Allan Massie Reading Order

3 books (1982–2011)

Start with New Edinburgh Review Anthology and read in order.

#	Title
1	New Edinburgh Review Anthology 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	P.E.N. New Fiction II 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	ImagiNation: Stories of Scotland's Future 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2010–2015)

Start with Death in Bordeaux, the first of 4 books in the Bordeaux series.

#	Title
1	Death in Bordeaux 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark Summer in Bordeaux 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cold Winter in Bordeaux 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	End Games in Bordeaux 2015Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1983–2010)

Start with Edinburgh and The Borders, In Verse and read in order.

#	Title
1	Edinburgh and The Borders, In Verse 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Klaus and Other Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2009)

Start with The Evening of the World and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Evening of the World 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Arthur the King 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Charlemagne and Roland 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1986–1993)

Start with Augustus / Let the Emperor Speak and read in order.

#	Title
1	Augustus / Let the Emperor Speak 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tiberius 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Caesar 1993Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1979–2013)

Start with Muriel Spark, the first of 16 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Muriel Spark 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Caesars 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Portrait of Scottish Rugby 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	Colette 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	101 Great Scots 1987Buy 🇺🇸
6	Eisenstaedt's Aberdeen 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	Byron's Travels 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Novelist's View of the Market Economy 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	Glasgow 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Novel Today 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	Edinburgh 1994Buy 🇺🇸
12	The History of Selkirk Merchant Company, 1694-1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
13	Eric Linklater 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	Scottish Cultural Identity 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Royal Stuarts 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Life & Letters 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1989–1997)

Start with A Question Of Loyalties and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Question Of Loyalties 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sins of the Father 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shadows of Empire 1997Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2013–2021)

Start with The Artist and Nationality(By: Meaghan Delahunt), the first of 5 books in the Saltire series.

#	Title
1	The Artist and Nationality(By: Meaghan Delahunt) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dreaming Scotland(By: William McIlvanney) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Nevertheless 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Second Wind(By: Douglas Dunn) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ploughing the City(By: Sorcha Carey) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2014–2014)

14 books (1978–2009)

Start with Change And Decay In All Around I See, the first of 14 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Change And Decay In All Around I See 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Last Peacock 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ill Met By Gaslight 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Death of Men 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	One Night in Winter 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Hanging Tree 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	These Enchanted Woods 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Ragged Lion 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	King David 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	Antony 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Nero's Heirs 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Caligula 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Thistle and the Rose 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Surviving 2009Buy 🇺🇸