Books?! Where to start?

[Kennari]

Very new to the Halo world and I like to do some reading. What are the ideas as to where to start?

 

[Garthok2962]

Personally id start with the order of release so start with Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghost of Onyx.

Then maybe go to contact harvest then the cole protocol

 

[Kennari]

Personally id start with the order of release so start with Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghost of Onyx.

Then maybe go to contact harvest then the cole protocol

Coolio, appreciate the direction

 

[Show]

I dont know if you need somewhere to start specifically. I heard about to old character getting lead roles in Hunters in the Dark and wanted to know more, so I just started there. Same goes with Ghosts of Onyx, a lot of people pushed a character at me, that I just had to know more. Start where you want and have fun!

 

[Kennari]

I dont know if you need somewhere to start specifically. I heard about to old character getting lead roles in Hunters in the Dark and wanted to know more, so I just started there. Same goes with Ghosts of Onyx, a lot of people pushed a character at me, that I just had to know more. Start where you want and have fun!

I really don't know the game or characters at all. If I take this approach I might start with Fernando Esparza if he is in the books since that my costume build.

 

[Jacktop13]

Alot of people are in favor of going chronological, but for me, my halo experience started with Halo 3 so I jumped all over. So I got a similar feeling with the books.

I suggest starting with the kilo 5 trilogy [Glasslands, Thursday war, Mortal Dictata]

Then First light, then Oblivion, then just follow your heart! Whatever cover looks fun next.

I'm not a fan of fall of Reach as the first book to read because it's the oldest and thus we've come out with sort of a "Halo story format" later on. Having a rigid guide can be nice and sure cornological keeps things in order. But even Halo 1 threw you into the middle of the Covenant war with no pre story so why not do that with the books!

 

[MooseCast89]

If you want to start with CE i believe that would be the flood book. I actually did like Reach but its also my favorite of the games so perhaps that skewed my liking it.

 

[SPARTAN A128]

Reading them in chronological order is one of the easiest ways to get through them but I would highly suggest starting with The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghosts of Onyx and going in release order. Just take note that the older novels have some inconsistencies but reading the list on Halopedia.org is very helpful.