Roald Dahl Reading Order

22 books (1957–2023)

Start with Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV, the first of 22 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stories for the Dead of Night 1957Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Late Great Future 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	65 Great Spine Chillers 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	Friendship 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Man In Black 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror 1992Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sea-Cursed 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	It's Great to Be Eight 2000Buy 🇺🇸
14	It's Heaven to Be Seven 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Distant Cry 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Murder On The Railways 2003Buy 🇺🇸
17	A Tangled Web 2005Buy 🇺🇸
18	Secret Ingredients 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	That Glimpse of Truth 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Flight or Fright 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Puffin Book of Bedtime Stories: Big Dreams for Every Child 2023Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1964–2011)

Start with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the first of 4 books in the Charlie Bucket series.

#	Title
1	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Two Classics by Roald Dahl(By: Quentin Blake) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book 2011Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1984–2024)

Start with Boy: Tales of Childhood, the first of 15 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Boy: Tales of Childhood 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Going Solo 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Memories with Food at Gipsy House 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	My Year 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	Roald Dahl's Cookbook 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Dahlmanac 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dahlmanac 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	More About Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	Roald Dahl's Fantabulous Facts 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Sticker Book 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Marvelously Revolting Recipes(With: Quentin Blake) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1978–2023)

Start with The Enormous Crocodile, the first of 5 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	The Enormous Crocodile 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Minpins / Billy and the Minpins 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shapes 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	Trick or Treat(With: Quentin Blake) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
5	Words 2023Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1943–2012)

Start with The Gremlins, the first of 14 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Gremlins 1943Buy 🇺🇸
2	James and the Giant Peach 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Visitor 1965Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Magic Finger 1966Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fantastic Mr. Fox 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	Parson's Pleasure 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	George's Marvellous Medicine 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Great Switcheroo 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	Esio Trot 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Vicar of Nibbleswicke 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Mildenhall Treasure 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	Genesis and Catastrophe 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	They Shall Not Grow Old 2012Buy 🇺🇸

45 books (1946–2017)

Start with Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying, the first of 45 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying 1946Buy 🇺🇸
2	Someone Like You 1953Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kiss Kiss 1959Buy 🇺🇸
4	Skin and Other Stories 1960Buy 🇺🇸
5	Selected Stories of Roald Dahl 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	Switch Bitch 1974Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tales of the Unexpected 1979Buy 🇺🇸
10	Taste and Other Tales 1979Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Roald Dahl Selection: Nine Short Stories 1980Buy 🇺🇸
12	More Tales of the Unexpected 1980Buy 🇺🇸
13	New Tales of the Unexpected 1980Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Way Up to Heaven and Other Stories 1980Buy 🇺🇸
15	Revolting Rhymes 1982Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories 1982Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Umbrella Man and Other Stories 1982Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dirty Beasts 1983Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Best of Roald Dahl 1983Buy 🇺🇸
20	Completely Unexpected Tales 1986Buy 🇺🇸
21	Two Fables 1986Buy 🇺🇸
22	A Second Roald Dahl Selection 1987Buy 🇺🇸
23	Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life 1989Buy 🇺🇸
24	Die Prinzessin und der Wilderer 1989Buy 🇺🇸
25	Rhyme Stew 1989Buy 🇺🇸
26	Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
27	Edward the Conqueror and Other Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Roald Dahl Treasury 1997Buy 🇺🇸
29	Further Tales of the Unexpected 1999Buy 🇺🇸
30	A Taste of the Unexpected 2005Buy 🇺🇸
31	Songs and Verse. Roald Dahl 2005Buy 🇺🇸
32	Vile Verses 2005Buy 🇺🇸
33	Collected Short Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
34	Spotty Powder and other Splendiferous Secrets 2010Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets 2010Buy 🇺🇸
36	Three Tales of Magic and Mischief 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Roald Dahl's Mischief and Mayhem 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	Cruelty 2016Buy 🇺🇸
39	Deception 2016Buy 🇺🇸
40	Lust 2016Buy 🇺🇸
41	Madness 2016Buy 🇺🇸
42	Fear 2017Buy 🇺🇸
43	Innocence 2017Buy 🇺🇸
44	Trickery 2017Buy 🇺🇸
45	War 2017Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1948–1988)

Start with Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen 1948Buy 🇺🇸
2	Danny: The Champion of the World 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	My Uncle Oswald 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	The BFG 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Witches 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Matilda 1988Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1980–2024)

Start with The Twits and read in order.