Order of Leo Tolstoy Books
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author who is best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His works falls into the realist fiction genre, looking at what it was like to live in the same surroundings as he did. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Tolstoy would become a published author in 1852 with the autobiographical novel Childhood as well as the short story The Raid. Below is a list of Leo Tolstoy’s novels in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Autobiographical Novels
| Childhood | (1852) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Boyhood | (1854) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Youth | (1856) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| War and Peace | (1867) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Anna Karenina | (1877) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Resurrection | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Decembrists | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Leo Tolstoy Fables Books
| What Men Live by and Other Tales | (1885) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ivan the Fool | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Candle | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Godson | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wisdom of Children | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Old Men | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Esarhaddon, And Other Tales | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Where Love is There God is Also | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| The Power of Darkness | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Light That Shines in the Darkness | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Living Corpse | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fruits of Enlightenment | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| War and Peace: The Graphic Novel | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Sebastopol Sketches | (1855) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Twenty-three Tales | (1907) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Short Novels | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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