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Kingsley Amis Books in Order

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

Updated 2026-07-11 / 93 books / 7 series

British author Kingsley Amis, best known for the comic novel *Lucky Jim*, won the Booker Prize for *The Old Devils* and was named one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 by *The Times*. This page provides the Kingsley Amis books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Kingsley Amis Books in Chronological Order

1947 Bright November POoSSC / 1 Buy
1953 A Frame of Mind POoSSC / 2 Buy
1954 Lucky Jim POoJDB / 1 Buy
1955 That Uncertain Feeling POoJDB / 2 Buy
1956 A Case of Samples POoSSC / 3 Buy
1958 I Like it Here POoJDB / 3 Buy
1960 Take a Girl Like You POoPSaJBB / 1 Buy
1960 New Maps of Hell POoNB / 1 Buy
1961 Spectrum I(With: Robert Conquest) POoSB / 1 Buy
1962 My Enemy's Enemy POoSN / 1 Buy
1962 Spectrum II(With: Robert Conquest) POoSB / 2 Buy
1963 One Fat Englishman POoSN / 2 Buy
1963 Spectrum III(With: Robert Conquest) POoSB / 3 Buy
1965 The James Bond Dossier POoNB / 2 Buy
1965 Spectrum IV(With: John Wyndham,Cordwainer Smith,Robert Conquest) POoSB / 4 Buy
1966 The Egyptologists(With: Robert Conquest) POoSN / 3 Buy
1966 The Anti-Death League POoSN / 4 Buy
1967 A Look Around the Estate POoSSC / 4 Buy
1968 Colonel Sun POoJBB / 1 Buy
1968 Lucky Jim's Politics. POoJDB / 4 Buy
1968 I Want It Now POoSN / 5 Buy
1969 The Green Man POoSN / 6 Buy
1970 What Became of Jane Austen? POoNB / 3 Buy
1971 Girl, 20 POoSN / 7 Buy
1972 Tennyson POoNB / 4 Buy
1972 On Drink POoNB / 5 Buy
1972 Dear Illusion POoSN / 8 Buy
1973 The Authorized Biography of 007(By: John George Pearson) POoJBB / 2 Buy
1973 The Riverside Villas Murder POoSN / 9 Buy
1974 Ending Up POoSN / 10 Buy
1975 Rudyard Kipling and His World POoNB / 6 Buy
1975 The Crime of the Century POoSN / 11 Buy
1976 The Alteration POoSN / 12 Buy
1977 Harold's Years POoNB / 7 Buy
1978 The Darkwater Hall Mystery POoSN / 13 Buy
1978 Jake's Thing POoSN / 14 Buy
1979 Collected Poems, 1944-1979 POoSSC / 5 Buy
1979 An Arts Policy? POoNB / 8 Buy
1980 Collected Short Stories POoSSC / 6 Buy
1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek POoSN / 15 Buy
1981 License Renewed(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 3 Buy
1982 For Special Services(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 4 Buy
1983 Icebreaker(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 5 Buy
1983 Everyday Drinking POoNB / 9 Buy
1984 Role of Honor(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 6 Buy
1984 How's Your Glass? POoNB / 10 Buy
1984 Stanley and the Women POoSN / 16 Buy
1986 Nobody Lives Forever(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 7 Buy
1986 The Great British Songbook POoNB / 11 Buy
1986 The Old Devils POoSN / 17 Buy
1987 No Deals, Mr. Bond(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 8 Buy
1988 Difficulties with Girls POoPSaJBB / 2 Buy
1988 Scorpius(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 9 Buy
1989 Licence to Kill(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 10 Buy
1989 Win, Lose or Die(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 11 Buy
1990 The Pleasure of Poetry POoSSC / 7 Buy
1990 The Amis Collection POoNB / 12 Buy
1990 Brokenclaw(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 12 Buy
1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill POoSN / 18 Buy
1991 Memoirs POoNB / 13 Buy
1991 The Man from Barbarossa(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 13 Buy
1991 Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters POoNB / 14 Buy
1991 We Are All Guilty POoSN / 19 Buy
1992 Death Is Forever(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 14 Buy
1992 The Russian Girl POoSN / 20 Buy
1993 Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories POoSSC / 8 Buy
1993 Never Send Flowers(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 15 Buy
1994 You Can't Do Both POoNB / 15 Buy
1994 SeaFire(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 16 Buy
1995 GoldenEye(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 17 Buy
1995 The Biographer's Moustache POoSN / 21 Buy
1996 The King's English POoNB / 16 Buy
1996 Cold Fall(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 18 Buy
1997 Zero Minus Ten(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 19 Buy
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 20 Buy
1998 The Facts of Death(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 21 Buy
1999 Midsummer Nights Doom(By: John Gardner) POoJBB / 22 Buy
1999 The World is Not Enough(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 23 Buy
1999 High Time to Kill(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 24 Buy
2000 The Letters of Kingsley Amis POoNB / 17 Buy
2000 Doubleshot(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 25 Buy
2001 Never Dream of Dying(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 26 Buy
2002 The Man With the Red Tattoo(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 27 Buy
2002 Die Another Day(By: Raymond Benson) POoJBB / 28 Buy
2008 Devil May Care(By: Sebastian Faulks) POoJBB / 29 Buy
2009 Conversations with Kingsley Amis POoNB / 18 Buy
2011 Complete Stories POoSSC / 9 Buy
2011 Carte Blanche(By: Jeffery Deaver) POoJBB / 30 Buy
2013 Solo(By: William Boyd) POoJBB / 31 Buy
2015 Trigger Mortis(By: Anthony Horowitz) POoJBB / 32 Buy
2018 Forever and a Day(By: Anthony Horowitz) POoJBB / 33 Buy
2019 Raising a Smile POoNB / 19 Buy
2022 With a Mind to Kill(By: Anthony Horowitz) POoJBB / 34 Buy

Kingsley Amis Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

Standalone Books in Reading Order 21 books / 1962-1995
01 My Enemy's Enemy 1962 Buy
02 One Fat Englishman 1963 Buy
03 The Egyptologists(With: Robert Conquest) 1966 Buy
04 The Anti-Death League 1966 Buy
05 I Want It Now 1968 Buy
06 The Green Man 1969 Buy
07 Girl, 20 1971 Buy
08 Dear Illusion 1972 Buy
09 The Riverside Villas Murder 1973 Buy
10 Ending Up 1974 Buy
11 The Crime of the Century 1975 Buy
12 The Alteration 1976 Buy
13 The Darkwater Hall Mystery 1978 Buy
14 Jake's Thing 1978 Buy
15 Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980 Buy
16 Stanley and the Women 1984 Buy
17 The Old Devils 1986 Buy
18 The Folks That Live on the Hill 1990 Buy
19 We Are All Guilty 1991 Buy
20 The Russian Girl 1992 Buy
21 The Biographer's Moustache 1995 Buy
Jim Dixon Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1954-1968
01 Lucky Jim 1954 Buy
02 That Uncertain Feeling 1955 Buy
03 I Like it Here 1958 Buy
04 Lucky Jim's Politics. 1968 Buy
01 Bright November 1947 Buy
02 A Frame of Mind 1953 Buy
03 A Case of Samples 1956 Buy
04 A Look Around the Estate 1967 Buy
05 Collected Poems, 1944-1979 1979 Buy
06 Collected Short Stories 1980 Buy
07 The Pleasure of Poetry 1990 Buy
08 Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993 Buy
09 Complete Stories 2011 Buy
Spectrum Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1961-1965
01 Spectrum I(With: Robert Conquest) 1961 Buy
02 Spectrum II(With: Robert Conquest) 1962 Buy
03 Spectrum III(With: Robert Conquest) 1963 Buy
04 Spectrum IV(With: John Wyndham,Cordwainer Smith,Robert Conquest) 1965 Buy
Non-Fiction Books in Reading Order 19 books / 1960-2019
01 New Maps of Hell 1960 Buy
02 The James Bond Dossier 1965 Buy
03 What Became of Jane Austen? 1970 Buy
04 Tennyson 1972 Buy
05 On Drink 1972 Buy
06 Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975 Buy
07 Harold's Years 1977 Buy
08 An Arts Policy? 1979 Buy
09 Everyday Drinking 1983 Buy
10 How's Your Glass? 1984 Buy
11 The Great British Songbook 1986 Buy
12 The Amis Collection 1990 Buy
13 Memoirs 1991 Buy
14 Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters 1991 Buy
15 You Can't Do Both 1994 Buy
16 The King's English 1996 Buy
17 The Letters of Kingsley Amis 2000 Buy
18 Conversations with Kingsley Amis 2009 Buy
19 Raising a Smile 2019 Buy
01 Take a Girl Like You 1960 Buy
02 Difficulties with Girls 1988 Buy
James Bond Books in Reading Order 34 books / 1968-2022
01 Colonel Sun 1968 Buy
02 The Authorized Biography of 007(By: John George Pearson) 1973 Buy
03 License Renewed(By: John Gardner) 1981 Buy
04 For Special Services(By: John Gardner) 1982 Buy
05 Icebreaker(By: John Gardner) 1983 Buy
06 Role of Honor(By: John Gardner) 1984 Buy
07 Nobody Lives Forever(By: John Gardner) 1986 Buy
08 No Deals, Mr. Bond(By: John Gardner) 1987 Buy
09 Scorpius(By: John Gardner) 1988 Buy
10 Licence to Kill(By: John Gardner) 1989 Buy
11 Win, Lose or Die(By: John Gardner) 1989 Buy
12 Brokenclaw(By: John Gardner) 1990 Buy
13 The Man from Barbarossa(By: John Gardner) 1991 Buy
14 Death Is Forever(By: John Gardner) 1992 Buy
15 Never Send Flowers(By: John Gardner) 1993 Buy
16 SeaFire(By: John Gardner) 1994 Buy
17 GoldenEye(By: John Gardner) 1995 Buy
18 Cold Fall(By: John Gardner) 1996 Buy
19 Zero Minus Ten(By: Raymond Benson) 1997 Buy
20 Tomorrow Never Dies(By: Raymond Benson) 1997 Buy
21 The Facts of Death(By: Raymond Benson) 1998 Buy
22 Midsummer Nights Doom(By: John Gardner) 1999 Buy
23 The World is Not Enough(By: Raymond Benson) 1999 Buy
24 High Time to Kill(By: Raymond Benson) 1999 Buy
25 Doubleshot(By: Raymond Benson) 2000 Buy
26 Never Dream of Dying(By: Raymond Benson) 2001 Buy
27 The Man With the Red Tattoo(By: Raymond Benson) 2002 Buy
28 Die Another Day(By: Raymond Benson) 2002 Buy
29 Devil May Care(By: Sebastian Faulks) 2008 Buy
30 Carte Blanche(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2011 Buy
31 Solo(By: William Boyd) 2013 Buy
32 Trigger Mortis(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2015 Buy
33 Forever and a Day(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2018 Buy
34 With a Mind to Kill(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2022 Buy

Where to start with Kingsley Amis

What is the best order to read Kingsley Amis 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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