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

