Order of G.K. Chesterton Books

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1885-1936) was an English writer renowned for his works in mystery, fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction. He is most famous for creating the character of Father Brown, a detective-priest. Chesterton is also recognized for his Christian and Catholic apologetics. Although he was born into the Church of England, he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 48. He passed away at home due to congestive heart failure at the age of 62. Chesterton's literary career began with the poetry collection Greybeards at Play, followed by his first novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, published in 1904. Below is a chronological list of G.K. Chesterton’s published works.

G.K. Chesterton became a published novelist in 1901 with the novel The Defendant. Below is a list of G.K. Chesterton's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 01	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 02	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 04	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 05	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 15	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 11	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 31	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 21	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 03	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 06	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 14	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Collected Works Volume 10	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 08	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 20	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 07	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 10	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Great Tales of Action and Adventure	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Amis Story Anthology	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Thrillers	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Steampunk Megapack	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Red Sky	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays	(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
Finding the Kingdom: Discover a Faith that is Costly, Rich, Alive & True	(2023)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Father Brown Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Innocence of Father Brown	(1911)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wisdom of Father Brown	(1914)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Incredulity of Father Brown	(1923)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Secret of Father Brown	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Scandal of Father Brown	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Father Brown Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Father Brown Stories	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Favorite Father Brown Stories	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Father Brown: The Complete Collection	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best of Father Brown	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Puffin Father Brown Stories	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Father Brown: A Selection	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Father Brown of the Church of Rome	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Napoleon of Notting Hill	(1904)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Man Who Was Thursday	(1908)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ball and the Cross	(1909)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Manalive	(1912)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Flying Inn	(1914)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Return of Don Quixote	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Basil Howe: A Story of Young Love	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Club of Queer Trades	(1905)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Blue Cross	(1910)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Invisible Man	(1911)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Queer Feet	(1911)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Trees of Pride	(1922)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Oracle of the Dog	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wrong Shape	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sins of Prince Saradine	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Honour of Israel Gow	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Flying Stars	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Eye of Apollo	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Three Tools of Death	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Absence of Mr. Glass	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Secret Garden	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hammer of God	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Plays Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Judgement of Dr. Johnson	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Surprise	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Heretics	(1905)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ballad of the White Horse	(1911)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wild Knight and Other Poems	(1914)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wine, Water, and Song	(1915)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Man Who Knew Too Much	(1922)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses	(1922)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Poet and the Lunatics	(1929)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Paradoxes of Mr Pond	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stories, Essays and Poems	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Coloured Lands	(1938)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Spirit of Christmas	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Collected Nonsense and Light Verse	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Seven Suspects	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wild Knight	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tales of the Long Bow	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Greybeards at Play	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The G.K. Chesterton Calendar	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Poems	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
G.K. Chesterton - Four Faultless Felons	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Queen of Seven Swords	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Man Who Was Chesterton	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Shop of Ghosts (With: Tony Ross)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Chesterton's Biographies Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Robert Louis Stevenson	(1902)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Thomas Carlyle	(1902)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tennyson	(1903)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Thackeray	(1903)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
G.F. Watts	(1904)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Charles Dickens	(1906)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
William Blake	(1909)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Saint Francis of Assisi	(1923)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
St. Thomas Aquinas	(1933)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
George Bernard Shaw	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
William Cobbett	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chaucer	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Leo Tolstoy	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Robert Browning	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Defendant	(1901)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Orthodoxy	(1908)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
On Tremendous Trifles	(1909)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Crimes of England	(1915)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Short History of England	(1917)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What I Saw in America	(1922)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Eugenics and Other Evils (With: Michael W. Perry)	(1922)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Everlasting Man	(1925)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The New Jerusalem	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Kitchener	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What's Wrong with the World	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alarms and Discursions	(2023)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Poetry Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Lepanto (With: JSB Morse)	(1911)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of E.C. Bentley Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Biography for Beginners (With: E.C. Bentley)	(1905)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
More Biography (By: E.C. Bentley)	(1929)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Baseless Biography (By: E.C. Bentley)	(1939)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley (With: E.C. Bentley,Nicolas Bentley,Victor Reinganum,Gavin Ewart)	(1951)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
First Clerihews (By: E.C. Bentley)	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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