Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British author of fantasy, mystery and horror novels and short stories for both children and adults. He was born in Wales to Norwegian parents. Dahl enlisted to the Royal Air Force where he became a flying ace. Following a crash and some severe headaches, he returned home. It was around this time he ended up meeting author C.S. Forester, who was so impressed by Dahl’s war stories that he published them verbatim. As a children’s author, he wrote some of the most memorable children’s stories of the 20th century, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG and many others. Dahl is considered to be one of the greatest children’s authors of the time period.

Roald Dahl became a published novelist in 1943 with the children’s book The Gremlins. The story is based on the RAF folklore that gremlins were responsible for any issues with their planes. Below is a list of Roald Dahl’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Charlie Bucket Books

(with Quentin Blake)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Two Classics by Roald Dahl (By: Quentin Blake) (2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Gremlins (1943)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
James and the Giant Peach (1961)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Magic Finger (1966)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Danny: The Champion of the World (1975)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
My Uncle Oswald (1979)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Twits (With: Sophie Dahl) (1980)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The BFG (1982)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Witches (1983)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Matilda (1988)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Esio Trot (1990)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Mildenhall Treasure (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Great Switcheroo (1985)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Someone Like You (1953)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Kiss Kiss (1959)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Skin and Other Stories (1960)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Selected Stories of Roald Dahl (1968)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Switch Bitch (1974)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Taste and Other Tales (1979)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
A Roald Dahl Selection: Nine Short Stories (1980)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
New Tales of the Unexpected (1980)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Way Up to Heaven and Other Stories (1980)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Revolting Rhymes (1982)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories (1982)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories (1982)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Dirty Beasts (1983)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Best of Roald Dahl (1983)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Two Fables (1986)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Completely Unexpected Tales (1986)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
A Second Roald Dahl Selection (1987)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Rhyme Stew (1989)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (1989)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories (1995)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Edward the Conqueror and Other Stories (1996)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Further Tales of the Unexpected (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
A Taste of the Unexpected (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Vile Verses (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Songs and Verse. Roald Dahl (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Collected Short Stories (2006)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Spotty Powder and other Splendiferous Secrets (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Three Tales of Magic and Mischief (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Cruelty (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Picture Books

The Enormous Crocodile (1978)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Minpins (1991)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Words (2023)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Shapes (2023)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Trick or Treat (With: Quentin Blake) (2023)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Boy: Tales of Childhood (With: Sophie Dahl) (1984)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Going Solo (1986)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
My Year (1993)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes (1994)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Cookbook (1996)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Dahlmanac (2006)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
More About Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Dahlmanac 2 (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Fantabulous Facts (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Sticker Book (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Anthologies

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories(1956)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV(1957)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Stories for the Dead of Night(1957)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Late Great Future(1976)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
65 Great Spine Chillers(1982)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories(1983)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Friendship(1990)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Man In Black(1990)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror(1992)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Sea-Cursed(1994)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings(1998)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream!(1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
It's Heaven to Be Seven(2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
A Distant Cry(2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Murder On The Railways(2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
A Tangled Web(2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink(2007)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying(2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
That Glimpse of Truth(2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Flight or Fright(2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Notes: Memories with Food at Gipsy House and Roald Dahl’s Cookbook were co-authored with Felicity Dahl.

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Roald Dahl Synopsis: In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, only five children will be allowed inside of Willy Wonka’s world famous chocolate factory. Those five children are: the rather rotund Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, TV-loving Mike Teavee and the honest and brave Charlie Bucket. The novel made into a film starring Gene Wilder in 1971 (as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) and then in 2005, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.

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