Margaret Drabble Reading Order
1 series · 71 books
Margaret Drabble is a celebrated English novelist and biographer whose prolific career spanning from 1966 to 2009 produced over seventy works of fiction and literary biography. Her novels, primarily standalone works rather than series-based fiction, explore the inner lives of her characters with psychological depth and social awareness, often examining the complexities of modern British life and female experience. As a respected biographer and literary scholar in addition to her fiction writing, Drabble has established herself as a significant figure in contemporary English literature.
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Standalone Novels Series
Complete71 books
Margaret Drabble's standalone novels span from 1966 to 2009, comprising 71 independent works that can be read in any order without loss of enjoyment. Each novel stands alone as a complete story, though readers may appreciate following the publication order to observe the author's stylistic evolution across four decades. This extensive collection showcases Drabble's versatility across various literary forms and themes, making individual titles accessible entry points into her body of work.
Start with Wordsworth, the first of 71 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A day in the life of a smiling woman |
| 2 | Ann Veronica |
| 3 | At the Pond |
| 4 | Diary of a Parish Clerk and Other Stories |
| 5 | English Literature Set |
| 6 | Genius of Thomas Hardy |
| 7 | Gifts of War |
| 8 | Hassan's tower |
| 9 | I Hear Voices |
| 10 | Kamenʹ na shee |
| 11 | La Mer toujours recommencée |
| 12 | Margaret Drabble : 3 Book Set. Softcover : A summer Bird Cage : The Garrick Year : The Waterfall |
| 13 | New stories |
| 14 | Owls Do Cry |
| 15 | Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition |
| 16 | Quand monte le flot sombre (LITTERATURE ETRANGERE) |
| 17 | Reḥayim |
| 18 | Sanditon and Other Stories |
| 19 | Som Altın Bebek |
| 20 | The Forward book of poetry 1995 |
| 21 | The Genius of Thomas Hardy |
| 22 | The Oxford companion to English literature |
| 23 | The Seven Sisters |
| 24 | The Vines of Yarrabee |
| 25 | The War of the Worlds, Time Machine & The Invisible Man |
| 26 | The concise Oxford companion to English literature |
| 27 | The dark flood rises |
| 28 | The pure gold baby |
| 29 | Tornado Pratt |
| 30 | Tradition of Womens Fiction Lectures In |
| 31 | Twentieth century classics |
| 32 | Twilight of the Vilp |
| 33 | Wise Wound |
| 34 | Wordsworth |
| 35 | ʻIr shel zahav |
| 36 | Wordsworth 1966 |
| 37 | Jerusalem the golden 1967 |
| 38 | Kvarnstenen 1968 |
| 39 | Thank You All Very Much 1969 |
| 40 | The waterfall 1969 |
| 41 | The Garrick year, a novel 1971 |
| 42 | The Garrrick year 1971 |
| 43 | London consequences 1972 |
| 44 | Virginia Woolf 1973 |
| 45 | Arnold Bennett 1974 |
| 46 | The ice age 1977 |
| 47 | Gold unterm Sand 1978 |
| 48 | The Queen and country 1978 |
| 49 | A writer's Britain 1979 |
| 50 | The middle ground 1980 |
| 51 | Wordsworth's butter knife 1980 |
| 52 | The Oxford Companion to English Literature 1987 |
| 53 | The concise Oxford companion to English literature 1987 |
| 54 | The radiant way 1987 |
| 55 | Arnold Wesker 1988 |
| 56 | Case for Equality (Fabian Pamphlets) 1988 |
| 57 | A Natural Curiosity 1990 |
| 58 | Safe as houses 1990 |
| 59 | The forces of nature 1990 |
| 60 | Margaret Drabble in Tokyo 1991 |
| 61 | A Summer Bird-Cage 1992 |
| 62 | Gates of Ivory, the 1992 |
| 63 | Needle's Eye, the 1992 |
| 64 | The Forward Book of Poetry (1994) 1993 |
| 65 | Angus Wilson 1995 |
| 66 | The Witch of Exmoor 1998 |
| 67 | The peppered moth 2000 |
| 68 | The seven sisters 2002 |
| 69 | The Red Queen 2004 |
| 70 | The Sea Lady 2006 |
| 71 | The pattern in the carpet 2009 |
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