The Dresden Files audiobooks in order
James Marsters reads the novels, which for a series this long is rarer than it should be — though the UK listing for Twelve Months names no narrator, so check that one before you buy. He played Spike in Buffy and brings the same wry, worn-down delivery to Harry Dresden.
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Which order should you listen in?
Read them in publication order. The early books are shorter and more case-of-the-week; the series gets substantially better from Summer Knight onward and most people who bounce off book one are told to push on to book three. The two novellas, The Law and Out Law, sit where they were published and are optional; The Law is the one recording Butcher reads himself. There is also a run of separate "Dramatized Adaptation" editions of the early books — those are cast productions, not the Marsters readings, so check which you are buying.
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The Dresden Files in publication order
- 1
Storm Front (2000)Read by James Marsters · 8h 1m unabridged - 2
Fool Moon (2001)Read by James Marsters · 10h 6m unabridged - 3
Grave Peril (2001)Read by James Marsters · 11h 55m unabridged - 4
Summer Knight (2002)Read by James Marsters · 11h 13m unabridged - 5
Death Masks (2003)Read by James Marsters · 11h 17m unabridged - 6
Blood Rites (2004)Read by James Marsters · 13h 5m unabridged - 7
Dead Beat (2005)Read by James Marsters · 15h 7m unabridged - 8
Proven Guilty (2006)Read by James Marsters · 16h 16m unabridged - 9
White Night (2007)Read by James Marsters · 14h 12m unabridged - 10Small Favour (2008)Read by James Marsters · 13h 49m unabridged
- 11
Turn Coat (2009)Read by James Marsters · 14h 36m unabridged - 12
Changes (2010)Read by James Marsters · 15h 26m unabridged - 13
Ghost Story (2011)Read by James Marsters · 17h 36m unabridged - 14
Cold Days (2012)Read by James Marsters · 18h 47m unabridged - 15
Skin Game (2014)Read by James Marsters · 15h 49m unabridged - 16
Peace Talks (2020)Read by James Marsters · 12h 52m unabridged - 17
Battle Ground (2020)Read by James Marsters · 15h 43m unabridged - 18The Law (2022)Read by Jim Butcher · 3h 22m unabridged
- 19
Twelve Months (2026)No narrator named on the listing · 16h 59m unabridged - 20Out Law (2026)Read by James Marsters · 4h 13m unabridged