User:MrBlonde267/Batman Trade Reading Order

This is a companion project to the Batman Recommended Reading page. Lots of people foolishly want to read every Batman trade in chronological order, as if this was a task for mere mortals. This page is intended to loosely catalogue the main collected editions into a loose reading order.

Titles in bold are essential reading.

Chronological reading order

 * Batman: Year One
 * Batman and the Monster Men
 * Batman and the Mad Monk
 * Batman: The Man Who Laughs
 * Batman: The Long Halloween
 * Batman: Dark Victory
 * Robin: Year One
 * Batgirl: Year One
 * Batman: Tales of the Demon
 * Nightwing: Year One
 * Batman: The Cult
 * Batman: The Killing Joke
 * Batman: A Death in the Family
 * Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
 * Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
 * Batman: Knightfall
 * Batman: Prodigal
 * JLA: New World Order
 * Batman: Contagion
 * Batman: Cataclysm
 * Batman: No Man's Land
 * Batman: Officer Down
 * JLA: Tower of Babel
 * Bruce Wayne: Fugitive
 * Batman: Hush
 * Batman: Broken City
 * Batman: Death and the Maidens
 * Batman: War Games
 * Batman: Under the Hood
 * Batman: Face the Face
 * Batman and Son
 * Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
 * Batman: The Black Glove
 * Batman: Heart of Hush
 * Batman R.I.P.
 * Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
 * Batman: Battle for the Cowl
 * Batman and Robin: Batman Reborn
 * Batman: Long Shadows
 * Batman and Robin: Batman vs. Robin
 * Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
 * Batman and Robin: Batman and Robin Must Die
 * Batman Incorporated (Vol. 1)

New 52

 * Batman: The Court of Owls
 * Batman: Night of the Owls
 * Batman: Death of the Family
 * Batman: Zero Year