Graham Greene Reading Order

13 books (1957–2018)

Start with The Spy's Bedside Book, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Spy's Bedside Book 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Contemporary British Short Stories I 1971Buy 🇺🇸
3	Child's Ploy 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Old School 1984Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories 1987Buy 🇺🇸
6	Friendship 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Killing Spirit 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Crime Never Pays 2001Buy 🇺🇸
11	Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	London Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1936–2006)

Start with Journey Without Maps, the first of 18 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Journey Without Maps 1936Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico 1939Buy 🇺🇸
3	British Dramatists 1942Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Lost Childhood and Other Essays 1951Buy 🇺🇸
5	In Search of a Character 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	In Search of a Character: Two African Journals 1961Buy 🇺🇸
7	Collected Essays 1969Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Sort of Life 1971Buy 🇺🇸
9	Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 1972Buy 🇺🇸
10	Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	Why Do I Write?(With: Elizabeth Bowen,V.S. Pritchett) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	Ways of Escape 1980Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Other Man 1983Buy 🇺🇸
14	Reflections 1990Buy 🇺🇸
15	Fragments of Autobiography 1991Buy 🇺🇸
16	Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 1991Buy 🇺🇸
17	A World of My Own: A Dream Diary 1992Buy 🇺🇸
18	Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene 2006Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1946–1973)

Start with The Little Train, the first of 5 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	The Little Train 1946Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Little Fire Engine 1950Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Little Horse Bus 1952Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Little Steamroller 1955Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Little Fire Engine 1973Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1935–2004)

Start with The Bear Fell Free, the first of 9 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Bear Fell Free 1935Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Chance For Mr Lever 1936Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Sense of Reality 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Destructors 1955Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Complaisant Lover 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	Under the Garden 1963Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Great Jowett 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	J'Accuse 1982Buy 🇺🇸
9	No Man's Land 2004Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1925–2011)

Start with Babbling April, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Babbling April 1925Buy 🇺🇸
2	Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories 1947Buy 🇺🇸
3	Twenty-One Stories 1954Buy 🇺🇸
4	May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life 1967Buy 🇺🇸
5	Collected Stories 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Portable Graham Greene 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	Shades of Greene 1975Buy 🇺🇸
8	Across the Bridge and Other Stories 1982Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Collected Plays 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	Complete Short Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Last Word and Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Third Man and Other Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸

29 books (1929–1988)

Start with The Man Within, the first of 29 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Man Within 1929Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Name of Action 1930Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rumour at Nightfall 1931Buy 🇺🇸
4	Orient Express / Stamboul Train 1932Buy 🇺🇸
5	It's a Battlefield 1934Buy 🇺🇸
6	England Made Me / The Shipwrecked 1935Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire 1936Buy 🇺🇸
8	Brighton Rock 1938Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Confidential Agent 1939Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways 1940Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Ministry of Fear 1943Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Heart of the Matter 1948Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Third Man 1949Buy 🇺🇸
14	The End of the Affair 1951Buy 🇺🇸
15	Loser Takes All 1955Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Quiet American 1955Buy 🇺🇸
17	Our Man in Havana 1958Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Burnt-Out Case 1960Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Comedians 1966Buy 🇺🇸
20	Triple Pursuit! 1971Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Honorary Consul 1973Buy 🇺🇸
22	Third Man 1977Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Human Factor 1978Buy 🇺🇸
24	Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party 1980Buy 🇺🇸
25	Monsignor Quixote 1982Buy 🇺🇸
26	Getting to Know the General 1984Buy 🇺🇸
27	Victorian Villainies 1984Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Tenth Man 1985Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Captain and the Enemy 1988Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1952–1975)

Start with Three Entertainments, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Plays series.

#	Title
1	Three Entertainments 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Living Room 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Potting Shed 1957Buy 🇺🇸
4	Carving a Statue 1964Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Return of A. J. Raffles 1975Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (2005–2023)

Start with Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida), the first of 41 books in the The Last Interview series.

#	Title
1	Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Roberto Bolaño(By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Gabriel García Márquez(By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
18	Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
19	Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
21	Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	Graham Greene 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Prince(By: Prince) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
28	Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
29	Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
30	Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
31	Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
32	Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
34	Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
35	Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
37	Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
38	Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
41	Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1969–2007)

Start with Travels with My Aunt, the first of 5 books in the Vintage Voyages series.

#	Title
1	Travels with My Aunt 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	In Patagonia(By: Bruce Chatwin) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers(By: Xiaolu Guo) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Blood River(By: Tim Butcher) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shadow of the Silk Road(By: Colin Thubron) 2007Buy 🇺🇸