David Weber

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  • Bibliography:
    64 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1991
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Alicia DeVries

1 - Path of the Fury (Dec-1992)
2 - In Fury Born (Apr-2006)

Bolo

Bolo! (Jan-2005)

Dahak

1 - Mutineer's Moon (Oct-1991)
2 - The Armageddon Inheritance (Dec-1993)
3 - Heirs of Empire (Mar-1996)
4 - Empire From the Ashes (Mar-2003)

Honor Harrington

1 - On Basilisk Station (Apr-1993)
2 - The Honor of the Queen (Jun-1993)
3 - The Short Victorious War (Apr-1994)
4 - Field of Dishonor (Oct-1994)
5 - Flag in Exile (Sep-1995)
6 - Honor Among Enemies (Jun-1996)
7 - In Enemy Hands (Aug-1997)
8 - Echoes of Honor (Sep-1998)
9 - Ashes of Victory (Mar-2000)
10 - War of Honor (Sep-2002)
11 - At All Costs (Nov-2005)
12 - Mission of Honor (Jul-2010)
13 - A Rising Thunder (Mar-2012)
14 - Shadow of Freedom (Mar-2013)
15 - Beginnings (Jul-2013)
16 - Shadow of Victory (Nov-2016)
17 - Uncompromising Honor (Oct-2018)
18 - Toll of Honor (Apr-2024)
More Than Honor (Jan-1998)
Storm from the Shadows (Mar-2009)
House of Steel (May-2013)

Hrandani

1 - Oath of Swords (Jan-1995)
2 - The War God's Own (May-1998)
3 - Wind Rider's Oath (May-2004)
4 - War Maid's Choice (Jul-2012)

Jaynes Intelligence Review

1 - The Royal Manticoran Navy (Jul-2017)
2 - The Havenite Republican Navy (May-2020)

Norfressa

1 - The Sword of the South (Aug-2015)

Safehold

1 - Off Armageddon Reef (Jan-2007)
2 - By Schism Rent Asunder (Aug-2008)
3 - By Heresies Distressed (Jul-2009)
4 - A Mighty Fortress (Apr-2010)
5 - How Firm a Foundation (Sep-2011)
6 - Midst Toil and Tribulation (Sep-2012)
7 - Like a Mighty Army (Feb-2014)
8 - Hell's Foundations Quiver (Oct-2015)
9 - At the Sign of Triumph (Nov-2016)
10 - Through Fiery Trials (Jan-2019)

Saganami Island

1 - The Shadow of Saganami (Oct-2004)

Worlds of Honor

2 - Worlds of Honor (Jan-1999)
3 - Changer of Worlds (Feb-2001)
4 - The Service of the Sword (Apr-2003)
5 - Beginnings (Jul-2013)
6 - What Price Victory? (Feb-2023)
In Fire Forged (Apr-2003)

Multi-Author Series List

Bolo

Old Soldiers (Sep-2005)

A Star Kingdom Novel

1 - A Beautiful Friendship (Oct-2011)

Stephanie Harrington

1 - A Beautiful Friendship (Oct-2011)

Book List in Order: 64 titles

  • Mutineer's Moon

    Dahak - 1

    MUTINY For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy...

  • Path of the Fury

    Alicia DeVries - 1

    VENGEANCE IS A DISH BEST SERVED HOT Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But the pirates made a big mistake ...

  • On Basilisk Station

    Honor Harrington - 1

    HONOR IN TROUBLE Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket ...

  • The Honor of the Queen

    Honor Harrington - 2

    RIGHT WOMAN, WRONG PLACE It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as the necessary prelude to conquest, and a sneak attack as the best means to that end. That's why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the so-calle...

  • The Armageddon Inheritance

    Dahak - 2

    JOB PRESSURE Colin MacIntyre s life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, he's been tapped for greater things, and he isn't too sure he likes it. First he was kidnapped by an ancient, self...

  • The Short Victorious War

    Honor Harrington - 3

    THE PROLES ARE REVOLTING The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent. But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power: another short, v...

  • Field of Dishonor

    Honor Harrington - 4

    Honor Betrayed The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticor...

  • Oath of Swords

    Hrandani - 1

    Whom the Gods Would Recruit, They First Tick Off Our Hero: The Unlikely Paladin Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani is no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, an...

  • Flag in Exile

    Honor Harrington - 5

    HONOR HARRINGTON MUST DIE Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet G...



  • Heirs of Empire

    Dahak - 3

    THE BOSS'S KIDS For really tough jobs, Emperor Colin the First is your man. The only person in the galaxy ever to stop the genocidal Achuutani, he went on from there to resurrect an empire that died forty-five thousand years ago. He's still got a ...

  • Honor Among Enemies

    Honor Harrington - 6

    HEADS WE WIN TAILS YOU DIE For Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy really is. Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, she's been offered a chance to reclaim her ...

  • In Enemy Hands

    Honor Harrington - 7

    HONOR RAZES HELL! Honor Harrington has faced ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas, and duels. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will do anything...

  • More Than Honor

    Honor Harrington

    DAVID WEBER In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction with his top-selling novels of Honor Farrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now two more military SF-world-beaters join him i...

  • The War God's Own

    Hrandani - 2

    HE DIDN'T WANT TO: HE HAD TO! Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer hradani never wanted to be a champion of the War God. Unfortunately, the War God had insisted. Even more unfortunately, Bahzell's own sense of responsibility hadn't let him say "...

  • The Captain from Kirkbean

    in Alternate Generals

    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...

  • Echoes of Honor

    Honor Harrington - 8

    BACK FROM HELL For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of that war. But now Honor has ...

  • The Apocalypse Troll

    USN vs UFOS There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in fro...

  • Worlds of Honor

    Worlds of Honor - 2

    It's A Party--and You're Invited In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction! The core of his work is Honor Harrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now Weber invites you to join hi...

  • Ashes of Victory

    Honor Harrington - 9

    REPORTS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED .. . The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead. Unfortunately, they...



  • Changer of Worlds

    Worlds of Honor - 3

    WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess--has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore. But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of live...

  • The Excalibur Alternative

    HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD . . . The races which ruled the Galactic Federation knew they were vastly superior to the inferior species restricted to the narrow confines of their own star systems by the crudity of their technology . . . and they had ...

  • The Warmasters

    The Warmasters Three Masters of Military Science Fiction Three Great Science Fiction Series: Honor Harrinqton Hammer's Slammers Belisarius Three Short Novels in One Volume Before she saved the galaxy, she was "Ms. Midshipwoman Harring...

  • War of Honor

    Honor Harrington - 10

    NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WAR Thomas Theisman didn't. He had risked his life to restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution. The Prime Minister of Manticore didn't. He was perfectly happy to spin out negotiations while milking wartime tax mea...

  • Empire From the Ashes

    Dahak - 4

    WE HAVE A JOB FOR YOU ... Just a routine day in lunar orbit. That's all Lieutenant Commander Colin Maclntyre, USN, expected. Only a simple training mission to test a new survey instrument intended for the first manned American-Russian interstellar...

  • In Fire Forged

    Worlds of Honor

    A New York Times bestseller in hardcover.  The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues with a collection of tales by New York Times bestsellers Timothy Zahn, Janet Lindskjold, David Weber and othersâ€"all  set in Weber’s hug...

  • The Service of the Sword

    Worlds of Honor - 4

    WELCOME BACK TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR David Weber himself gives us the tale of the first Grayson midshipwoman at a time when internal tensions threaten the Manticoran Alliance as people are reminded that the Peeps are far from the galaxy's only...

  • Wind Rider's Oath

    Hrandani - 3

    THE WAR GOD NEVER PROMISED HIM HE'D BE VOTED "MOST POPULAR" Horse Stealer hradani aren't very popular among the Sothoii. There's the little matter of a thousand years of mutual raiding and slaughter. Then there's the hradani's uncontrollable bouts...

  • Masters of Fantasy

    TODAY'S TOPWRITERS OF FANTASY WITH ALL-NEW ADVENTURES SET IN THEIR MOST POPULAR SERIESYou are cordially invited to explore the many worlds of modern fantasy, with an array of the field's brightest stars as your guides. Masters of Fantasy presents a g...

  • The Shadow of Saganami

    Saganami Island - 1

    STUDENTS OF HONOR The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to...



  • Bolo!

    Bolo

    CYBERNETIC COMRADES IN ARMS BOLOS. For a millennium and a half, they have been humanity's warriors. They have fought Man's battles, died in Man's wars, battled to save Man's children, even from his own kind. They have guarded Man's worlds . . ...

  • Old Soldiers

    Bolo

    OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE Captain Maneka Trevor was the sole human survivor of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion ... but she hadn't wanted to be one. The Bolo known as "Lazarus" -- Unit 28/G-179-LAZ -- was the 39th's sole surviving Bolo ... but h...

  • At All Costs

    Honor Harrington - 11

    WHAT PRICE VICTORY? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening p...

  • In Fury Born

    Alicia DeVries - 2

    Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeV...

  • Oath of Swords and Sword Brother

    Whom the gods would recruit, they first tick off . . .Our Hero: The unlikely Paladin, Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani. He's no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencie...

  • Off Armageddon Reef

    Safehold - 1

    Humanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But...

  • By Schism Rent Asunder

    Safehold - 2

    The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the wo...

  • Storm from the Shadows

    Honor Harrington

    Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle. The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces, and they had to run. But Michelle's ship was crippled, and had to be destroyed t...

  • By Heresies Distressed

    Safehold - 3

    The battle for the soul of Safehold has begun. Charis and Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single empire dedi...

  • My Life Has No Purpose

    "My Life Has No Purpose" empowers you to find your true purpose in life, what makes you, you. It’s NOT a self help book â€" those don’t work! It IS a reference guide, an owner’s manual, to all the wonders of your being....



  • A Mighty Fortress

    Safehold - 4

    Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he's won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand ...

  • Mission of Honor

    Honor Harrington - 12

    COLLISION COURSE The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the migh...

  • Out of the Dark

    The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called sen...

  • How Firm a Foundation

    Safehold - 5

    The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermo...

  • A Beautiful Friendship

    A Star Kingdom Novel - 1
    Stephanie Harrington - 1

    Stephanie Harrington always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl . . . until her parents relocated to the frontier planet of Sphinx in the far distant Star Kingdom of Manticore. It should have been the perfect new home --- a v...

  • A Rising Thunder

    Honor Harrington - 13

    Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Kingdom she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, and utterly nefario...

  • War Maid's Choice

    Hrandani - 4

    In Wind Rider’s Oath, Bahzell became a wind rider -- the first hradani wind rider in history. And, even if Bahzell is the War God’s champion, because the wind riders are the elite of the elite among the Sothoii, Bahzell’s ascension is as likely...

  • Midst Toil and Tribulation

    Safehold - 6

    After centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of the Church of God Awaiting--egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athawes. Now, in the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis's declara...

  • Shadow of Freedom

    Honor Harrington - 14

    Honor Harrington’s Royal Manticoran Navy fights space battles alongside planetary rebels as its old rival, the corrupt Solarian League, begins to crumble. Wrong number? There are two sides to any quarrel . . . unless there are more. Michelle ...

  • House of Steel

    Honor Harrington

    The ultimate guide and companion to the New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series. A new short Honorverse novel, plus a compendium of tech, specs, and history to accompany the blockbuster series. An all-new David Weber Honorverse shor...



  • Beginnings

    Honor Harrington - 15
    Worlds of Honor - 5

    The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues with a collection of tales by New York Times bestselling authors Timothy Zahn, Charles E. Gannon, David Weber and more. Set in Weber’s Honor Harrington Series. The hottest milita...

  • Like a Mighty Army

    Safehold - 7

    For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new -- no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was th...

  • The Sword of the South

    Norfressa - 1

    Set within the Bahzell Bahnakson/War God universe. A swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake. Know thyself. Its always good to know who you are, but sometimes that's a little difficult. Kenho...

  • Hell's Foundations Quiver

    Safehold - 8

    TURNING OF THE TIDE Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race-and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, lif...

  • At the Sign of Triumph

    Safehold - 9

    The Church of God Awaiting's triumph over Charis was inevitable. Despite its prosperity, the Charis was a single, small island realm. It boasted less than two percent of the total population of Safehold. How could it possibly resist total destruction...

  • Shadow of Victory

    Honor Harrington - 16

    The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war! Unintended Consequences Sometimes things don’t work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan -- one it’s been worki...

  • The Royal Manticoran Navy

    Jaynes Intelligence Review - 1

    This soft cover coffee table book details the Royal Manticoran Navy of David Weber's Honor Harrington universe. With material written by David Weber himself, this book is an official concordance of data on the Manticoran Navy. The 64 pages cover t...

  • Uncompromising Honor

    Honor Harrington - 17

    HONOR'S FINISHING WHAT SHE STARTED The Solarian League's navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even its own government knows how enormous its economy truly is. And for hundreds of years, the League has borne the banner of...

  • Through Fiery Trials

    Safehold - 10

    With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin―the cybernetic avatar of Earth's last survivor and immortal beacon to humanity―and the colonies of Safehold and have many adventures ahead in THROUGH FIERY TRIALS, the continuation of Da...

  • The Havenite Republican Navy

    Jaynes Intelligence Review - 2

    The Havenite Republican Navy has had an ongoing string of successes in actions as it’s safe guarded the interests of the expansive Republic, bringing enlightened government to all who ask for the Republic’s protection. With an operational...

  • What Price Victory?

    Worlds of Honor - 6

    THE HOTTEST MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME CONTINUES WITH A COLLECTION OF TALES SET IN DAVID WEBER’S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING HONORVERSEThe hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldl...

  • To Challenge Heaven

    In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast.We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bip...

  • Toll of Honor

    Honor Harrington - 18

    A NEW SOLO NOVEL IN DAVID WEBER'S NYT BEST-SELLING HONORVERSE“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.&rdquo...

  • The Thermopylae Protocol

    NEW NOVEL IN THE BEST-SELLING GORDIAN DIVISION SERIES FROM NYT BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND JACOB HOLO: When a ship from an uncharted universe explodes, it soon becomes apparent that someone is building a massive weapon away from the watc...

  • Rebel

    Book two in David Weber and Richard Fox’s Ascent to Empire series.HE NEVER WANTED TO BE A REBEL The Five Hundred, the elite families who rule the Terran Federation, control its political power and its wealth, and they’ve grown steadily w...

Award-Winning Books by David Weber

Hell's Foundations Quiver
2016 Dragon Award -- Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
Uncompromising Honor
2019 Dragon Award -- Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel


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