Order of Graham Greene Books
Graham Greene (1904-1991) was an English author of literary fiction and thriller novels, non-fiction, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays and more. His writing explored ambivalent moral and political issues of the world at the time. Greene’s work often contained Catholic themes, although he objected to being referred to as a “Catholic novelist.” He spent the final years of his life living in Switzerland, in the same town as Charlie Chaplin (the two were close friends).
Graham Greene became a published author in 1925 with the poetry collection Babbling April. His first novel was The Man Within, published in 1929. His final novel was The Captain and the Enemy, which was published in 1988. Below is a list of Graham Greene’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Bear Fell Free | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Chance For Mr Lever | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Sense of Reality | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Destructors | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Complaisant Lover | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Under the Garden | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Great Jowett | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| J'Accuse | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Man's Land | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Babbling April | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Twenty-One Stories | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Stories | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Portable Graham Greene | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shades of Greene | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Across the Bridge and Other Stories | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Plays | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Complete Short Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Word and Other Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Third Man and Other Stories | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| Three Entertainments | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Living Room | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Potting Shed | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Carving a Statue | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Return of A. J. Raffles | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| The Little Train | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Little Fire Engine | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Little Horse Bus | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Little Steamroller | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Little Fire Engine | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Journey Without Maps | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| British Dramatists | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Childhood and Other Essays | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Search of a Character: Two African Journals | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Sort of Life | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Why Do I Write? | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ways of Escape | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reflections | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fragments of Autobiography | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of My Own: A Dream Diary | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Vintage Voyages Books
| Travels with My Aunt | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Patagonia | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rings of Saturn | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadow of the Silk Road | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood River | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
| Learning to Live Finally | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kurt Vonnegut | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jorge Luis Borges | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gabriel García Márquez | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lou Reed | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ernest Hemingway | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nora Ephron: The Last Interview | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Philip K. Dick | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| J. D. Salinger | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Oliver Sacks | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jane Jacobs | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| David Bowie | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Christopher Hitchens | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hunter S. Thompson | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Spy's Bedside Book | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Contemporary British Short Stories I | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Old School | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Child's Ploy | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Friendship | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Killing Spirit | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime Never Pays | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| London Stories | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Stamboul Train was also published as The Orient Express. England Made Me was also titled The Shipwrecked. A Gun for Sale was also published as This Gun for Hire. The Power and the Glory is also known as The Labyrinthine Ways. The Lawless Roads was also published as Another Mexico.
The Spy’s Bedside Book was co-edited by Hugh Greene. Why Do I Write was written with Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett. The Heritage of British Literature was co-authored with Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, Lord David Cecil and Kate O’Brien.
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