Samuel Butler Reading Order
1 series ยท 174 books
Samuel Butler was a Victorian-era English novelist and essayist whose sharp satirical wit and unconventional thinking challenged the orthodoxies of his time. He gained lasting fame for Erewhon, an imaginative utopian satire that inverted social norms, and The Way of All Flesh, a cutting portrait of family life and religious hypocrisy that shocked readers with its candor. Beyond fiction, Butler distinguished himself as a wide-ranging intellectual who tackled evolutionary theory, religious doctrine, and art history, while his translations of Homer's epics remain valued for their clarity and accessibility.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete174 books
Start with Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, the first of 174 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A first year in Canterbury Settlement |
| 2 | A first year in Canterbury Settlement, and other early essays |
| 3 | A first year in Canterbury Settlement, and other early essays |
| 4 | A first year in Canterbury settlement |
| 5 | A first year in Canterbury settlement |
| 6 | A first year in Canterbury settlement |
| 7 | A first year in Canterbury settlement, with other early essays |
| 8 | A lecture on the humour of Homer |
| 9 | A lecture on the humour of Homer |
| 10 | Additions and corrections [to Ex voto] |
| 11 | Ainsi va toute chair |
| 12 | Ainsi va toute chair |
| 13 | Alps & sanctuaries of Piedmont & the canton Ticino |
| 14 | Alps and sanctuaries |
| 15 | Alps and sanctuaries |
| 16 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino |
| 17 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino |
| 18 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino |
| 19 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino |
| 20 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino |
| 21 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino (Op. 6.) |
| 22 | Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino (Op. 6.) |
| 23 | Butleriana |
| 24 | Butleriana |
| 25 | Butleriana [by] S.B |
| 26 | Caminho da vida |
| 27 | Caminho da vida |
| 28 | Collected essays |
| 29 | Erehon, ou, De l'autre cรดtรฉ des montagnes |
| 30 | Erewhon |
| 31 | Erewhon |
| 32 | Erewhon Rivisited |
| 33 | Erewhon Rivisited |
| 34 | Erewhon revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer of the country and by his son |
| 35 | Erewhon, o, Over the range |
| 36 | Erewhon, or, Over the range |
| 37 | Erewhon, or, Over the range |
| 38 | Ernest Pontifex |
| 39 | Essays on Life, Art and Science |
| 40 | Essays on life, art and science |
| 41 | Essays on life, art, and science |
| 42 | Essays on life, art, and science |
| 43 | Evolution |
| 44 | Evolution |
| 45 | Evolution, Old and New |
| 46 | Evolution, old & new |
| 47 | Evolution, old & new |
| 48 | Evolution, old & new, or, The theories of Buffon |
| 49 | Evolution, old & new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin |
| 50 | Evolution, old & new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin |
| 51 | Evolution, old and new |
| 52 | Evolution, old and new |
| 53 | Evolution, old and new |
| 54 | Evolution, old and new |
| 55 | Evolution, old and new ; or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Mr. Charles Darwin |
| 56 | Evolution, old and new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck |
| 57 | Evolution, old and new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin |
| 58 | Evolution, old and new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin |
| 59 | Evolution, old and new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Mr. Charles Darwin |
| 60 | Ex voto |
| 61 | Further extracts from the note-books of Samuel Butler |
| 62 | Further extracts from the note-books of Samuel Butler |
| 63 | Further extracts from the note-books of Samuel Butler |
| 64 | Gavottes, minuets, fugues, and other short pieces for the piano |
| 65 | Geographia classica |
| 66 | Great Writers |
| 67 | Hudibras |
| 68 | Iliad and the Odyssey |
| 69 | Jones and myself |
| 70 | Jones and myself |
| 71 | La vie et l'habitude |
| 72 | La vie et l'habitude, traduit de l'anglais par Valery Larbaud |
| 73 | Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E. M. A. Savage, 1871-1885 |
| 74 | Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E.M.A. Savage 1871 |
| 75 | Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E.M.A. Savage, 1871-1885 |
| 76 | Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E.M.A. Savage, 1871-1885 |
| 77 | Life and Habit |
| 78 | Life and habit |
| 79 | Life and habit. Op. 3 |
| 80 | Life and rabit |
| 81 | Luck or cunning? |
| 82 | Narcissus |
| 83 | Narcissus |
| 84 | Notebook containing draft of English translation of Bk. I of the Iliad |
| 85 | Notebooks |
| 86 | Notebooks |
| 87 | Notebooks |
| 88 | Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon |
| 89 | Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon |
| 90 | Odyssey (Annotated) |
| 91 | On the Trapanese origin of the Odyssey |
| 92 | Poetical works of Samuel Butler |
| 93 | Quis desiderio ...? |
| 94 | SELECTED ESSAYS BY SAMUEL BUTLER, WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR BY HENRY FESTING JONES |
| 95 | Samuel Butler number |
| 96 | Samuel Butler on the resurrection |
| 97 | Samuel Butler's notebooks |
| 98 | Samuel Butler's notebooks |
| 99 | Samuel Butler's notebooks |
| 100 | Samuel Butler's notebooks |
| 101 | Samuel Butler, the way of all flesh |
| 102 | Sele[ctions] from previous works, with remarks on Mr. G.J. Romanes' "Mental evolution in animals", and A psalm of Montreal |
| 103 | Selected essays |
| 104 | Selected essays |
| 105 | Selections from The note-books of Samuel Butler |
| 106 | Selections from previous works |
| 107 | Seven sonnets |
| 108 | Seven sonnets and A psalm of Montreal |
| 109 | Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered, By Samuel Butler |
| 110 | Shakespeare's sonnets |
| 111 | The Note Books |
| 112 | The Note Books |
| 113 | The Notebooks of Samuel Butler |
| 114 | The Odyssey |
| 115 | The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler |
| 116 | The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler |
| 117 | The Shrewsbury edition of the works of Samuel Butler |
| 118 | The Shrewsbury edition of the works of Samuel Butler |
| 119 | The authoress of the Odyssey |
| 120 | The book of the machines |
| 121 | The correspondence of Samuel Butler with his sister May |
| 122 | The correspondence of Samuel Butler with his sister May |
| 123 | The essential Samuel Butler |
| 124 | The essential Samuel Butler |
| 125 | The essential Samuel Butler |
| 126 | The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ as given by the four evangelists, critically examined |
| 127 | The fair haven |
| 128 | The fair haven |
| 129 | The family letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886 |
| 130 | The family letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886 |
| 131 | The family letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886 |
| 132 | The family letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886 |
| 133 | The family letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1889 |
| 134 | The humour of Homer |
| 135 | The humour of Homer |
| 136 | The humour of Homer |
| 137 | The humour of Homer, and other essays |
| 138 | The humour of Homer, and other essays |
| 139 | The humour of Homer, and other essays |
| 140 | The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Butler |
| 141 | The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Butler |
| 142 | The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Butler |
| 143 | The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, head-master of Shrewsbury school 1798-1836 |
| 144 | The note-books of Samuel Butler |
| 145 | The note-books of Samuel Butler ... |
| 146 | The note-books of Samuel Butler ... |
| 147 | The strange notes of Samuel Butler |
| 148 | The strange notes of Samuel Butler |
| 149 | The way of all flesh |
| 150 | The way of all flesh |
| 151 | The way of all flesh |
| 152 | The way of all flesh. With an afterwork by J. Sherwood Weber |
| 153 | Unconscious memory |
| 154 | Unconscious memory |
| 155 | Unconscious memory |
| 156 | Unconscious memory |
| 157 | VIDA Y HABITO |
| 158 | Way of All Flesh |
| 159 | Wollschwein und Tafelsilber |
| 160 | ืืจื ืื ืืฉืจ |
| 161 | Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars 1704 |
| 162 | Hudibras 1757 |
| 163 | Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Civil Wars. By Samuel Butler, Esq 1773 |
| 164 | Hudibras: In Three Parts : Written in the Time of the Late Wars 1805 |
| 165 | A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography 1813 |
| 166 | Geographia Classica: Or, The Application of Ancient Geography to the Classics. For the Use of .. 1821 |
| 167 | A praxis on the Latin prepositions. Key 1831 |
| 168 | An Atlas of Antient Geography, 1839 |
| 169 | A sketch of modern and antient geography 1851 |
| 170 | A sketch of modern geography 1855 |
| 171 | Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared .. 1882 |
| 172 | Erewhon Revisited 1910 |
| 173 | God the known and God the unknown 1917 |
| 174 | Erewhon / Erewhon revisited 1932 |
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