G. K. Chesterton bibliography

This is a list of the books written by G. K. Chesterton.

1900–1909

Cover of The Napoleon of Notting Hill

• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1900), Greybeards at Play (poetry), London: R. Brimley Johnson.
• ——— (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (poetry).
• ——— (1901), The Defendant , London: R. Brimley Johnson – via Wikisource.
• ———; Williams, J.E. Hodder (1902), Thomas Carlyle, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
• ———; Nicoll, W. Robertson (1902), Robert Louis Stevenson, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
• ——— (1902), Twelve Types, London: Arthur L. Humphreys.
• ——— (1903), Robert Browning, London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd..
• ———; Kitton, F.G. (1903), Charles Dickens: with Numerous Illustrations, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
• ———; Garnett, Richard (1903), Tennyson, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
• ———; Melville, Lewis (1903), Thackeray, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
• ———; Perris, G.H.; Garnett, Edward (1903), Leo Tolstoy, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
• ——— (1903), Varied Types, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company.
• ——— (1904), The Napoleon of Notting Hill (novel), London & New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head.
• ——— (1904), G.F. Watts, London: Duckworth & Co..
• ——— (1905), The Club of Queer Trades (stories), New York & London: Harper & Brothers.
• ——— (1905), Heretics, London: John Lane: The Bodley Head.
• ——— (1906), Charles Dickens.
• ——— (1908), The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (novel), New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
• ——— (1908), Orthodoxy, London: Bodley Head.
• ——— (1908), All Things Considered , London: Methuen & Co. – via Wikisource.
• ——— (1909), George Bernard Shaw, New York: John Lane Company.
• ——— (1909), Tremendous Trifles, London: Methuen & Co..
• ——— (1909), The Ball and the Cross  (novel), London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd. – via Wikisource.

1910–1919

• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1910), Five Types (essays), selected from Twelve Types.
• ——— (1910), William Blake.
• ——— (1910), Alarms and Discursions.
• ——— (1910), What's Wrong With the World.
• ——— (1911), Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens.
• ——— (1911), The Ballad of the White Horse (poetry).
• ——— (1911), The Wit and Wisdom of GK Chesterton.
• ——— (1911), The Innocence of Father Brown (stories).
• ——— (1911), A Chesterton Calendar. Compiled from the Writings of G.K.C. (Calendar).
• ——— (1912), Manalive (novel).
• ——— (1912), A Miscellany of Men.
• ——— (1912), Simplicity and Tolstoy.
• ——— (1913), Magic (play).
• ——— (1913), The Victorian Age in Literature.
• ——— (1914), The Flying Inn (novel).
• ——— (1914), The Wisdom of Father Brown (stories).
• ——— (1914), Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood.
• ——— (1914), London.
• ——— (1914), The Barbarism of Berlin.
• ——— (1915), Poems.
• ——— (1915), Wine, Water and Song (poetry) – via Project Gutenberg.
• ——— (1915), The Appetite of Tyranny.
• ——— (1915), The Crimes of England.
• ——— (1916), Divorce vs. Democracy.
• ——— (1916), The Book of Job.
• ——— (1916), A Shilling for My Thoughts.
• ——— (1916), Temperance and The Great Alliance (pamphlet).
• ——— (1917), Utopia of Usurers.
• ——— (1917), Lord Kitchener.
• ——— (1917), A Short History of England.
• ——— (1918), How to Help Annexation.
• ——— (1919), Irish Impressions.

1920–1929

• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1920), The Superstition of Divorce.
• ——— (1920), The Uses of Diversity.
• ——— (1920), The New Jerusalem.
• ——— (1922), The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems (poetry).
• ——— (1922), The Man Who Knew Too Much (stories).
• ——— (1922), Eugenics and other Evils.
• ——— (1922), What I Saw in America .
• ——— (1923), St. Francis of Assisi.
• ——— (1923), Poems.
• ——— (1923), Fancies Versus Fads (essays).
• ——— (1924), The End of the Roman Road.
• ——— (1925), Tales of the Long Bow  (stories).
• ——— (1925), The Superstitions of the Sceptic.
• ——— (1925), The Everlasting Man.
• ——— (1925), William Cobbett.
• ——— (1926), The Queen of Seven Swords (poetry).
• ——— (1926), The Outline of Sanity.
• ——— (1926), The Incredulity of Father Brown (stories).
• ——— (1926), The Catholic Church and Conversion.
• ——— (1926), Collected Works. Nine volumes.
• ——— (1926), Collected Poems.
• ——— (1927), Robert Louis Stevenson.
• ——— (1927), The Secret of Father Brown (stories).
• ——— (1927), The Return of Don Quixote (novel).
• ——— (1927), The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (play).
• ——— (1927), The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton.
• ——— (1927), Gloria in Profundis (poetry).
• ——— (1927), Culture and the Coming Peril.
• ——— (1927), Social Reform vs. Birth Control
• ——— (1928), Generally Speaking
• ——— with Shaw, George Bernard (1928), Do We Agree? (debate).
• ——— (1928), The Sword of Wood (stories).
• ——— (1929), The Thing: Why I am a Catholic.
• ——— (1929), de Fonseka, J.P. (ed.), G.K.C. as M.C (collected introductions).
• ——— (1929), Father Brown Omnibus (collected stories).
• ——— (1929), The Poet and the Lunatics (stories).
• ——— (1929), Ubi Ecclesia (poetry).
• ——— (1929), Christmas Poems.
• ——— (1929), New and Collected Poems.

1930–1936

• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1930), Four Faultless Felons (stories), separately in US as The Ecstatic Thief; The Honest Quack; The Loyal Traitor; The Moderate Murderer.
• ——— (1930), The Turkey and the Turk (play for mummers).
• ——— (1930), The Grave of Arthur.
• ——— (1930), Come to Think of It.
• ——— (1930), The Resurrection of Rome.
• ——— (1931), All is Grist.
• ——— (1931), The Floating Admiral (collaborative detective story).
• ——— (1932), Chaucer.
• ——— (1932), New Poems.
• ——— (1932), Christendom in Dublin.
• ——— (1932), Sidelights of New London and Newer York.
• ——— (1933), All I Survey.
• ——— (1933), St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox.
• ——— (1934), Avowals and Denials, Dodd, Mead & company – via Internet Archive.
• ——— (1934), GK's: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues of G. K.'s Weekly.
• ——— (1935), The Well and the Shallows.
• ——— (1935), The Way of the Cross.
• ——— (1935), The Scandal of Father Brown (stories).
• ——— (1935), Stories, Essays And Poems.
• ——— (1936), Autobiography.
• ——— (1936), As I Was Saying.

Posthumous

• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1937), The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond.
• ——— (1937), The Man Who Was Chesterton (anthology)
• ——— (1938), The Coloured Lands.
• ——— (1940), Sheed, Frank (ed.), The End of the Armistice.
• ——— (1943), The Pocket Book of Father Brown, and many other reprint collections, including:
  • ——— (1959), The Second Father Brown,
  • ——— (1961), Ten Adventures of Father Brown,
  • ——— (1981), The Penguin Complete Father Brown,
  • ——— (1983), The Father Brown Omnibus,
  • ——— (1987), The Best of Father Brown,
  • ——— (1989), The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown,
  • ——— (1990), Father Brown Crime Stories,
  • ——— (1996), Father Brown of the Church of Rome.
• ——— (1950), The Common Man.
• ——— (1952), The Surprise (play).
• ——— (1953), A Handful of Authors.
• ——— (1954), Collected Poems.
• ——— (1955), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), The Glass Walking-Stick.
• ——— (1958), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), Lunacy and Letters.
• ——— (1961), Where All Roads Lead.
• ——— (1965), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), The Spice of Life.
• ——— (1970), Auden, W.H. (ed.), G. K. Chesterton. A selection from his non-fictional prose, Faber & Faber.
• ——— (1972), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), Chesterton on Shakespeare.
• ——— (1975), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), The Apostle and the Wild Ducks.
• ——— (1978), The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems.
• ——— (1984), Smith, Marie (ed.), The Spirit of Christmas.
• ——— (1984), Basic Chesterton.
• ——— (1985), Kavanagh, P.J. (ed.), The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton.
• ——— (1986), Smith, Marie (ed.), Daylight and Nightmare (uncollected short fiction).
• ——— (1986), GK's Weekly: A Sampler.
• ——— (1986), The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Ignatius Press.
• ——— (1986), Illustrated London News, 1905–1907.
• ——— (1987), Illustrated London News, 1908–1910.
• ——— (1987), Smith, Marie (ed.), Collected Nonsense and Light Verse.
• ——— (1988), Illustrated London News, 1911–1913.
• ——— (1988), Illustrated London News, 1914–1916.
• ——— (1989), Illustrated London News, 1917–1919.
• ——— (1989), Illustrated London News, 1920–1922.
• ——— (1989), Smith, Marie (ed.), Thirteen Detectives.
• ——— (1989), Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Plays.
• ——— (1990), Smith, Marie (ed.), Seven Suspects.
• ——— (1990), de Silva, Alvaro (ed.), Brave New Family.
• ——— (1990), Illustrated London News, 1923–1925.
• ——— (1991), Illustrated London News, 1926–1928.
• ——— (1991), Illustrated London News, 1929–1931.
• ——— (1991), The Mask of Midas.
• ——— (1994), Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: Collected Poetry: Part 1.
• ——— (1997), Platitudes Undone (annotations), Platitudes in the Making by Holbrook Jackson.
• ——— (1997), Sparkes, Russel (ed.), Prophet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton.
• ——— (2000), Eugenics and Other Evils.
• ——— (2000), On Lying in Bed and Other Essays.
• ——— (2001), Criticisms and Appreciations of the works of Charles Dickens.
• ——— (2001), The G.K. Chesterton Papers: Additional Manuscripts.
• ——— (2002), Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton.
• ——— (2003), Essential Writings.
• ——— (2004), G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry: Greybeards at Play, The White Knight and Other Poems, The Ballad of the White Horse.
• ——— (2011), Illustrated London News, 1932–1934.
• ——— (2011), Stapleton, Julia (ed.), G. K. Chesterton at the Daily News: Literature, Liberalism, and Revolution, Part 1, volumes 1–4, Pickering & Chatto.
• ——— (2012), Stapleton, Julia (ed.), G. K. Chesterton at the Daily News: Literature, Liberalism, and Revolution, Part 2, volumes 5–8, Pickering & Chatto.

Prose fiction

Novels

• The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908)
• The Ball and the Cross (1909)
• Manalive (1912)
• The Flying Inn (1914)
• The Return of Don Quixote (1927)
• The Floating Admiral (1931) - with other authors from the Detection Club

Short stories and collections

• The Club of Queer Trades (1905)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)
• Tales of the Long Bow (1925)
• The Sword of Wood (1928)
• The Poet and the Lunatics (1929)
• Four Faultless Felons (1930)
• Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)

Father Brown

1. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
2. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
3. "The Donnington Affair" (The Premier, November 1914; with Sir Max Pemberton) - uncollected short story
4. The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
5. The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
6. The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
7. "The Mask of Midas" (1936) - uncollected short story

Omnibus editions

• The Complete Father Brown (Penguin Classics) (2012) (ISBN 9780141193854)
• The Complete Father Brown (Timaios Press) (ISBN 9789187611230)
• The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton volumes 12 and 13

References

• Sullivan, John (1958), G.K. Chesterton: A Bibliography, essay: "On books" by G.K. Chesterton; epitaph by Walter de la Mare, London: University of London Press, OCLC 1248417
• Sprug, Joseph W., ed. (1966), An Index to G.K. Chesterton, Preface by James J. Kortendick, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, OCLC 567957685