Order of Kingsley Amis Books

Kingsley Amis was a prolific author, poet, and critic, recognized as one of the greatest comic novelists of the twentieth century. The Times ranked him ninth in their list of the 50 Greatest British Writers since 1945. Amis attended the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford, but his studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals. He is best known for his debut novel, Lucky Jim, featuring the iconic anti-hero Jim Dixon. Amis passed away in October 1995 at the age of 73.

Kingsley Amis became a published novelist in 1921 with the novel The Faber Popular Reciter. Below is a list of Kingsley Amis's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Jim Dixon Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Lucky Jim	(1954)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
That Uncertain Feeling	(1955)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
I Like it Here	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Lucky Jim's Politics.	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Take a Girl Like You	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Difficulties with Girls	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of Spectrum Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Spectrum I (With: Robert Conquest)	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Spectrum II (With: Robert Conquest)	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Spectrum III (With: Robert Conquest)	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Spectrum IV (With: John Wyndham,Cordwainer Smith,Robert Conquest)	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of James Bond Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Colonel Sun	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
My Enemy's Enemy	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
One Fat Englishman	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Egyptologists	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Anti-Death League	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
I Want It Now	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Green Man	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Girl, 20	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Dear Illusion	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Riverside Villas Murder	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Ending Up	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Crime of the Century	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Alteration	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Darkwater Hall Mystery	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Jake's Thing	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Russian Hide-and-Seek	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Stanley and the Women	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Old Devils	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Folks That Live on the Hill	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
We Are All Guilty	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Russian Girl	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Biographer's Moustache	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Bright November	(1947)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
A Frame of Mind	(1953)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
A Case of Samples	(1956)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
A Look Around the Estate	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Collected Poems, 1944-1979	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Collected Short Stories	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Pleasure of Poetry	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Complete Stories	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
New Maps of Hell	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The James Bond Dossier	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
What Became of Jane Austen?	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Tennyson	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
On Drink	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Rudyard Kipling and His World	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Harold's Years	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
An Arts Policy?	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Everyday Drinking	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
How's Your Glass?	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Great British Songbook	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Amis Collection	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Memoirs	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
You Can't Do Both	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The King's English	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Letters of Kingsley Amis	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Conversations with Kingsley Amis	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Raising a Smile	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Faber Popular Reciter	(1921)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Writing in America	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Five-Odd / Possible Tomorrows	(1964)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Spectrum IV	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Best of British SF 2	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The New Oxford Book of Light Verse	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Right Turn: Eight Men Who Changed Their Minds	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
Best for Winter	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Golden Age of Science Fiction	(1981)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Amis Anthology	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Amis Story Anthology	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available
The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Not available

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