Having returned to reading David Weber's Honor Harrington books (now at 13 (or 14 depending how you count it) main books, six anthologies, and eight (or seven) spin-offs in three series for a total of 27 titles - I think), I realised at the beginning of At All Costs (book 11 in the regular series) that events were being referenced that I hadn't read about and clearly was expected to know more about. Making my way to the ever-helpful Honorverse Wiki, I found a table of the current books and short stories in reading order, which I have, in part, reproduced below the fold. This helped me work out that I should have branched off to the two spin-off series' before attempting At All Costs. I've been looking forward to reaching those two series, so it's not like it's a hardship.
(Book titles are in italics, short stories are in plain type with the title of the anthology in the next column.)
I'm now thinking there may need to be some more posts on Honor and the odd way in which I love the books but can totally see the problems in them as well.
| Title | Short story in... | Read? | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By the Book | Beginnings | ||||||||||||||||||
| A Beautiful Friendship | More than Honor | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| The Stray | Worlds of Honor | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| A Beautiful Friendship | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fire Season | |||||||||||||||||||
| Treecat Wars | |||||||||||||||||||
| A Call to Arms | Beginnings | ||||||||||||||||||
| What Price Dreams? | Worlds of Honor | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Beauty and the Beast | Beginnings | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best Laid Plans | Beginnings | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ms Midshipwoman Harrington | Changer of Worlds | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Queen's Gambit | Worlds of Honor | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| The Hard Way Home | Worlds of Honor | ||||||||||||||||||
| Promised Land | The Service of the Sword | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Ruthless | In Fire Forged | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Let's Dance! | In Fire Forged | ||||||||||||||||||
| On Basilisk Station | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| With One Stone | The Service of the Sword | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Honor of the Queen | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Short Victorious War | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| A Ship Named Francis | The Service of the Sword | ||||||||||||||||||
| A Grand Tour | More than Honor | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Field of Dishonor | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Deck Load Strike | Worlds of Honor | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flag in Exile | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Honor Among Enemies | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| A Whiff of Grapeshot | More than Honor | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Changer of Worlds | Changer of Worlds | ||||||||||||||||||
| In Enemy Hands | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Echoes of Honor | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| An Act of War | In Fire Forged | ||||||||||||||||||
| Let's go to Prague | The Service of the Sword | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ashes of Victory | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| From the Highlands | Changer of Worlds | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Nightfall | Changer of Worlds | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Fanatic | The Service of the Sword | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Service of the Sword | The Service of the Sword | ||||||||||||||||||
| War of Honor | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Crown of Slaves | Currently Reading | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Shadow of Saganami | |||||||||||||||||||
| At All Costs | |||||||||||||||||||
| Storm from the Shadows | |||||||||||||||||||
| Torch of Freedom | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mission of Honor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Obligated Service | Beginnings | ||||||||||||||||||
| A Rising Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||
| Shadow of Freedom |
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