Aldous Huxley Reading Order

9 books (1952–2019)

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

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

1 book (1939–1939)

#	Title
1	Jacob's Hands(With: Christopher Isherwood) 1939Buy 🇺🇸

20 books (1925–2025)

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

#	Title
1	The Making of Americans(By: Gertrude Stein) 1925Buy 🇺🇸
2	Point Counter Point 1928Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ryder(By: Djuna Barnes) 1928Buy 🇺🇸
4	La familia de Pascual Duarte / The Family of Pascual Duarte(By: Anthony Kerrigan,Camilo José Cela) 1942Buy 🇺🇸
5	Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias(By: Mark Van Doren,Marguerite Young) 1945Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Planetarium(By: Nathalie Sarraute,Maria Jolas) 1959Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Sot-Weed Factor(By: John Barth) 1960Buy 🇺🇸
8	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling(By: Marguerite Young) 1965Buy 🇺🇸
9	Langrishe, Go Down(By: Aidan Higgins) 1966Buy 🇺🇸
10	Cigarettes(By: Harry Mathews) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
11	Jade Cabinet(By: Rikki Ducornet) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
12	Billy and Girl(By: Deborah Levy) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	Europeana(By: Patrik Ouředník,Gerald Turner) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Impossible Object(By: Nicholas Mosley) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
15	Mulligan Stew(By: Gilbert Sorrentino) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	Trilogy(By: Jon Fosse) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
17	La Batarde(By: Violette Leduc,Derek Coltman) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
18	Nobodaddy's Children(By: John E. Woods,Arno Schmidt) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
19	Tomb for Boris Davidovich(By: Danilo Kiš) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
20	Chapel Road(By: ) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

28 books (1923–2020)

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

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

1 book (1944–1944)

#	Title
1	The Crows of Pearblossom 1944Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1939–2024)

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

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

21 books (1916–2012)

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

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

11 books (1921–1962)

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

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

2 books (1933–2020)

Start with Now More Than Ever and read in order.

#	Title
1	Now More Than Ever 1933Buy 🇺🇸
2	The World of Light 2020Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2017–2017)

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

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