Dune saga is my motivational reward. The following list puts all books and short stories in the universe of Dune into chronological order, as best as possible.

Since 2003, I have been collecting the Dune materials shown here and on other pages on this fansite. * * * * * * * Reader’s Chronological Guide to the Worlds of Frank Herbert’s Dune

Dune Saga Novels - Publication Timeline (1965-2016).

Reader’s Chronological Guide to the Worlds of Frank Herbert’s Dune.

The dune books in order