All of Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s publications are listed here by genre (edited from Wikipedia’s list, which is chronological).
In 2020 and 2021, I hope to post book reviews of all of Chesterton’s 97 solo-authored books and booklets. (Altogether, they comprise about 84 unique volumes; two are only repeated material, and 11 of those listed below are booklets of 50 pages or less.) So far, I have reviewed more than 25 of them, and more are on the way; links given below are to my book reviews.
This bibliography makes no mentions of the many articles, introductions, and forewords that Chesterton wrote.
Biography
- (1902), Twelve Types
- (1903), Varied Types [expanded version of Twelve Types]
- (1903), Robert Browning
- (1904), G. F. Watts
- (1910), William Blake
- (1917), Lord Kitchener [27 pages]
- (1923), St. Francis of Assisi
- (1925), William Cobbett
- (1927), Robert Louis Stevenson [two separate titles]
- (1932), Chaucer
- (1933), St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
- (1936), Autobiography
Criticism
- (1905), Heretics
- (1906), Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
- (1909), George Bernard Shaw
- (1911), Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
- (1913), The Victorian Age in Literature
Nonfiction
* Those marked with an asterisk are collections of short articles.
- (1901), *The Defendant (review coming soon)
- (1908), Orthodoxy
- (1908), *All Things Considered
- (1909), *Tremendous Trifles (review coming soon)
- (1910), *Alarms and Discursions (review coming soon)
- (1910), *What’s Wrong With the World
- (1912), *A Miscellany of Men (review scheduled)
- (1914), The Barbarism of Berlin
- (1914), London [40 pages]
- (1915), The Appetite of Tyranny [includes The Barbarism of Berlin]
- (1915), The Crimes of England
- (1916), Divorce vs. Democracy [16 pages]
- (1916), Temperance and The Great Alliance [12 pages]
- (1917), A Short History of England
- (1917), *Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
- (1918), How to Help Annexation [16 pages]
- (1919), Irish Impressions
- (1920), The New Jerusalem
- (1920), The Superstition of Divorce
- (1920), *The Uses of Diversity
- (1922), Eugenics and other Evils
- (1922), What I Saw in America
- (1923), *Fancies Versus Fads
- (1925), The Superstitions of the Sceptic [50 pages]
- (1925), The Everlasting Man
- (1926), The Outline of Sanity
- (1926), The Catholic Church and Conversion
- (1927), Culture and the Coming Peril [19 pages]
- (1927), Social Reform vs. Birth Control [not available]
- (1928), *Generally Speaking
- (1929), The Thing: Why I am a Catholic
- (1929), G.K.C. as M.C. [collected introductions, edited by J. P. de Fonseka]
- (1930), *Come to Think of It
- (1930), The Resurrection of Rome
- (1931), *All is Grist
- (1932), Sidelights of New London and Newer York
- (1933), *All I Survey
- (1934), *Avowals and Denials
- (1934), GK’s: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues of G. K.’s Weekly
- (1935), *The Well and the Shallows
- (1936), *As I Was Saying
Novels
- (1904), The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- (1908), The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
- (1909), The Ball and the Cross
- (1912), Manalive
- (1914), The Flying Inn
- (1914), Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood
- (1924), The End of the Roman Road
- (1927), The Return of Don Quixote
- (1931), The Floating Admiral [collaborative detective story]
- (1932), Christendom in Dublin
Plays
- (1913), Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
- (1927), The Judgment of Dr. Johnson
- (1930), The Turkey and the Turk
- (1952), The Surprise [published posthumously]
Poetry
- (1900), Greybeards at Play
- (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems
- (1911), The Ballad of the White Horse
- (1915), Poems
- (1915), Wine, Water and Song (review coming soon)
- (1922), The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems
- (1926), The Queen of Seven Swords
- (1927), Gloria in Profundis [single poem]
- (1929), Ubi Ecclesia [single poem]
- (1929), Christmas Poems
- (1929), New and Collected Poems
- (1930), The Grave of Arthur [single poem]
- (1932), New Poems
Short Story Collections
- (1905), The Club of Queer Trades
- (1911), The Innocence of Father Brown
- (1914), The Wisdom of Father Brown (review coming soon)
- (1922), The Man Who Knew Too Much
- (1925), Tales of the Long Bow
- (1926), The Incredulity of Father Brown
- (1927), The Secret of Father Brown
- (1928), The Sword of Wood [25 pages]
- (1929), The Poet and the Lunatics
- (1930), Four Faultless Felons, separately in US as The Ecstatic Thief; The Honest Quack; The Loyal Traitor; The Moderate Murderer
- (1935), The Scandal of Father Brown
- (1937), The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond [published posthumously]
Multiple-Author Works
- Williams, J. E. Hodder (1902), Thomas Carlyle [40 pages]
- W. Robertson Nicoll (1902), Robert Louis Stevenson [40 pages]
- Kitton, F. G. (1903), Charles Dickens [40 pages]
- Garnett, Richard (1903), Tennyson [40 pages]
- Melville, Lewis (1903), Thackeray [40 pages]
- Perris, G. H.; Garnett, Edward (1903), Leo Tolstoy [40 pages] (review coming soon)
- Shaw, George Bernard (1928), Do We Agree? [debate]
Anthologies and Selections
- (1910), Five Types [selected from Twelve Types]
- (1911), The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton
- (1911), A Chesterton Calendar. Compiled from the Writings of G.K.C. [calendar]
- (1912), Simplicity and Tolstoy [selected from Twelve Types]
- (1916), A Shilling for My Thoughts
- (1926), Collected Works (9 vol.)
- (1926), Collected Poems
- (1927), The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton
- (1929), Father Brown Omnibus [collected stories]
- (1935), Stories, Essays And Poems
- (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 [reprint collection]
- (1950), The Common Man
- (1953), A Handful of Authors
- (1954), Collected Poems
- (1955), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), The Glass Walking-Stick
- (1958), Collins, Dorothy (ed.), Lunacy and Letters
- (1959), The Second Father Brown [reprint collection]
- (1961), Ten Adventures of Father Brown [reprint collection]
- (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.
- (1981), The Penguin Complete Father Brown [reprint collection]
- (1983), The Father Brown Omnibus [reprint collection]
- (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), The Best of Father Brown [reprint collection]
- (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
- (1989), The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown [reprint collection]
- (1990), Father Brown Crime Stories [reprint collection]
- (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
- (1996), Father Brown of the Church of Rome [reprint collection]
- (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), 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
- (2012), Stapleton, Julia (ed.), G. K. Chesterton at the Daily News: Literature, Liberalism, and Revolution, Part 2, volumes 5–8
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