Aldous Huxley Reading Order

10 books (1952–2020)

This anthology series collects nine diverse compilations spanning from 1952 to 2019, featuring selections curated by or centered around Aldous Huxley's work and influence. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with 50 Great Short Stories and concluding with 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories. The series combines fiction anthologies with non-fiction collections covering topics ranging from interviews and war literature to psychedelic experiences and California writing. This complete series appeals to readers interested in Huxley's literary legacy and the broader cultural conversations that shaped twentieth-century thought.

Start with 50 Great Short Stories, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	50 Great Short Stories 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews 1957Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	War: An Anthology 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, 1931-1963 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Writing Los Angeles 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Little Big Book of California 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Harvard Psychedelic Club 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1939–1939)

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1	Jacob's Hands(With: Christopher Isherwood) 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

29 books (1925–2026)

The Dalkey Archive Essentials is an ongoing collection of 20 experimental and avant-garde literary works published between 1925 and 2025. Despite the series attribution to Aldous Huxley, it actually comprises novels and works by various authors including Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, John Barth, and Marguerite Young, curated by the Dalkey Archive Press. Readers should approach these books in publication order, beginning with Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans. The series showcases innovative narrative techniques and modernist approaches to fiction across multiple decades and literary traditions.

Start with The Making of Americans(By: Gertrude Stein), the first of 20 books in the Dalkey Archive Essentials series.

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1	The Making of Americans(By: Gertrude Stein) 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Point Counter Point 1928Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Ryder(By: Djuna Barnes) 1928Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	La familia de Pascual Duarte / The Family of Pascual Duarte(By: Anthony Kerrigan,Camilo José Cela) 1942Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias(By: Mark Van Doren,Marguerite Young) 1945Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Planetarium(By: Nathalie Sarraute,Maria Jolas) 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Sot-Weed Factor(By: John Barth) 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling(By: Marguerite Young) 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Langrishe, Go Down(By: Aidan Higgins) 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Cigarettes(By: Harry Mathews) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Jade Cabinet(By: Rikki Ducornet) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Billy and Girl(By: Deborah Levy) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Europeana(By: Patrik Ouředník,Gerald Turner) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Impossible Object(By: Nicholas Mosley) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Mulligan Stew(By: Gilbert Sorrentino) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Trilogy(By: Jon Fosse) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	La Batarde(By: Violette Leduc,Derek Coltman) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Nobodaddy's Children(By: John E. Woods,Arno Schmidt) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Morning & Evening(By: Jon Fosse) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Tomb for Boris Davidovich(By: Danilo Kiš) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Zoo, or Letters Not about Love(By: ) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Chapel Road(By: ) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Cobra(By: Suzanne Jill Levine,Severo Sarduy,James McCourt) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine(By: Stanley Crawford) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Suicide(By: Édouard Levé) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	AVA(By: Carole Maso,Jamie Hood) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Killoyle(By: Roger Boylan) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Killoyle: An Irish Farce(By: Roger Boylan) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Tunnel(By: William H. Gass) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

28 books (1923–2020)

Aldous Huxley's non-fiction series spans 28 essay collections and philosophical works published across nearly a century from 1923 to 2020. Beginning with On the Margin and progressing through titles like The Perennial Philosophy, Ends and Means, and Jesting Pilate, these volumes showcase Huxley's wide-ranging intellectual interests and cultural commentary. The series is complete and should be read in publication order to follow the evolution of his thought and writing style over time. These collections offer insights into Huxley's perspectives on literature, philosophy, travel, religion, and society throughout the twentieth century.

Start with On the Margin, the first of 28 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	On the Margin 1923Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Essays New and Old 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Proper Studies 1928Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Do What You Will 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Holy Face and Other Essays 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme 1930Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Jesting Pilate 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Texts and Pretexts 1933Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Beyond the Mexique Bay 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Ends and Means 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Elder Peter Bruegel 1528-1569 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Perennial Philosophy 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Words and Their Meanings 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Grey Eminence 1941Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Science, Liberty And Peace 1946Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Devils of Loudun 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Doors of Perception 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Heaven and Hell 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Human Situation 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	On Art and Artists 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Literature And Science 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Aldous Huxley: A Collection of Critical Essays 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Letters of Aldous Huxley. 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Huxley and God 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Music at Night and Other Essays 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1944–1944)

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1	The Crows of Pearblossom 1944Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1939–2024)

This ongoing collection of short stories and novellas by Aldous Huxley spans from 1939 to 2024 and should be read in publication order. The three entries include Jacob's Hands, co-written with Christopher Isherwood, A Teacher's Guide to Brave New World, developed with Amy Jurskis, and The Legend of the Gamer. Beginning with Jacob's Hands provides the best entry point into this series that blends science fiction and non-fiction elements across its installments.

Start with Jacob's Hands(With: Christopher Isherwood) and read in order.

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1	Jacob's Hands(With: Christopher Isherwood) 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Teacher's Guide to Brave New World(With: Amy Jurskis) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Legend of the Gamer 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

21 books (1916–2012)

Aldous Huxley's Short Story Collections series comprises 21 books of fiction, poetry, and essays published between 1916 and 2012, beginning with The Burning Wheel and concluding with later compilations. This complete series should be read in publication order to follow the chronological development of Huxley's shorter works. The collection spans multiple decades and genres, blending science fiction with literary fiction, essays, and verse that reflect the author's evolving philosophical and social commentary.

Start with The Burning Wheel, the first of 21 books in the Short Story Collections series.

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1	The Burning Wheel 1916Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Limbo 1918Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems 1918Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Mortal Coils 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Young Archimedes and Other Stories 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Selected Poems 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Two Or Three Graces and Other Stories 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Arabia Infelix and Other Poems 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Leda 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Brief Candles / After the Fireworks 1930Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Cicadas and Other Poems 1931Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Rotunda. A Selection... 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Gioconda Smile 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Olive Tree and Other Essays 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Stories, Essays, and Poems 1942Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Art of Seeing 1942Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Little Mexican - Six Stories 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Themes And Variations 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Collected Short Stories 1957Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Oxford Poetry; Volume 1914-1916 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1921–1962)

Aldous Huxley's standalone novels span four decades from 1921 to 1962, comprising eleven works of science fiction and satirical fiction that can be read independently or in publication order. The series includes his most famous work, Brave New World, alongside earlier social comedies like Crome Yellow and later philosophical novels such as Island. Though each novel stands alone as a complete story, reading them in publication order reveals the evolution of Huxley's thinking across the twentieth century. The collection concludes with Island in 1962, representing Huxley's final and most optimistic vision of human society.

Start with Crome Yellow, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	Crome Yellow 1921Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Antic Hay 1923Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Those Barren Leaves 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Brave New World 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Eyeless in Gaza 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	After Many a Summer Dies the Swan 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Time Must Have a Stop 1944Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Ape and Essence 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Genius and the Goddess 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Brave New World Revisited 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Island 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1933–2020)

Aldous Huxley's two standalone plays span nearly a century of publication, from Now More Than Ever in 1933 to The World of Light in 2020. These works should be read in publication order and represent complete, independent dramatic pieces rather than a connected series. As standalone entries, each play can be appreciated on its own terms while offering insight into Huxley's theatrical writing across different periods of his career.

Start with Now More Than Ever and read in order.

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1	Now More Than Ever 1933Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The World of Light 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2017–2017)

The Vintage Minis series is a collection of four complete books published in 2017, each exploring a distinct theme through essays and literary selections. Written by various authors including Nigella Lawson, Jeanette Winterson, Helen Simpson, and Aldous Huxley, these standalone yet thematically connected volumes cover Eating, Love, Motherhood, and Psychedelics. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Eating and concluding with Psychedelics. This thought-provoking collection blends science fiction and non-fiction perspectives to examine fundamental aspects of human experience.

Start with Eating(By: Nigella Lawson), the first of 4 books in the Vintage Minis series.

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1	Eating(By: Nigella Lawson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Love(By: Jeanette Winterson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Motherhood(By: Helen Simpson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Psychedelics 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible