Order of Robert Louis Stevenson Books

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish author who was best known for his works Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Although during his lifetime, he was praised and made a celebrity, he was relegated to a “second class writer” by authors such as Virginia Woolf following World War I. Later, praise for the Scottish novelist would return when Oxford Inkling Roger Lancelyn Green referred to Stevenson as “a writer of a consistently high level of literary skill or sheer imaginative power.”

Robert Louis Stevenson’s first novel was titled The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth, which went unfinished unpublished. His next novel would be one of his most famous, Treasure Island in 1883. Below is a list of Robert Louis Stevenson’s published works in order of when they were originally released (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of David Balfour Books

Kidnapped	(1886)
Catriona	(1893)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Treasure Island	(1882)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	(1886)
The Wrong Box (With: Lloyd Osbourne)	(1889)
The Master of Ballantrae	(1889)
The Wrecker (With: Lloyd Osbourne)	(1892)
The Ebb-Tide (With: Lloyd Osbourne)	(1894)
Weir of Hermiston	(1896)
St. Ives (With: Arthur Quiller-Couch)	(1897)
A Lowden Sabbath Morn	(1898)
The Sea Fogs	(1907)
Will O' the Mill	(1915)
The Black Arrow	(1926)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Thrawn Janet	(1881)
Olalla	(1885)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	(1886)
Markheim	(1886)
The Beach of Falesa	(1963)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

New Arabian Nights	(1882)
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables	(1887)
Underwoods	(1887)
Ballads	(1890)
Island Nights' Entertainments	(1893)
The Body Snatcher	(1895)
The Suicide Club	(1895)
Songs of Travel	(1896)
The Story of a Lie, and Other Tales	(1904)
Tales and Fantasies	(1905)
New Poems and Variant Readings	(1918)
A Child's Garden of Verses	(1921)
Moral Emblems	(1921)
Weir of Hermiston and Other Stories	(1979)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Selected Short Fiction	(2005)
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson	(2012)

Publication Order of Picture Books

The Wakey Wakey Machine (With: Alan MacDonald)

(1997)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes	(1879)
The Old & New Pacific Capitals	(1880)
The Silverado Squatters	(1884)
Memories and Portraits	(1887)
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin	(1887)
The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays	(1888)
A Footnote to History	(1892)
Across the Plains	(1892)
Vailima Letters	(1895)
The Amateur Emigrant	(1895)
In the South Seas	(1900)
Virginibus Puerique and Other Papers	(1901)
The Meaning of Friendship	(1909)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them

(2000)

Notes: The Wrong Box, The Wrecker and The Ebb Tide were co-authored by Lloyd Osbourne. St. Ives was co-authored by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. The Wakey Wakey Machine was written by Alan MacDonald, with credit given to Robert Louis Stevenson.

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