The Space Marine Battles series contains somewhere in the region of forty novels, novellas & audios. The Horus Heresy series currently runs to over seventy novels, novellas & audio dramas, plus dozens of short stories. Just to hammer the point home, let’s have a look at a few numbers: What about someone who’s only just getting into 40k, though? Or even someone who’s just happened to have seen the great cover art and fancies having a go? It’s probably tricky even figuring out which book to start with within a single series, never mind which one to start with overall, so it must be a pretty daunting proposition if you haven’t got someone to introduce you and give you somewhere to start. I’m more familiar with the 40k universe than I am with pretty much any other setting, so it’s easy to forget that there can be a lot of assumed knowledge in these stories. Why is it such an interesting question? Well personally I can get stuck into pretty much any 40k story with a fair amount of confidence that I’ll know what’s going on, simply because I’ve been reading stories set in the grim darkness of the far future for over twenty years (my copy of Inquisitor by Ian Watson was published in 1993!). That’s actually a really interesting question which I thought deserved more of an answer than I could give on Twitter, so here I’m going to have a go at answering it in a bit more detail. 
Someone asked me on Twitter recently if I’d written anything about where to get started with reading Black Library books, for someone just getting into Warhammer 40,000. EDITED 24th June 2017 with the inclusion of 40k 8th Edition
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