Patrick White Reading Order
1 series · 89 books
Patrick White was an Australian novelist and playwright whose complex literary works examined spirituality, self-discovery, and the tension between idealistic visionaries and society's materialistic values. Drawing inspiration from modernist literary techniques, White crafted intellectually demanding standalone novels that challenged conventional narrative structures and explored the inner lives of his characters. His prolific career spanning from 1935 to 1998 established him as one of the most significant voices in twentieth-century Australian literature.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete89 books
Start with The ploughman, the first of 89 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Woman's Hand |
| 2 | A sense of integrity |
| 3 | Big Toys |
| 4 | Chambers berets and beaujolais |
| 5 | Children of Bethlehem |
| 6 | Collected plays |
| 7 | Collected plays |
| 8 | Gedile ʻalim |
| 9 | Gulat ha-mandalah |
| 10 | Happy valley |
| 11 | Le village CNN |
| 12 | Let us be free |
| 13 | Letters |
| 14 | Los calcinados |
| 15 | Memoirs of Many in One |
| 16 | Mountie in mukluks |
| 17 | Night on Bald Mountain |
| 18 | Patrick White |
| 19 | Plays |
| 20 | Riders in the chariot |
| 21 | Seventeen Odes |
| 22 | Signal Driver |
| 23 | Sipurah shel dodah |
| 24 | Stations |
| 25 | The Twyborn affair |
| 26 | The Vivisector |
| 27 | The aunt's story |
| 28 | The cockatoos |
| 29 | The eye of the storm |
| 30 | The eye of the storm |
| 31 | The eye of the storm |
| 32 | The eye of the storm |
| 33 | The hanging garden |
| 34 | The solid mandala |
| 35 | Tree of man |
| 36 | Yorde ha-merkavah |
| 37 | Ṿos |
| 38 | The ploughman 1935 |
| 39 | Happy valley 1939 |
| 40 | The living and the dead 1941 |
| 41 | The Aunt's Story 1948 |
| 42 | The aunt's story 1948 |
| 43 | The Tree of Man 1955 |
| 44 | The tree of man 1955 |
| 45 | Voss 1957 |
| 46 | Voss 1957 |
| 47 | Voss, a novel 1960 |
| 48 | Riders in the chariot 1961 |
| 49 | The Living and the Dead 1962 |
| 50 | The burnt ones 1964 |
| 51 | Four plays 1965 |
| 52 | The Solid Mandala 1966 |
| 53 | The solid mandala 1966 |
| 54 | The vivisector 1970 |
| 55 | The eye of the storm 1973 |
| 56 | The cockatoos; shorter novels and stories 1974 |
| 57 | Riders in the Chariot 1975 |
| 58 | The cockatoos 1975 |
| 59 | A fringe of leaves 1976 |
| 60 | A Fringe of Leaves 1977 |
| 61 | The night the prowler 1977 |
| 62 | Big toys 1978 |
| 63 | The Twyborn affair 1979 |
| 64 | Flaws in the glass 1981 |
| 65 | Voss 1982 |
| 66 | Flaws In the Glass 1983 |
| 67 | Netherwood 1983 |
| 68 | Signal driver 1983 |
| 69 | The Cockatoos 1983 |
| 70 | The Tree of Man (Modern Classics) 1984 |
| 71 | Voss (Modern Classics) 1984 |
| 72 | The Burnt Ones 1985 |
| 73 | Memoirs of many in one, by Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray 1986 |
| 74 | The Aunt's Story 1986 |
| 75 | The Vivisector (Modern Classics) 1986 |
| 76 | Memoirs of many in one 1987 |
| 77 | The Eye of the Storm 1988 |
| 78 | The Memoirs of Many in One 1988 |
| 79 | Three uneasy pieces 1988 |
| 80 | Patrick White speaks 1989 |
| 81 | A Fringe of Leaves 1993 |
| 82 | Riders in the Chariot 1993 |
| 83 | The Aunt's Story 1993 |
| 84 | The Eye of the Storm 1993 |
| 85 | The Living and the Dead (Twentieth-Century Classics) 1993 |
| 86 | The Twyborn Affair 1993 |
| 87 | Patrick White 1994 |
| 88 | The Solid Mandala 1994 |
| 89 | Harrap's Giant Paperback French Dictionary 1998 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Patrick White written?
- Patrick White has written 89 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1935 to 1998.
- Are Patrick White's series complete?
- Patrick White has 1 completed series.

