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G.K. Chesterton Books in Order
Every G.K. Chesterton book in publication order — 82 in total, spanning 1902–2020.
Publication Order of Father Brown Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Innocence of Father Brown | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Wisdom of Father Brown | 1914 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Incredulity of Father Brown | 1923 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Secret of Father Brown | 1927 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Scandal of Father Brown | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Father Brown Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Father Brown Mysteries the Innocence of Father Brown | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Father Brown Stories | 1927 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Favorite Father Brown Stories | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Best of Father Brown | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Puffin Father Brown Stories | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Father Brown: The Essential Tales | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Father Brown--A Selection | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Father Brown of the Church of Rome | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | 1904 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Man Who Was Thursday | 1908 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Ball and the Cross | 1909 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Manalive | 1912 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Flying Inn | 1914 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Return of Don Quixote | 1927 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Basil Howe: A Story of Young Love | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Club of Queer Trades | 1905 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Blue Cross | 1910 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Invisible Man | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Queer Feet | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Trees of Pride | 1922 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Oracle of the Dog | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Wrong Shape | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Sins of Prince Saradine | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Honour of Israel Gow | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | The Flying Stars | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Eye of Apollo | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Three Tools of Death | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The Absence of Mr. Glass | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | The Secret Garden | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Hammer of God | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magic: A Fantastic Comedy | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Judgement of Dr. Johnson | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Surprise | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ballad of the White Horse | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Wild Knight and Other Poems | 1914 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Wine, Water, and Song | 1915 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1922 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Ballad Of St. Barbara And Other Verses | 1922 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Poet and the Lunatics | 1929 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Paradoxes Of Mr Pond | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Stories, Essays and Poems | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Coloured Lands | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | The Spirit of Christmas | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Collected Nonsense and Light Verse | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Seven Suspects | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The Wild Knight | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Tales Of The Long Bow | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Greybeards at Play | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The G.K. Chesterton Calendar | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Poems | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | G.K. Chesterton - Four Faultless Felons | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | The Queen of Seven Swords | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Short Stories Of To-Day And Yesterday | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | The Man Who Was Chesterton | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shop of Ghosts | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Chesterton\'s Biographies Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1902 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Thomas Carlyle, | 1902 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Tennyson | 1903 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Thackeray | 1903 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | G.F. Watts | 1904 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Charles Dickens | 1906 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | William Blake | 1909 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Saint Francis of Assisi | 1923 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | St. Thomas Aquinas | 1933 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | George Bernard Shaw | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | William Cobbett | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Chaucer | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Leo Tolstoy | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Robert Browning | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Short History of England | 1917 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The New Jerusalem | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Lord Kitchener | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 82, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1902 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Thomas Carlyle, | 1902 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Tennyson | 1903 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Thackeray | 1903 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | 1904 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | G.F. Watts | 1904 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Club of Queer Trades | 1905 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Charles Dickens | 1906 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Man Who Was Thursday | 1908 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Ball and the Cross | 1909 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | William Blake | 1909 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Blue Cross | 1910 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Innocence of Father Brown | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Father Brown Mysteries the Innocence of Father Brown | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | The Invisible Man | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Queer Feet | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | The Ballad of the White Horse | 1911 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Manalive | 1912 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | The Wisdom of Father Brown | 1914 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The Flying Inn | 1914 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The Wild Knight and Other Poems | 1914 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | Wine, Water, and Song | 1915 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | A Short History of England | 1917 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The Trees of Pride | 1922 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1922 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | The Ballad Of St. Barbara And Other Verses | 1922 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | The Incredulity of Father Brown | 1923 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Saint Francis of Assisi | 1923 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | The Secret of Father Brown | 1927 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | Father Brown Stories | 1927 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | The Return of Don Quixote | 1927 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | The Poet and the Lunatics | 1929 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | St. Thomas Aquinas | 1933 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | The Scandal of Father Brown | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | Favorite Father Brown Stories | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | The Best of Father Brown | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | The Puffin Father Brown Stories | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Father Brown: The Essential Tales | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Father Brown--A Selection | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | George Bernard Shaw | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Father Brown of the Church of Rome | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | The Paradoxes Of Mr Pond | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Stories, Essays and Poems | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | The Coloured Lands | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | The Spirit of Christmas | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | Collected Nonsense and Light Verse | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | Seven Suspects | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | The Shop of Ghosts | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | The Wild Knight | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | Basil Howe: A Story of Young Love | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Tales Of The Long Bow | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | William Cobbett | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | The Oracle of the Dog | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | The New Jerusalem | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | Greybeards at Play | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | Lord Kitchener | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | The Wrong Shape | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | The G.K. Chesterton Calendar | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | Poems | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 65 | G.K. Chesterton - Four Faultless Felons | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 66 | Chaucer | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 67 | The Sins of Prince Saradine | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 68 | Leo Tolstoy | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 69 | The Honour of Israel Gow | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 70 | The Flying Stars | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 71 | The Eye of Apollo | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 72 | The Three Tools of Death | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 73 | The Absence of Mr. Glass | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 74 | The Secret Garden | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 75 | Magic: A Fantastic Comedy | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 76 | Robert Browning | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 77 | The Hammer of God | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 78 | Judgement of Dr. Johnson | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 79 | The Surprise | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 80 | The Queen of Seven Swords | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 81 | Short Stories Of To-Day And Yesterday | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 82 | The Man Who Was Chesterton | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
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