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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
Like Dresden Series by Butcher most of the series is in chronological order apart from the short stories but the author has stated where most of the short stories fall in the time line so if I start reading it again I will read the short stories accordingly. And even use epub split in calibre to separate out each short story from the anthologies and place them according to the timeline
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I do the same. And especially with the
Dresden Files it makes sense as there is really no time travel possible. Well at least so far it is too complicated magic for Harry to truly travel in time (backwards or forwards). The flashbacks don't happen as true flashbacks either, but have to be told to Harry in conversation. Writing style is first person present tense most of the time (except a few short stories) from Harry's POV. In this case, how does other than chronological make sense? Also Jim Butcher makes extensive use of referring to little details from past books, even sometimes referring back to short stories that have not been written or published.
I see the later published short stories as bonus content that should have been there in the correct spot all along. Except that the publisher is needlessly picky about the proper length of a book.
As far as other series I like to read are concerned, which happen to be mainly epic fantasy, most of them have been published already in chronological order.