Order of G.K. Chesterton Books
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1885-1936) was an English author of mystery, fantasy, poetry and non-fiction. He is best known for his detective/priest character Father Brown. He is well known for his Christian and Catholic apologetics. He was born into the Church of England, but converted to Roman Catholicism when he was 48. Chesterton died of congestive heart failure at home. He was 62.
G.K. Chesterton became a published author with the poetry collection Greybeards at Play. His first novel was The Napoleon of Notting Hill, published in 1904. Below is a list of G.K. Chesterton’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Father Brown Books
| The Innocence of Father Brown | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wisdom of Father Brown | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Incredulity of Father Brown | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret of Father Brown | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Scandal of Father Brown | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Father Brown Collections
| Father Brown Stories | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Favorite Father Brown Stories | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Father Brown: The Complete Collection | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Father Brown | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Puffin Father Brown Stories | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Father Brown: A Selection | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Father Brown of the Church of Rome | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Napoleon of Notting Hill | (1904) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Was Thursday | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ball and the Cross | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Manalive | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Flying Inn | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Return of Don Quixote | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Basil Howe: A Story of Young Love | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories Books
| The Club of Queer Trades | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Blue Cross | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Invisible Man | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Queer Feet | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Trees of Pride | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Oracle of the Dog | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wrong Shape | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sins of Prince Saradine | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Honour of Israel Gow | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Flying Stars | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eye of Apollo | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Three Tools of Death | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Absence of Mr. Glass | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret Garden | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hammer of God | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| Magic: A Fantastic Comedy | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Judgement of Dr. Johnson | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Surprise | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Heretics | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ballad of the White Horse | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wild Knight and Other Poems | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wine, Water, and Song | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Poet and the Lunatics | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Paradoxes of Mr Pond | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stories, Essays and Poems | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Coloured Lands | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Spirit of Christmas | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Nonsense and Light Verse | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Seven Suspects | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wild Knight | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of the Long Bow | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Greybeards at Play | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The G.K. Chesterton Calendar | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poems | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| G.K. Chesterton - Four Faultless Felons | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Queen of Seven Swords | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Was Chesterton | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| The Shop of Ghosts | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Chesterton's Biographies Non-Fiction Books
| Robert Louis Stevenson | (1902) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thomas Carlyle | (1902) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tennyson | (1903) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thackeray | (1903) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| G.F. Watts | (1904) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Charles Dickens | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| William Blake | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Saint Francis of Assisi | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| George Bernard Shaw | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| William Cobbett | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chaucer | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Leo Tolstoy | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Robert Browning | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Defendant | (1901) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orthodoxy | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Tremendous Trifles | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crimes of England | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Short History of England | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What I Saw in America | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eugenics and Other Evils | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Everlasting Man | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Jerusalem | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lord Kitchener | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What's Wrong with the World | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alarms and Discursions | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Poetry Books
| Lepanto | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of E.C. Bentley Collections
| Biography for Beginners | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Biography | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Baseless Biography | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| First Clerihews | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Murderous Christmas Stories Books
| Murder under the Christmas Tree | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder on Christmas Eve | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Very Murderous Christmas | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder at Christmas | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder in Midwinter | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder on a Winter's Night | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder in the Falling Snow | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton Books
| The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 01 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 02 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 04 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 05 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 15 | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 11 | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 31 | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 21 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 03 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 06 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 14 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Works Volume 10 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 08 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 20 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 07 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 10 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Gothic Fantasy Books
| Paradise Lost & Other Poems | (1667) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Poems, Letters & Biography | (1865) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| H.G. Wells Short Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Science Fiction Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chilling Horror Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chilling Ghost Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Crime & Mystery Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Swords & Steam Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Dystopia Utopia Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder Mayhem Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lovecraft Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lost Worlds Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Supernatural Horror Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Time Travel Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Heroic Fantasy Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe Collection | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sherlock Holmes Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Agents & Spies Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tales of King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Alien Invasion Short Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Norse Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Bram Stoker Horror Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Endless Apocalypse Short Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lost Souls | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Greek Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chinese Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Irish Fairy Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mary Shelley Horror Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Celtic Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Haunted House Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Cosy Crime Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Brothers Grimm Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| American Gothic Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Urban Crime Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Epic Fantasy Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Dying Planet Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Detective Thrillers Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Heroes & Heroines Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Native American MythsTales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| George Orwell Visions of Dystopia | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Black Sci-Fi Short Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| M.R. James Ghost Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chilling Crime Short Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Japanese Myths & Tales | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| BeastsCreatures MythsTales: Epic Tales | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Asian Ghost Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Weird Horror Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Christmas Gothic Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| First Peoples Shared Stories: Gothic Fantasy | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Alternate History Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Hidden Realms Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lost Atlantis Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Aztec Myths & Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Viking Folk & Fairy Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Egyptian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Learning to Be Human Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shadows on the Water Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Arthur Machen Horror Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| William Hope Hodgson Horror Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| African Ghost Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Titans & Giants Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Quests & Journeys | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Babylon & Sumer Myths & Tales | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sun Rising Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Moon Falling Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Afrofuturism Short Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Were Wolf Short Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Prophecies & Oracles Myths & Tales | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Robots Past & Future Short Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Kalevala & Finnish Myths & Tales | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Faeries & Nymphs Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Slavic Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Africanfuturism Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Folklore Horror Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Wars in the Stars Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Christmas Horror Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of MIT Press/Radium Age Books
| Voices from the Radium Age | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A World of Women | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The World Set Free | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Clockwork Man | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Of One Blood | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Nordenholt's Million | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| What Not | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Theodore Savage | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Lost World and The Poison Belt | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Voices from the Radium Age | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Napoleon of Notting Hill | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Inhumans and Other Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Before Superman | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: Robert Louis Stevenson was co-authored by W. Robertson Nicoll. Thomas Carlyle was co-authored by J.E. Hodder Williams. Charles Dickens was co-authored by F.G. Kitton Leo Tolstoy was co-authored by Edward Garnett and G.H. Perris. Tennyson was co-authored by Richard Garnett. Thackeray was co-authored by Lewis Melville.
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G.K. Chesterton Synopses: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton is a light-hearted novel about Mr. Innocent Smith, who has been accused of murder and repeatedly marrying his wife. He must teach a group of disillusioned young people that life is worth living.
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