Order of Roald Dahl Books
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British author of fantasy, mystery and horror novels and short stories for both children and adults. He was born in Wales to Norwegian parents. Dahl enlisted to the Royal Air Force where he became a flying ace. Following a crash and some severe headaches, he returned home. It was around this time he ended up meeting author C.S. Forester, who was so impressed by Dahl’s war stories that he published them verbatim. As a children’s author, he wrote some of the most memorable children’s stories of the 20th century, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG and many others. Dahl is considered to be one of the greatest children’s authors of the time period.
Roald Dahl became a published novelist in 1943 with the children’s book The Gremlins. The story is based on the RAF folklore that gremlins were responsible for any issues with their planes. Below is a list of Roald Dahl’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Charlie Bucket Books
(with Quentin Blake)
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Classics by Roald Dahl | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Gremlins | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| James and the Giant Peach | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Magic Finger | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Danny: The Champion of the World | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Uncle Oswald | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twits | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| George's Marvellous Medicine | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The BFG | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Witches | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Matilda | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Esio Trot | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Vicar of Nibbleswicke | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mildenhall Treasure | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Great Switcheroo | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Someone Like You | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kiss Kiss | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Skin and Other Stories | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Stories of Roald Dahl | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Switch Bitch | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of the Unexpected | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taste and Other Tales | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Roald Dahl Selection: Nine Short Stories | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Tales of the Unexpected | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Tales of the Unexpected | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Way Up to Heaven and Other Stories | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Revolting Rhymes | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dirty Beasts | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Roald Dahl | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Fables | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Completely Unexpected Tales | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Second Roald Dahl Selection | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rhyme Stew | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Edward the Conqueror and Other Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Roald Dahl Treasury | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Further Tales of the Unexpected | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Taste of the Unexpected | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vile Verses | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Songs and Verse. Roald Dahl | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Short Stories | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Spotty Powder and other Splendiferous Secrets | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Three Tales of Magic and Mischief | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cruelty | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| The Enormous Crocodile | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Minpins / Billy and the Minpins | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Words | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shapes | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trick or Treat | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Boy: Tales of Childhood | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Going Solo | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Memories with Food at Gipsy House | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Year | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Cookbook | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dahlmanac | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More About Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dahlmanac 2 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Fantabulous Facts | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Sticker Book | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stories for the Dead of Night | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Late Great Future | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Duel — Horror Stories of the Road | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Friendship | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man In Black | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| It's Heaven to Be Seven | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| It's Great to Be Eight | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Distant Cry | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder On The Railways | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Tangled Web | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Secret Ingredients | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| That Glimpse of Truth | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flight or Fright | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Memories with Food at Gipsy House and Roald Dahl’s Cookbook were co-authored with Felicity Dahl.
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Roald Dahl Synopsis: In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, only five children will be allowed inside of Willy Wonka’s world famous chocolate factory. Those five children are: the rather rotund Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, TV-loving Mike Teavee and the honest and brave Charlie Bucket. The novel made into a film starring Gene Wilder in 1971 (as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) and then in 2005, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
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