If you’re eagerly waiting for the second Dune movie to hit theaters but that November release date just seems painfully far away, there’s a lil’ somethin’ you can do in the meantime to fill that Timothée-Chalamet-shaped hole in your heart: read all of the Dune books. And here’s the best (okay, maybe slightly daunting) part—there’s twenty-freaking-two of them, so the amount of desert sci-fi content is, well, a lot.
The original author, Frank Herbert, wrote the OG Dune book in 1965, followed by five sequels, before he died in 1986. It wasn’t until 12 years later that his son, Brian, and science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson came together to write a trilogy of prequels. Turns out that went so well that they decided to keep on writing, adding even more books to the Dune cannon, both prequels and sequels.
If you do want to tackle all of the Dune books, there are two different ways you can go about it: reading them in the order they were released, OR reading them in chronological story order. TBH, you can totally go either way and enjoy them equally, so dealer’s choice! But just to give you the option, here’s how to read the Dune books in order both ways.
Dune Books In Release Order
Dune Books in Chronological Order
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