Kingsley Amis Reading Order

17 books (1921–2000)

Start with The Faber Popular Reciter, the first of 17 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Faber Popular Reciter 1921Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spectrum I 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	Spectrum II 1962Buy 🇺🇸
4	Writing in America 1962Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spectrum III 1963Buy 🇺🇸
6	Five-Odd / Possible Tomorrows 1964Buy 🇺🇸
7	Spectrum IV 1965Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best of British SF 2 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Right Turn: Eight Men Who Changed Their Minds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	The New Oxford Book of Light Verse 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	Best for Winter 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Golden Age of Science Fiction 1981Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Amis Anthology 1988Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Amis Story Anthology 1992Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror 1992Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares 2000Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (1968–2022)

Start with Colonel Sun, the first of 33 books in the James Bond series.

#	Title
1	Colonel Sun 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Authorized Biography of 007(By: John George Pearson) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	License Renewed(By: John Gardner) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	For Special Services(By: John Gardner) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	Icebreaker(By: John Gardner) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Role of Honor(By: John Gardner) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nobody Lives Forever(By: John Gardner) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
8	No Deals, Mr. Bond(By: John Gardner) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
9	Scorpius(By: John Gardner) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
10	Licence to Kill(By: John Gardner) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
11	Win, Lose or Die(By: John Gardner) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
12	Brokenclaw(By: John Gardner) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Man from Barbarossa(By: John Gardner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
14	Death Is Forever(By: John Gardner) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
15	Never Send Flowers(By: John Gardner) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
16	SeaFire(By: John Gardner) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
17	GoldenEye(By: John Gardner) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
18	Cold Fall(By: John Gardner) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
19	Tomorrow Never Dies(By: Raymond Benson) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
20	Zero Minus Ten(By: Raymond Benson) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Facts of Death(By: Raymond Benson) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
22	High Time to Kill(By: Raymond Benson) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
23	The World is Not Enough(By: Raymond Benson) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
24	Doubleshot(By: Raymond Benson) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
25	Never Dream of Dying(By: Raymond Benson) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
26	Die Another Day(By: Raymond Benson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Man With the Red Tattoo(By: Raymond Benson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
28	Devil May Care(By: Sebastian Faulks) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Carte Blanche(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
30	Solo(By: William Boyd) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
31	Trigger Mortis(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	Forever and a Day(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	With a Mind to Kill(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1954–1968)

Start with Lucky Jim, the first of 4 books in the Jim Dixon series.

#	Title
1	Lucky Jim 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	That Uncertain Feeling 1955Buy 🇺🇸
3	I Like it Here 1958Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lucky Jim's Politics. 1968Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1960–2019)

Start with New Maps of Hell, the first of 19 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	New Maps of Hell 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	The James Bond Dossier 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	What Became of Jane Austen? 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	On Drink 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	Tennyson 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975Buy 🇺🇸
7	Harold's Years 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	An Arts Policy? 1979Buy 🇺🇸
9	Everyday Drinking 1983Buy 🇺🇸
10	How's Your Glass? 1984Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Great British Songbook 1986Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Amis Collection 1990Buy 🇺🇸
13	Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters 1991Buy 🇺🇸
14	Memoirs 1991Buy 🇺🇸
15	You Can't Do Both 1994Buy 🇺🇸
16	The King's English 1996Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Letters of Kingsley Amis 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Conversations with Kingsley Amis 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	Raising a Smile 2019Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1960–1988)

Start with Take a Girl Like You and read in order.

#	Title
1	Take a Girl Like You 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Difficulties with Girls 1988Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1947–2011)

Start with Bright November, the first of 9 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Bright November 1947Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Frame of Mind 1953Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Case of Samples 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Look Around the Estate 1967Buy 🇺🇸
5	Collected Poems, 1944-1979 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Collected Short Stories 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Pleasure of Poetry 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Complete Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1961–1965)

Start with Spectrum I(With: Robert Conquest), the first of 4 books in the Spectrum series.

#	Title
1	Spectrum I(With: Robert Conquest) 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spectrum II(With: Robert Conquest) 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	Spectrum III(With: Robert Conquest) 1963Buy 🇺🇸
4	Spectrum IV(With: John Wyndham,Cordwainer Smith,Robert Conquest) 1965Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (1962–1995)

Start with My Enemy's Enemy, the first of 21 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	My Enemy's Enemy 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	One Fat Englishman 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Anti-Death League 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Egyptologists(With: Robert Conquest) 1966Buy 🇺🇸
5	I Want It Now 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Green Man 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	Girl, 20 1971Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dear Illusion 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Riverside Villas Murder 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	Ending Up 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Crime of the Century 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Alteration 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	Jake's Thing 1978Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Darkwater Hall Mystery 1978Buy 🇺🇸
15	Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980Buy 🇺🇸
16	Stanley and the Women 1984Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Old Devils 1986Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Folks That Live on the Hill 1990Buy 🇺🇸
19	We Are All Guilty 1991Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Russian Girl 1992Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Biographer's Moustache 1995Buy 🇺🇸