Emile Zola Reading Order

5 books (1984–2018)

Start with The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Erotic Classics I: Kama Sutra, The Memoirs of Fanny Hill and Others 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1877–2018)

Start with Dead Men Tell No Tales, the first of 7 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Dead Men Tell No Tales 1877Buy 🇺🇸
2	Collected Works of Emile Zola 1938Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Known Works of Emile Zola 1941Buy 🇺🇸
4	Four Short Stories By Emile Zola 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Stories for Ninon 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Four Short Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸
7	Attack on the Mill and Other Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1899–1903)

Start with Fruitfulness and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fruitfulness 1899Buy 🇺🇸
2	Work 1901Buy 🇺🇸
3	Truth 1903Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1880–2013)

Start with The Experimental Novel and Other Essays, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Experimental Novel and Other Essays 1880Buy 🇺🇸
2	I Accuse! 1898Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dreyfus Affair 1898Buy 🇺🇸
4	Notes from Exile 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Looking at Manet 2013Buy 🇺🇸

20 books (1870–1893)

Start with The Fortune of the Rougons, the first of 20 books in the Rougon-Macquart series.

#	Title
1	The Fortune of the Rougons 1870Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Kill / The Rush for the Spoil 1872Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Belly of Paris / The Fat and the Thin 1873Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Conquest of Plassans 1874Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Sin of Father Mouret / The Sinful Priest / Abbe Mouret's Transgression 1875Buy 🇺🇸
6	His Excellency Eugene Rougon 1876Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Love Episode / A Page of Love / A Love Story 1877Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Drinking Den / The Dram Shop / L'Assommoir / The Gin Palace 1877Buy 🇺🇸
9	Nana 1880Buy 🇺🇸
10	Restless House 1882Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Bright Side of Life / How Jolly Life Is / Zest for Life 1883Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Ladies' Paradise 1883Buy 🇺🇸
13	Germinal 1885Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Masterpiece / His Masterpiece 1886Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Soil / Earth 1887Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Dream 1888Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Beast in Man / The Beast Within 1890Buy 🇺🇸
18	Money 1891Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Downfall / The Debacle 1892Buy 🇺🇸
20	Doctor Pascal 1893Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1880–2025)

Start with The Flood, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Flood 1880Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Death Of Olivier Becaille 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Three Short Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	For a Night of Love 2025Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1865–2018)

Start with Claude's Confession, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Claude's Confession 1865Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mysteries of Marseilles 1867Buy 🇺🇸
3	Therese Raquin 1867Buy 🇺🇸
4	Madeleine Ferat 1868Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Miller's Daughter 1880Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Heirs of Rabourdin 1894Buy 🇺🇸
7	Travail: Labor 1901Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Fête at Coqueville 1907Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Mad Love 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	Piping Hot! 2017Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Dead Woman's Wish 2018Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2020–2021)

Start with A Cat of Cozy Situations(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Ed Gorman,Carole Nelson Douglas,Dean Wesley Smith,W.W. Jacobs,Mary A. Turzillo,Dory Crowe), the first of 12 books in the The Year of the Cat series.

#	Title
1	A Cat of Cozy Situations(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Ed Gorman,Carole Nelson Douglas,Dean Wesley Smith,W.W. Jacobs,Mary A. Turzillo,Dory Crowe) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Cat of Disdainful Looks(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Rudyard Kipling,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mark Twain,Ray Vukcevich,John Adams,Jodi Lyn Nye) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Cat of Heroic Heart(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Carole Nelson Douglas,E. Nesbit,Jamie Ferguson,Lisa Silverthorne,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Liz Pierce) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Cat of Perfect Taste(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Saki,Charles Dudley Warner,Philip Gilbert Hamerton,Kari Kilgore) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Cat of Roving Nature(With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Annie Reed,Stefon Mears,Dory Crowe,C.J. Erick,Sylvia Warner) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Cat of Space and Time(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Andre Norton,Annie Reed,Lisa Silverthorne,Dean Wesley Smith,Cordwainer Smith,Geoffrey A. Landis,Mary Turzillo,Daemon Crowe) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Cat of Strange Lands(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,E. Nesbit,Annie Reed,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Kent Patterson,Meyari McFarland,Leigh Saunders) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Cat of a Different Color(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Annie Reed,Louisa Swann,Lisa Silverthorne,Dean Wesley Smith,Ray Vukcevich,Dory Crowe) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Henry Slesar,Joan Aiken,Annie Reed,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mary Turzillo) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Cat of Fantastic Whims(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,E. Nesbit,Jamie Ferguson,Annie Reed,Lisa Silverthorne,Dean Wesley Smith,Geoffrey A. Landis,Liz Pierce) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Cat of Feral Instincts(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Arthur Conan Doyle,Edgar Allan Poe,Brigid Collins,Dean Wesley Smith,Pamela Sargent,Jamie McNabb,Mary Turzillo,N. Margaret Campbell) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Cat of Romantic Soul(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Anthea Sharp,Annie Reed,Lisa Silverthorne,Bonnie Elizabeth,Dean Wesley Smith,Kari Kilgore) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1896–2014)

Start with Rome and read in order.

#	Title
1	Rome 1896Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lourdes 1914Buy 🇺🇸
3	Paris 2014Buy 🇺🇸