Dune: Prophecy, what to read for additional story context?

[bryantcl]

So far I've been enjoying the show but I am curious to hear from those a little more knowledgeable of the Dune universe as my knowledge is only of the first Dune book, The 1984 movie, The Sy-fy channel Dune and Children of Dune mini series and the most recent two movies. How much material is it pulling from the Dune books (both the original Frank Herbert and the Brian Herbert books)? If so, what books could fill in some knowledge gaps?

 

[BillTre]

Interesting question.

There are a lot of Dune books. Frank Herbert wrote the first 6. He died bu left an outline of some kind.
His son Brain wrote another 20 or so with Kevin Anderson based on the outline, which may have just been background info for the first books.

Googling tells me that there is a "Sisterhood of Dune" book (2012), but it seems to be more focused on the founding of the Mentant and Suk schools, the Spacing Guild.
However, there is another book: "Navigators of Dune" (2016) is supposed to have more on the Sisterhood.

Here is a list of Dune novels, publication dates, and what book series they are in:

(from: )

I read a lot of these books with my kids to get them to read.
I don't remember any of the particular events in the HBO series, but my kids may have aged out of the Dune reading by the time those books got published.

I think the actors and cinematography are good.