C.S. Lewis Books in Order
Like many people of a certain age, I remember a wonderful BBC series of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe first screened in the 1980s. Below are lists of fiction and non-fiction books, starting with arguably his most famous series, the Narnia Chronicles.
The Narnia Chronicles
- The Magician's Nephew (1955)
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
- Prince Caspian (1951)
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
- The Silver Chair (1953)
- The Horse and His Boy (1954)
- The Last Battle (1956)
Fiction
- The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
- Space Trilogy comprising Out of the Silent Planet (1938)/ Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)/That Hideous Strength (1945)
- The Screwtape Letters (1942)
- The Great Divorce (1945)
- Till We Have Faces (1956)
- The Shoddy Lands (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956)
- Ministering Angels (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1958)
- Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
- The Dark Tower (1977)
- Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)
Non-Fiction
- The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
- Rehabilitations and other essays (1939; two essays not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
- The Problem of Pain (1940)
- The Case for Christianity (1942)
- A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
- Broadcast Talks (1942)
- The Abolition of Man (1943)
- Christian Behaviour (1943)
- Beyond Personality (1944)
- The Inner Ring (1944)[1]
- Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
- Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams's poetry)
- Transposition, and other Addresses (1949)
- Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
- English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama. Oxford University Press. 1944; 1975. ISBN 0-19-881298-1
- Major British Writers, Vol I (1954; contribution on Edmund Spenser)
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
- Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
- The Four Loves (1960)
- Studies in Words (1960)
- The World's Last Night and Other Essays (1960)
- An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
- A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk)
- They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
- Selections from Layamon's Brut (ed. G L Brook, 1963 Oxford University Press; introduction)
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
- Beyond The Bright Blur (1963) (a limited-run 30-page excerpt taken from Letters to Malcolm and "published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author", according to the opening page)
- The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
- Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- On Stories: and other essays on literature (ed. Walter Hooper, 1966)
- Spenser's Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
- Letters to an American Lady (1967)
- Christian Reflections (1967; essays and papers; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
- Selected Literary Essays (1969; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
- Undeceptions (1971; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
- Of Other Worlds (1982; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings From C. S. Lewis (Walter Hooper, ed.; 1984)
- Present Concerns (1986; essays; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
- All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
- Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology (1998)
- The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis (1999)
- Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
- Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
- Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000)
- From Narnia to a Space Odyssey : The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis (2003)
- Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004)
- Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
- Language and Human Nature with J.R.R. Tolkien (draft discovered in 2009)[2]
- Image and Imagination Essays and Reviews (2013)
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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