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The Black Dagger Brotherhood Books in Order

by J.R. WardRomance

6 books and 4 novellas from The Shadows (2015) to Lover Forbidden (2025). Rated 4.7 across 12,025 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Darius

    Novella 0.5 2022 4.8 (2.5k)

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  2. Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story

    Novella 6.5 2020 4.9 (840)

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  3. The Shadows

    Book 13 2015 4.7 (4.6k)

    Two brothers bound by more than blood discover a conspiracy that will change their destiny in the astonishing all-new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, the "frighteningly addictive" (Publishers Weekly) series by #1 New York Times…

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  4. Dearest Ivie: A Novella Set in the Black Dagger World

    Novella 15.5 2020 4.8 (733)

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  5. A Warm Heart in Winter

    Novella 18.5 2020 4.8 (1.4k)

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  6. Lover Unveiled

    Book 19 2021 by J. R. Ward 4.6 (9)

    Meet Sahvage: a powerful MMA fighter with a buried secret that could change the world of Caldwell forever.... Sahvage has been living under the radar for centuries - and he has every intention of staying 'dead and buried'.

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  7. Lover Arisen

    Book 20 2022 by J. R. Ward 4.9 (10)

    'Utterly absorbing and deliciously erotic' Angela Knight 'Hot, sexy, unique, intriguingly wicked' Christine Feehan True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R.

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  8. Lassiter

    Book 21 2023 4.6 (787)

    The next book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward follows a fallen angel who finds love with a mysterious female—who could be his destiny...or the embodiment of his utter…

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  9. The Beloved

    Book 22 2024 4.8 (852)

    The daughter of a legend finds the love of a lifetime in this passionate, heart-wrenching installment in J.R. Ward’s #1New York Timesbestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

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  10. Lover Forbidden

    Book 23 2025 4.7 (288)

    The aristocracy is making a run for the throne in this star-crossed paranormal romance entry in J.R. Ward’s “delicious, erotic, and thrilling” (Nicole Jordan, New York Times bestselling author) #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Black Dagger Brotherhood is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (0.5 comes after book 0). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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