Penelope Lively Reading Order
1 series · 166 books
Penelope Lively is a celebrated British author whose literary career spans both children's and adult fiction, earning her the prestigious Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for young readers' literature. Her novels, written primarily as standalones rather than series, demonstrate remarkable range across genres and age groups, with her work published consistently from 1970 through 2009. Known for intelligent storytelling that explores themes of memory, time, and human connection, Lively creates narratives that appeal to readers seeking thoughtful, character-driven fiction.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete166 books
Start with Astercote, the first of 166 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Stitch in Time (Collins Modern Classics) |
| 2 | Ammonites And Leaping Fish A Life In Time |
| 3 | Ammonites and leaping fish |
| 4 | Astercote |
| 5 | CONSEQUENCES |
| 6 | City of the mind |
| 7 | City of the mind |
| 8 | City of the mind |
| 9 | City of the mind |
| 10 | Consequences |
| 11 | Dancing Fish and Ammonites |
| 12 | Dancing fish and ammonites |
| 13 | Disastrous Dog |
| 14 | El mundo según Mark |
| 15 | En busca de una patria |
| 16 | En busca de una patria |
| 17 | Familienalbum |
| 18 | Family album |
| 19 | Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
| 20 | Going back |
| 21 | Going back |
| 22 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears |
| 23 | Heat wave |
| 24 | How it all began |
| 25 | How it all began |
| 26 | How it all began |
| 27 | In Search of a Homeland: The Story of The Aeneid |
| 28 | Kak vse ėto nachinalosʹ |
| 29 | Life in the garden |
| 30 | MAKING IT UP |
| 31 | Making it up |
| 32 | Moon Tiger |
| 33 | Moon Tiger |
| 34 | Moon Tiger (88560) |
| 35 | Moon tiger |
| 36 | OLEANDER, JACARANDA, A CHILDHOOD PERCEIVED. (SIGNED) |
| 37 | Perfect happiness |
| 38 | The Photograph |
| 39 | The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories |
| 40 | The Whispering Knights |
| 41 | The Whispering knights |
| 42 | The house in Norham Gardens |
| 43 | The purple swamp hen and other stories |
| 44 | The voyage of QV 66 |
| 45 | Treasures Of Time |
| 46 | Treasures Of Time |
| 47 | ha-Tatslum |
| 48 | Astercote 1970 |
| 49 | The wild hunt of Hagworthy 1971 |
| 50 | The driftway 1972 |
| 51 | The driftway 1972 |
| 52 | The wild hunt of the ghost hounds 1972 |
| 53 | Astercote 1973 |
| 54 | Astercote 1973 |
| 55 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe 1973 |
| 56 | Whispering Knights 1973 |
| 57 | The house in Norham Gardens 1974 |
| 58 | Boy without a name 1975 |
| 59 | Going back 1975 |
| 60 | The wild hunt of Hagworthy 1975 |
| 61 | A Stitch in Time 1976 |
| 62 | Fanny's sister 1976 |
| 63 | Fanny's sister 1976 |
| 64 | The presence of the past 1976 |
| 65 | The stained glass window 1976 |
| 66 | The whispering knights 1976 |
| 67 | The road to Lichfield 1977 |
| 68 | Nothing missing but the samovar, and other stories 1978 |
| 69 | The voyage of QV 66 1978 |
| 70 | The voyage of QV 66 1978 |
| 71 | Fanny and the Monsters (Long Ago Books) 1979 |
| 72 | Fanny andthe monsters 1979 |
| 73 | Treasures of time 1979 |
| 74 | Fanny andthe battle of Potter's Piece 1980 |
| 75 | Judgement day 1980 |
| 76 | Judgment day 1980 |
| 77 | Red Devils 1980 |
| 78 | Voyage of QV 66 1980 |
| 79 | The revenge of Samuel Stokes 1981 |
| 80 | Fanny and the Monsters 1982 |
| 81 | Next to nature, art 1982 |
| 82 | Next to Nature 1983 |
| 83 | Perfect Happiness 1983 |
| 84 | According to Mark 1984 |
| 85 | Corruption 1984 |
| 86 | Dragon Trouble (Banana Books) 1984 |
| 87 | Uninvited ghosts and other stories 1984 |
| 88 | Judgement Day 1986 |
| 89 | Pack of Cards 1986 |
| 90 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe 1986 |
| 91 | Una De Dragones/Dragon Trouble 1986 |
| 92 | Debbie and the Little Devil (Banana Books) 1987 |
| 93 | Moon tiger 1987 |
| 94 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe 1987 |
| 95 | The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy 1987 |
| 96 | A Stitch in Time 1988 |
| 97 | A house inside out 1988 |
| 98 | City of the mind 1988 |
| 99 | Judgement Day/6 Audio Cassette 1988 |
| 100 | The Ghost of Thomas Kemp 1988 |
| 101 | Dragoin Chrosda (Banana) 1989 |
| 102 | Dragon trouble 1989 |
| 103 | Next to nature, art 1989 |
| 104 | Pack of cards and other stories 1989 |
| 105 | Passing on 1989 |
| 106 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Cover to Cover Story Tapes) 1989 |
| 107 | Whispering Knights Lively 1989 |
| 108 | Wild Hunt of Hagworthy Lively 1989 |
| 109 | A House Inside Out 1990 |
| 110 | Stained Glass Window (Redwing Books) 1990 |
| 111 | The Whispering Knights 1990 |
| 112 | No Title Exists 1991 |
| 113 | Judy & the Martian Closter Ppre Bk 1992 |
| 114 | The Voyage of Qv66 1992 |
| 115 | Cleopatra's sister 1993 |
| 116 | Judy and the Martian (Red Storybooks) 1993 |
| 117 | Princess by Mistake 1993 |
| 118 | Princess by Mistake (Red Storybooks) 1993 |
| 119 | Revenge of Samuel Stokes (Children's Audio Books) 1993 |
| 120 | Good night, sleep tight 1994 |
| 121 | Oleander, Jacaranda 1994 |
| 122 | The cat, the crow, and the banyan tree 1994 |
| 123 | A Martian Comes to Stay (Red Storybooks) 1995 |
| 124 | A long night at Abu Simbel 1995 |
| 125 | Disastrous Dog (Red Storybooks) 1995 |
| 126 | Staying with Grandpa 1995 |
| 127 | Heat wave 1996 |
| 128 | Uninvited Ghosts 1996 |
| 129 | Beyond the blue mountains 1997 |
| 130 | Der wilde Garten 1997 |
| 131 | Ghostly Guests (Yellow Bananas) 1997 |
| 132 | Goldilocks 1997 |
| 133 | Goldilocks and the three bears 1997 |
| 134 | The five thousand and one nights 1997 |
| 135 | Un été au Bout-du-Monde 1997 |
| 136 | Die lange Nacht von Abu Simbel 1998 |
| 137 | Ghostly Guests (Banana Books) 1998 |
| 138 | Hinter dem Weizenfeld 1998 |
| 139 | Kleopatras Schwester. Roman 1998 |
| 140 | Spiderweb 1998 |
| 141 | One, Two, Three...Jump! (Storytime Giants) 1999 |
| 142 | One, two, three, jump! 1999 |
| 143 | The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories 1999 |
| 144 | Yellow Bananas 1999 |
| 145 | Debbie and the Little Devil (Yellow Banana Books) 2000 |
| 146 | Debbie and the Little Devil (Yellow Bananas) 2000 |
| 147 | Heckenrosen 2000 |
| 148 | Penelope Lively 2000 |
| 149 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe 2000 |
| 150 | A house unlocked 2001 |
| 151 | In Search of a Homeland 2001 |
| 152 | A Martian Comes to Stay 2002 |
| 153 | A Martian in the Supermarket 2002 |
| 154 | Debbie and the little devil 2002 |
| 155 | Dragon Trouble 2002 |
| 156 | Dragon Trouble (Yellow Bananas) 2002 |
| 157 | Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1855491427) 2002 |
| 158 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe 2002 |
| 159 | A House Unlocked 2003 |
| 160 | The photograph 2003 |
| 161 | The Photograph (Today Show Book Club #21) 2004 |
| 162 | Making it up 2005 |
| 163 | The Driftway (Cover to Cover Story Tapes) 2005 |
| 164 | Consequences 2007 |
| 165 | Consequences 2007 |
| 166 | Family album 2009 |
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- Penelope Lively has written 166 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1970 to 2009.
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