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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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