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Home / Authors / Robertson Davies Robertson Davies Canadian author best known for the Deptford Trilogy and Cornish Trilogy. A novelist, playwright, and critic, Davies was a finalist for the Booker Prize and is celebrated for his wit and psychological depth. This page provides the Robertson Davies books in order, including both chronological and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1951 Tempest-Tost POoTSTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1954 Leaven of Malice POoTSTB · 2 Buy ↗ 1958 A Mixture of Frailties POoTSTB · 3 Buy ↗ 1960 A Voice from the Attic POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 1963 A Masque of Mr. Punch POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1970 Fifth Business POoTDTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1970 Stephen Leacock POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1972 The Manticore POoTDTB · 2 Buy ↗ 1975 World of Wonders POoTDTB · 3 Buy ↗ 1978 One Half of Robertson Davies POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 1979 The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies POoC · 1 Buy ↗ 1981 The Rebel Angels POoTCTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1981 The Well-Tempered Critic POoNB · 3 Buy ↗ 1982 High Spirits POoC · 2 Buy ↗ 1983 The Mirror of Nature POoNB · 4 Buy ↗ 1985 What's Bred in the Bone POoTCTB · 2 Buy ↗ 1985 The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks POoNB · 5 Buy ↗ 1988 The Lyre of Orpheus POoTCTB · 3 Buy ↗ 1991 Murther and Walking Spirits POoTTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1991 At My Heart's CoreOverlaid POoC · 3 Buy ↗ 1993 Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast POoC · 4 Buy ↗ 1994 The Cunning Man POoTTB · 2 Buy ↗ 1994 Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People POoC · 5 Buy ↗ 1995 A Gathering of Ghost Stories POoC · 6 Buy ↗ 1996 The Merry Heart POoNB · 6 Buy ↗ 1999 For Your Eye Alone POoNB · 7 Buy ↗ 1999 Happy Alchemy POoNB · 8 Buy ↗ 2002 Robertson Davies Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975 POoNB · 9 Buy ↗ 2008 Modern Classics Selected Works On the Art of Writing POoC · 7 Buy ↗ 2008 Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading POoC · 8 Buy ↗ 2015 A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist POoC · 9 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of Collections 9 books · 1979–2015
01 The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies 1979 Buy ↗ 03 At My Heart's CoreOverlaid 1991 Buy ↗ 04 Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast 1993 Buy ↗ 05 Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People 1994 Buy ↗ 06 A Gathering of Ghost Stories 1995 Buy ↗ 07 Modern Classics Selected Works On the Art of Writing 2008 Buy ↗ 08 Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading 2008 Buy ↗ 09 A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist 2015 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Toronto Trilogy Books 2 books · 1991–1994
01 Murther and Walking Spirits 1991 Buy ↗ 02 The Cunning Man 1994 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Standalone Novels 2 books · 1963–1970
01 A Masque of Mr. Punch 1963 Buy ↗ 02 Stephen Leacock 1970 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The Deptford Trilogy Books 3 books · 1970–1975
01 Fifth Business 1970 Buy ↗ 03 World of Wonders 1975 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The Cornish Trilogy Books 3 books · 1981–1988
01 The Rebel Angels 1981 Buy ↗ 02 What's Bred in the Bone 1985 Buy ↗ 03 The Lyre of Orpheus 1988 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 9 books · 1960–2002
01 A Voice from the Attic 1960 Buy ↗ 02 One Half of Robertson Davies 1978 Buy ↗ 03 The Well-Tempered Critic 1981 Buy ↗ 04 The Mirror of Nature 1983 Buy ↗ 05 The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks 1985 Buy ↗ 06 The Merry Heart 1996 Buy ↗ 07 For Your Eye Alone 1999 Buy ↗ 09 Robertson Davies Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975 2002 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The Salterton Trilogy Books 3 books · 1951–1958
02 Leaven of Malice 1954 Buy ↗ 03 A Mixture of Frailties 1958 Buy ↗