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
| The Man Within | (1929) |    |
| The Name of Action | (1930) | |
| Rumour at Nightfall | (1931) | |
| Orient Express / Stamboul Train | (1932) | |
| It's a Battlefield | (1934) | |
| England Made Me / The Shipwrecked | (1935) | |
| A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire | (1936) | |
| Brighton Rock | (1938) | |
| The Confidential Agent | (1939) | |
| The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways | (1940) | |
| The Ministry of Fear | (1943) | |
| The Heart of the Matter | (1948) | |
| The Third Man | (1949) | |
| The End of the Affair | (1951) | |
| The Quiet American | (1955) | |
| Loser Takes All | (1955) | |
| Our Man in Havana | (1958) | |
| A Burnt-Out Case | (1960) | |
| The Comedians | (1966) | |
| Travels with My Aunt | (1969) | |
| Triple Pursuit! | (1971) | |
| The Honorary Consul | (1973) | |
| Third Man | (1977) | |
| The Human Factor | (1978) | |
| Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party | (1980) | |
| Monsignor Quixote | (1982) | |
| Getting to Know the General | (1984) | |
| Victorian Villainies | (1984) | |
| The Tenth Man | (1985) | |
| The Captain and the Enemy | (1988) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Bear Fell Free | (1935) | |
| A Chance For Mr Lever | (1936) | |
| A Sense of Reality | (1950) | |
| The Destructors | (1955) | |
| The Complaisant Lover | (1961) | |
| Under the Garden | (1963) | |
| The Great Jowett | (1981) | |
| J'Accuse | (1982) | |
| No Man's Land | (2004) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Babbling April | (1925) | |
| Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories | (1947) | |
| Twenty-One Stories | (1954) | |
| May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life | (1967) | |
| Collected Stories | (1973) | |
| The Portable Graham Greene | (1973) | |
| Shades of Greene | (1975) | |
| Across the Bridge and Other Stories | (1981) | |
| The Collected Plays | (1985) | |
| Complete Short Stories | (1990) | |
| The Last Word and Other Stories | (1990) | |
| The Third Man and Other Stories | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| Three Entertainments | (1952) | |
| The Living Room | (1954) | |
| The Potting Shed | (1957) | |
| Carving a Statue | (1964) | |
| The Return of A. J. Raffles | (1975) | |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| The Little Train | (1946) | |
| Little Fire Engine | (1950) | |
| The Little Horse Bus | (1952) | |
| The Little Steamroller | (1955) | |
| The Little Fire Engine | (1973) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Journey Without Maps | (1936) | |
| The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico | (1939) | |
| British Dramatists | (1942) | |
| The Lost Childhood and Other Essays | (1951) | |
| In Search of a Character: Two African Journals | (1961) | |
| Collected Essays | (1969) | |
| A Sort of Life | (1971) | |
| Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 | (1972) | |
| Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester | (1974) | |
| Why Do I Write? | (1975) | |
| Ways of Escape | (1980) | |
| Reflections | (1990) | |
| Fragments of Autobiography | (1991) | |
| Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 | (1991) | |
| A World of My Own: A Dream Diary | (1992) | |
| Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene | (2006) | |
| Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Anthologies
| San Francisco Stories | (1990) | |
| Los Angeles Stories | (1991) | |
| On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question | (1992) | |
| New Orleans Stories | (1992) | |
| Chicago Stories | (1993) | |
| Southwest Stories | (1993) | |
| Florida Stories | (1993) | |
| Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems | (1994) | |
| Alaska Stories | (1995) | |
| Texas Stories | (1995) | |
| San Francisco Thrillers | (1995) | |
| Cape Cod Stories | (2002) | |
| OOB: Anthology series. The author will have written at least one story in this series. | ||
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Spy's Bedside Book | (1957) | |
| The Old School | (1984) | |
| Child's Ploy | (1984) | |
| The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories | (1987) | |
| On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question | (1992) | |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | |
| The Killing Spirit | (1996) | |
| Crime Never Pays | (2001) | |
| Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers | (2002) | |
| London Stories | (2013) | |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | |
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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