Mervyn Peake Reading Order
1 series · 107 books
Mervyn Peake was a British writer and visual artist who created darkly imaginative fiction marked by ornate prose and intricate illustrations. He is most celebrated for the Gormenghast cycle, a series of gothic novels set in a sprawling, decaying castle that stands as one of fantasy literature's most distinctive achievements. Though Peake envisioned an extensive saga, his death left the cycle incomplete, yet the existing works remain influential landmarks of twentieth-century speculative fiction.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete107 books
Start with Ride a cock-horse and other nursery rhymes, the first of 107 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 11 poems |
| 2 | A Book of Nonsense |
| 3 | A book of nonsense |
| 4 | A book of nonsense |
| 5 | A reverie of bone and other poems |
| 6 | Boy In Darkness (Signature) |
| 7 | Boy in Darkness |
| 8 | Captain Slaughterboard |
| 9 | Captain Slaughterboard drops anchor |
| 10 | Collected Poems |
| 11 | Complete nonsense |
| 12 | Craft of the lead pencil |
| 13 | Der junge Titus |
| 14 | Drawings |
| 15 | Figures of Speech |
| 16 | Figures of speech |
| 17 | GORMENGHAST: ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY JOHN CONSTABLE |
| 18 | Gemen gui cheng |
| 19 | Gormenghast |
| 20 | Gormenghast |
| 21 | Gormenghast Trilogy |
| 22 | Gormenghast Trilogy - Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone |
| 23 | Gormenghast, Bd.1, Der junge Titus |
| 24 | Gormenghast, Bd.2, Im Schloß |
| 25 | Gormenghast, Bd.3, Der letzte Lord Groan |
| 26 | Household tales |
| 27 | Inner Landscape |
| 28 | Le Cycle de Gormenghast |
| 29 | Letters From A Lost Uncle |
| 30 | Letters from a lost uncle |
| 31 | Lettres d'un oncle perdu |
| 32 | Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) |
| 33 | Mervyn Peake retrospective |
| 34 | Mervyn Peake/Oscar Wilde |
| 35 | Mr Pye |
| 36 | Mr Pye |
| 37 | Mr. Pye |
| 38 | Peake's Alice |
| 39 | Peake's Progress |
| 40 | Rhymes Without Reason |
| 41 | Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes |
| 42 | Ride a cock-horse and other nursery rhymes |
| 43 | Shapes & sounds |
| 44 | TITUS ALONE |
| 45 | TITUS ALONE |
| 46 | The Gormenghast Trilogy |
| 47 | The Gormenghast trilogy |
| 48 | The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy |
| 49 | The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy |
| 50 | The Inner Landscape |
| 51 | The cave or anima mundi |
| 52 | The drawings of Mervyn Peake |
| 53 | The glassblowers, ♭and other poems! |
| 54 | The rhyme of the flying bomb |
| 55 | Titus Alone |
| 56 | Titus Alone |
| 57 | Titus Alone |
| 58 | Titus Groan |
| 59 | Titus Groan |
| 60 | Titus Groan |
| 61 | Titus Groan |
| 62 | Titus Groan |
| 63 | Titus Groan |
| 64 | Titus Groan |
| 65 | Titus Solo (Hades) |
| 66 | Titus alone |
| 67 | Titus alone |
| 68 | Titus d'enfer |
| 69 | Titus dans les ténèbres |
| 70 | Titus errant |
| 71 | Twelve poems, 1939-1960 |
| 72 | Word and image 3 Mervyn Peake 1911-1968 |
| 73 | Writings and drawings |
| 74 | Ride a cock-horse and other nursery rhymes 1940 |
| 75 | Shapes & sounds 1941 |
| 76 | Captain Slaughterboard drops anchor 1945 |
| 77 | The craft of the lead pencil 1946 |
| 78 | Titus Groan 1946 |
| 79 | Drawings 1949 |
| 80 | Drawings by Mervyn Peake 1949 |
| 81 | The glassblowers 1950 |
| 82 | Figures of speech 1954 |
| 83 | Sometime Never 1956 |
| 84 | Titus alone 1959 |
| 85 | The rhyme of the flying bomb 1962 |
| 86 | Poems and drawings 1965 |
| 87 | A reverie of bone, and other poems 1967 |
| 88 | Captain Slaughterboard drops anchor 1967 |
| 89 | Gormenghast 1967 |
| 90 | Mr.Pye 1969 |
| 91 | A book of nonsense 1972 |
| 92 | Selected poems [of] Mervyn Peake 1972 |
| 93 | Word and image 3 1972 |
| 94 | Rhymes without reason 1974 |
| 95 | The drawings of Mervyn Peake 1974 |
| 96 | Twelve poems, 1939-1960 1975 |
| 97 | Boy in darkness 1976 |
| 98 | Peake's progress 1978 |
| 99 | Mervyn Peake, 1911-1968 1979 |
| 100 | Mervyn Peake, Oscar Wilde 1980 |
| 101 | Sketches from Bleak House 1983 |
| 102 | Titus Books (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone) 1983 |
| 103 | Mr. Pye 1984 |
| 104 | The Gormenghast novels 1995 |
| 105 | Knights of Madness 1998 |
| 106 | Boy in darkness and other stories 2007 |
| 107 | Collected poems 2008 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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