Halo Novels

The Halo Novels are books about 343 pages each and have expanded heavily on the Halo Universe. The first three novels were published by Ballantine Books, while most were published by Tor Books.

List of Novels

This is a list of all of the novels by release date:

• Halo: The Fall of Reach (2001)
• Halo: The Flood (2002)
• Halo: First Strike (2003)
• Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (2006)
• Halo: Contact Harvest (2007)
• Halo: The Cole Protocol (2008)
• Halo: Cryptum (2011)
• Halo: Glasslands (2011)
• Halo: Primordium (2012)
• Halo: The Thursday War (2012)
• Halo: Silentium (2013)
• Halo: Mortal Dictata (2014)
• Halo: Broken Circle (2014)
• Halo: New Blood (2015)
• Halo: Hunters in the Dark (2015)
• Halo: Last Light (2015)
• Halo: Fractures (2016)
• Halo: Smoke and Shadow (2016)
• Halo: Envoy (2017)
• Halo: Retribution (2017)
• Halo: Legacy of Onyx (2017)
• Halo: Bad Blood (2018)
• Halo: Silent Storm (2018)
• Halo: Battle Born (2019)
• Halo: Renegades (2019)
• Halo: Oblivion (2019)
• Halo: Shadow of Reach (2020)
• Halo: Point of Light (2021)
• Halo: Divine Wind (2021)
• Halo: The Rubicon Protocol (2022)
• Halo: Outcast (2023)
• Halo: Epitaph (2024)
• Halo: Empty Throne (2025)
• Halo: Edge of Dawn (2025)

List of Novellas

• Halo: Rebirth (2013)
• Halo: Saints Testimony (2015) (Included in Halo: Fractures)
• Halo: Shadow of Intent (2015) (Included in Halo: Fractures)
• Halo: Sacriface (2021)

Anthology

• Halo: Evolutions (2009)
• Halo: Fractures (2016)

List of Novels Sorted by Series

• The Original Series
  • Halo: The Fall of Reach
  • Halo: The Flood
  • Halo: First Strike
  • Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

• The Grey Team Series
  • Halo: The Cole Protocol
  • Halo: Envoy

• The Forerunner Saga
  • Halo: Cryptum
  • Halo: Primordium
  • Halo: Silentium

• The Kilo-Five Trilogy
  • Halo: Glasslands
  • Halo: The Thursday War
  • Halo: Mortal Dictata

• The Alpha-Nine Series
  • Halo: New Blood
  • Halo: Bad Blood

• The Ace of Spades Series
  • Halo: Smoke and Shadow
  • Halo: Renegades
  • Halo: Point of Light

• The Gamma Series
  • Halo: Last Light
  • Halo: Retribution
  • Halo: Devine Wind

• The Blue Team Series
  • Halo: Silent Storm
  • Halo: Oblivion
  • Halo: Shadow of Reach

Novel Bundles

• Halo Box Set, the box set featuring the first three Halo novels.
• Halo Boxed Set II, the box set featuring the reprint editions of the first three Halo novels.

Trivia

• In most of the novels, there is a Covenant subplot. These usually feature Grunts such as Yayap or Dadab.
• There is the Marathon symbol between the "A" and "L" of Halo on the cover of each novel published during Bungie's time working on the franchise.