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Graham Greene

Graham Greene (1904-1991) was an English writer known for his literary fiction and thrillers, as well as non-fiction, short stories, poetry, plays, and screenplays. His works delved into the complex moral and political dilemmas of his time. Although his writing often featured Catholic themes, Greene resisted the label of “Catholic novelist.” In his later years, he resided in Switzerland, in the same town as his close friend Charlie Chaplin. Greene's literary career began in 1925 with the publication of his poetry collection, Babbling April, followed by his first novel, The Man Within, in 1929. His last novel, The Captain and the Enemy, was released in 1988. Below is a chronological list of Graham Greene’s published works.

Graham Greene became a published novelist in 1925 with the novel Babbling April. Below is a list of Graham Greene's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Man Within (1929) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Name of Action (1930) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rumour at Nightfall (1931) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Orient Express / Stamboul Train (1932) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
It's a Battlefield (1934) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
England Made Me / The Shipwrecked (1935) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire (1936) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brighton Rock (1938) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Confidential Agent (1939) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways (1940) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ministry of Fear (1943) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Heart of the Matter (1948) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Third Man (1949) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The End of the Affair (1951) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Quiet American (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Loser Takes All (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Our Man in Havana (1958) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Burnt-Out Case (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Comedians (1966) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Triple Pursuit! (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Honorary Consul (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Third Man (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Human Factor (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Monsignor Quixote (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Getting to Know the General (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Victorian Villainies (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Tenth Man (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Captain and the Enemy (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Bear Fell Free (1935) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Chance For Mr Lever (1936) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Sense of Reality (1950) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Destructors (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complaisant Lover (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Under the Garden (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Great Jowett (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
J'Accuse (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
No Man's Land (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Babbling April (1925) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories (1947) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Twenty-One Stories (1954) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Collected Stories (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Portable Graham Greene (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shades of Greene (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Across the Bridge and Other Stories (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collected Plays (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Complete Short Stories (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Last Word and Other Stories (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Third Man and Other Stories (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Plays Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Three Entertainments (1952) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Living Room (1954) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Potting Shed (1957) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Carving a Statue (1964) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Little Train (1946) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Little Fire Engine (1950) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Little Horse Bus (1952) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Little Steamroller (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Little Fire Engine (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Journey Without Maps (1936) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico (1939) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
British Dramatists (1942) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In Search of a Character (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Collected Essays (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Sort of Life (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Why Do I Write? (With: Elizabeth Bowen,V.S. Pritchett) (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ways of Escape (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Other Man (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reflections (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fragments of Autobiography (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Vintage Voyages Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Travels with My Aunt (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In Patagonia (By: Bruce Chatwin) (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shadow of the Silk Road (By: Colin Thubron) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (By: Xiaolu Guo) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Blood River (By: Tim Butcher) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The Last Interview Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Graham Greene (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Contemporary British Short Stories I (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Old School (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Child's Ploy (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Friendship (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Killing Spirit (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Crime Never Pays (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
London Stories (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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