Graham Greene Reading Order

13 books (1957–2018)

This collection of 13 anthologies edited by Graham Greene spans from 1957 to 2018 and should be read in publication order. The series is now complete and features curated selections from literary fiction and non-fiction, including works focused on spy stories, British short fiction, classic school narratives, suicide and mortality in literature, crime stories, Mexican writing, and profiles of notable authors. Each volume showcases Greene's editorial vision across different themes and periods of literature.

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

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

18 books (1936–2006)

Graham Greene's non-fiction collection spans seven decades from 1936 to 2006, comprising 18 volumes of essays, travel writing, film criticism, autobiography, and biographical studies. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Journey Without Maps and progressing through works like A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape that chronicle Greene's personal life and creative journey. This complete collection showcases Greene's versatility as a writer beyond his renowned fiction, including collaborations with fellow authors and explorations of subjects ranging from Rochester's biography to reflections on his own craft.

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

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

5 books (1946–1973)

Graham Greene's Picture series consists of five complete children's books published between 1946 and 1973, featuring whimsical stories about anthropomorphic vehicles and machines. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Little Train and progressing through The Little Fire Engine, The Little Horse Bus, The Little Steamroller, and concluding with the second Little Fire Engine installment. These illustrated tales blend Greene's literary sensibility with appeal to young readers discovering early picture book storytelling.

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

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

9 books (1935–2004)

This complete collection gathers nine short stories and novellas by Graham Greene, published across nearly seven decades from 1935 to 2004. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Bear Fell Free and concluding with No Man's Land. These literary works showcase Greene's mastery of the shorter form, offering concentrated explorations of character and moral complexity that define his writing.

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

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

12 books (1925–2011)

This complete series comprises twelve collections of short stories and plays by Graham Greene, published between 1925 and 2011. The works should be read in publication order, beginning with Babbling April and progressing through various standalone collections including Twenty-One Stories, May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life, and Complete Short Stories. Several volumes present selected or comprehensive editions of Greene's shorter fiction alongside his dramatic works, offering different entry points and compilations of his material across nearly a century of literary output.

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

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

29 books (1929–1988)

Graham Greene's literary fiction novels span nearly six decades, beginning with The Man Within in 1929 and concluding in 1988, comprising 29 complete works that can be read in any order but are most rewarding when approached by publication date. Each novel stands independently with its own story and characters, though reading them chronologically reveals the evolution of Greene's distinctive voice and thematic concerns across his career. The collection includes his most celebrated works such as Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Third Man, and The End of the Affair, showcasing his mastery of psychological depth and moral complexity. Starting with The Man Within and progressing through publication order provides the fullest appreciation of how Greene's artistic vision developed over his prolific writing life.

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

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

5 books (1952–1975)

Graham Greene's Standalone Plays series comprises five theatrical works published between 1952 and 1975, presenting a complete collection of his dramatic compositions. These plays should be read in publication order, beginning with Three Entertainments and concluding with The Return of A. J. Raffles. The series includes The Living Room, The Potting Shed, and Carving a Statue among its entries. Each play functions as an independent work, allowing readers to approach them individually or as a comprehensive exploration of Greene's contributions to twentieth-century drama.

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

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

42 books (2005–2023)

The Last Interview is a 41-book nonfiction series published between 2005 and 2023, collecting final or significant interviews with notable writers, thinkers, and cultural figures. Each volume focuses on a single subject, from philosophers like Jacques Derrida and Hannah Arendt to authors such as Roberto Bolaño and David Foster Wallace, as well as musicians and other prominent personalities. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Learning To Live Finally by Jacques Derrida. The series appears to be complete as of 2023.

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

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

5 books (1969–2007)

Vintage Voyages is a five-book complete series of literary travel narratives published between 1969 and 2007. The collection spans works by multiple acclaimed authors including Graham Greene, Bruce Chatwin, Xiaolu Guo, Tim Butcher, and Colin Thubron, blending fiction and non-fiction perspectives on journeys across the globe. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with Greene's Travels with My Aunt and continuing through accounts of Patagonia, China, the Congo River, and the Silk Road.

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

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