@@HaloCanon don't forget the voice acting on the audio book. It was so excellent acting and I'll always remember all those characters with those voices. Uhing Mortan I believe.
When I was in elementary school I read the original, The flood and first strike. When I started playing the MCC on PC I decided to pick up the books again. I just finishing ghost of Onyx and I loved it, amazing story!
Halo: Fall of Reach. As a kid i really wanted halo when o first saw it. I was big into space marines and my dad found the novel and he said if i could read the novel he would buy me an xbox and halo for christmas. I have reread and listened to every novel multiple times on this almost 20 year journey of an addiction to halo. And all that being said.....Ghost of Onyx is best book. But in all honesty every book has brought something new and interesting for me and its really really hard to say which one i like more.
All of Eric Nylunds halo books are great. I happen to have a Eric Nylund signed copy of Ghosts of Onyx from San Diego Comic-Con 2006 where I got to meet him. I was way more excited than meeting any celebrity:)
I read these two books years ago. The Flood might have been the first book to mention ODST’s as many of the marines in Halo: CE are described as ODST’s in the novelization even though they lacked the appearance in the game (I was hoping that 343 would have made the marines in The Truth and Reconciliation appear in Halo 3 ODST armor as I believe they were supposed to be ODST’s in the book. The only major scene I remember from this book (having read it over a decade ago) was a really badass scene with some stealth elites who try to infiltrate a base with marines and ODST’s. I won’t spoil it other than to say ODST’s and marines are badass. Halo First Strike is a very well written book coming from Eric Nylund, The Godfather of Halo. I just remember that it followed blue team primarily on a mission on a large covenant space port and shows how badass Linda is with a sniper. Hope that helps 😁
My first proper Halo read was "Halo: Glasslands", though so far my favorite remains "Contact Harvest". Easily my choice, with my favorite giant hula-hoop ass kicking marine !
I'll always say the original books are my favorite especially First Strike I actually have the original copies. Funny part is I like Halo The Fall of Reach and Halo Reach equally the same, whenever people ask how I simply say "I treat them as their own interpretations of Reach, and Halo Canon fixed most if not all of the plot holes extremely well"
I just consider the Eric Nylund book actually canon while the game was Bungie Goodbye fan service. Had a blast playing the game even if the story surrounding it made absolutely no sense (you can’t just land troops on the most heavily defended human planet prior to engaging any of their space forces. Like what?? And the CSO class carrier is like the size of High Charity 😂)
@@TheCelestialvision it was pointed out that smaller ships exploited a gap in Human defenses (as seen in Halo 2 terminals) and set up the spires which were teleportation terminals, these allowed the capitol ship to completely bypass the defenses undetected and used advanced but extremely expensive cloaking technology that kept the ship hidden until a spire was destroyed. The reason these never returned is because the Spires were extremely expensive and complex so few were produced and specifically equipped for CSO carriers. Was it explained properly nope it wasn't but if you listen to Dot and Jorge in Tip of the Spear it mentions teleportation terminals and electromagnetic cloaking so the answer was there, the problem was people never paid attention
DKM Graf Zeppelin I mean, there will always be post-hoc explanations sprouting up for these things the way they do for all the lore breaking things in the Disney Star Wars movies. You’re free to accept whatever explanation for your own head canon. Fact remains, hardly any serious halo lore junkies like the CSO class supercarrier, which essentially just appears as an upscaled CAS Assault Carrier, when we know that you can’t simply upscale something like that, things like hanger space and internal hallways would be wildly inefficient space-wise. Also, there should have been dozens of UNSC Capital ships in orbit responding to the covenant corvettes upon visual identification even if they try to explain that they had low observable radar signatures (also these could have been destroyed easily with a single Mac round from even the smallest UNSC frigate yet the one fight we see between them shows a frigate engaging in a side barrage rather than using any standard attack strategy of UNSC ships. There are dozens of inconsistencies like this which just make it easier to accept that Bungie just wanted to make a fun game as a last goodbye and so picked an era that was already famous from the books and threw in a bunch of experimental features like space flight for mere entertainment value, which is exactly what they did. It’s not a slight on Bungie to say that their intention was to make a fan-service game rather than stay consistent with lore. In fact, the halo reach game story could have been written without even having read the book. It doesn’t, to my knowledge, make reference to really much of anything from the book besides the name of the planet. So ya, it’s fan-service which they are afraid to blatantly call such because they think it might diminish its legitimacy as a Halo game, which it really shouldn’t. It’s still a fun halo game. Not being lore-accurate does not take away from its fun factor. It’s like a DBZ film. Some of my favorite DBZ stories and characters come from the films, even though they are not considered canon with the main series. I too love both the The Fall of Reach book and the Halo Reach game. I just don’t try to fit something that is clearly not consistent with canon into canon based on some arbitrary rule that “if it’s in game form then it must be canon” 😄
TheCelestialvision Actually the Halo Reach story makes perfect sense. Halo Canon already did a video showing how both versions of the Fall of Reach work
I was thinking something similar with Silent Storm. As packed as it is with cameos and references to other Halo novels, Silent Storm feels like it was written to be a primer for the Halo EU. The only thing it doesn’t touch on is the Forerunners.
I was always pretty content with getting my Halo knowledge from Wiki's and youtube, but recently I read 'Smoke and Shadow' and its sequels. Now I have the urge to just sit down and read all the books!
I am actually going through the books right now. I read the Forerunner Trilogy first but then just decided to go in release order. I'm about to start Evolutions today
Here’s a few books for newcomers to the books when starting off with fall of reach Cole protocol First strike Contact harvest New blood (if you haven’t played odst do not read since it spoils the entire game and you wont get the emotional impact and twists)
Man! Haha this video came out right before we were recommending several of these books the next two Friday’s, I won’t spoil what Covnenant Canon and Installation00 ended up recommending, but both of the books they wound up recommending are on your list here haha. GREAT VIDEO!
Favorite has to be either the Kilo-Five Trilogy or Shadow of Intent. My first was Contact Harvest. I have yet to encounter a Halo book that isn't amazing
I finished Ghosts of Onyx today and I felt every second of it. It was the first one I read since The Fall of Reach as one of my book reports in high school
My first book was Ghost of Onyx! I had a free audiobook and I gave it a try... after that the rest is history. I listened to the whole Halo collection in audiobook format because of a few reasons. First, it fit my lifestyle as I don’t have much time to sit down and read. I listened while in the gym or long road trips. Second, it was a more immersive experience with the narrators emotions. My favorite titles are hard to pin point but a few to point out are the original Nylund books, the Forerunner trilogy, the Master Chief stories, and the Troy Denning post war Novels. With that said Shadows of Reach could not come any sooner!.... and I’m still waiting on the Greg Bear Ancient Humanity Trilogy 😉
I have tried reading a couple times, but listening to new blood/bad blood on audible has been good for me. They feel very close to the games without having too much expanded lore which is quite nice
I only call The Fall of Reach my absolute favorite because it’s the only book I’ve read more than ten times. You could say my copy of the definitive edition is very well loved, and chock full of sticky flags and pen marks correcting the numerous errors and typos
Evolutions also tells my personal favorite Flood story, the Mona Lisa. When a group of Marines investigate a prison ship that turns out to be an experimental facility for ONI who use the prisoners, both human and the covenant as test subjects to study the Flood. A horror short story that really captures the horrific nature of the Flood and the extremely shady dark side of ONI. This short story certainly shares Aliens (1986) vibes.
My first was contact harvest then cole protocol, I haven’t read enough of them to have a definitive favorite but shadows of reach is a great semi self contained blue team story that I heavily enjoy
My first Halo book was New Blood, continuing my trend of getting into my favourite franchises through the most random points. 0:55 If you think that's an issue, try getting into Star Wars Legends (seriously).
My favorite book is definitely Halo: The Cole Protocol cause it’s the first Halo book I read and the action scenes in it are great (and grey team’s armor on the cover is badass)
THIS is what I love about Halo and why it's become my favorite series, even after barely getting into the games with the PC release of MCC! I then got Audible and started listening to the books at work starting with Fall of Reach! Now Halo is my all time favorite series!
I remember you told me recently on Reddit that The Fall of Reach actually has extra content and more minor fixes to the book. I recently got the 2019 version and can see its a lot thicker than the 2010 version. Is that the case with First Strike and The Flood too? And could you do a video on the various guide books?
I read up to New Blood before life became really busy. Last year I continued my journey with Silent Storm, and I recently finished Oblivion. I'm on Fractures currently but I think I'll go back and read by release order, meaning Evolutions (I was against anthologies in the past) and then Hunters In the Dark. Good video, cheers! I have original copies of The Fall of Reach and The Flood, and the 2010 First Strike, I would recommend release order based off my experience too.
I love that this video popped up I really want to get into the books. Its been less than a year since I bought the MCC blinded without playing any games beside reach and I just love everything about the lore and games
Personally, I feel my favorites were the forerunner trilogy. There was just something about that trilogy that grasped my attention and made me fall in love with it. I had already really liked the Didact as a villain before reading them, and now I feel he’s the best villain in all of the games, it’s a shame he was misused between 4 and 5 in the comics
Omg, I had to scroll through comments so much to find someone praising this! I know these books can be difficult to read but they are literally the origins of humans! I love the fact that it mentions that ancient humans had many different "races" like florians, hamunune etc and we are actually finding their remains in latest excavations!
I was intimidated to start with such a big book so I read battleborn 1 & 2 and now I’m loving shadows of reach and am on track to finish before infinite
This video was very helpful. I myself prefer the chronological approach, and your detailed picture of all the books in chronological order has helped immensely. Not to mention that I learned about new books that I was not aware existed. Great video.
HALO the fall of reach was the first novel I ever read and it holds a special place in my heart especially since I had to use the original audiobook to help me finish it due to the fact that I have dyslexia. That book started me down this rabbit hole and from that point forward I just got better and better at reading all the way up to the point where I had a high school reading level in middle school. Unfortunately I can’t read as much as I used to but I can personally vouch for audible because when I went to school to get my bachelors in game art and design I always had audiobooks on in the background while I was working on my 3-D projects.
My first, of two, book for the Halo extended universe was actually last light. I heavily enjoyed it, and the cameos that were throughout the book were rather interesting when I actually learned who they were at a later date. At the time I honestly wasn't into halo as much as I am now, and channels like this helped me learn half of the small jokes and references throughout the book. Also the other halo book I read was Hunters in the dark, tho it wasn't as good in my opinion, it still was written excellently.
My first was, the flood, epic read, but honestly after reading contact harvest, I had wished I had saved my reader cherry for that one. Extremely worth the dough and time invested in my eye.
I've been meaning to get back to the Halo novels, and I'm glad I found this video to get me started again! I remember seeing the classic Fall of Reach, the Flood, First Strike etc. on my brother's book shelf growing up, but it wasn't until Cryptum was first released that I properly read the novels. Cryptum and Primordium hold a special place in my heart as the first Halo books I really got into, and need to read Silentium now!
My first halo books were the forerunner trilogy and i love them the most. However, last light and Retribution are also in the running for my favorites.
Thank you for making this. So many opposing views on Reddit and other places and this is the first one to take the time to explain. I look forward to reading.
Insane if they was a list that breaks down everything such as separating the stories in Evoultions into order such as Mona Lisa before Halo 2 and so on. Thank you for the awesome guide. The first three I read was Fall of Reach, Flood and First Strike in which I read after I complete Halo 1 and Halo 2 when I first purchase them both with both game guides for $7. That was the start for me into the Halo universe. I have easily become my favorite story and universe of all time
I was hooked on the halo games right when CE originally came out for xbox. I was in middle school and when the first books released I gobbled those things up. So I have a soft spot for Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike. I still have my copies of the original release of those books
i bought ghosts of onyx as a kid. i started reading it but never finished. now returning to it and it’s such a great read, i also have cole protocol and just picked up new blood. great stories
If you manage to get through the oldest stories and find that Ghosts of Onyx was your favorite, I will recommend a series that he didn't mention: the Kilo-Five Trilogy. This consists of Glasslands, The Thursday War, and Mortal Dictata and is a sort of branching path between the events of Ghosts of Onyx and Halo 4/5.
Thanks for this. I'm a fan of some of the other popular military Sci-fi franchises (Star Wars, Mass Effect, Warhammer 40K) and I've been meaning to check out Halo for a while. This will definitely make it easier.
Greets from italy! Since we are in quarantine since 2 weeks already, I was just saying my self "I should start reading halo book, but they're too many and idk where to start". And there your video, like a bless, popped. Thank you! Btw my first and only Halo book I read was the fall of reach (2010 ed) and I loved it.
My first book was halo first strike. Maybe not the best place to start but it was such a good read that i bought more books and recently enjoyed halo bad blood
You should explain what other stories beside books that that fans should watch or listen to. Here's some stories I've downloaded to just listen to, this is the order I have them play, it's the best I could do making them chronological. Halo 4 Terminals Halo Legends: The Duel Halo: The Fall of Reach (Movie Adaptation) Halo Wars Trailer Halo Wars (Game Movie) Halo Legends: Prototype Halo: Forward Unto Dawn Halo Legends: The Babysitter Halo Legends: Homecoming Halo Evolutions: Headhunters (Animated Comic) Halo Evolutions: Midnight in the Heart of the Midlothian (Animated Comic) Halo Reach Trailer "Birth of a Spartan" Halo Reach Trailer "Deliver Hope" Halo Reach (Game Movie) Halo: Combat Evolved (Game Movie) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Terminals I Love Bees Halo 2 First Announcement Trailer Halo 2 Anniversary Terminals Halo 2 (Game Movie) Halo 3: ODST Live Action Trailer Sadie's Story Halo 3: ODST (Game Movie) Halo: Landfall Halo 3 Trailer "Starry Night" Halo 3 Trailer Campaign "Believe" (1-4) Halo 3 (Game Movie) Halo Legends: Origins 1 Halo Legends: Origins 2 Halo Evolutions: The Return (Animated Comic) Halo Evolutions: The Mona Lisa (Animated Comic) Halo 4 Trailer "Wake Up John" Halo 4 Trailer "Scanned" Halo 4 (Game Movie) Spartan Ops (Cinematic Movie) Halo: Nightfall Hunt the Truth Season 1 Halo MCC Trailer Hunt the Truth Season 2 Halo 5: Guardians (Game Movie) Halo Wars 2 (Game Movie) Halo Infinite Trailer "Discover Hope" I know some of these are actual games, however it takes much longer to play the game than to just listen. Hope you guys enjoy, should take a few days to listen to it all.
Perfect video for today. I actually just got my package from amazon of the 8 Halo books I didn't yet own (ok well one of them was the newer version of The Flood because my original is so beat up I'm afraid to use it)
Fantastic as a fellow halo law nerd I think you did a fantastic job I would have recommended exactly the same things you said, thiers one graphic novel that’s hard to get but other then that I think my fave to start with is harvest, but new blood was my absolute fave, but I first started with fall of reach
I'm reading them all as we speak. I've read six, and I'm currently about to start the fall of reach. So far, I've read them in chronological order, somewhat. Cryptum Primordium Silentium Broken Circle (It was nice finding out about the San'Shyuum. They're not all uptight, and some of them even have honor.) Contact Harvest (This one has been my favorite. I enjoy how this book delved into the brutes and explained the origins of Tartarus. The militia stories were equally as good. Overall, just great.) The Cole Protocol (It was great finding more about the history of Captain Keyes. I was in the military, and Keyes was 'one of those officers.' If you read the book, you'd understand what I meant. These are the books I've read. Below are the ones I will read in the following order: • Halo: The Fall of Reach • Halo: Silent Storm • Halo: Oblivion • Halo: The Flood • Halo: First Strike • Halo: Ghost of Onyx • Halo: Glasslands • Halo: The Thursday War • Halo: Mortal Dictata • Halo: New Blood • Halo: Last Light • Halo: Retribution • Halo: Shadow of Intent • Halo: Hunters in the Dark • Halo: Smoke and Shadow • Halo: Renegades • Halo: Saint’s Testimony • Halo: Envoy • Halo: Legacy of Onyx • Halo: Bad Blood I used the Halo Media Timeline to come up with some list. A lot of books jumped from time to time, but if I start a book, I finish it, without jumping to another one. Here is the link to the Halo Media Timeline: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12E85djpib6WkEXxVT0hsQKbmB5vN86E18tH56ulhilI/edit#gid=0
Until this year, the last novel I read was Mortal Dictata. At the time I didn't like it so much, it seemed so focus on a conflict that I thought was so small-scaled compared to the prior two books. However, this year I started reading all the novels published since then, and I've really appreciated the world building in that third book.
Im half way with Ghosts of Onyx and its great, i started with book one and its fantastic the way the story is going. Im planing on reading every single halo book shown in this video now i have a guide on how to read them in a good order. So far the book iv liked the most is Flood. Great video thanks for uoloading this 👍👍
Hunters in the Dark might be at the top of my favorites list. As you mentioned, it merges Halo 3 and connects with Halo Wars 2, my favorite two games, while elements of Halo 4 and 5 thrown in to boot. In regards to reading chronologically, while I thought they were amazing, I wouldn't recommend the Forerunner trilogy right out the gate. It's so far removed from gameplay and Greg Bear does such a great job describing an alien culture, it could throw off a beginning loreist. I'd put Contact Harvest as a good start, illustrating not just first contact, by the why the Human-Covenant war existed. Or Evolutions, short stories across the entire Halo spectrum.
Fall of Reach was the first Halo novel I read, with Halo: First Strike being my overall favorite. Though I'm really looking forward to Shadows of Reach when it comes out.
My first Halo novel was Ghosts of Onyx. For the lead up to Halo 4, Glasslands was being released (to bridge the gap, I guess?), and I saw an ad for it on Facebook. When I read Amazon’s sample, my thought was, “Is this a sequel to something else? I feel like I’ve been dropped into the middle of something with no context”. Some quick checking led me to Ghosts, First Strike, and Fall of Reach. I read their samples and decided to buy Ghosts first because it had, and still has, the best opening out of all of the novels. So, for as terrible as the Kilo-5 trilogy is, it inadvertently brought at least one person into the Halo EU and made me appreciate the better stories _that_ much more.
Goran freeman The short answer is: it’s inferior to the Nylund novels. To be fair, most of the EU (and Halo in general) is, but Kilo-5 was the first time I felt like the author genuinely didn’t care about maintaining overall narrative cohesion. Longer answer: it’s been awhile, so I apologize if I misremember things. A good, overarching theme of my criticism is: “This makes perfect sense, as long as you don’t know anything about Halo.” (I also apologize for the multiple posts, RUclips won’t let me send it as one big post.)
Goran freeman The space combat was terrible. Nylund managed to come up with at least 3 battles per story, each with their own hook to differentiate themselves. 4-on-1 slingshot of the Keyes Loop, using The Cradle as a physical shield at Sigma Octanus-4, the Super MACs at the Battle of Reach, using asteroids and decoys for the raid on Ascendant Justice, Cortana reworking Covenant weaponry and then blitzing the fleet above Reach, the Slipspace Battle, the destruction of Unyielding Hierophant (to a lesser extent), Blue Team’s infiltration/destruction of the destroyer pair above Earth (more of a ground/space hybrid, but still memorable), Voro outmaneuvering the frigate pair (also gives a good look at Covenant battle doctrine), nuclear minefields and adaptive Sentinels at the Onyx battles, Insurrectionists using a nuke and an asteroid to wreck a pursuing UNSC battle group, Insurrectionist captain actually managing to deflect an incoming MAC round, the UNSC’s first major battle (and victory) against the Covenant at Harvest, and the Battle of Psi-Serpentis, which is effectively a distillation of everything of the above. I assume that most Halo authors are out of their depth with space battles, as Buckell is the only one that seems to really give it a go. I don’t begrudge someone shying away from something that they’re not good at. I love Troy Denning’s novels, but even he tends to avoid them. The Kilo-5 space battles are particularly terrible because Traviss decides to go ahead with them anyway. That battle from The Thursday War is especially egregious. It’s like, “Have you ever wondered what a transcript of a game of Battleship would look like? No? Too bad, ‘cause you’re getting it.” For the ground combat, I don’t remember really hating anything, but I also can’t recall loving anything either. Certainly nothing as epic as Operation Torpedo, or any of Gray Team‘s antics. Karen Traviss tends to opt for grit and realism, which is fine, but it can really bog down the pacing.
The first I started with was First Strike back when it came out. However, my favorite is Ghosts of Onyx. For some reason, I just really loved the Spartan IIIs.
The first two Halo novels I read were Ghosts of Onyx and Cole Protocol. I have to say first TWO instead of just first because I got them both so close together that I can't actually remember at this point which of them I read first. Either way, loved them both.
I have been reading from release order and I am a slow reader so it is taking a long time. I am midway through the Kilo Five trilogy right now and next up is Broken Circle. I cant wait to read a singular book rather than a massive trilogy, as reading two trilogies back to back can start to feel very slow.
I started with Silent Storm and loved it. I tried going back from the beginning and while I enjoyed the first 5 books, none of them were as good (ghosts of onyx got close) and so I stopped for a while but hopeful I'll get back into it soon
If you’re a fan of the games and just want to know what happened between games, here’s how I got started -Fall of Reach -Fistful of Arrows (UnOffical Graphic Novel) -Ghost of Onyx -First Strike -Halo Uprising (Grapic Novel) Ghost of Onyx was my first, I loved the origins of the Spartan llls and Kurt became one of my favorite characters in all of Halo.
I think people should read them in published order EXCEPT, FROM CONTACT HARVEST. I heavly recomend read Contact Harvest before The Fall Of Reach, and read Protocole Cole just after de first engagement with the Covenant in The Fall (So you get more into Captain Keyes character).
To this date my favourite Halo book is still Ghosts of Onyx, amazing book and i include it as part of the First 4 to read Reach The flood(though i believe you can skip it) First strike GoO
The book that got me into the universe was Ghosts of Onyx, then I went in release order. That’s the order I recommend to everyone that likes the forerunners
Just finished the original star wars expanded universe and was looking for something new to read, saw that a whole bunch of my favourite star wars authors wrote halo books so I thought I'd look into these, at least the bear Travis's and denning ones
I read the Forerunner trilogy, Broken Circle, Fall of Reach but only up till 2525. Contact Harvest, Silent Storm, Oblivion, Cole Protocol and now finishing Fall of Reach. In between I've readcomics and short stories in the order they took place. I decided to go all in and commit, have a word doc to follow so I know the order lol
My favorite Halo book is Halo: Silentium. That book brings so many things of the Halo universe together and is a great emotional roller coaster.
Couldn't agree more! Silentium is an absolute masterpiece!
@@HaloCanon don't forget the voice acting on the audio book. It was so excellent acting and I'll always remember all those characters with those voices. Uhing Mortan I believe.
@@elipsorange I literally just used my free credit on the flood book. Might have to buy this one if it's getting this much praise
@@MRN0ob29 it's amazing man, the didacts voice will be forever engrained into the lore.
greg bear did the forerunners justice in this trilogy. Wonderful stuff.
Ghosts of Onyx is easily my favorite Halo book of all time.
That makes two of us...
Gabriel DeMaria breaks my heart that book but what a read
I remember when I bought it I was a kid in elementary school, the first Sci-fi book I've ever read, boy it is a fantastic story!!
I just bought it and tge fall of reach for a dime at a yard sale i cant wait to read them
When I was in elementary school I read the original, The flood and first strike. When I started playing the MCC on PC I decided to pick up the books again. I just finishing ghost of Onyx and I loved it, amazing story!
Halo: Fall of Reach. As a kid i really wanted halo when o first saw it. I was big into space marines and my dad found the novel and he said if i could read the novel he would buy me an xbox and halo for christmas. I have reread and listened to every novel multiple times on this almost 20 year journey of an addiction to halo. And all that being said.....Ghost of Onyx is best book. But in all honesty every book has brought something new and interesting for me and its really really hard to say which one i like more.
All of Eric Nylunds halo books are great. I happen to have a Eric Nylund signed copy of Ghosts of Onyx from San Diego Comic-Con 2006 where I got to meet him. I was way more excited than meeting any celebrity:)
Jokes on him, *you learned the lore!*
Still waiting on that review of Halo The Flood and First Strike
Along with Retribution and Legacy of Onyx.
I read these two books years ago. The Flood might have been the first book to mention ODST’s as many of the marines in Halo: CE are described as ODST’s in the novelization even though they lacked the appearance in the game (I was hoping that 343 would have made the marines in The Truth and Reconciliation appear in Halo 3 ODST armor as I believe they were supposed to be ODST’s in the book.
The only major scene I remember from this book (having read it over a decade ago) was a really badass scene with some stealth elites who try to infiltrate a base with marines and ODST’s. I won’t spoil it other than to say ODST’s and marines are badass.
Halo First Strike is a very well written book coming from Eric Nylund, The Godfather of Halo. I just remember that it followed blue team primarily on a mission on a large covenant space port and shows how badass Linda is with a sniper.
Hope that helps 😁
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And he says it over and over and over and over again.
My first proper Halo read was "Halo: Glasslands", though so far my favorite remains "Contact Harvest". Easily my choice, with my favorite giant hula-hoop ass kicking marine !
RIP Dadap.
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I'll always say the original books are my favorite especially First Strike I actually have the original copies. Funny part is I like Halo The Fall of Reach and Halo Reach equally the same, whenever people ask how I simply say "I treat them as their own interpretations of Reach, and Halo Canon fixed most if not all of the plot holes extremely well"
DKM Graf Zeppelin I agree with you 100%
I just consider the Eric Nylund book actually canon while the game was Bungie Goodbye fan service. Had a blast playing the game even if the story surrounding it made absolutely no sense (you can’t just land troops on the most heavily defended human planet prior to engaging any of their space forces. Like what?? And the CSO class carrier is like the size of High Charity 😂)
@@TheCelestialvision it was pointed out that smaller ships exploited a gap in Human defenses (as seen in Halo 2 terminals) and set up the spires which were teleportation terminals, these allowed the capitol ship to completely bypass the defenses undetected and used advanced but extremely expensive cloaking technology that kept the ship hidden until a spire was destroyed. The reason these never returned is because the Spires were extremely expensive and complex so few were produced and specifically equipped for CSO carriers. Was it explained properly nope it wasn't but if you listen to Dot and Jorge in Tip of the Spear it mentions teleportation terminals and electromagnetic cloaking so the answer was there, the problem was people never paid attention
DKM Graf Zeppelin I mean, there will always be post-hoc explanations sprouting up for these things the way they do for all the lore breaking things in the Disney Star Wars movies. You’re free to accept whatever explanation for your own head canon.
Fact remains, hardly any serious halo lore junkies like the CSO class supercarrier, which essentially just appears as an upscaled CAS Assault Carrier, when we know that you can’t simply upscale something like that, things like hanger space and internal hallways would be wildly inefficient space-wise.
Also, there should have been dozens of UNSC Capital ships in orbit responding to the covenant corvettes upon visual identification even if they try to explain that they had low observable radar signatures (also these could have been destroyed easily with a single Mac round from even the smallest UNSC frigate yet the one fight we see between them shows a frigate engaging in a side barrage rather than using any standard attack strategy of UNSC ships.
There are dozens of inconsistencies like this which just make it easier to accept that Bungie just wanted to make a fun game as a last goodbye and so picked an era that was already famous from the books and threw in a bunch of experimental features like space flight for mere entertainment value, which is exactly what they did. It’s not a slight on Bungie to say that their intention was to make a fan-service game rather than stay consistent with lore. In fact, the halo reach game story could have been written without even having read the book. It doesn’t, to my knowledge, make reference to really much of anything from the book besides the name of the planet.
So ya, it’s fan-service which they are afraid to blatantly call such because they think it might diminish its legitimacy as a Halo game, which it really shouldn’t. It’s still a fun halo game. Not being lore-accurate does not take away from its fun factor. It’s like a DBZ film. Some of my favorite DBZ stories and characters come from the films, even though they are not considered canon with the main series.
I too love both the The Fall of Reach book and the Halo Reach game. I just don’t try to fit something that is clearly not consistent with canon into canon based on some arbitrary rule that “if it’s in game form then it must be canon” 😄
TheCelestialvision Actually the Halo Reach story makes perfect sense. Halo Canon already did a video showing how both versions of the Fall of Reach work
I was thinking something similar with Silent Storm. As packed as it is with cameos and references to other Halo novels, Silent Storm feels like it was written to be a primer for the Halo EU. The only thing it doesn’t touch on is the Forerunners.
My first halo book was Evolutions. I appreciate that it’s an anthology and bounces around the timeline, giving little snippets across the millennium.
Personally,my first book was Glasslands and I proceeded to read the Kilo-Five trilogy. I worked around those afterwards.
The Forerunner Saga will always be my all time favourite 😭😭😭
First strike was my first Halo book and stands as my favourite. The Flood being a close second.
I was always pretty content with getting my Halo knowledge from Wiki's and youtube, but recently I read 'Smoke and Shadow' and its sequels. Now I have the urge to just sit down and read all the books!
I am actually going through the books right now. I read the Forerunner Trilogy first but then just decided to go in release order. I'm about to start Evolutions today
Here’s a few books for newcomers to the books when starting off with
fall of reach
Cole protocol
First strike
Contact harvest
New blood (if you haven’t played odst do not read since it spoils the entire game and you wont get the emotional impact and twists)
You mean New Blood, not First Blood.
Realm thanks for the correction mate
Is that the order of the games?
@@SkanDogVids no they are books
@@qwnspf lol i know that but which ones are during the games
Man! Haha this video came out right before we were recommending several of these books the next two Friday’s, I won’t spoil what Covnenant Canon and Installation00 ended up recommending, but both of the books they wound up recommending are on your list here haha. GREAT VIDEO!
Favorite has to be either the Kilo-Five Trilogy or Shadow of Intent. My first was Contact Harvest. I have yet to encounter a Halo book that isn't amazing
What an incredible idea for a video! Didn’t know I needed it until I saw it, great stuff
I finished Ghosts of Onyx today and I felt every second of it. It was the first one I read since The Fall of Reach as one of my book reports in high school
My first book was Ghost of Onyx! I had a free audiobook and I gave it a try... after that the rest is history. I listened to the whole Halo collection in audiobook format because of a few reasons. First, it fit my lifestyle as I don’t have much time to sit down and read. I listened while in the gym or long road trips. Second, it was a more immersive experience with the narrators emotions.
My favorite titles are hard to pin point but a few to point out are the original Nylund books, the Forerunner trilogy, the Master Chief stories, and the Troy Denning post war Novels.
With that said Shadows of Reach could not come any sooner!.... and I’m still waiting on the Greg Bear Ancient Humanity Trilogy 😉
This is EXACTLY the video I needed! After knowing Shadow of Reach's exciting plot, I want to read through every novel.
I have tried reading a couple times, but listening to new blood/bad blood on audible has been good for me. They feel very close to the games without having too much expanded lore which is quite nice
I started with New Blood a few months ago and immediately got Bad Blood when I finished, good books man.
Just picked up my first halo books, fall of reach and contact harvest.
I only call The Fall of Reach my absolute favorite because it’s the only book I’ve read more than ten times. You could say my copy of the definitive edition is very well loved, and chock full of sticky flags and pen marks correcting the numerous errors and typos
You can't forget about Renegades! Its my new favorite novel by far!
Evolutions also tells my personal favorite Flood story, the Mona Lisa. When a group of Marines investigate a prison ship that turns out to be an experimental facility for ONI who use the prisoners, both human and the covenant as test subjects to study the Flood. A horror short story that really captures the horrific nature of the Flood and the extremely shady dark side of ONI. This short story certainly shares Aliens (1986) vibes.
My first was contact harvest then cole protocol, I haven’t read enough of them to have a definitive favorite but shadows of reach is a great semi self contained blue team story that I heavily enjoy
My first Halo book was New Blood, continuing my trend of getting into my favourite franchises through the most random points.
0:55 If you think that's an issue, try getting into Star Wars Legends (seriously).
Agreed. Trying to Start with the Thrawn trilogy and make it to the New jedi Order.
My favorite book is definitely Halo: The Cole Protocol cause it’s the first Halo book I read and the action scenes in it are great (and grey team’s armor on the cover is badass)
THIS is what I love about Halo and why it's become my favorite series, even after barely getting into the games with the PC release of MCC! I then got Audible and started listening to the books at work starting with Fall of Reach! Now Halo is my all time favorite series!
I remember you told me recently on Reddit that The Fall of Reach actually has extra content and more minor fixes to the book. I recently got the 2019 version and can see its a lot thicker than the 2010 version. Is that the case with First Strike and The Flood too? And could you do a video on the various guide books?
@sly dankass the mark of a great youtuber
I read up to New Blood before life became really busy. Last year I continued my journey with Silent Storm, and I recently finished Oblivion. I'm on Fractures currently but I think I'll go back and read by release order, meaning Evolutions (I was against anthologies in the past) and then Hunters In the Dark. Good video, cheers! I have original copies of The Fall of Reach and The Flood, and the 2010 First Strike, I would recommend release order based off my experience too.
I love that this video popped up I really want to get into the books. Its been less than a year since I bought the MCC blinded without playing any games beside reach and I just love everything about the lore and games
Personally, I feel my favorites were the forerunner trilogy. There was just something about that trilogy that grasped my attention and made me fall in love with it. I had already really liked the Didact as a villain before reading them, and now I feel he’s the best villain in all of the games, it’s a shame he was misused between 4 and 5 in the comics
Omg, I had to scroll through comments so much to find someone praising this! I know these books can be difficult to read but they are literally the origins of humans!
I love the fact that it mentions that ancient humans had many different "races" like florians, hamunune etc and we are actually finding their remains in latest excavations!
I was intimidated to start with such a big book so I read battleborn 1 & 2 and now I’m loving shadows of reach and am on track to finish before infinite
This video was very helpful. I myself prefer the chronological approach, and your detailed picture of all the books in chronological order has helped immensely. Not to mention that I learned about new books that I was not aware existed. Great video.
HALO the fall of reach was the first novel I ever read and it holds a special place in my heart especially since I had to use the original audiobook to help me finish it due to the fact that I have dyslexia. That book started me down this rabbit hole and from that point forward I just got better and better at reading all the way up to the point where I had a high school reading level in middle school. Unfortunately I can’t read as much as I used to but I can personally vouch for audible because when I went to school to get my bachelors in game art and design I always had audiobooks on in the background while I was working on my 3-D projects.
My first, of two, book for the Halo extended universe was actually last light. I heavily enjoyed it, and the cameos that were throughout the book were rather interesting when I actually learned who they were at a later date. At the time I honestly wasn't into halo as much as I am now, and channels like this helped me learn half of the small jokes and references throughout the book. Also the other halo book I read was Hunters in the dark, tho it wasn't as good in my opinion, it still was written excellently.
My first was, the flood, epic read, but honestly after reading contact harvest, I had wished I had saved my reader cherry for that one. Extremely worth the dough and time invested in my eye.
I've been meaning to get back to the Halo novels, and I'm glad I found this video to get me started again!
I remember seeing the classic Fall of Reach, the Flood, First Strike etc. on my brother's book shelf growing up, but it wasn't until Cryptum was first released that I properly read the novels. Cryptum and Primordium hold a special place in my heart as the first Halo books I really got into, and need to read Silentium now!
My first halo books were the forerunner trilogy and i love them the most. However, last light and Retribution are also in the running for my favorites.
Thank you for making this. So many opposing views on Reddit and other places and this is the first one to take the time to explain. I look forward to reading.
Glasslands, Thursday War and Mortal Dictata are amazing! Such a good read (or listen)
I started with halos the flood This list really helps me
A great video man! I love your recommendation. I personally go with chronological order, but Fall of Reach is a great place to begin reading!
Excellent video! This makes it much easier to go through my collection of novels I've not read yet. Thanks!
Glad to hear it, happy reading!
Insane if they was a list that breaks down everything such as separating the stories in Evoultions into order such as Mona Lisa before Halo 2 and so on. Thank you for the awesome guide. The first three I read was Fall of Reach, Flood and First Strike in which I read after I complete Halo 1 and Halo 2 when I first purchase them both with both game guides for $7. That was the start for me into the Halo universe. I have easily become my favorite story and universe of all time
Try alltimelines.com It has something like that.
Duck I’ll check it out thank you!
I was hooked on the halo games right when CE originally came out for xbox. I was in middle school and when the first books released I gobbled those things up. So I have a soft spot for Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike. I still have my copies of the original release of those books
Ghost of Onyx was my first one. That book really change my perspective of Halo
Mine was new blood
I bought 9 diffrent halo books today and I'm very excited to read them
i bought ghosts of onyx as a kid. i started reading it but never finished. now returning to it and it’s such a great read, i also have cole protocol and just picked up new blood. great stories
If you manage to get through the oldest stories and find that Ghosts of Onyx was your favorite, I will recommend a series that he didn't mention: the Kilo-Five Trilogy. This consists of Glasslands, The Thursday War, and Mortal Dictata and is a sort of branching path between the events of Ghosts of Onyx and Halo 4/5.
Thanks for this. I'm a fan of some of the other popular military Sci-fi franchises (Star Wars, Mass Effect, Warhammer 40K) and I've been meaning to check out Halo for a while. This will definitely make it easier.
Greets from italy!
Since we are in quarantine since 2 weeks already, I was just saying my self "I should start reading halo book, but they're too many and idk where to start".
And there your video, like a bless, popped. Thank you!
Btw my first and only Halo book I read was the fall of reach (2010 ed) and I loved it.
I love the cloak and dagger vibe you get when you read the kilo 5 trilogy. Highly recommend it.
I love how Contact Harvest introduces the reader to all of the Covenant races.
My first book was halo first strike. Maybe not the best place to start but it was such a good read that i bought more books and recently enjoyed halo bad blood
You should explain what other stories beside books that that fans should watch or listen to.
Here's some stories I've downloaded to just listen to, this is the order I have them play, it's the best I could do making them chronological.
Halo 4 Terminals
Halo Legends: The Duel
Halo: The Fall of Reach (Movie Adaptation)
Halo Wars Trailer
Halo Wars (Game Movie)
Halo Legends: Prototype
Halo: Forward Unto Dawn
Halo Legends: The Babysitter
Halo Legends: Homecoming
Halo Evolutions: Headhunters (Animated Comic)
Halo Evolutions: Midnight in the Heart of the Midlothian (Animated Comic)
Halo Reach Trailer "Birth of a Spartan"
Halo Reach Trailer "Deliver Hope"
Halo Reach (Game Movie)
Halo: Combat Evolved (Game Movie)
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Terminals
I Love Bees
Halo 2 First Announcement Trailer
Halo 2 Anniversary Terminals
Halo 2 (Game Movie)
Halo 3: ODST Live Action Trailer
Sadie's Story
Halo 3: ODST (Game Movie)
Halo: Landfall
Halo 3 Trailer "Starry Night"
Halo 3 Trailer Campaign "Believe" (1-4)
Halo 3 (Game Movie)
Halo Legends: Origins 1
Halo Legends: Origins 2
Halo Evolutions: The Return (Animated Comic)
Halo Evolutions: The Mona Lisa (Animated Comic)
Halo 4 Trailer "Wake Up John"
Halo 4 Trailer "Scanned"
Halo 4 (Game Movie)
Spartan Ops (Cinematic Movie)
Halo: Nightfall
Hunt the Truth Season 1
Halo MCC Trailer
Hunt the Truth Season 2
Halo 5: Guardians (Game Movie)
Halo Wars 2 (Game Movie)
Halo Infinite Trailer "Discover Hope"
I know some of these are actual games, however it takes much longer to play the game than to just listen.
Hope you guys enjoy, should take a few days to listen to it all.
Perfect video for today. I actually just got my package from amazon of the 8 Halo books I didn't yet own (ok well one of them was the newer version of The Flood because my original is so beat up I'm afraid to use it)
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Great content
I really wanted to get into the books but I was so lost...This video really helped, thank you!
Fantastic as a fellow halo law nerd I think you did a fantastic job I would have recommended exactly the same things you said, thiers one graphic novel that’s hard to get but other then that I think my fave to start with is harvest, but new blood was my absolute fave, but I first started with fall of reach
I'm reading them all as we speak. I've read six, and I'm currently about to start the fall of reach.
So far, I've read them in chronological order, somewhat.
Cryptum
Primordium
Silentium
Broken Circle (It was nice finding out about the San'Shyuum. They're not all uptight, and some of them even have honor.)
Contact Harvest (This one has been my favorite. I enjoy how this book delved into the brutes and explained the origins of Tartarus. The militia stories were equally as good. Overall, just great.)
The Cole Protocol (It was great finding more about the history of Captain Keyes. I was in the military, and Keyes was 'one of those officers.' If you read the book, you'd understand what I meant.
These are the books I've read. Below are the ones I will read in the following order:
• Halo: The Fall of Reach
• Halo: Silent Storm
• Halo: Oblivion
• Halo: The Flood
• Halo: First Strike
• Halo: Ghost of Onyx
• Halo: Glasslands
• Halo: The Thursday War
• Halo: Mortal Dictata
• Halo: New Blood
• Halo: Last Light
• Halo: Retribution
• Halo: Shadow of Intent
• Halo: Hunters in the Dark
• Halo: Smoke and Shadow
• Halo: Renegades
• Halo: Saint’s Testimony
• Halo: Envoy
• Halo: Legacy of Onyx
• Halo: Bad Blood
I used the Halo Media Timeline to come up with some list. A lot of books jumped from time to time, but if I start a book, I finish it, without jumping to another one.
Here is the link to the Halo Media Timeline:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12E85djpib6WkEXxVT0hsQKbmB5vN86E18tH56ulhilI/edit#gid=0
Until this year, the last novel I read was Mortal Dictata. At the time I didn't like it so much, it seemed so focus on a conflict that I thought was so small-scaled compared to the prior two books.
However, this year I started reading all the novels published since then, and I've really appreciated the world building in that third book.
My first halo book was Halo New Blood because I’m such a big fan of Halo 3: ODST
I just finished the kilo 5 trilogy. Loved it. Don't know where to go from here. (Writing this just after starting your video)
I just bought the fall of reach not knowing the order of them i was surprised at how many different books there are
For those who want to read Ghosts of Onyx, keep in mind that it’s the third of a trilogy; read Fall of Reach and First Strike first.
just ordered fall of reach and the flood, I can't wait to read them!
My favorite bookseries is definetly the Kilo 5 trilogy
definetly advice you to read it.
I bought Halo The Flood when I was a kid and never finished it. I’m going get it out to read it fully now.
Im half way with Ghosts of Onyx and its great, i started with book one and its fantastic the way the story is going. Im planing on reading every single halo book shown in this video now i have a guide on how to read them in a good order. So far the book iv liked the most is Flood. Great video thanks for uoloading this 👍👍
Hunters in the Dark might be at the top of my favorites list. As you mentioned, it merges Halo 3 and connects with Halo Wars 2, my favorite two games, while elements of Halo 4 and 5 thrown in to boot. In regards to reading chronologically, while I thought they were amazing, I wouldn't recommend the Forerunner trilogy right out the gate. It's so far removed from gameplay and Greg Bear does such a great job describing an alien culture, it could throw off a beginning loreist. I'd put Contact Harvest as a good start, illustrating not just first contact, by the why the Human-Covenant war existed. Or Evolutions, short stories across the entire Halo spectrum.
Fall of Reach was the first Halo novel I read, with Halo: First Strike being my overall favorite. Though I'm really looking forward to Shadows of Reach when it comes out.
Ghosts of Oynx made me wanna cry the first time I read it. So long ago. I was in 8th grade and it was my 3rd or 4th halo book.
My first Halo novel was Ghosts of Onyx. For the lead up to Halo 4, Glasslands was being released (to bridge the gap, I guess?), and I saw an ad for it on Facebook. When I read Amazon’s sample, my thought was, “Is this a sequel to something else? I feel like I’ve been dropped into the middle of something with no context”.
Some quick checking led me to Ghosts, First Strike, and Fall of Reach. I read their samples and decided to buy Ghosts first because it had, and still has, the best opening out of all of the novels.
So, for as terrible as the Kilo-5 trilogy is, it inadvertently brought at least one person into the Halo EU and made me appreciate the better stories _that_ much more.
I loved the Kilo 5 trilogy
Goran freeman No worries, we all make mistakes.
@@FrozenPhoenix15 Out of curiosity, why don't you like it?
Goran freeman The short answer is: it’s inferior to the Nylund novels. To be fair, most of the EU (and Halo in general) is, but Kilo-5 was the first time I felt like the author genuinely didn’t care about maintaining overall narrative cohesion.
Longer answer: it’s been awhile, so I apologize if I misremember things. A good, overarching theme of my criticism is: “This makes perfect sense, as long as you don’t know anything about Halo.”
(I also apologize for the multiple posts, RUclips won’t let me send it as one big post.)
Goran freeman The space combat was terrible. Nylund managed to come up with at least 3 battles per story, each with their own hook to differentiate themselves. 4-on-1 slingshot of the Keyes Loop, using The Cradle as a physical shield at Sigma Octanus-4, the Super MACs at the Battle of Reach, using asteroids and decoys for the raid on Ascendant Justice, Cortana reworking Covenant weaponry and then blitzing the fleet above Reach, the Slipspace Battle, the destruction of Unyielding Hierophant (to a lesser extent), Blue Team’s infiltration/destruction of the destroyer pair above Earth (more of a ground/space hybrid, but still memorable), Voro outmaneuvering the frigate pair (also gives a good look at Covenant battle doctrine), nuclear minefields and adaptive Sentinels at the Onyx battles, Insurrectionists using a nuke and an asteroid to wreck a pursuing UNSC battle group, Insurrectionist captain actually managing to deflect an incoming MAC round, the UNSC’s first major battle (and victory) against the Covenant at Harvest, and the Battle of Psi-Serpentis, which is effectively a distillation of everything of the above.
I assume that most Halo authors are out of their depth with space battles, as Buckell is the only one that seems to really give it a go. I don’t begrudge someone shying away from something that they’re not good at. I love Troy Denning’s novels, but even he tends to avoid them. The Kilo-5 space battles are particularly terrible because Traviss decides to go ahead with them anyway. That battle from The Thursday War is especially egregious. It’s like, “Have you ever wondered what a transcript of a game of Battleship would look like? No? Too bad, ‘cause you’re getting it.”
For the ground combat, I don’t remember really hating anything, but I also can’t recall loving anything either. Certainly nothing as epic as Operation Torpedo, or any of Gray Team‘s antics. Karen Traviss tends to opt for grit and realism, which is fine, but it can really bog down the pacing.
Personally Halo cryptum was an amazing book plus it's free on youtube amazing hearing a story from some forerunners point of view.
The first I started with was First Strike back when it came out. However, my favorite is Ghosts of Onyx. For some reason, I just really loved the Spartan IIIs.
The first two Halo novels I read were Ghosts of Onyx and Cole Protocol. I have to say first TWO instead of just first because I got them both so close together that I can't actually remember at this point which of them I read first. Either way, loved them both.
I have been reading from release order and I am a slow reader so it is taking a long time. I am midway through the Kilo Five trilogy right now and next up is Broken Circle. I cant wait to read a singular book rather than a massive trilogy, as reading two trilogies back to back can start to feel very slow.
First audio book was Fall of Reach. Favourite is between The Flood and New Blood.
Thanks for this video, so far I’ve read Fall of reach, Flood, & New Blood
I just started and I’m glade I started with the fall of reach
I started with Silent Storm and loved it. I tried going back from the beginning and while I enjoyed the first 5 books, none of them were as good (ghosts of onyx got close) and so I stopped for a while but hopeful I'll get back into it soon
my first ever halo book was ghosts of onyx, like 8 years ago. my all time fave has gotta be contact harvest, tho.
If you’re a fan of the games and just want to know what happened between games, here’s how I got started
-Fall of Reach
-Fistful of Arrows (UnOffical Graphic Novel)
-Ghost of Onyx
-First Strike
-Halo Uprising (Grapic Novel)
Ghost of Onyx was my first, I loved the origins of the Spartan llls and Kurt became one of my favorite characters in all of Halo.
was literally saying to myself it would be great to know where to get started again with all the new books
First Halo novel was Silentum. But my Favorites are Halo Ghost of Onyx, Halo the Cole Protocol and Halo New blood.
I think people should read them in published order EXCEPT, FROM CONTACT HARVEST. I heavly recomend read Contact Harvest before The Fall Of Reach, and read Protocole Cole just after de first engagement with the Covenant in The Fall (So you get more into Captain Keyes character).
To this date my favourite Halo book is still Ghosts of Onyx, amazing book and i include it as part of the First 4 to read
Reach
The flood(though i believe you can skip it)
First strike
GoO
I loved evolutions. 7th grade me reading The Mona Lisa scared the shit out of me.
Been needing this video. Thank you
The book that got me into the universe was Ghosts of Onyx, then I went in release order. That’s the order I recommend to everyone that likes the forerunners
And here I was expecting this to be a fifteen minute Audible ad :p
I mean, it ultimately was, just in a more round-about way :P
Halo Canon
If you wanted to troll, you could’ve recommended that Mortal Dictata be the one free audiobook thing.
Just finished the original star wars expanded universe and was looking for something new to read, saw that a whole bunch of my favourite star wars authors wrote halo books so I thought I'd look into these, at least the bear Travis's and denning ones
Shadow of reach (blueteam) and envoy (grey team rogue) are my2 favorite books.
I picked up Shadows of Reach recently pretty good so far
That thumbnail is amazing!
I read the Forerunner trilogy, Broken Circle, Fall of Reach but only up till 2525. Contact Harvest, Silent Storm, Oblivion, Cole Protocol and now finishing Fall of Reach. In between I've readcomics and short stories in the order they took place. I decided to go all in and commit, have a word doc to follow so I know the order lol
My favorite and first Halo book was Halo: Shadow of Intent