Leo Tolstoy Reading Order

12 books (1969–2023)

Start with War: An Anthology, the first of 12 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	War: An Anthology 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	Magical Realist Fiction 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	Famous and Curious Animal Stories 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Horse & Pony Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	50 Classic Novellas 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Selected Stories by Leo Tolstoy 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell 2018Buy 🇺🇸
9	Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together 2021Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories 2023Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance 2023Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1852–1856)

Start with Childhood and read in order.

#	Title
1	Childhood 1852Buy 🇺🇸
2	Boyhood 1854Buy 🇺🇸
3	Youth 1856Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1885–2018)

Start with What Men Live by and Other Tales, the first of 9 books in the Leo Tolstoy Fables series.

#	Title
1	What Men Live by and Other Tales 1885Buy 🇺🇸
2	How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories 1886Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ivan the Fool 1886Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Candle 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Godson 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Wisdom of Children 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	Two Old Men 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Esarhaddon, And Other Tales 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Where Love is There God is Also 2018Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1391–2020)

Start with What Then Must We Do?, the first of 23 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	What Then Must We Do? 1391Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Confession 1880Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Gospel in Brief 1883Buy 🇺🇸
4	What I Believe 1884Buy 🇺🇸
5	On Life and Essays on Religion 1887Buy 🇺🇸
6	The First Step: on vegetarianism 1892Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Kingdom of God Is Within You 1893Buy 🇺🇸
8	Bethink Yourselves! 1904Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Calendar of Wisdom 1906Buy 🇺🇸
10	Tolstoy on Shakespeare 1906Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Letter to a Hindu 1908Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Law of Love and the Law of Violence 1909Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Slavery of Our Times 1972Buy 🇺🇸
14	Guy De Maupassant 1974Buy 🇺🇸
15	Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	Christianity and Patriotism 2002Buy 🇺🇸
17	What Is to Be Done? and Life 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	Church and State and Other Essays 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Christian Teaching 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Religion and Morality 2016Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Diaries Of Leo Tolstoy 2020Buy 🇺🇸
23	What is Art? 2020Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1853–2017)

Start with The Raid, the first of 24 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Raid 1853Buy 🇺🇸
2	Two Hussars 1856Buy 🇺🇸
3	Albert 1858Buy 🇺🇸
4	Family Happiness 1859Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Cossacks 1863Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Prisoner in the Caucasus 1872Buy 🇺🇸
7	God Sees the Truth, but Waits 1872Buy 🇺🇸
8	Kholstomer 1886Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Death of Ivan Ilych 1886Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Kreutzer Sonata 1889Buy 🇺🇸
11	Walk in the Light While There is Light 1893Buy 🇺🇸
12	Master and Man 1895Buy 🇺🇸
13	Father Sergius 1911Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Devil 1911Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Forged Coupon 1911Buy 🇺🇸
16	Hadji Murat 1912Buy 🇺🇸
17	Polikushka and Two Hussars 1955Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Lost Opportunity 2000Buy 🇺🇸
19	Divine and Human and Other Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Long Exile and Other Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸
21	An Old Acquaintance 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Three Questions / The Emperor's Three Questions 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Diary of a Lunatic/Three Deaths 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	Work, Death, and Sickness 2017Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1855–2017)

Start with The Sebastopol Sketches, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Sebastopol Sketches 1855Buy 🇺🇸
2	Twenty-three Tales 1907Buy 🇺🇸
3	Short Novels 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Selected Short Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1867–2004)

Start with War and Peace, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	War and Peace 1867Buy 🇺🇸
2	Anna Karenina 1877Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Resurrection 1899Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Decembrists 2004Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1886–2019)

Start with The Power of Darkness, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Plays series.

#	Title
1	The Power of Darkness 1886Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Light That Shines in the Darkness 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Living Corpse 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fruits of Enlightenment 2019Buy 🇺🇸