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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9730505" data-attributes="member: 5948">Without analysing it TOO deeply, that's a pretty solid starting list.  The only really obvious ones I can see missing are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Buried Dagger.  Not a particularly good book, but it has Mortarion's ascension to daemonhood in it (spoiler alert!), so you might want to read it for completeness</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Angels of Caliban. Again, not a great book (WHY do they keep letting Gav Thorpe write the Dark Angels?), but it's integral to the Unremembered Empire/Ruinstorm sequence and to Sanguinius's eventual return to Terra, and a lot of stuff won't make sense without it.</li> </ul>It kinda depends what you want out of your reading.  With the caveats above, this is a good listing if you just want to follow the 'main' plotline.  You're going to miss details in other books of course (Vulkan's arc would be particularly confusing with the above reading order), and miss some good reads.  Shattered Legions is good for a picture of how the Raven Guard/Iron Hands/Salamanders cope after Istvaan, The Crimson King and Fury of Magnus are also excellent reads, but likewise peripheral to the main story so are skippable if that's your jam.  And of course if you're a big fan of a particular legion then you'll want to read all the stuff about them (and if it's the Raven Guard, Salamanders, or Dark Angels, then you have my sympathies)The only other note is that there's also some stuff hidden in short story anthologies that is pretty required reading from a main plotline point of view.  Off the top of my head there'd be The Crimson Fist, Savage Weapons, Prince of Crows, The Reflection Crack'd which I'd view as pretty necessary to the main plot (I can't tell you what anthologies they're in, off the top of my head), but I've been reading this series for a LONG time and stuff blurs together a bit, and I'm 100% sure that there'd be others I can't put a name to right now.</blockquote>

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