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Ranks of Bronze Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Ranks of Bronze books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Ranks of Bronze series? Start with "Ranks of Bronze" (1986) and follow publication order through all 46 books.
The complete Ranks of Bronze reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Ranks of Bronze
1986
Foreign Legions (With: S.M. Stirling,David Weber,Mark L. Van Name,Eric Flint)
2001
The Excalibur Alternative (By: David Weber)
2001
Nameless Places
1975
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV
1976
Whispers
1977
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V
1977
Rivals Of Dracula
1977
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI
1978
Chrysalis Volume 2
1978
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII
1984
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction
1985
Free Lancers
1987
Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers
1988
A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling
1989
The Far Stars War
1990
Power
1991
Cats in Space... and Other Places
1992
Battlestations
1992
Honor of the Regiment
1993
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
1993
The Vanguard
1993
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
1995
Tapestries
1995
The Warmasters
2002
Mountain Magic
2004
The World Turned Upside Down
2005
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology
2006
The Space Opera Renaissance
2006
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe
2007
This Is My Funniest 2
2007
The Book of Cthulhu
2011
The Fleet
2011
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
2012
Shadows of the New Sun
2013
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013
2013
The Baen Big Book of Monsters
2014
Worst Contact
2016
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015
2016
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 3
2017
Infinite Stars
2017
Space Pioneers
2018
Give Me LibertyCon
2020
Weird World War III
2020
Bullet Points 2
2022
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: Tales of Future Combat and Mechanized Warfare
2023
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