Georgette Heyer Reading Order

4 books (1926–1937)

Start with These Old Shades, the first of 4 books in the Alastair-Audley series.

#	Title
1	These Old Shades 1926Buy 🇺🇸
2	Devil's Cub 1932Buy 🇺🇸
3	Regency Buck 1935Buy 🇺🇸
4	An Infamous Army 1937Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1994–2022)

Start with The Anthology of Love and Romance, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Anthology of Love and Romance 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bodies from the Library 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	Love, Lust and Passion in Regency Times 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Bridgerthonian Novels 2022Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1935–1941)

Start with Death in the Stocks / Merely Murder, the first of 5 books in the Inspector Hannasyde series.

#	Title
1	Death in the Stocks / Merely Murder 1935Buy 🇺🇸
2	Behold, Here's Poison 1936Buy 🇺🇸
3	They Found Him Dead 1937Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Blunt Instrument 1938Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Christmas Party / Envious Casca 1941Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1939–1953)

Start with No Wind of Blame and read in order.

#	Title
1	No Wind of Blame 1939Buy 🇺🇸
2	Duplicate Death 1951Buy 🇺🇸
3	Detection Unlimited 1953Buy 🇺🇸

39 books (1818–2026)

Start with Persuasion(By: Jane Austen), the first of 39 books in the Modern Library Torchbearers series.

#	Title
1	Persuasion(By: Jane Austen) 1818Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wuthering Heights(By: Emily Brontë) 1847Buy 🇺🇸
3	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(By: Harriet Ann Jacobs) 1861Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lady Audley's Secret(By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon) 1862Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings(By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman) 1892Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Awakening(By: Kate Chopin) 1899Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories(By: Alice Dunbar-Nelson) 1899Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Custom of the Country(By: Edith Wharton) 1913Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Voyage Out(By: Virginia Woolf) 1915Buy 🇺🇸
10	Regiment of Women(By: Clemence Dane,Melissa Broder) 1917Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Heads of Cerberus(By: Francis Stevens) 1919Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Transformation of Philip Jettan 1923Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Daughter of the Samurai(By: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto) 1925Buy 🇺🇸
14	Bread Givers(By: Anzia Yezierska) 1925Buy 🇺🇸
15	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(By: Anita Loos) 1925Buy 🇺🇸
16	Quicksand(By: Nella Larsen) 1928Buy 🇺🇸
17	Passing(By: Nella Larsen) 1929Buy 🇺🇸
18	Nada(By: Carmen Laforet) 1944Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Return of the Soldier(By: Rebecca West) 1970Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Selected Poetry(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay,Olivia Gatwood,Nancy Milford) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
21	Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy(By: Marie Vieux-Chauvet) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
22	American Indian Stories(By: Ziktala-Sa) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	Narrative Of Sojourner Truth(By: Sojourner Truth,Oliver Gilbert) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa(By: Sawako Nakayasu,Chika Sagawa) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
25	There Is Confusion(By: Jessie Redmon Fauset) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
26	Villette(By: Charlotte Brontë) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings(By: C Pam Zhang,Sui Sin Far) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction(By: Elizabeth Spencer) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Squatter and the Don(By: Ana Castillo,María Amparo Ruiz de Burton) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Princess of 72nd Street(By: Elaine Kraf) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Find Him!(By: Elaine Kraf) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
32	I Am Clarence(By: Sarah Manguso,Elaine Kraf) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
33	Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman(By: Sylvia Townsend Warner) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
34	Plum Bun Without a Moral(By: Jessie Redmon Fauset) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
35	The House of Madelaine(By: Elaine Kraf) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
36	A Country Doctor(By: Sarah Orne Jewett) 2026Buy 🇺🇸
37	Memory House(By: Elaine Kraf) 2026Buy 🇺🇸
38	Nothing Grows by Moonlight(By: Torborg Nedreaas) 2026Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield(By: Katherine Mansfield,Sloane Crosley) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1922–2019)

Start with A Proposal to Cicely, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

3 books (1960–2019)

Start with Snowdrift and Other Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	Snowdrift and Other Stories 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Pistols for Two and Other Stories 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	Acting on Impulse 2019Buy 🇺🇸

46 books (1921–1976)

Start with The Black Moth, the first of 46 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Black Moth 1921Buy 🇺🇸
2	Powder And Patch 1923Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Great Roxhythe 1923Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Transformation of Philip Jettan 1923Buy 🇺🇸
5	Simon the Coldheart 1925Buy 🇺🇸
6	Helen 1928Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Masqueraders 1928Buy 🇺🇸
8	Beauvallet 1929Buy 🇺🇸
9	Barren Corn 1930Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Conqueror 1931Buy 🇺🇸
11	Footsteps in the Dark 1932Buy 🇺🇸
12	Why Shoot a Butler? 1933Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Convenient Marriage 1934Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Unfinished Clue 1934Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Talisman Ring 1936Buy 🇺🇸
16	Royal Escape 1938Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Corinthian 1940Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Spanish Bride 1940Buy 🇺🇸
19	Faro's Daughter 1941Buy 🇺🇸
20	Penhallow 1942Buy 🇺🇸
21	Friday's Child 1944Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Reluctant Widow 1946Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Foundling 1948Buy 🇺🇸
24	Arabella 1949Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Grand Sophy 1950Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Quiet Gentleman 1951Buy 🇺🇸
27	Cotillion 1953Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Toll-Gate 1954Buy 🇺🇸
29	Bath Tangle 1955Buy 🇺🇸
30	Sprig Muslin 1956Buy 🇺🇸
31	April Lady 1957Buy 🇺🇸
32	Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle 1957Buy 🇺🇸
33	Venetia 1958Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Unknown Ajax 1959Buy 🇺🇸
35	Pistols for Two 1960Buy 🇺🇸
36	A Civil Contract 1961Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Nonesuch 1962Buy 🇺🇸
38	False Colours 1963Buy 🇺🇸
39	Frederica 1965Buy 🇺🇸
40	Black Sheep 1966Buy 🇺🇸
41	Cousin Kate 1968Buy 🇺🇸
42	Charity Girl 1970Buy 🇺🇸
43	Instead of the Thorn 1971Buy 🇺🇸
44	Lady Of Quality 1972Buy 🇺🇸
45	My Lord John 1975Buy 🇺🇸
46	Pastel 1976Buy 🇺🇸