Philip Pullman Reading Order

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	Mystery of the Ghost Ship 2017Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1994–2016)

Start with Thirteen More Tales of Horror, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Thirteen More Tales of Horror 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Life and Death 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fantasy: Red Hot Reads 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	The May Anthologies 2004 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Whodunit? 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Reader, No. 30. Summer 2008 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Four Tales 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2025)

Start with La Belle Sauvage and read in order.

#	Title
1	La Belle Sauvage 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Secret Commonwealth 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Rose Field 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2009–2009)

#	Title
1	The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2009Buy 🇺🇸

56 books (1915–2017)

Start with The Valley of Fear(By: Adrian Flynn), the first of 56 books in the Dramascripts series.

#	Title
1	The Valley of Fear(By: Adrian Flynn) 1915Buy 🇺🇸
2	All My Sons(By: Arthur Miller) 1947Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death of a Salesman(By: Arthur Miller) 1949Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Crucible(By: Arthur Miller) 1953Buy 🇺🇸
5	A View from the Bridge(By: Arthur Miller) 1955Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brother in the Land(By: Robert Swindells) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Question of Courage(By: Marjorie Darke) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Across the Barricades(By: Joan Lingard) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	Paper Tigers(By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler(By: Gene Kemp) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	Burston School Strike(By: Roy Nevitt) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hot Cakes(By: Adrian Flynn) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Tale of Two Cities(By: Steve Skidmore) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
14	Jane Eyre(By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Labyrinth: Play(By: David Calcutt) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
16	Working Parts(By: Nick Jones) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dracula(By: David Calcutt) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
18	Frankenstein 2003Buy 🇺🇸
19	Johnny and the Dead(By: Terry Pratchett) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents(By: Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Canterbury Tales(By: Martin Riley) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Deamon Headmaster(By: Nick Stafford) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
23	Lady Macbeth(By: David Calcutt) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Snake-Stone(By: Berlie Doherty) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
25	Doctor Faustus(By: Geraldine McCaughrean) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
26	Salem(By: David Calcutt) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
27	The White Rose and the Swatiska(By: Adrian Flynn) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
28	Troy 24(By: David Calcutt) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
29	Bog Child(By: Siobhan Dowd) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
30	Cry, the Beloved Country(By: Roy Sargeant) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Three Musketeers(By: Ken Ludwig) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
32	Solace of the Road(By: Siobhan Dowd) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(By: Adrian Flynn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
34	King of Shadows(By: Susan Cooper) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
35	Werewolf(By: Adrian Flynn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Invisible Man(By: Adrian Flynn) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	A Christmas Carol(By: Conor McReynolds,Richard Kidd) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Devil Walks(By: Anne Fine) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Garbage King(By: Oladipo Agboluaje) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	Arson About(By: Mark Wheeller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
41	Beowulf(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
42	Blood Brothers(By: Willy Russell) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
43	Dodger(By: Stephen Briggs) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
44	Flesh and Blood(By: Benjamin Hulme-Cross) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
45	Homer's Odyssey(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
46	Our Day Out(By: Willy Russell) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
47	Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror 2014Buy 🇺🇸
48	Stone Cold(By: Robert Swindells) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Diary of Anne Frank(By: Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Hound of the Baskervill(By: John O'Connor) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
52	Treasure Island(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
53	Unman Wittering and Zigo(By: Giles Cooper) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
54	Cowgirl(By: G.R. Gemin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
55	Tess of the D'Urbervilles(By: David Calcutt) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Brotherhood of Smoke(By: Adrian Flynn) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1995–2022)

Start with Northern Lights / The Golden Compass, the first of 8 books in the His Dark Materials series.

#	Title
1	Northern Lights / The Golden Compass 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Subtle Knife 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Amber Spyglass 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lyra's Oxford 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Once Upon a Time in the North 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Serpentine 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Collectors 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Imagination Chamber 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2022)

Start with The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 2 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Subtle Knife Graphic Novel 2022Buy 🇺🇸

115 books (1861–2025)

Start with Great Expectations(By: Charles Dickens), the first of 115 books in the NHB Modern Plays series.

#	Title
1	Great Expectations(By: Charles Dickens) 1861Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off(By: Liz Lochhead) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mrs Klein(By: Nicholas Wright) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Going Concern(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Honour(By: Joanna Murray-Smith) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hotel(By: Caryl Churchill) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Anna Weiss(By: Mike Cullen) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Blue Heart(By: Caryl Churchill) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	My Boy Jack(By: David Haig) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Scotland Plays(By: Philip Howard) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Howie the Rookie(By: Mark O'Rowe) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Jane Eyre(By: Charlotte Brontë,Polly Teale) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	Passing Places(By: Stephen Greenhorn) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	Be My Baby(By: Amanda Whittington) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	Far Away(By: Caryl Churchill) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
16	Kes(By: Barry Hines,Lawrence Till) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	Love Upon the Throne(By: Patrick Barlow) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	I Just Stopped by to See the Man(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Push Up(By: Roland Schimmelpfennig,Maja Zade) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	His Dark Materials(With: Nicholas Wright) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
21	When You Cure Me(By: Jack Thorne) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	5/11(By: Edward Kemp) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Winterling(By: Jez Butterworth) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Cruising(By: Alecky Blythe) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found(By: Fin Kennedy) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
26	Happy Now?(By: Lucinda Coxon) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Iron(By: Rona Munro) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
28	Never So Good(By: Howard Brenton) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Cherry Blossom(By: Catherine Grosvenor) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Tuesdays at Tesco's(By: Emmanuel Darley,Matthew Hurt,Sarah Vermande) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	When the Rain Stops Falling(By: Andrew Bovell) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	BUNNY(By: Jack Thorne) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Convict's Opera(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
34	So You Want To Go To Drama School?(By: Helen Freeman) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays(By: Fin Kennedy) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
36	East is East(By: Ayub Khan Din) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Goodbye to All That(By: Luke Norris) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
38	Herding Cats(By: Lucinda Coxon) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
39	Love & Information(By: Caryl Churchill) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mary Shelley(By: Helen Edmundson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
41	NSFW(By: Lucy Kirkwood) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
42	Sex with a Stranger(By: Stefan Golaszewski) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Acting Book(By: John Abbott) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Haunting(By: Charles Dickens) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Last of the Haussmans(By: Stephen Beresford) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
46	The River(By: Jez Butterworth) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
47	#Aiww: The Arrest of AI Weiwei(By: Weiwei Ai) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
48	Chimerica(By: Lucy Kirkwood) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
49	Ciphers(By: Dawn King) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
50	Godchild(By: Deborah Bruce) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
51	Jez Butterworth Plays: One(By: Jez Butterworth) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
52	Let the Right One In(By: John Ajvide Lindqvist,Jack Thorne) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
53	Mogadishu(By: Vivienne Franzmann) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
54	Once: The Musical(By: Enda Walsh) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Browning Version(By: Terence Rattigan) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Weir(By: Conor McPherson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
57	random(By: debbie tucker green) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
58	A Hard Rain(By: Jon Bradfield) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
59	All the Way HomeBook 0)(By: Ayub Khan Din) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
60	Blood and Ice(By: Liz Lochhead) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
61	Coram Boy(By: Jamila Gavin) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
62	Cressida(By: Nicholas Wright) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
63	Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin(By: Enda Walsh) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
64	Love in Idleness / Less Than Kind(By: Terence Rattigan) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
65	Notes on Falling LeavesBook 0)(By: Ayub Khan-Din) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Parlour Song(By: Jez Butterworth) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Deep Blue Sea(By: Dan Rebellato,Terence Rattigan) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	The Improvisation Book: How to Conduct Successful Improvisation Sessions(By: John S.C. Abbott) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	The Night Heron(By: Jez Butterworth) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	Clybourne Park(By: Bruce Norris) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
71	Joanne(By: Deborah Bruce) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	The Clearing(By: Helen Edmundson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	The Lioness(By: Rebecca Lenkiewicz) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
74	Elephants(By: Rose Heiney) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
75	F*ck the Polar Bears(By: Tanya Ronder) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
76	Kiss Me Quickstep(By: Amanda Whittington) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
77	Mr Incredible(By: Camilla Whitehill) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
78	Nice Fish(By: Louis Jenkins,Mark Rylance) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
79	Plasticine(By: Sasha Dugdale,Vassily Sigarev) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
80	Russian Dolls(By: Kate Lock) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
81	The Libertine(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
82	This is Living(By: Liam Borrett) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
83	What Shadows(By: Chris Hannan) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
84	Comment is Free(By: James Fritz) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
85	Consent(By: Nina Raine) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
86	Goats(By: Liwaa Yazji,Katharine Halls) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
87	Jekyll & Hyde(By: Robert Louis Stevenson,Evan Placey) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
88	Mighty Atoms(By: Amanda Whittington) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
89	Run(By: Stephen Laughton) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
90	Saying Yes(By: Griselda Gambaro,Sebastian Doggart) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
91	Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer(By: Michel Tremblay,Martin Bowman,Bill Findlay) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
92	Sugar Baby(By: Alan Harris) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
93	Us/Them(By: Carly Wijs) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
94	Again(By: Stephanie Jacob) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	Battlefield(By: Peter Brook) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
96	Blackthorn(By: Charley Miles) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
97	Finsbury Park(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
98	Glitter Punch(By: Lucy Burke) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	Interruptions(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
100	Nine Night(By: Natasha Gordon) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
101	Stephen Jeffreys: Plays(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
102	The Clink(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
103	The Prisoner(By: Peter Brook,Marie-Hélène Estienne) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
104	The Road to Huntsville(By: Stephanie Ridings) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
105	The Strongbox(By: Stephanie Jacob) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
106	Valued Friends(By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
107	Woman Caught Unaware(By: Annie Fox) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
108	Beached(By: Melissa Bubnic) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
109	Downstate(By: Bruce Norris) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
110	Fast Labour(By: Steve Waters) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
111	Night Time(By: Selma Dimitrijevic) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
112	Family: Three Plays(By: Iain Crichton Smith,Linda McLean,Riccardo Galgani) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
113	Jez Butterworth Plays: Two(By: Jez Butterworth) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
114	James IV: Queen Of The Fight(By: Rona Munro) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	James V: Katherine(By: Rona Munro) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1994–2012)

Start with Thunderbolt's Waxwork, the first of 4 books in the New Cut Gang series.

#	Title
1	Thunderbolt's Waxwork 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gas Fitters' Ball 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Adventures of the New Cut Gang 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Two Crafty Criminals! 2012Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1978–2017)

Start with Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary, the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ancient civilizations 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	Daemon Voices 2017Buy 🇺🇸
4	Imaginary Friends 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1999–2000)

Start with Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp and read in order.

#	Title
1	Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline 2000Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2005–2005)

#	Title
1	His Dark Materials(With: Nicholas Wright) 2005Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1996–1999)

Start with Mystery Stories(By: Helen Cresswell), the first of 6 books in the Red Hot Reads series.

#	Title
1	Mystery Stories(By: Helen Cresswell) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mystery(By: Helen Cresswell) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mystifying(By: Helen Cresswell) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ballet Stories(By: Sally Holmes) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Detective Stories 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	Animal Stories(By: Michael Morpurgo) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1985–1994)

Start with The Ruby in the Smoke, the first of 4 books in the Sally Lockhart series.

#	Title
1	The Ruby in the Smoke 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Shadow in the North 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Tiger in the Well 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Tin Princess 1994Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2012)

Start with Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Grimm Tales for Young and Old 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Golden Key 2012Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1972–2009)

Start with The Haunted Storm, the first of 13 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Haunted Storm 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Galatea 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Count Karlstein 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	How to Be Cool 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spring-Heeled Jack 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Broken Bridge 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	The White Mercedes 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Firework-Maker's Daughter 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mossycoat 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Butterfly Tattoo 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	I Was a Rat! 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Scarecrow and His Servant 2009Buy 🇺🇸