Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960) was an English-Australian novelist as well as an aeronautical engineer. He dropped the “Norway” from his pen name in order to protect his engineering career. His novels are not divided into series, but rather three categories – Pre-War (mostly pre-1940), War (1938-1947) and Australia (1948-1960). As he was an aeronautical engineer, aviation plays a big part in his novels.

Nevil Shute became a published author in 1926 with Marazan. Below is a list of Nevil Shute’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Marazan (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
So Disdained / The Mysterious Aviator (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lonely Road (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ruined City / Kindling (1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What Happened to the Corbetts / Ordeal (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Old Captivity (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Landfall (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pied Piper (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pastoral (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Most Secret (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vinland the Good (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Chequer Board (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Highway (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Town Like Alice / The Legacy (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Round the Bend (1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Far Country (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Wet (1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Slide Rule (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Requiem for a Wren / The Breaking Wave (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beyond the Black Stump (1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On the Beach (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rainbow and the Rose (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trustee from the Toolroom (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stephen Morris (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Anthologies

Great World War II Stories(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: So Disdained was also published as The Mysterious Aviator. Ruined City was also published as Kindling. What Happened to the Corbetts was also published as Ordeal. A Town Like Alice was also titled The Legacy. Requiem for a Wren was also titled The Breaking Wave.

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4 Responses to “Order of Nevil Shute Books”

  1. Flor: 4 years ago

    Donde puedo conseguir Abandonados de nevile Shute ?

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  2. Bubby: 8 years ago

    Where is the book “Kindling” listed? Great book, probably his 6th best.

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  3. Val Norris: 10 years ago

    The name of the book written in 1944 was ‘Pastoral’ not Pastrol.

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    • Brandon: 10 years ago

      Thanks!

      Reply

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