The Humble Bundle is a solid deal. The Tome of Fire trilogy is a big Salamanders line. The rest is pretty standard current space marines stuff. If you’re looking for backstory, specifically Dark Angels, tracing their path through the Horus Heresy novels is a good idea. If you’re looking for non-marines starters, Eisenhorn and Ciaphis Cain are good starting points. I am personally fond of the Vaults of Terra trilogy (have not been able to get into the sequel yet). There’s only a few Necron novels so if that’s your thing it’s pretty easy to start. I don’t know a ton about the other races and their fiction.
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Try and sample a few. The actual content/character and writing style will make a difference and some will appeal more than others.
I really enjoyed any of the Trazyn stuff - War in the Museum is a good short story but infinite and the divine is awesome.
Picked up the eisenhorn trilogy and can’t put it down. Nice paced detective thriller in 40k universe
There are a few samples of short stories. Try them and figure what you love to read and start there. Don’t try and do the whole thing in release/timeline.
Awesome, thanks! I'll probably start with the humble bundle then. I've also heard good things about eisenhorn so may give that a go as well.
There’s usually one or two bundles a year that give you plenty to read. I have so much content from the last few years.
There are so many entry points that if you don’t have a very specific desire it doesn’t matter a ton where you start.