Doris Lessing Reading Order
1 series · 200 books
Doris Lessing was a British-Rhodesian writer whose sweeping novels explored political upheaval, social transformation, and the complexities of human relationships across the twentieth century. Her unflinching examinations of colonialism, communism, feminism, and individual consciousness earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, recognizing her as one of the era's most influential literary voices. Publishing from 1950 to 2007, Lessing crafted powerful standalone works that challenged readers to confront difficult truths about society, ideology, and the self.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with The Grass is Singing, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Proper Marriage |
| 2 | A Reader's Guide to the Golden Notebook/Under My Skin |
| 3 | A la carte |
| 4 | A ripple from the storm |
| 5 | Advah min ha-seʻarah |
| 6 | African Stories |
| 7 | African Stories |
| 8 | African stories |
| 9 | Altin Defter |
| 10 | Anilar |
| 11 | Autobiografía |
| 12 | Be-ʻiḳvot ha-Anglim |
| 13 | Bericht über die bedrohte Stadt |
| 14 | Buyukanneler |
| 15 | Carnet d'or - Nvelle ÉD. - |
| 16 | Cehenneme İniş Talimatnamesi |
| 17 | Children Vlnc 1-2 |
| 18 | Children of Violence |
| 19 | Children of Violence A Proper Marriage |
| 20 | Children of Violence, Book 2 |
| 21 | Children of violence |
| 22 | Children of violence |
| 23 | Cite Promise (la) |
| 24 | Collected Stories (Collected Stories of Doris Lessing) |
| 25 | Cuentos africanos, 1 |
| 26 | Cuentos europeos |
| 27 | Cuentos europeos/ To Room Nineteen & The Temptation of Jack Orkney (Spanish Edition) |
| 28 | DISCURSOS |
| 29 | Dans Ma Peau |
| 30 | Dans ma peau |
| 31 | Das Doris Lessing Buch. |
| 32 | Day Stalin Died |
| 33 | De verzoeking |
| 34 | Der Wind weht unsere Worte fort. Afghanische Betrachtungen |
| 35 | Der Zauber ist nicht verkäuflich |
| 36 | Die Höhe bekommt uns nicht |
| 37 | Die Sterne glänzten, doch die Vögel weinten |
| 38 | Dintre meu |
| 39 | Documents Relating To Sentimen (Canopus in Argos) |
| 40 | Doris Lessing |
| 41 | Doris Lessing Reads |
| 42 | Doris Lessing Stories |
| 43 | Doris Lessing in conversation with Michael Thorpe |
| 44 | Doris Lessing reads the golden notebook |
| 45 | Ecclesiastes |
| 46 | Ecclesiastes or, The preacher |
| 47 | Echo Lointain de L'Orage (l') |
| 48 | El Sueno Mas Dulce |
| 49 | El cuaderno dorado |
| 50 | El sueno mas dulce (Zeta Narrativa) (Zeta Narrativa) |
| 51 | Eldorado |
| 52 | Enfants de la Violence (les) |
| 53 | Experiencing Reading |
| 54 | FIVE-CONTAINING 5 SHORT NOVELS |
| 55 | Fiction |
| 56 | Five |
| 57 | Five |
| 58 | Fourteen poems |
| 59 | Gatos Muy Distinguidos/Particularly Cats |
| 60 | Gatos ilustres |
| 61 | Gene Ask |
| 62 | Going Home |
| 63 | Going home |
| 64 | Golden Notebook |
| 65 | Grass Is Singing |
| 66 | Great Short Stories of the World |
| 67 | Hayatta Kalma Guncesi |
| 68 | Heavy Weather |
| 69 | Heimkehr |
| 70 | Het zingende gras |
| 71 | If the old could |
| 72 | Iyi Bir Evlilik - Siddetin Cocuklari 2 |
| 73 | Iyi Terorist |
| 74 | Journal d'une Voisine |
| 75 | KALILA AND DIMNA, Vol. 1: - Fables of Friendship and Betrayal from the Panchatantra, Jatakas, Bidpai, Kalila and Dimnah and Lights of Canopus |
| 76 | Kedilere Dair |
| 77 | Kesä ennen pimeää |
| 78 | Kıyısız |
| 79 | L'habitude d'aimer |
| 80 | L'habitude d'aimer |
| 81 | L'histoire du General Dann |
| 82 | La Clivella |
| 83 | La Grieta |
| 84 | La Madone Noire |
| 85 | La Madone noire (Nouvelles africaines) |
| 86 | La grieta |
| 87 | La grieta (Contemporánea) (Spanish Edition) |
| 88 | Landlocked book four of children of violence |
| 89 | Las Abuelas |
| 90 | Les Enfants de La Violence T01 (Ldp Litterature) (French Edition) |
| 91 | Les Grands-Meres (French Edition) |
| 92 | Les enfants de la violence |
| 93 | Les grand-mères |
| 94 | Made in England |
| 95 | Man and Two Women |
| 96 | Marche Dans L'Ombre (la) |
| 97 | Martah Ḳṿesṭ |
| 98 | Martha Quest |
| 99 | Martha Quest / A Proper Marriage |
| 100 | Martha Quest ; and, A proper marriage |
| 101 | Maḥberet ha-zahav |
| 102 | Muḳaf yabashah |
| 103 | Nebenerträge eines ehrbaren Berufs |
| 104 | New Lessing Novel |
| 105 | New Lessing Novel |
| 106 | Nine African stories |
| 107 | Nine African stories |
| 108 | No Witchcraft for Sale and the New Man from African Stories |
| 109 | Notre amie Judith |
| 110 | Nouvelles africaines |
| 111 | Nouvelles africaines |
| 112 | Nouvelles de Londres |
| 113 | O kotach |
| 114 | Old Woman and Her Cat |
| 115 | Opowieści afrykańskie |
| 116 | Pamiętnik przetrwania |
| 117 | Particularly Cats |
| 118 | Passejant per l'ombra |
| 119 | Play with a Tiger |
| 120 | Play with a Tiger and Other Plays |
| 121 | Playing the game |
| 122 | Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition |
| 123 | Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum |
| 124 | Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II |
| 125 | Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition |
| 126 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum |
| 127 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature |
| 128 | Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces |
| 129 | Putting the Questions Differently |
| 130 | Putting the Questions Differently |
| 131 | Retreat to innocence |
| 132 | Rufus. Eine Katzengeschichte |
| 133 | Shiḳasṭah |
| 134 | Shuv, ahavah |
| 135 | Si Vieillesse Pouvait |
| 136 | Sommeren for morket |
| 137 | Son Aydinlik Yaz |
| 138 | Temptation of Jack Orkney |
| 139 | The Habit of Loving. |
| 140 | The Pit |
| 141 | The Pocket Canons Bible |
| 142 | The Summer Before the Dark |
| 143 | The Temptation of Jack Orkney and other Stories |
| 144 | The black Madonna and other stories |
| 145 | The diary of a good neighbour |
| 146 | The four-gated city |
| 147 | The golden notebook |
| 148 | The making of the representative for Planet 8 |
| 149 | The story of a non-marrying man |
| 150 | Tian hei qian de xia tian |
| 151 | Tra donne |
| 152 | Turku Soyluyor Otlar |
| 153 | Vergnugen Erzahlungen |
| 154 | Vergnügen |
| 155 | Victoria et les Staveney |
| 156 | Zloty notes |
| 157 | Zwischen Mannern Erzahlungen |
| 158 | briefing for a descent into hell |
| 159 | ha-Ishah ha-aḥeret |
| 160 | ha-Terorisṭit ha-ṭovah |
| 161 | ha-ʻEśev pozem |
| 162 | landlocked |
| 163 | martha quest |
| 164 | somni mes dolç |
| 165 | Ḳayits be-ṭerem ḥashekhah |
| 166 | The Grass is Singing 1950 |
| 167 | This was the old chief's country 1951 |
| 168 | Retreat to innocence 1956 |
| 169 | A Ripple from the Storm 1958 |
| 170 | Die viertorige Stadt. Roman 1959 |
| 171 | Five short novels 1960 |
| 172 | In pursuit of the English 1961 |
| 173 | The Golden Notebook 1962 |
| 174 | A man and two women 1963 |
| 175 | African stories 1964 |
| 176 | Briefing for a Descent into Hell 1971 |
| 177 | The story of a non-marrying man and other stories 1972 |
| 178 | The temptation of Jack Orkney and other stories 1972 |
| 179 | Collected African stories 1973 |
| 180 | The Summer Before the Dark 1973 |
| 181 | A small personal voice 1974 |
| 182 | Winter in July 1974 |
| 183 | Stories 1978 |
| 184 | To Room Nineteen 1978 |
| 185 | Shikasta 1979 |
| 186 | The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three) 1980 |
| 187 | The Sirian experiments 1981 |
| 188 | The making of the representative for Planet 8 1982 |
| 189 | Documents relating to the sentimental agents in the Volyen Empire 1983 |
| 190 | If the Old Could... 1985 |
| 191 | Prisons we choose to live inside 1986 |
| 192 | Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives) 1994 |
| 193 | Under My Skin 1994 |
| 194 | De nuevo, el amor 1998 |
| 195 | The Sweetest Dream 2001 |
| 196 | Collected Stories 2002 |
| 197 | On Cats 2002 |
| 198 | Time Bites 2004 |
| 199 | The Story of General Dann and Mara's daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog 2005 |
| 200 | The Cleft 2007 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Doris Lessing written?
- Doris Lessing has written 200 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1950 to 2007.
- Are Doris Lessing's series complete?
- Doris Lessing has 1 completed series.