Order of Henry James Books

Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-British author of literary fiction novels and stories. A common theme in his novels was American ex-pats living in Europe. His plots were based around personal relationships, the proper usage of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his work brought an extra layer of depth to realistic fiction, and foreshadowed the modernist work of the 20th century. James was a prolific writer, in addition to his many works of fiction, he published articles and books on a variety of topics and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime to some success.

Henry James made his debut as a novelist in 1871 with the novel Watch and Ward. Prior to that, he had published the play Pyramus and Thisbe in 1869. Below is a list of Henry James’ books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Watch and Ward	(1871)
Roderick Hudson	(1875)
The American	(1877)
The Europeans	(1878)
Washington Square	(1880)
Confidence	(1880)
The Portrait of a Lady	(1881)
The Bostonians	(1886)
The Princess Casamassima	(1886)
The Reverberator	(1888)
The Tragic Muse	(1890)
The Spoils of Poynton	(1896)
The Other House	(1896)
What Maisie Knew	(1897)
The Awkward Age	(1899)
The Sacred Fount	(1901)
The Wings of the Dove	(1902)
The Ambassadors	(1903)
The Golden Bowl	(1904)
The Outcry	(1911)
The Ivory Tower	(1917)
The Sense of the Past	(1917)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

My Friend Bingham	(1867)
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes	(1868)
The Story of a Masterpiece	(1868)
A Passionate Pilgrim	(1871)
At Isella	(1871)
The Sweetheart of M. Briseux	(1873)
The Madonna of the Future	(1873)
Madame de Mauves	(1874)
The Last of the Valerii	(1874)
Adina	(1874)
Osborne's Revenge	(1874)
Professor Fargo	(1874)
Eugene Pickering	(1874)
Benvolio	(1875)
Crawfords Consistency	(1876)
An International Episode	(1876)
Four Meetings	(1877)
Daisy Miller	(1878)
Longstaff's Marriage	(1878)
The Diary of a Man of Fifty	(1879)
The Pension Beaurepas	(1879)
A Bundle of Letters	(1879)
The Point of View	(1882)
Pandora	(1884)
Georgina's Reasons	(1884)
The Path of Duty	(1884)
The Author of Beltraffio	(1884)
The Lesson of the Master	(1888)
The Patagonia	(1888)
The Aspern Papers	(1888)
The Pupil	(1891)
Sir Edmund Orme	(1891)
The Real Thing	(1892)
Greville Fane	(1892)
Owen Wingrave	(1892)
Sir Dominick Ferrand	(1892)
The Private Life	(1892)
The Death of the Lion	(1894)
The Coxon Fund	(1894)
The Altar of the Dead	(1895)
The Figure in the Carpet	(1896)
John Delavoy	(1898)
In the Cage	(1898)
The Turn of the Screw	(1898)
Paste	(1899)
The Great Condition	(1899)
Maud-Evelyn	(1900)
The Great Good Place	(1900)
The Third Person	(1900)
Broken Wings	(1900)
The Tone of Time	(1900)
The Beldonald Holbein	(1901)
Mrs. Medwin	(1901)
The Beast in the Jungle	(1903)
The Birthplace	(1903)
The Marriages	(1908)
The Jolly Corner	(1908)
The Bench of Desolation	(1909)
Crapy Cornelia	(1909)
The Velvet Glove	(1909)
A Modern Warning / The Two Countries	(2016)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Selected Tales	(1866)
Complete Stories, 1864–1874	(1874)
Complete Stories, 1874–1884	(1884)
Complete Stories, 1884–1891	(1891)
Ghost Stories of Henry James	(1898)
Complete Stories, 1892–1898	(1898)
The Finer Grain	(1910)
Complete Stories, 1898–1910	(1910)
Selected Poems of Henry James	(2002)

Publication Order of Plays

Pyramus and Thisbe

(1869)

Publication Order of' Memoirs Non-Fiction Books

A Small Boy and Others	(1913)
Notes of a Son and Brother	(1914)
The Middle Years	(1917)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Novels of George Eliot	(1866)
How to Play Golf	(1869)
The Guest's Confession	(1872)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872: Volume 1	(1872)
Parisian Sketches: Letters to the New York Tribune, 1875-1876	(1875)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 2	(1876)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 3	(1876)
The Suburbs of London	(1877)
Hawthorne	(1879)
French Poets and Novelists	(1883)
The Letters of Henry James, Volume II	(1883)
A Little Tour in France	(1884)
Partial Portraits	(1888)
Terminations	(1895)
The Painter's Eye	(1897)
The Better Sort	(1903)
English Hours	(1905)
Traveling in Italy with Henry James	(1907)
Italian Hours	(1909)
The Art of the Novel	(1909)
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner	(1914)
Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes by Henry James	(1914)
The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914	(1914)
Selected Letters of Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 1882 1915	(1915)
Henry James on Culture	(1917)
Letters to A.C. Benson and Auguste Monod	(1930)
William and Henry James: Selected Letters	(1955)
Selected Literary Criticism	(1968)
Collected Travel Writings	(1993)
The American Scene	(1994)
Within the Rim and Other Essays	(2015)

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Whole Family	(1908)
50 Great Short Stories	(1952)
50 Great American Short Stories	(1963)
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories	(1992)
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories	(2021)

If You Like Henry James Books, You’ll Love…

• Anthony Trollope
• Charles Dickens
• Jules Verne

Henry James Synopses: The American by Henry James is a standalone novel. Christopher Newman is a self-made American millionaire ex-pat living in France. It is there that he falls in love with the beautiful aristocrat Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes’ past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them, thereby gaining his revenge?

The Europeans by Henry James is a standalone title. Restless Baroness Eugenia Munster and her charming bohemian brother Felix are visiting their American cousins in Boston, New England. The effect these two extravagant characters have on their austere Puritan relations forms the substance of the book and is told in a series of scenes or “sketches.”