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William Shakespeare Complete Bibliography

Browse books by William Shakespeare in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 100 books / 6 series

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.

Books by William Shakespeare in Publication Order

1590 King John POoHP / 1 Buy
1590 Richard II POoHP / 2 Buy
1590 Henry IV, Part I POoHP / 3 Buy
1590 Henry IV, Part 2 POoHP / 4 Buy
1591 Henry V POoHP / 5 Buy
1592 Troilus and Cressida POoTP / 1 Buy
1593 The Tempest POoCP / 1 Buy
1593 Coriolanus POoTP / 2 Buy
1594 The Two Gentlemen of Verona POoCP / 2 Buy
1594 The Merry Wives of Windsor POoCP / 3 Buy
1594 Titus Andronicus POoTP / 3 Buy
1594 Measure for Measure POoCP / 4 Buy
1594 The Comedy of Errors POoCP / 5 Buy
1595 Romeo and Juliet POoTP / 4 Buy
1595 Much Ado About Nothing POoCP / 6 Buy
1595 Love's Labour's Lost POoCP / 7 Buy
1595 A Midsummer Night's Dream POoCP / 8 Buy
1596 Timon of Athens POoTP / 5 Buy
1596 Henry VI, Part 1 POoHP / 6 Buy
1597 Henry VI, Part 2 POoHP / 7 Buy
1597 Henry VI, Part 3 POoHP / 8 Buy
1597 Richard III POoHP / 9 Buy
1597 Henry VIII POoHP / 10 Buy
1598 The Merchant of Venice POoCP / 9 Buy
1598 Edward III POoHP / 11 Buy
1599 Julius Caesar POoTP / 6 Buy
1599 As You Like It POoCP / 10 Buy
1599 The Taming of the Shrew POoCP / 11 Buy
1600 Macbeth POoTP / 7 Buy
1603 Hamlet POoTP / 8 Buy
1604 All's Well That Ends Well POoCP / 12 Buy
1605 King Lear POoTP / 9 Buy
1605 Othello POoTP / 10 Buy
1605 Twelfth Night POoCP / 13 Buy
1605 The Winter's Tale POoCP / 14 Buy
1606 Antony and Cleopatra POoTP / 11 Buy
1606 Pericles POoCP / 15 Buy
1610 Cymbeline POoTP / 12 Buy
1634 The Two Noble Kinsmen POoCP / 16 Buy
1671 Herbert: Poems(By: ) POoELPPB / 1 Buy
1802 Wordsworth: Poems(By: William Wordsworth) POoELPPB / 2 Buy
1816 Byron: Poems(By: Lord Byron) POoELPPB / 3 Buy
1817 Keats: Poems(By: John Keats) POoELPPB / 4 Buy
1827 Blake: Poems(By: William Blake) POoELPPB / 5 Buy
1834 Coleridge: Poems(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) POoELPPB / 6 Buy
1892 Tennyson: Poems(By: Alfred Tennyson) POoELPPB / 7 Buy
1907 Kipling: Poems(By: Rudyard Kipling) POoELPPB / 8 Buy
1936 Milton: Poems(By: John Milton) POoELPPB / 9 Buy
1942 Baudelaire: Poems(By: Charles Baudelaire) POoELPPB / 10 Buy
1955 Eliot: Poems(By: T.S. Eliot) POoELPPB / 11 Buy
1958 Shakespeare: Poems POoELPPB / 12 Buy
1977 Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman) POoPfYPB / 1 Buy
1977 Hardy: Poems(By: Thomas Hardy) POoELPPB / 13 Buy
1993 Shelley: Poems(By: Percy Bysshe Shelley) POoELPPB / 14 Buy
1993 Rossetti: Poems(By: Christina Rossetti) POoELPPB / 15 Buy
1994 Robert Frost(By: Robert Frost) POoPfYPB / 2 Buy
1994 Emily Dickinson(By: Emily Dickinson) POoPfYPB / 3 Buy
1995 The Prince's Choice POoC / 1 Buy
1995 Edgar Allan Poe(By: Edgar Allan Poe) POoPfYPB / 4 Buy
1995 Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg) POoPfYPB / 5 Buy
1995 Donne: Poems(By: John Donne) POoELPPB / 16 Buy
1997 Browning: Poems(By: Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning) POoELPPB / 17 Buy
1997 Frost: Poems(By: Robert Frost) POoELPPB / 18 Buy
1998 The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare POoC / 2 Buy
1998 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) POoPfYPB / 6 Buy
1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay) POoPfYPB / 7 Buy
2000 The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare POoC / 3 Buy
2000 Robert Louis Stevenson(By: Robert Louis Stevenson) POoPfYPB / 8 Buy
2000 William Shakespeare POoPfYPB / 9 Buy
2000 Lewis Carroll(By: Lewis Carroll) POoPfYPB / 10 Buy
2000 Rudyard Kipling(By: Rudyard Kipling) POoPfYPB / 11 Buy
2001 Edward Lear(By: Edward Lear) POoPfYPB / 12 Buy
2002 American Poetry(By: John Hollander) POoPfYPB / 13 Buy
2002 William Butler Yeats(By: W.B. Yeats) POoPfYPB / 14 Buy
2003 Robert Browning(By: Robert Browning) POoPfYPB / 15 Buy
2003 Samuel Taylor Coleridge(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) POoPfYPB / 16 Buy
2003 William Wordsworth(By: William Wordsworth) POoPfYPB / 17 Buy
2003 Alfred Tennyson(By: Alfred Tennyson) POoPfYPB / 18 Buy
2003 William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams) POoPfYPB / 19 Buy
2004 Marvell: Poems(By: ) POoELPPB / 19 Buy
2004 Emerson: Poems(By: Ralph Waldo Emerson) POoELPPB / 20 Buy
2004 Animal Poems(By: John Hollander) POoPfYPB / 20 Buy
2004 Wallace Stevens(By: Wallace Stevens) POoPfYPB / 21 Buy
2004 The Seasons(By: John N. Serio) POoPfYPB / 22 Buy
2005 The Complete Works POoC / 4 Buy
2006 Burns: Poems(By: Robert Burns) POoELPPB / 21 Buy
2006 Langston Hughes(By: Langston Hughes) POoPfYPB / 23 Buy
2007 Mozart: Letters(By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) POoELPPB / 22 Buy
2007 Robinson: Poems(By: Edwin Arlington Robinson) POoELPPB / 23 Buy
2007 William Blake(By: William Blake) POoPfYPB / 24 Buy
2007 Poetry for Young People(By: Maya Angelou) POoPfYPB / 25 Buy
2008 Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg) POoPfYPB / 26 Buy
2010 Millay: Poems(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay) POoELPPB / 24 Buy
2011 The Best of Archy and Mehitabel(By: Don Marquis) POoELPPB / 25 Buy
2013 African American Poetry(By: Karen Barbour) POoPfYPB / 27 Buy
2017 Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman) POoPfYPB / 28 Buy
2018 Poetry for Kids POoC / 5 Buy
2019 Rumi: Poems(By: Jalaluddin Rumi) POoELPPB / 26 Buy
2024 Shakespeare's First Folio: All The Plays(With: Emily Sutton) POoC / 6 Buy
2024 Cold Mountain Poems(By: Hanshan) POoELPPB / 27 Buy

Complete William Shakespeare Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Tragedy Plays Reading Order 12 books / 1592-1610
01 Troilus and Cressida 1592 Buy
02 Coriolanus 1593 Buy
03 Titus Andronicus 1594 Buy
04 Romeo and Juliet 1595 Buy
05 Timon of Athens 1596 Buy
06 Julius Caesar 1599 Buy
07 Macbeth 1600 Buy
08 Hamlet 1603 Buy
09 King Lear 1605 Buy
10 Othello 1605 Buy
11 Antony and Cleopatra 1606 Buy
12 Cymbeline 1610 Buy
01 Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman) 1977 Buy
02 Robert Frost(By: Robert Frost) 1994 Buy
03 Emily Dickinson(By: Emily Dickinson) 1994 Buy
04 Edgar Allan Poe(By: Edgar Allan Poe) 1995 Buy
05 Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg) 1995 Buy
06 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 1998 Buy
07 Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay) 1999 Buy
08 Robert Louis Stevenson(By: Robert Louis Stevenson) 2000 Buy
09 William Shakespeare 2000 Buy
10 Lewis Carroll(By: Lewis Carroll) 2000 Buy
11 Rudyard Kipling(By: Rudyard Kipling) 2000 Buy
12 Edward Lear(By: Edward Lear) 2001 Buy
13 American Poetry(By: John Hollander) 2002 Buy
14 William Butler Yeats(By: W.B. Yeats) 2002 Buy
15 Robert Browning(By: Robert Browning) 2003 Buy
16 Samuel Taylor Coleridge(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 2003 Buy
17 William Wordsworth(By: William Wordsworth) 2003 Buy
18 Alfred Tennyson(By: Alfred Tennyson) 2003 Buy
19 William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams) 2003 Buy
20 Animal Poems(By: John Hollander) 2004 Buy
21 Wallace Stevens(By: Wallace Stevens) 2004 Buy
22 The Seasons(By: John N. Serio) 2004 Buy
23 Langston Hughes(By: Langston Hughes) 2006 Buy
24 William Blake(By: William Blake) 2007 Buy
25 Poetry for Young People(By: Maya Angelou) 2007 Buy
26 Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg(By: Carl Sandburg) 2008 Buy
27 African American Poetry(By: Karen Barbour) 2013 Buy
28 Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman) 2017 Buy
Comedy Plays Reading Order 16 books / 1593-1634
01 The Tempest 1593 Buy
02 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1594 Buy
03 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1594 Buy
04 Measure for Measure 1594 Buy
05 The Comedy of Errors 1594 Buy
06 Much Ado About Nothing 1595 Buy
07 Love's Labour's Lost 1595 Buy
08 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1595 Buy
09 The Merchant of Venice 1598 Buy
10 As You Like It 1599 Buy
11 The Taming of the Shrew 1599 Buy
12 All's Well That Ends Well 1604 Buy
13 Twelfth Night 1605 Buy
14 The Winter's Tale 1605 Buy
15 Pericles 1606 Buy
16 The Two Noble Kinsmen 1634 Buy
Collections Reading Order 6 books / 1995-2024
01 The Prince's Choice 1995 Buy
02 The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare 1998 Buy
03 The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare 2000 Buy
04 The Complete Works 2005 Buy
05 Poetry for Kids 2018 Buy
06 Shakespeare's First Folio: All The Plays(With: Emily Sutton) 2024 Buy
01 Herbert: Poems(By: ) 1671 Buy
02 Wordsworth: Poems(By: William Wordsworth) 1802 Buy
03 Byron: Poems(By: Lord Byron) 1816 Buy
04 Keats: Poems(By: John Keats) 1817 Buy
05 Blake: Poems(By: William Blake) 1827 Buy
06 Coleridge: Poems(By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 1834 Buy
07 Tennyson: Poems(By: Alfred Tennyson) 1892 Buy
08 Kipling: Poems(By: Rudyard Kipling) 1907 Buy
09 Milton: Poems(By: John Milton) 1936 Buy
10 Baudelaire: Poems(By: Charles Baudelaire) 1942 Buy
11 Eliot: Poems(By: T.S. Eliot) 1955 Buy
12 Shakespeare: Poems 1958 Buy
13 Hardy: Poems(By: Thomas Hardy) 1977 Buy
14 Shelley: Poems(By: Percy Bysshe Shelley) 1993 Buy
15 Rossetti: Poems(By: Christina Rossetti) 1993 Buy
16 Donne: Poems(By: John Donne) 1995 Buy
17 Browning: Poems(By: Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 1997 Buy
18 Frost: Poems(By: Robert Frost) 1997 Buy
19 Marvell: Poems(By: ) 2004 Buy
20 Emerson: Poems(By: Ralph Waldo Emerson) 2004 Buy
21 Burns: Poems(By: Robert Burns) 2006 Buy
22 Mozart: Letters(By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 2007 Buy
23 Robinson: Poems(By: Edwin Arlington Robinson) 2007 Buy
24 Millay: Poems(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay) 2010 Buy
25 The Best of Archy and Mehitabel(By: Don Marquis) 2011 Buy
26 Rumi: Poems(By: Jalaluddin Rumi) 2019 Buy
27 Cold Mountain Poems(By: Hanshan) 2024 Buy
History Plays Reading Order 11 books / 1590-1598
01 King John 1590 Buy
02 Richard II 1590 Buy
03 Henry IV, Part I 1590 Buy
04 Henry IV, Part 2 1590 Buy
05 Henry V 1591 Buy
06 Henry VI, Part 1 1596 Buy
07 Henry VI, Part 2 1597 Buy
08 Henry VI, Part 3 1597 Buy
09 Richard III 1597 Buy
10 Henry VIII 1597 Buy
11 Edward III 1598 Buy

Where to start with William Shakespeare

What is the best order to read William Shakespeare 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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