Tennessee Williams Reading Order
1 series · 200 books
Tennessee Williams was an American dramatist whose psychologically complex plays established him as one of the most influential American playwrights of the twentieth century. Working alongside Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, Williams created intensely personal works that explored themes of desire, violence, and social alienation through the lives of ordinary characters trapped in extraordinary circumstances. His most celebrated plays, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, remain standard fixtures of American theater and continue to influence writers across multiple genres.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with Fifty Best American Short Stories, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 100 Years of Weird |
| 2 | 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One-Act Plays |
| 3 | 27 wagons full of cotton |
| 4 | A Place Called Mississippi |
| 5 | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 6 | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 7 | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 8 | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 9 | A Streetcar Named Desire (Signet Book) |
| 10 | A cinq heures mon ange (French Edition) |
| 11 | A streetcar named Desire |
| 12 | A streetcar named Desire |
| 13 | A streetcar named Desire |
| 14 | A streetcar named Desire [a play |
| 15 | A streetcar named desire |
| 16 | Ahavah meyuḥedet be-minah |
| 17 | American Blues |
| 18 | American Blues - Acting Edition |
| 19 | Arzu Tramvayi |
| 20 | Baby Doll |
| 21 | Baby Doll and Other Plays |
| 22 | Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition |
| 23 | Bara no irezumi |
| 24 | Battle of angels |
| 25 | Battle of angels |
| 26 | Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre Second Series Complete |
| 27 | Bevar ha-zekhukhit |
| 28 | Bevar ha-zekhukhit |
| 29 | Bivar ha-zekhukhit |
| 30 | Bivar ha-zekhukhit |
| 31 | Blue Mountain Ballads |
| 32 | CAMINO REAL, A New Directions Book; |
| 33 | Camino Real 1ST Edition |
| 34 | Camino Real. [A play] |
| 35 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (SparkNotes Literature Guide) |
| 36 | Caterpillar Dogs - and Other Early Stories |
| 37 | Collected Stories (A New Directions Book) |
| 38 | Contemporary Drama. Eleven Plays. American - English - European |
| 39 | Crazy Night |
| 40 | Dans l'hiver des villes |
| 41 | Dans l'hiver des villes |
| 42 | De repente el último verano |
| 43 | Desio izeneko tranbia |
| 44 | Desire |
| 45 | Det kan man kalla kärlek |
| 46 | Die Nacht des Leguan |
| 47 | Dragon Country A Book of Plays |
| 48 | Dulce Pajaro de Juventud |
| 49 | Dulce pajaro de juventud & Escaleras al techo & El cuaderno de Trigorin/ Sweet Bird of Youth & Stairs to the roof & The Trigorin notebook |
| 50 | ESCALERAS AL TECHO EL CUADERNO DE TRIGORIN |
| 51 | ESPECIE FUGITIVA |
| 52 | Early Stories by Tennessee Williams |
| 53 | Efebo |
| 54 | Eight mortal ladies possessed |
| 55 | El zoo de cristal; Un tranvía llamado Deseo |
| 56 | Endstation Sehnsucht / Die Glasmenagerie |
| 57 | Exploring Literature -- Fourth Edition |
| 58 | Famous American plays of the 1940s and the 1950s / c selected and introduced by Henry Hewes and Lee Strasberg ; foreword by Gordon Davidson |
| 59 | Famous American plays of the 1950s |
| 60 | Five Plays Cat on a Hot Tin Roof the Ros |
| 61 | Five plays |
| 62 | Five young American poets |
| 63 | Four Plays By Tenessee Williams |
| 64 | Four Plays by Tennessee Williams |
| 65 | Four plays |
| 66 | Four plays |
| 67 | Four plays (Signet modern classic) |
| 68 | Four plays by Tennessee Williams |
| 69 | Fugitive Kind |
| 70 | Glass Menagerie |
| 71 | Glass Menagerie |
| 72 | Glass Menagerie |
| 73 | Glass Menagerie |
| 74 | Glass Menagerie (SparkNotes Literature Guide) |
| 75 | Hard candy |
| 76 | I rise in flame, cried the phoenix |
| 77 | In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel |
| 78 | In the Winter of Cities 1ST Edition |
| 79 | In the winter of cities |
| 80 | It happened the day the sun rose |
| 81 | Kingdom of earth |
| 82 | La Ménagerie De Verre (Suivi De) Le Paradis Sur Terre (Théâtre 5) |
| 83 | La descente d'Orphée |
| 84 | La ménagerie de verre |
| 85 | La noche de la iguana |
| 86 | La primavera romana della signora Stone |
| 87 | Landscape with figures |
| 88 | Le printemps romain de Mrs Stone |
| 89 | Literature - Structure, sound, and sense - Fourth Edition |
| 90 | Lo ʻal zamirim |
| 91 | Lo ʻal zemirim |
| 92 | Lord Byron's love letter |
| 93 | Memoiren |
| 94 | Memoirs |
| 95 | Memoirs |
| 96 | Memoirs |
| 97 | Memorias |
| 98 | Mister Paradise |
| 99 | Mister Paradise and other one-act plays |
| 100 | Moony's kid don't cry |
| 101 | Mrs. Stone'un Roma Baharı |
| 102 | NO SOBRE RUISE¥ORES Teatro Losada |
| 103 | One Arm |
| 104 | One arm |
| 105 | Orpheus Descending ( 1st/1st ) |
| 106 | Orpheus descending |
| 107 | Orpheus descending, |
| 108 | Otob⁻us⁻i bi n⁻am-i havas |
| 109 | PENGUIN PLAYS, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, A STREETCAR, NAMED DESIRE, THE GLASS MENAGERIE |
| 110 | PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT. |
| 111 | Period of Adjustment |
| 112 | Period of Adjustment and Other Plays |
| 113 | Period of Adjustment; High Point Over a Cavern, a Serious Comedy |
| 114 | Pethe Brau |
| 115 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience |
| 116 | ROMANCE STORIES |
| 117 | ROSA TATUADA Losada 70 Aniversario |
| 118 | Rhith y Rhosyn |
| 119 | Roman Spring |
| 120 | Rose Tattoo |
| 121 | Rose Tattoo and Other Plays |
| 122 | Six Great Modern Plays |
| 123 | Small Craft Warnings |
| 124 | Something unspoken |
| 125 | Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960 |
| 126 | Streetcar Named Desire |
| 127 | Streetcar Named Desire |
| 128 | Streetcar Named Desire |
| 129 | Streetcar Named Desire (SparkNotes Literature Guide) |
| 130 | Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays |
| 131 | Suddenly last summer |
| 132 | Summer and Smoke |
| 133 | Sweet Bird of Youth |
| 134 | Sweet Bird of Youth (Signet Books Series, Number D2095) |
| 135 | Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays |
| 136 | Süßer Vogel Jugend / Zeit der Anpassung |
| 137 | THE BURNS MANTLE BEST PLAYS OF 1947-48 |
| 138 | THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS VOL III |
| 139 | Tennessee Williams |
| 140 | Tennessee Williams |
| 141 | Tennessee Williams reading from his works |
| 142 | Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire (Modern Critical Interpretations) by Tennessee Williams (1988-01-15) |
| 143 | Teḳufat histaglut |
| 144 | The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition |
| 145 | The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition |
| 146 | The Eccentricities of a Nightingale & Summer and Smoke |
| 147 | The Fugitive Kind - Orpheus Descending |
| 148 | The Glass Menagerie / Streetcar Named Desire |
| 149 | The Knightly Quest |
| 150 | The Knightly Quest and Other Stories |
| 151 | The Night of the Iguana (1964 Movie Tie-In Edition, Signet #451) |
| 152 | The Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending and the Best Man-First Book Publications in Best American Plays Fifth Series 1958-1963 |
| 153 | The Other Persuasion |
| 154 | The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams New Directions, NY 1951 |
| 155 | The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 2 |
| 156 | The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition |
| 157 | The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition |
| 158 | The United States in literature -- Medallion Edition [with The Glass Menagerie] |
| 159 | The eccentricities of a nightingale |
| 160 | The experience of literature |
| 161 | The experience of literature |
| 162 | The glass menagerie, Tennessee Williams |
| 163 | The kingdom of earth with hard candy |
| 164 | The knightly quest |
| 165 | The knightly quest |
| 166 | The luck of friendship |
| 167 | The mutilated |
| 168 | The night of the Iguana Orpheus Descending |
| 169 | The summer belvedere |
| 170 | The travelling companion |
| 171 | The vengeance of Nitocris |
| 172 | Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 5 |
| 173 | Three By Tennessee |
| 174 | Three by Tenneessee (Sweet Bird Of Youth/ The Rose Tattoo/ The Night Of The Iguana) |
| 175 | Three by Tennessee |
| 176 | Three players of a summer game |
| 177 | Three plays |
| 178 | Théâtre choisi (Pavillons) (French Edition) |
| 179 | Tormenta de primavera/ Spring Storm |
| 180 | Trio - Fourth Edition |
| 181 | Un tramway nommé désir |
| 182 | Works (OL20652028W) |
| 183 | Yom nifla le-(shivron lev) le-piḳniḳ be-gan ha-ahavah |
| 184 | Yom nifla le-shivron lev |
| 185 | You touched me! |
| 186 | ha-Rovaʻ ha-ʻatiḳ |
| 187 | ha-Rovaʻ ha-ʻatiḳ |
| 188 | ha-Rovaʻ ha-ʻatiḳ |
| 189 | ha-Shoshanah ha-meḳuʻaḳaʻat |
| 190 | ha-Shoshanah ha-meḳuʻaḳaʻat |
| 191 | ha-Shoshanah ha-meḳuʻaḳʻat |
| 192 | חשמלית ושמה תשוקה |
| 193 | Ḥashmalit u-shemah teshuḳah |
| 194 | Ḥashmalit u-shemah teshuḳah |
| 195 | Ḥatulah ʻal gag paḥ loheṭ |
| 196 | Ḥatulah ʻal gag paḥ loheṭ |
| 197 | Ḳayits ṿe-ʻashan |
| 198 | Ḳayits ṿe-ʻashan |
| 199 | Fifty Best American Short Stories 1965 |
| 200 | Into the Mummy's Tomb 2006 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Tennessee Williams written?
- Tennessee Williams has written 200 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1965 to 2006.
- Are Tennessee Williams's series complete?
- Tennessee Williams has 1 completed series.