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Jim Butcher is a popular American author. The martial arts enthusiast was born in October 1971 in Missouri, where he still lives. Jim Butcher started his writing career in April 2000, specializing in contemporary fantasy and speculative fiction genres.

Jim Butcher is best known for the Dresden Files, a contemporary fantasy book series. The series began in April 2000 with Storm Front as the first novel. Dresden Files has since had a total of 15 novels in the series, the latest of them being Skin Game. Jim Butcher’s second series, Codex Alera, debuted in 2004. The Dresden Files and Codex Alera sequels have had incredible books. It is for this reason that Jim Butcher remains a favorite author for many contemporary fantasy readers. In addition, a number of books in the sequels have received nominations for reputable awards.

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Order of The Dresden Files Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Storm Front 2000 Description / Buy
2 Fool Moon 2001 Description / Buy
3 Grave Peril 2001 Description / Buy
4 Summer Knight 2002 Description / Buy
5 Death Masks 2003 Description / Buy
6 Blood Rites 2004 Description / Buy
7 Dead Beat 2005 Description / Buy
8 Proven Guilty 2006 Description / Buy
9 White Night 2007 Description / Buy
10 Small Favor 2008 Description / Buy
11 Turn Coat 2009 Description / Buy
12 Changes 2010 Description / Buy
13 Ghost Story 2011 Description / Buy
14 Cold Days 2012 Description / Buy
15 Skin Game 2014 Description / Buy
16 Peace Talks 2020 Description / Buy
17 Battle Ground 2020 Description / Buy
18 The Law (Short Story) 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Dresden Files Collections

# Read Title Published Details
1 Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files 2010 Description / Buy
2 Working for Bigfoot 2014 Description / Buy
3 Brief Cases 2018 Description / Buy

Order of The Dresden Files Short Stories/Novellas

# Read Title Published Details
1 Love Hurts (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
2 Christmas Eve (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy

Order of Codex Alera Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Furies of Calderon 2004 Description / Buy
2 Academ's Fury 2005 Description / Buy
3 Cursor's Fury 2006 Description / Buy
4 Captain's Fury 2007 Description / Buy
5 Princep's Fury 2008 Description / Buy
6 First Lord's Fury 2008 Description / Buy

Order of The Cinder Spires Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Aeronaut's Windlass 2015 Description / Buy
2 Warriorborn 2023 Description / Buy
3 The Olympian Affair 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Jim Butcher Standalone Novels

# Read Title Published Details
1 Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours 2006 Description / Buy

Order of The Dresden Files Graphic Novels

# Read Title Published Details
1 Welcome to the Jungle (Short Story) 2008 Description / Buy
2 Backup 2008 Description / Buy
3 The Gathering Storm ( By: Mark Powers) 2009 Description / Buy
4 Maelstrom (Short Story) ( By: Mark Powers) 2011 Description / Buy
5 Fool Moon, Vol. 1 (Short Story) ( By: Mark Powers) 2011 Description / Buy
6 Fool Moon, Vol. 2 ( By: Mark Powers) 2013 Description / Buy
7 Ghoul Goblin ( By: Mark Powers) 2013 Description / Buy
8 War Cry ( By: Mark Powers) 2014 Description / Buy
9 Down Town ( By: Mark Powers) 2015 Description / Buy
10 Wild Card ( By: Mark Powers) 2016 Description / Buy
11 Dog Men (Short Story) ( By: Mark Powers) 2018 Description / Buy
12 Bigfoot ( With: Mark Powers) 2022 Description / Buy

Jim Butcher Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding 2006 Description / Buy
2 Many Bloody Returns 2007 Description / Buy
3 My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon 2007 Description / Buy
4 Blood Lite 2008 Description / Buy
5 Mean Streets 2009 Description / Buy
6 Strange Brew 2009 Description / Buy
7 Dark and Stormy Knights 2010 Description / Buy
8 Songs of Love and Death 2010 Description / Buy
9 Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy 2011 Description / Buy
10 Hex Appeal 2012 Description / Buy
11 Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron 2012 Description / Buy
12 Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 2012 Description / Buy
13 Dangerous Women 2013 Description / Buy
14 Magic City: Recent Spells 2014 Description / Buy
15 Beyond the Pale 2014 Description / Buy
16 Unbound 2016 Description / Buy
17 Shadowed Souls 2016 Description / Buy
18 Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2016 Description / Buy
19 Straight Outta Tombstone 2017 Description / Buy
20 Urban Enemies 2017 Description / Buy
21 Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within 2019 Description / Buy
22 Heroic Hearts 2022 Description / Buy
23 Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology 2023 Description / Buy
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JIM BUTCHER AWARDS

Jim Butcher has received various awards in the span of his writing career. At least 6 of his novels have also received nominations for various internationally recognized awards. First, Storm Front was a finalist at the Crompton Crook Stephen Tall memorial Awards in 2001, best first novels category. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Skin Game and The Aeronaut’s Windlass received nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards in 2009, 2015 and 2016 respectively. It is also important to note that Jim Butcher’s Changes and Cold Days impressively faired in the SF Readers Poll in 2011 and 2013.

JIM BUTCHER BOOKS INTO MOVIES/TV:

Remarkably, The Dresden Files hit the screens as a television series in America, Canada and later in the UK. The television series, based on Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files book series, premiered in 2007. This series ran for a complete season. All the twelve episodes, running for 45 minutes each, are currently available on DVD in selected stores. This incredible achievement highlights Jim Butcher’s successful career as an author.

BEST JIM BUTCHER BOOKS

Jim Butcher has had a wonderful writing career with many popular books for fantasy readers. However, the following three books stand out;

Storm Front: As the first book in the Dresden Files series, Storm Front set the pace to the series and introduced the characters. The plot revolves around Harry Dresden, a listed, professional wizard whose main work involves helping Chicago Police Department and Residents to solve mysterious murders. Harry Dresden is called by Lt. Karrin Murphy of the Chicago Police Department to assist unravel the mysterious deaths of two victims. Dresden arrives at the gruesome scene of murder, a hotel room, to find Jennifer Stanton and Tommy Tomm(Johnny Marcone’s bodyguard) in a bloody scene. Both victims have their hearts ripped out, evidently during intercourse. The use of magic is visible in the dark magic remnants in the room. He receives instructions from Lt. Murphy and leaves the room hurriedly for a due appointment. He is forced into a car on his way out. In the car, he meets Johnny Marcone who offers Dresden a lot of monetary reward on the condition that he keeps away from the murder. He declines and this marks the beginning of the drama. On his next appointment, he gets hired by Monica to help find Victor Sells, a harmless magician who has gone missing after stints of queer behavior. Harry becomes a victim of mysterious attacks from strange creatures. He is torn between saving his life and pursuing his flourishing career. Things get murkier when he is accused of murders!

Changes: The 12th book in the Dresden Files series is another blockbuster. It was released in 2010 and was a #1 New York Times fiction best seller in its debut week. Susan Rodriguez seeks the help of Harry Dresden for the rescue of their daughter, Margaret Angelica, from the hands of kidnapper Duchess Ariana. The plot widens when Dresden’s office is destroyed by an explosion which puts Harry in the FBI list for investigation. When he finds out that a police officer, Rudolph, framed him for the investigation, he begins to investigate Rudolph too. The book gets to a turning point when his house is firebombed.

The Astronaut’s Windlass: It is impossible to mention celebrated works of Jim Butcher without mentioning The Astronaut’s Windlass. This classic steampunk fantasy novel is the first book in Jim Butcher’s last series, The Cinder Spires. Released in 2015, The Astronaut’s Windless brings together steampunk technologies, intelligent cats and magical wars in a single extraordinary blend. The book is centered around Captain Grimm, Commander of merchant ship Predator. Grimm is successfully lured by the Spirearch of Albion into joining their side of the war against other spires. He later learns that the unending war of the Spires is an astonishing premonition of worse things.

When Does The Next Jim Butcher book come out?

Jim Butcher doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Olympian Affair and was released on November, 7th 2023. It is the newest book in the The Cinder Spires Series.

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