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

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Raid(1853)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Two Hussars(1856)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Albert(1858)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Family Happiness(1859)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cossacks(1863)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
God Sees the Truth, but Waits(1872)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Prisoner in the Caucasus(1872)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Death of Ivan Ilych(1886)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kholstomer(1886)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Kreutzer Sonata(1889)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Walk in the Light While There is Light(1893)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Master and Man(1895)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil(1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Father Sergius(1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Forged Coupon(1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hadji Murat(1912)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Polikushka and Two Hussars(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Divine and Human and Other Stories(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Lost Opportunity(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Long Exile and Other Stories(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Old Acquaintance(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Diary of a Lunatic/Three Deaths(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Work, Death, and Sickness(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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

What Then Must We Do?(1391)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Confession(1880)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gospel in Brief(1883)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What I Believe(1884)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On Life and Essays on Religion(1887)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The First Step: on vegetarianism(1892)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Kingdom of God Is Within You(1893)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bethink Yourselves!(1904)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Calendar of Wisdom(1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tolstoy on Shakespeare(1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence(1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Slavery of Our Times(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Guy De Maupassant(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christianity and Patriotism(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What Is to Be Done? and Life(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Church and State and Other Essays(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Christian Teaching(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Religion and Morality(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What is Art?(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Sebastopol Sketches(1855)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twenty-three Tales (With: Louise Maude,Aylmer Maude,Lev Tolstoy)(1907)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

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