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Plague Wars is a 3-book reading order in Warhammer 40,000, spanning Era Indomitus. Below is every entry in suggested reading sequence — series order first, then in-universe chronology — so you can follow the story from start to finish and see where each book sits in the wider 40k timeline.
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Original summaries and chronology labels generated from the same catalog powering the atlas.
Guy Haley
A central modern-era novel about Guilliman's returned Imperium facing strategic, political, and daemonic pressure in Ultramar.
012.M42 - 012.M42
approximate date, medium confidence
First published 2017
Guy Haley
The Plague Wars escalate as Ultramar becomes a strategic and ideological test case for the revived Imperial order.
012.M42 - 012.M42
approximate date, medium confidence
First published 2018
Guy Haley
The Dark Imperium trilogy closes with the Plague Wars pushing into questions of faith, power, and what the returned primarch can actually fix.
012.M42 - 012.M42
approximate date, medium confidence
First published 2021
This reading order matches publication order — release sequence and suggested reading sequence are the same here. Browse every book by release year on the publication-order page.