Susan Hill Reading Order

12 books (1979–2012)

Start with Best for Winter, the first of 12 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Best for Winter 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	New Stories 5: An Arts Council Anthology 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	People 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Parchment Moon 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Random House Book of Ghost Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Walker Book of Ghost Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Contemporary Women's Short Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	Funny Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Distant Cry 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Library Book 2012Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1970–2021)

Start with I'm The King Of The Castle, the first of 5 books in the Children's series.

#	Title
1	I'm The King Of The Castle 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Glass Angels 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Very Special Birthday 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Friends Next Door 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2021Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1982–2009)

Start with The Magic Apple Tree, the first of 11 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Magic Apple Tree 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Through the Kitchen Window 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	Through the Garden Gate 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lanterns Across the Snow 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shakespeare Country 1987Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Lighting of the Lamps 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Spirit of the Cotswolds 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	Family 1989Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Spirit of Britain 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	Reflections from a Garden 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Howards End is on the Landing 2009Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1985–1993)

Start with One Night at a Time / Go Away Bad Dreams, the first of 9 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	One Night at a Time / Go Away Bad Dreams 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Can It Be True? 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mother's Magic 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Suzy's Shoes 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	I Won't Go There Again 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Septimus Honeydew 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Pirate Poll 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	Beware Beware 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	King of Kings 1993Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1972–2014)

Start with The Custodian, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Custodian 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Albatross 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Elephant Man 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Crystal 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Black Sheep 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hunger 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Printer's Devil Court 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Irish Twins 2014Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1971–2020)

Start with The Albatross and Other Stories, the first of 11 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Albatross and Other Stories 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Bit of Singing and Dancing and Other Stories 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Cold Country, And Other Plays For Radio 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stories from Codling Village 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Christmas Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Listening to the Orchestra 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read and Other Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Farthing House and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Walter & Florence and Other Stories 2020Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2004–2021)

Start with The Various Haunts of Men, the first of 15 books in the Simon Serrailler series.

#	Title
1	The Various Haunts of Men 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Pure in Heart 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Risk of Darkness 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Vows of Silence 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Shadows in the Street 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Betrayal of Trust 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Question of Identity 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Breach of Security 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Soul of Discretion 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	Hero 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Old Haunts 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Comforts of Home 2018Buy 🇺🇸
13	Revenge 2019Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Benefit of Hindsight 2020Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Change of Circumstance 2021Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1961–2017)

Start with The Enclosure, the first of 18 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Enclosure 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Do Me a Favour 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gentleman and Ladies 1968Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Change for the Better 1969Buy 🇺🇸
5	Strange Meeting 1971Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Bird of Night 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	In the Springtime of the Year 1975Buy 🇺🇸
8	Air and Angels 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Mist in the Mirror 1992Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mrs. deWinter 1993Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Service of Clouds 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Man in the Picture 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Beacon 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Battle for Gullywith 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Small Hand 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	A Kind Man 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dolly Signed 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	From the Heart 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1983–2013)

Start with The Woman in Black and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Woman in Black 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Woman in Black: Angel of Death(By: Martyn Waites) 2013Buy 🇺🇸