Halo novels

The Halo novels are books about 340 pages each and have expanded heavily on the Halo Universe. The first three novels were published by Ballantine Books, while the last four are published by Tor Books. This is a list of all of the novels:

• Halo: The Fall of Reach, this book explains what happened before Halo: Combat Evolved. By Eric Nylund.
• Halo: The Flood, the novelization of Halo: Combat Evolved by William C. Dietz. The Flood also features several side stories.
• Halo: First Strike, this book fills in the gap between Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. By Eric Nylund.
• Halo Box Set, the box set featuring the three first Halo Novels.
• Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, the book follows Kurt-051 and the training of the Spartan-IIIs on Onyx. By Eric Nylund.
• Halo: Contact Harvest, features the events leading up to the Human-Covenant War. By Joseph Staten.
• Halo: The Cole Protocol, by Tobias S. Buckell, the book introduces Gray Team and shows Jacob Keyes' backstory.
• Halo: Evolutions, by several critically acclaimed authors, the novel is made up of a collection of short stories relating to the Halo Universe.

There is also:

• Halo Graphic Novel, a comic book based on the Halo Universe.

Trivia

• In most of the novels, there is a Covenant subplot. These usually feature Grunts such as Yayap or Dadab.
• There is the Marathon symbol between the "A" and "L" of Halo on the cover of each novel.
• The novels have many errors, including typos, as well as several contradictions to the games. This is likely because that there were different authors which are also not part of Bungie Studios.