Order of Charles Dickens Books

Charles Dickens, born in 1812 and passing in 1870, was an esteemed English novelist, widely regarded as the preeminent literary figure of the Victorian Era. His most celebrated works include Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities, among numerous others. His writings garnered acclaim for their wit, satire, and keen insights into society. Dickens made his initial foray into literature with the monthly serial The Pickwick Papers, which was published from April 1836 to November 1837. Below is a chronological list of the books authored by Charles Dickens, reflecting their original publication dates.

Charles Dickens became a published novelist in 1836 with the novel Sunday under Three Heads. Below is a list of Charles Dickens's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Pickwick Papers	(1837)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Adventures of Oliver Twist	(1838)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby	(1839)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Barnaby Rudge	(1841)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Master Humphrey's Clock	(1841)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Old Curiosity Shop	(1841)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Christmas Carol	(1843)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit	(1844)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Chimes	(1844)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Cricket on the Hearth	(1845)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Battle of Life	(1846)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dombey and Son	(1848)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain	(1848)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
David Copperfield	(1850)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bleak House	(1853)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hard Times	(1854)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Little Dorrit	(1855)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hanged Man's Bride	(1857)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Tale of Two Cities	(1859)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Great Expectations	(1861)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mrs Lirriper	(1863)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Our Mutual Friend	(1865)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
No Thoroughfare (With: Wilkie Collins)	(1867)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	(1870)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Sunday under Three Heads	(1836)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Black Veil	(1836)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lamplighter	(1838)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Child's Dream of a Star	(1850)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Holly Tree Inn	(1850)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Seven Poor Travellers	(1854)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A House to Let (With: Wilkie Collins,Elizabeth Gaskell,Adelaide Anne Procter)	(1858)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Haunted House	(1859)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Message from the Sea	(1860)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Somebody's Luggage	(1862)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings	(1864)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy	(1864)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Doctor Marigold	(1866)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mugby Junction	(1866)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Magic Fishbone	(1867)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Holiday Romance	(1868)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
George Silverman's Explanation	(1868)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Nick Hern Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Great Expectations	(1861)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off (By: Liz Lochhead)	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Honour (By: Joanna Murray-Smith)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hotel (By: Caryl Churchill)	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Scotland Plays (By: Liz Lochhead,Iain Crichton Smith,Catherine Czerkawska,Philip Howard,Ann Marie Di Mambro,Stephen Greenhorn,David Greig,Linda McLean)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Anna Weiss (By: Mike Cullen)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
My Boy Jack (By: David Haig)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Howie the Rookie (By: Mark O'Rowe)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Passing Places (By: Stephen Greenhorn)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Be My Baby (By: Amanda Whittington)	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love Upon the Throne (By: Patrick Barlow)	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Push Up (By: Roland Schimmelpfennig,Maja Zade)	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
His Dark Materials (By: Philip Pullman,Nicholas Wright)	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
When You Cure Me (By: Jack Thorne)	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Winterling (By: Jez Butterworth)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
5/11 (By: Edward Kemp)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cruising (By: Alecky Blythe)	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (By: Fin Kennedy)	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Iron (By: Rona Munro)	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Never So Good (By: Howard Brenton)	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Happy Now? (By: Lucinda Coxon)	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cherry Blossom (By: Catherine Grosvenor)	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tuesdays at Tesco's (By: Emmanuel Darley,Matthew Hurt,Sarah Vermande)	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
When the Rain Stops Falling (By: Andrew Bovell)	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
So You Want To Go To Drama School? (By: Helen Freeman)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays (By: Fin Kennedy)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sex with a Stranger (By: Stefan Golaszewski)	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Haunting	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Acting Book (By: John Abbott)	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Goodbye to All That (By: Luke Norris)	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Herding Cats (By: Lucinda Coxon)	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chimerica (By: Lucy Kirkwood)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Godchild (By: Deborah Bruce)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (By: Enda Walsh)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cressida (By: Nicholas Wright)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Blood and Ice (By: Liz Lochhead)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Coram Boy (By: Jamila Gavin)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Elephants (By: Rose Heiney)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kiss Me Quickstep (By: Amanda Whittington)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Russian Dolls (By: Kate Lock)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
This is Living (By: Liam Borrett)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr Incredible (By: Camilla Whitehill)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Us/Them (By: Carly Wijs)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Run (By: Stephen Laughton)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Consent (By: Nina Raine)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Again (By: Stephanie Jacob)	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Clink (By: Stephen Jeffreys)	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Night Time (By: Selma Dimitrijevic)	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Family: Three Plays (By: Iain Crichton Smith,Linda McLean,Riccardo Galgani)	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Sketches by Boz	(1836)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mudfog Papers	(1837)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sketches of Young Gentlemen	(1838)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Master Humphrey's Clock, Volume 2	(1841)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sketches of Young Couples	(1843)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
To Be Read at Dusk	(1852)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn	(1858)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reprinted Pieces	(1861)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens	(1866)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Holiday Romance and Other Writings for Children	(1868)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley's Miscellany	(1880)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Select Short Fiction	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Three Ghost Stories	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (With: Shelley Klein)	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hunted Down	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Night Walks and Other Essays	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Christmas Stories	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
American Notes For General Circulation	(1842)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pictures from Italy	(1846)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Child's History of England	(1854)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (With: Wilkie Collins)	(1857)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Uncommercial Traveller	(1869)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories	(1909)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror	(1931)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
World's Great Mystery Stories	(1943)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Echoes Of Terror	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ghost Stories	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Christmas Ghosts	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Great Law and Order Stories	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Thrillers	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Spirits Of Christmas: Twenty Other-Worldly Tales	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Children's Christmas Stories and Poems	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Classic Sea Stories	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Writing New York	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The World's Greatest Horror Stories	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
50 Classic Novellas	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
London Stories	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Round the Christmas Fire	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Phantom Coach	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
That Glimpse of Truth	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chilling Ghost Stories	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best Ghost Short Stories 1850-1899	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Greatest Books of All Time #4	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
50 Halloween Stories You Have to Read Before You Die	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
50 Eternal Masterpieces of Horror Stories	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Writers: Their Lives and Works	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories	(2023)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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