Orks Reading Order

Nate Crowley

A character study of the galaxy's most infamous Ork warlord, framed through the eyes of a captured human historian forced to chronicle Ghazghkull's rise. It blends brutal Ork warfare with sharp dark humor and offers definitive lore on one of the 41st Millennium's great threats to the Imperium.

Mike Brooks

A fast-paced, comedic Ork war novel in which Warboss Ufthak Blackhawk leads a Waaagh! against a forge world defended by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Told largely from the greenskins' gleefully violent point of view, it is one of the most popular and accessible Ork-focused books in the modern range.

Mike Brooks

Mike Brooks returns to the greenskins with a standalone-feeling Ork tale of ambition and the ever-shifting hierarchy of a Waaagh!, packed with the faction's trademark violence and humor. It continues the author's run of crowd-pleasing Ork fiction in the late M41 setting.

Mike Brooks

A sequel to Brutal Kunnin that follows Ufthak Blackhawk's continuing rise, pitting his Orks against new rivals as he chases bigger guns and bigger glory. It maintains the series' irreverent greenskin perspective and slapstick brutality while expanding on Brooks's established cast.

Guy Haley

Set during the Sanctus Reach campaign, this Ork-perspective tale follows a greenskin warband as their Waaagh! tears across the war-torn system. Haley leans into Ork kultur and dark humour while showing the brutal, gleeful momentum of a greenskin invasion from the inside.

Guy Haley

An Ork-centred audio anthology following a Red Sunz Mek mob marooned on a backwater world after the galaxy is split by the great Rift. When a call to Waaagh! goes up, the greenskins seize their chance for survival and violence, only to discover the summons may not be what it seems. It is told in three linked, comedic parts.

Mike Brooks

A grimdark comic novella told from the lowest rung of Ork society, following a put-upon grot who has endured one kicking too many. Caught up in a void boarding action, the long-suffering gretchin glimpses a chance to rise above his miserable lot and become a legend of greenskin rebellion.

Denny Flowers

A riotous Ork comedy centred on the infamous Painboss whose deranged surgery is the stuff of greenskin legend. When the Mad Dok throws his scalpel behind a Beastboss's war effort, his secret tinkering deep inside a colossal Painwagon threatens to upend the fate of Orkdom. Over-the-top mayhem and gory slapstick abound.

Denny Flowers

With the runtherd Killaskun dead, his leaderless grots are about to turn on one another just as bloodthirsty Chaos worshippers close in. The scheming grot Redsnot expects to rally the runts himself, but the legendary Red Gobbo turns up and steals his spotlight, leaving Redsnot plotting a backstabbing of his own. A darkly comic, vaguely festive greenskin caper.

Rhuairidh James

As nuclear winter grips a Blood Axe camp and the grots sink into a dangerously docile gloom, the Painboy Stimma resolves to manufacture a Red Gobbo of his own through dodgy science, cunning, and plenty of violence. Aided by the orderly grot Goggulz, he digs into the legend of the Red Gobbo, the strange world of ork revolushunaries, and visions hinting at where grotkind came from. A comedic novella told from an ork's point of view.

Guy Haley

Set during the Sanctus Reach campaign on Alaric Prime, this short Ork tale follows a Big Mek's audacious scheme to drag a comet from orbit and smash it down upon the world's human defenders. Amid the wider war, two rival Red Suns mekboys seize the chaos of the human counterattack to settle an old personal grudge.

Justin Woolley

The irrepressible Red Gobbo leads his grots in riotous revolt, bringing chaos and comedy to a beleaguered Imperial world. A festive, knockabout Ork romp.

Denny Flowers

The Beast of Armageddon, the greatest Warlord the Orks have ever known, gathers a Waaagh! to shake the galaxy, told through the prophet of Gork and Mork himself. The continuing saga of Ghazghkull Thraka.