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Graham Greene Books in Order

Find every Graham Greene book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 123 books / 8 series

British author best known for his literary thrillers and Catholic themes, including *The Quiet American* and *Brighton Rock*. A Nobel Prize nominee, his works have sold tens of millions worldwide. This page provides the Graham Greene books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Graham Greene Books in Chronological Order

1925 Babbling April POoSSC / 1 Buy
1929 The Man Within POoSN / 1 Buy
1930 The Name of Action POoSN / 2 Buy
1931 Rumour at Nightfall POoSN / 3 Buy
1932 Orient Express / Stamboul Train POoSN / 4 Buy
1934 It's a Battlefield POoSN / 5 Buy
1935 The Bear Fell Free POoSS / 1 Buy
1935 England Made Me / The Shipwrecked POoSN / 6 Buy
1936 Journey Without Maps POoNB / 1 Buy
1936 A Chance For Mr Lever POoSS / 2 Buy
1936 A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire POoSN / 7 Buy
1938 Brighton Rock POoSN / 8 Buy
1939 The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico POoNB / 2 Buy
1939 The Confidential Agent POoSN / 9 Buy
1940 The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways POoSN / 10 Buy
1942 British Dramatists POoNB / 3 Buy
1943 The Ministry of Fear POoSN / 11 Buy
1946 The Little Train POoPB / 1 Buy
1947 Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories POoSSC / 2 Buy
1948 The Heart of the Matter POoSN / 12 Buy
1949 The Third Man POoSN / 13 Buy
1950 The Little Fire Engine POoPB / 2 Buy
1950 A Sense of Reality POoSS / 3 Buy
1951 The Lost Childhood and Other Essays POoNB / 4 Buy
1951 The End of the Affair POoSN / 14 Buy
1952 Three Entertainments POoSP / 1 Buy
1952 The Little Horse Bus POoPB / 3 Buy
1954 The Living Room POoSP / 2 Buy
1954 Twenty-One Stories POoSSC / 3 Buy
1955 The Destructors POoSS / 4 Buy
1955 The Little Steamroller POoPB / 4 Buy
1955 The Quiet American POoSN / 15 Buy
1955 Loser Takes All POoSN / 16 Buy
1957 The Potting Shed POoSP / 3 Buy
1958 Our Man in Havana POoSN / 17 Buy
1960 A Burnt-Out Case POoSN / 18 Buy
1961 The Complaisant Lover POoSS / 5 Buy
1961 In Search of a Character POoNB / 5 Buy
1961 In Search of a Character: Two African Journals POoNB / 6 Buy
1963 Under the Garden POoSS / 6 Buy
1964 Carving a Statue POoSP / 4 Buy
1966 The Comedians POoSN / 19 Buy
1967 May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life POoSSC / 4 Buy
1969 Travels with My Aunt POoVVB / 1 Buy
1969 Collected Essays POoNB / 7 Buy
1971 A Sort of Life POoNB / 8 Buy
1971 Triple Pursuit! POoSN / 20 Buy
1972 Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 POoNB / 9 Buy
1973 Collected Stories POoSSC / 5 Buy
1973 The Portable Graham Greene POoSSC / 6 Buy
1973 The Honorary Consul POoSN / 21 Buy
1974 Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester POoNB / 10 Buy
1975 The Return of A. J. Raffles POoSP / 5 Buy
1975 Shades of Greene POoSSC / 7 Buy
1975 Why Do I Write?(With: Elizabeth Bowen,V.S. Pritchett) POoNB / 11 Buy
1977 In Patagonia(By: Bruce Chatwin) POoVVB / 2 Buy
1977 Third Man POoSN / 22 Buy
1978 The Human Factor POoSN / 23 Buy
1980 Ways of Escape POoNB / 12 Buy
1980 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party POoSN / 24 Buy
1981 The Great Jowett POoSS / 7 Buy
1982 Across the Bridge and Other Stories POoSSC / 8 Buy
1982 J'Accuse POoSS / 8 Buy
1982 Monsignor Quixote POoSN / 25 Buy
1983 The Other Man POoNB / 13 Buy
1984 Getting to Know the General POoSN / 26 Buy
1984 Victorian Villainies POoSN / 27 Buy
1985 The Collected Plays POoSSC / 9 Buy
1985 The Tenth Man POoSN / 28 Buy
1988 The Captain and the Enemy POoSN / 29 Buy
1990 Complete Short Stories POoSSC / 10 Buy
1990 The Last Word and Other Stories POoSSC / 11 Buy
1990 Reflections POoNB / 14 Buy
1991 Fragments of Autobiography POoNB / 15 Buy
1991 Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 POoNB / 16 Buy
1992 A World of My Own: A Dream Diary POoNB / 17 Buy
2004 No Man's Land POoSS / 9 Buy
2005 Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) POoTLIB / 1 Buy
2006 Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene POoNB / 18 Buy
2007 Shadow of the Silk Road(By: Colin Thubron) POoVVB / 3 Buy
2007 A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers(By: Xiaolu Guo) POoVVB / 4 Buy
2007 Blood River(By: Tim Butcher) POoVVB / 5 Buy
2009 Roberto Bola’o(By: Roberto Bola’o) POoTLIB / 2 Buy
2011 Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) POoTLIB / 3 Buy
2011 The Third Man and Other Stories POoSSC / 12 Buy
2012 Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) POoTLIB / 4 Buy
2013 Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) POoTLIB / 5 Buy
2014 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) POoTLIB / 6 Buy
2014 James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) POoTLIB / 7 Buy
2014 Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) POoTLIB / 8 Buy
2015 Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez(By: Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez) POoTLIB / 9 Buy
2015 Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) POoTLIB / 10 Buy
2015 Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) POoTLIB / 11 Buy
2015 Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) POoTLIB / 12 Buy
2015 Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) POoTLIB / 13 Buy
2016 J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) POoTLIB / 14 Buy
2016 Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) POoTLIB / 15 Buy
2016 Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) POoTLIB / 16 Buy
2016 David Bowie(By: David Bowie) POoTLIB / 17 Buy
2017 Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) POoTLIB / 18 Buy
2017 Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) POoTLIB / 19 Buy
2018 Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) POoTLIB / 20 Buy
2018 Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) POoTLIB / 21 Buy
2018 Julia Child(By: Julia Child) POoTLIB / 22 Buy
2019 Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) POoTLIB / 23 Buy
2019 Prince(By: Prince) POoTLIB / 24 Buy
2019 Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) POoTLIB / 25 Buy
2019 Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) POoTLIB / 26 Buy
2019 Graham Greene POoTLIB / 27 Buy
2020 Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) POoTLIB / 28 Buy
2020 Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) POoTLIB / 29 Buy
2020 Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) POoTLIB / 30 Buy
2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 31 Buy
2021 Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) POoTLIB / 32 Buy
2021 The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) POoTLIB / 33 Buy
2021 Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) POoTLIB / 34 Buy
2021 Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) POoTLIB / 35 Buy
2021 John Lewis(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 36 Buy
2022 Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 37 Buy
2022 Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 38 Buy
2022 Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 39 Buy
2023 Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) POoTLIB / 40 Buy
2023 Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 41 Buy

Graham Greene Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Babbling April 1925 Buy
02 Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories 1947 Buy
03 Twenty-One Stories 1954 Buy
04 May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life 1967 Buy
05 Collected Stories 1973 Buy
06 The Portable Graham Greene 1973 Buy
07 Shades of Greene 1975 Buy
08 Across the Bridge and Other Stories 1982 Buy
09 The Collected Plays 1985 Buy
10 Complete Short Stories 1990 Buy
11 The Last Word and Other Stories 1990 Buy
12 The Third Man and Other Stories 2011 Buy
Picture Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1946-1955
01 The Little Train 1946 Buy
02 The Little Fire Engine 1950 Buy
03 The Little Horse Bus 1952 Buy
04 The Little Steamroller 1955 Buy
01 Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) 2005 Buy
02 Roberto Bola’o(By: Roberto Bola’o) 2009 Buy
03 Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011 Buy
04 Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012 Buy
05 Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013 Buy
06 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014 Buy
07 James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014 Buy
08 Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014 Buy
09 Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez(By: Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez) 2015 Buy
10 Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015 Buy
11 Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015 Buy
12 Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015 Buy
13 Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) 2015 Buy
14 J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016 Buy
15 Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016 Buy
16 Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016 Buy
17 David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016 Buy
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017 Buy
19 Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017 Buy
20 Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018 Buy
21 Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018 Buy
22 Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018 Buy
23 Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019 Buy
24 Prince(By: Prince) 2019 Buy
25 Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019 Buy
26 Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019 Buy
27 Graham Greene 2019 Buy
28 Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) 2020 Buy
29 Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020 Buy
30 Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020 Buy
31 Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020 Buy
32 Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021 Buy
33 The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021 Buy
34 Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021 Buy
35 Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021 Buy
36 John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021 Buy
37 Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022 Buy
38 Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022 Buy
39 Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022 Buy
40 Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023 Buy
41 Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023 Buy
01 Three Entertainments 1952 Buy
02 The Living Room 1954 Buy
03 The Potting Shed 1957 Buy
04 Carving a Statue 1964 Buy
05 The Return of A. J. Raffles 1975 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 29 books / 1929-1988
01 The Man Within 1929 Buy
02 The Name of Action 1930 Buy
03 Rumour at Nightfall 1931 Buy
04 Orient Express / Stamboul Train 1932 Buy
05 It's a Battlefield 1934 Buy
06 England Made Me / The Shipwrecked 1935 Buy
07 A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire 1936 Buy
08 Brighton Rock 1938 Buy
09 The Confidential Agent 1939 Buy
10 The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways 1940 Buy
11 The Ministry of Fear 1943 Buy
12 The Heart of the Matter 1948 Buy
13 The Third Man 1949 Buy
14 The End of the Affair 1951 Buy
15 The Quiet American 1955 Buy
16 Loser Takes All 1955 Buy
17 Our Man in Havana 1958 Buy
18 A Burnt-Out Case 1960 Buy
19 The Comedians 1966 Buy
20 Triple Pursuit! 1971 Buy
21 The Honorary Consul 1973 Buy
22 Third Man 1977 Buy
23 The Human Factor 1978 Buy
24 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party 1980 Buy
25 Monsignor Quixote 1982 Buy
26 Getting to Know the General 1984 Buy
27 Victorian Villainies 1984 Buy
28 The Tenth Man 1985 Buy
29 The Captain and the Enemy 1988 Buy
Non-Fiction Books in Reading Order 18 books / 1936-2006
01 Journey Without Maps 1936 Buy
02 The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico 1939 Buy
03 British Dramatists 1942 Buy
04 The Lost Childhood and Other Essays 1951 Buy
05 In Search of a Character 1961 Buy
06 In Search of a Character: Two African Journals 1961 Buy
07 Collected Essays 1969 Buy
08 A Sort of Life 1971 Buy
09 Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 1972 Buy
10 Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester 1974 Buy
11 Why Do I Write?(With: Elizabeth Bowen,V.S. Pritchett) 1975 Buy
12 Ways of Escape 1980 Buy
13 The Other Man 1983 Buy
14 Reflections 1990 Buy
15 Fragments of Autobiography 1991 Buy
16 Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 1991 Buy
17 A World of My Own: A Dream Diary 1992 Buy
18 Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene 2006 Buy
01 The Bear Fell Free 1935 Buy
02 A Chance For Mr Lever 1936 Buy
03 A Sense of Reality 1950 Buy
04 The Destructors 1955 Buy
05 The Complaisant Lover 1961 Buy
06 Under the Garden 1963 Buy
07 The Great Jowett 1981 Buy
08 J'Accuse 1982 Buy
09 No Man's Land 2004 Buy
01 Travels with My Aunt 1969 Buy
02 In Patagonia(By: Bruce Chatwin) 1977 Buy
03 Shadow of the Silk Road(By: Colin Thubron) 2007 Buy
04 A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers(By: Xiaolu Guo) 2007 Buy
05 Blood River(By: Tim Butcher) 2007 Buy

Where to start with Graham Greene

What is the best order to read Graham Greene books?

Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

Are standalone books and series both included?

Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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