Order of John Buchan Books
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist of adventure novels and an author of many non-fiction books. Buchan served as the 15th Governor General of Canada. His most famous novel was The Thirty-Nine Steps, which was adapted into the Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps. Buchan would feature that novel’s protagonist, Richard Hannay, in four other novels as a major character and two others as a minor character. Following his death in 1940, Buchan received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were sent to the United Kingdom.
John Buchan became a published author with Sir Quixote of the Moors, published in 1895. His final original work was the non-fiction book The History of the First World War, not published until 1991. His final novel was The Long Traverse, published in 1941. Below is a list of John Buchan’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Richard Hannay Books
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | (1915) |    |
| Greenmantle | (1916) | |
| Mr. Standfast | (1919) | |
| The Three Hostages | (1924) | |
| The Courts Of The Morning | (1929) | |
| The Island of Sheep | (1936) | |
Publication Order of Leithen Stories Books
| The Power-House | (1916) | |
| John MacNab | (1924) | |
| The Dancing Floor | (1926) | |
| The Gap in the Curtain | (1932) | |
| Sick Heart River | (1941) | |
Publication Order of Dickson McCunn Books
| Huntingtower | (1922) | |
| Castle Gay | (1930) | |
| The House of the Four Winds | (1935) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| John Burnet of Barns | (1898) | |
| A Lost Lady of Old Years | (1899) | |
| The Half-Hearted | (1900) | |
| A Lodge in the Wilderness | (1906) | |
| Prester John | (1910) | |
| Salute to Adventurers | (1915) | |
| Midwinter | (1923) | |
| Witch Wood | (1927) | |
| The Magic Walking Stick | (1927) | |
| The Blanket Of The Dark | (1931) | |
| A Prince of the Captivity | (1933) | |
| The Free Fishers | (1934) | |
| The Long Traverse | (1941) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Novel and the Fairy Tale | (1977) | |
| The Kirk in Scotland | (1985) | |
| These for Remembrance | (1987) | |
| Gordon At Khartoum | (2006) | |
| Sir Quixote of the Moors | (2008) | |
| Musa Piscatrix | (2013) | |
| No-Man's-Land | (2014) | |
| What I Saw In California | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People | (1899) | |
| The Watcher By the Threshold and Other Tales | (1902) | |
| The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies | (1912) | |
| The Runagates Club | (1928) | |
| The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn | (1932) | |
| The Clearing House: A Survey of One's Mind | (1946) | |
| Best Short Stories | (1984) | |
| The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan | (1991) | |
| Supernatural Buchan | (1997) | |
| Collected Supernatural Stories | (2012) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Scholar Gipsies | (1896) | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | (1897) | |
| Some Eighteenth Century Byways, And Other Essays | (1908) | |
| Sir Walter Scott | (1911) | |
| Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall | (1913) | |
| History of the Battle of the Somme | (1917) | |
| Francis and Riversdale Grenfell, a Memoir | (1920) | |
| A History of the Great War | (1922) | |
| The Last Secrets | (1923) | |
| Days to Remember | (1923) | |
| Lord Minto | (1924) | |
| Montrose | (1928) | |
| Julius Caesar | (1932) | |
| The Massacre of Glencoe | (1933) | |
| Oliver Cromwell | (1934) | |
| The King's Grace: 1910-1935 | (1935) | |
| Episodes of the Great War | (1936) | |
| Augustus | (1937) | |
| Naval Episodes of the Great War | (1938) | |
| Memory Hold-the-Door | (1940) | |
| Pilgrim's Way | (1940) | |
| John Buchan By His Wife and Friends | (1947) | |
| A History of the First World War | (1991) | |
| The Marquis of Montrose | (1996) | |
| History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers | (2005) | |
| The Battle of the Somme, First Phase | (2012) | |
| The Last Secrets - The Final Mysteries of Exploration | (2013) | |
| John Buchan's 1914 | (2014) | |
| Buchan's War | (2015) | |
| The Path of the King | (2015) | |
| Britain's War by Land | (2015) | |
| The Nations of To-Day | (2015) | |
| The First World War in Africa 1914-1918 | (2018) | |
| Italy: The Nations of To-day | (2019) | |
| Nine Journeys of Wonder | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
| John Buchan's Collected Poems | (1996) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Yellow Book | (1897) | |
| Atlantic Harvest: Memoirs of the Atlantic | (1947) | |
| Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy | (1984) | |
| Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls | (1985) | |
| Great Flying Stories | (1991) | |
| Spies And Secret Agents | (1993) | |
Notes: Sick Heart River was also published as Mountain Meadow. The Long Traverse is also titled Lake of Gold. Memory Hold-the-Door was titled Pilgrim’s Way in the United States.
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