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William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is best known for timeless works like *Hamlet*, *Romeo and Juliet*, and *Macbeth*. His plays and sonnets have sold billions of copies worldwide and remain the most performed in history. This page provides William Shakespeare’s books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All books · chronological

1590King JohnPOoHP · 1Buy ↗

1590Richard IIPOoHP · 2Buy ↗

1590Henry IV, Part IPOoHP · 3Buy ↗

1590Henry IV, Part 2POoHP · 4Buy ↗

1591Henry VPOoHP · 5Buy ↗

1592Troilus and CressidaPOoTP · 1Buy ↗

1593The TempestPOoCP · 1Buy ↗

1593CoriolanusPOoTP · 2Buy ↗

1594The Two Gentlemen of VeronaPOoCP · 2Buy ↗

1594The Merry Wives of WindsorPOoCP · 3Buy ↗

1594Titus AndronicusPOoTP · 3Buy ↗

1594Measure for MeasurePOoCP · 4Buy ↗

1594The Comedy of ErrorsPOoCP · 5Buy ↗

1595Romeo and JulietPOoTP · 4Buy ↗

1595Much Ado About NothingPOoCP · 6Buy ↗

1595Love's Labour's LostPOoCP · 7Buy ↗

1595A Midsummer Night's DreamPOoCP · 8Buy ↗

1596Timon of AthensPOoTP · 5Buy ↗

1596Henry VI, Part 1POoHP · 6Buy ↗

1597Henry VI, Part 2POoHP · 7Buy ↗

1597Henry VI, Part 3POoHP · 8Buy ↗

1597Richard IIIPOoHP · 9Buy ↗

1597Henry VIIIPOoHP · 10Buy ↗

1598The Merchant of VenicePOoCP · 9Buy ↗

1598Edward IIIPOoHP · 11Buy ↗

1599Julius CaesarPOoTP · 6Buy ↗

1599As You Like ItPOoCP · 10Buy ↗

1599The Taming of the ShrewPOoCP · 11Buy ↗

1600MacbethPOoTP · 7Buy ↗

1603HamletPOoTP · 8Buy ↗

1604All's Well That Ends WellPOoCP · 12Buy ↗

1605King LearPOoTP · 9Buy ↗

1605OthelloPOoTP · 10Buy ↗

1605Twelfth NightPOoCP · 13Buy ↗

1605The Winter's TalePOoCP · 14Buy ↗

1606Antony and CleopatraPOoTP · 11Buy ↗

1606PericlesPOoCP · 15Buy ↗

1610CymbelinePOoTP · 12Buy ↗

1634The Two Noble KinsmenPOoCP · 16Buy ↗

1671Herbert: Poems(By: )POoELPPB · 1Buy ↗

1802Wordsworth: Poems(By: William Wordsworth)POoELPPB · 2Buy ↗

1816Byron: Poems(By: Lord Byron)POoELPPB · 3Buy ↗

1817Keats: Poems(By: John Keats)POoELPPB · 4Buy ↗

1827Blake: Poems(By: William Blake)POoELPPB · 5Buy ↗

1834Coleridge: Poems(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)POoELPPB · 6Buy ↗

1892Tennyson: Poems(By: Alfred Tennyson)POoELPPB · 7Buy ↗

1907Kipling: Poems(By: Rudyard Kipling)POoELPPB · 8Buy ↗

1936Milton: Poems(By: John Milton)POoELPPB · 9Buy ↗

1942Baudelaire: Poems(By: Charles Baudelaire)POoELPPB · 10Buy ↗

1955Eliot: Poems(By: T.S. Eliot)POoELPPB · 11Buy ↗

1958Shakespeare: PoemsPOoELPPB · 12Buy ↗

1977Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman)POoPfYPB · 1Buy ↗

1977Hardy: Poems(By: Thomas Hardy)POoELPPB · 13Buy ↗

1993Shelley: Poems(By: Percy Bysshe Shelley)POoELPPB · 14Buy ↗

1993Rossetti: Poems(By: Christina Rossetti)POoELPPB · 15Buy ↗

1994Robert Frost(By: Robert Frost)POoPfYPB · 2Buy ↗

1994Emily Dickinson(By: Emily Dickinson)POoPfYPB · 3Buy ↗

1995The Prince's ChoicePOoC · 1Buy ↗

1995Edgar Allan Poe(By: Edgar Allan Poe)POoPfYPB · 4Buy ↗

1995Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg)POoPfYPB · 5Buy ↗

1995Donne: Poems(By: John Donne)POoELPPB · 16Buy ↗

1997Browning: Poems(By: Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning)POoELPPB · 17Buy ↗

1997Frost: Poems(By: Robert Frost)POoELPPB · 18Buy ↗

1998The Complete Arkangel ShakespearePOoC · 2Buy ↗

1998Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)POoPfYPB · 6Buy ↗

1999Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)POoPfYPB · 7Buy ↗

2000The Complete Sonnets of William ShakespearePOoC · 3Buy ↗

2000Robert Louis Stevenson(By: Robert Louis Stevenson)POoPfYPB · 8Buy ↗

2000William ShakespearePOoPfYPB · 9Buy ↗

2000Lewis Carroll(By: Lewis Carroll)POoPfYPB · 10Buy ↗

2000Rudyard Kipling(By: Rudyard Kipling)POoPfYPB · 11Buy ↗

2001Edward Lear(By: Edward Lear)POoPfYPB · 12Buy ↗

2002American Poetry(By: John Hollander)POoPfYPB · 13Buy ↗

2002William Butler Yeats(By: W.B. Yeats)POoPfYPB · 14Buy ↗

2003Robert Browning(By: Robert Browning)POoPfYPB · 15Buy ↗

2003Samuel Taylor Coleridge(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)POoPfYPB · 16Buy ↗

2003William Wordsworth(By: William Wordsworth)POoPfYPB · 17Buy ↗

2003Alfred Tennyson(By: Alfred Tennyson)POoPfYPB · 18Buy ↗

2003William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams)POoPfYPB · 19Buy ↗

2004Marvell: Poems(By: )POoELPPB · 19Buy ↗

2004Emerson: Poems(By: Ralph Waldo Emerson)POoELPPB · 20Buy ↗

2004Animal Poems(By: John Hollander)POoPfYPB · 20Buy ↗

2004Wallace Stevens(By: Wallace Stevens)POoPfYPB · 21Buy ↗

2004The Seasons(By: John N. Serio)POoPfYPB · 22Buy ↗

2005The Complete WorksPOoC · 4Buy ↗

2006Burns: Poems(By: Robert Burns)POoELPPB · 21Buy ↗

2006Langston Hughes(By: Langston Hughes)POoPfYPB · 23Buy ↗

2007Mozart: Letters(By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)POoELPPB · 22Buy ↗

2007Robinson: Poems(By: Edwin Arlington Robinson)POoELPPB · 23Buy ↗

2007William Blake(By: William Blake)POoPfYPB · 24Buy ↗

2007Poetry for Young People(By: Maya Angelou)POoPfYPB · 25Buy ↗

2008Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg)POoPfYPB · 26Buy ↗

2010Millay: Poems(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)POoELPPB · 24Buy ↗

2011The Best of Archy and Mehitabel(By: Don Marquis)POoELPPB · 25Buy ↗

2013African American Poetry(By: Karen Barbour)POoPfYPB · 27Buy ↗

2017Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman)POoPfYPB · 28Buy ↗

2018Poetry for KidsPOoC · 5Buy ↗

2019Rumi: Poems(By: Jalaluddin Rumi)POoELPPB · 26Buy ↗

2024Shakespeare's First Folio: All The Plays(With: Emily Sutton)POoC · 6Buy ↗

2024Cold Mountain Poems(By: Hanshan)POoELPPB · 27Buy ↗

Book series · browse all →

Publication Order of Tragedy Plays12 books · 1592–1610

01Troilus and Cressida1592Buy ↗

02Coriolanus1593Buy ↗

03Titus Andronicus1594Buy ↗

04Romeo and Juliet1595Buy ↗

05Timon of Athens1596Buy ↗

06Julius Caesar1599Buy ↗

07Macbeth1600Buy ↗

08Hamlet1603Buy ↗

09King Lear1605Buy ↗

10Othello1605Buy ↗

11Antony and Cleopatra1606Buy ↗

12Cymbeline1610Buy ↗

Publication Order of Poetry for Young People Books28 books · 1977–2017

01Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman)1977Buy ↗

02Robert Frost(By: Robert Frost)1994Buy ↗

03Emily Dickinson(By: Emily Dickinson)1994Buy ↗

04Edgar Allan Poe(By: Edgar Allan Poe)1995Buy ↗

05Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg)1995Buy ↗

06Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)1998Buy ↗

07Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)1999Buy ↗

08Robert Louis Stevenson(By: Robert Louis Stevenson)2000Buy ↗

09William Shakespeare2000Buy ↗

10Lewis Carroll(By: Lewis Carroll)2000Buy ↗

11Rudyard Kipling(By: Rudyard Kipling)2000Buy ↗

12Edward Lear(By: Edward Lear)2001Buy ↗

13American Poetry(By: John Hollander)2002Buy ↗

14William Butler Yeats(By: W.B. Yeats)2002Buy ↗

15Robert Browning(By: Robert Browning)2003Buy ↗

16Samuel Taylor Coleridge(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)2003Buy ↗

17William Wordsworth(By: William Wordsworth)2003Buy ↗

18Alfred Tennyson(By: Alfred Tennyson)2003Buy ↗

19William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams)2003Buy ↗

20Animal Poems(By: John Hollander)2004Buy ↗

21Wallace Stevens(By: Wallace Stevens)2004Buy ↗

22The Seasons(By: John N. Serio)2004Buy ↗

23Langston Hughes(By: Langston Hughes)2006Buy ↗

24William Blake(By: William Blake)2007Buy ↗

25Poetry for Young People(By: Maya Angelou)2007Buy ↗

26Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg)2008Buy ↗

27African American Poetry(By: Karen Barbour)2013Buy ↗

28Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman)2017Buy ↗

Publication Order of Comedy Plays16 books · 1593–1634

01The Tempest1593Buy ↗

02The Two Gentlemen of Verona1594Buy ↗

03The Merry Wives of Windsor1594Buy ↗

04Measure for Measure1594Buy ↗

05The Comedy of Errors1594Buy ↗

06Much Ado About Nothing1595Buy ↗

07Love's Labour's Lost1595Buy ↗

08A Midsummer Night's Dream1595Buy ↗

09The Merchant of Venice1598Buy ↗

10As You Like It1599Buy ↗

11The Taming of the Shrew1599Buy ↗

12All's Well That Ends Well1604Buy ↗

13Twelfth Night1605Buy ↗

14The Winter's Tale1605Buy ↗

15Pericles1606Buy ↗

16The Two Noble Kinsmen1634Buy ↗

Publication Order of Collections6 books · 1995–2024

01The Prince's Choice1995Buy ↗

02The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare1998Buy ↗

03The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare2000Buy ↗

04The Complete Works2005Buy ↗

05Poetry for Kids2018Buy ↗

06Shakespeare's First Folio: All The Plays(With: Emily Sutton)2024Buy ↗

Publication Order of Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Books27 books · 1671–2024

01Herbert: Poems(By: )1671Buy ↗

02Wordsworth: Poems(By: William Wordsworth)1802Buy ↗

03Byron: Poems(By: Lord Byron)1816Buy ↗

04Keats: Poems(By: John Keats)1817Buy ↗

05Blake: Poems(By: William Blake)1827Buy ↗

06Coleridge: Poems(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)1834Buy ↗

07Tennyson: Poems(By: Alfred Tennyson)1892Buy ↗

08Kipling: Poems(By: Rudyard Kipling)1907Buy ↗

09Milton: Poems(By: John Milton)1936Buy ↗

10Baudelaire: Poems(By: Charles Baudelaire)1942Buy ↗

11Eliot: Poems(By: T.S. Eliot)1955Buy ↗

12Shakespeare: Poems1958Buy ↗

13Hardy: Poems(By: Thomas Hardy)1977Buy ↗

14Shelley: Poems(By: Percy Bysshe Shelley)1993Buy ↗

15Rossetti: Poems(By: Christina Rossetti)1993Buy ↗

16Donne: Poems(By: John Donne)1995Buy ↗

17Browning: Poems(By: Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning)1997Buy ↗

18Frost: Poems(By: Robert Frost)1997Buy ↗

19Marvell: Poems(By: )2004Buy ↗

20Emerson: Poems(By: Ralph Waldo Emerson)2004Buy ↗

21Burns: Poems(By: Robert Burns)2006Buy ↗

22Mozart: Letters(By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)2007Buy ↗

23Robinson: Poems(By: Edwin Arlington Robinson)2007Buy ↗

24Millay: Poems(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)2010Buy ↗

25The Best of Archy and Mehitabel(By: Don Marquis)2011Buy ↗

26Rumi: Poems(By: Jalaluddin Rumi)2019Buy ↗

27Cold Mountain Poems(By: Hanshan)2024Buy ↗

Publication Order of History Plays11 books · 1590–1598

01King John1590Buy ↗

02Richard II1590Buy ↗

03Henry IV, Part I1590Buy ↗

04Henry IV, Part 21590Buy ↗

05Henry V1591Buy ↗

06Henry VI, Part 11596Buy ↗

07Henry VI, Part 21597Buy ↗

08Henry VI, Part 31597Buy ↗

09Richard III1597Buy ↗

10Henry VIII1597Buy ↗

11Edward III1598Buy ↗

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