Complete C.S. Lewis Reading List

You wouldn’t think it would be that complicated to compile a list of all C.S. Lewis’s books in chronological order, but it totally is. I found a few helpful aids online (linked below), but nothing quite like what I wanted. So, fellow Googlers, here it is in all its glory. I took the easy way out and put several of the essay collections at the very end, instead of trying to file individual essays into the chronology.

I’ll be reading all of these books in order, starting in May. Feel free to read along, read behind, read ahead, read occasionally, or just comment from memory or opinion — I’d love y’all to participate and I really don’t care how! The breakdown for the next few months can be found underneath the list. (Also, I’m taking submissions regarding witty titles for the blog series. Winners will be thanked profusely and, if applicable, linked to in the next Lewis post).

I’ve included some of the supplemental materials I plan to look at during the project, in order. I do have another short list of biographies, scholarship, inspired-by-Lewis books, etc., that I plan to read after the project itself, but what do you recommend? Favorite biographies, analytical essays, novelties? Let me know in the comments.

 

Title	Date	Genre
Boxen	1900	Fiction/Supplemental
Phantastes (George MacDonald)		Supplemental
Spirits in Bondage	1919	Poetry
The Inklings of Oxford		Supplemental
All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27
Dymer	1926	Poetry
Narrative Poems of C.S. Lewis	1930ish	Poetry
Poems	various	Poetry
The Everlasting Man (GK Chesterton)		Supplemental
Collected Letters Vol. 1 1905-1931	1931	Letters
The Pilgrim’s Regress	1933	Fiction – Adult
The Allegory of Love	1936	Academic
Out of the Silent Planet	1938	Fiction – Adult – Scifi
The Dark Tower and Other Stories		Fiction – fragments
The Personal Heresy	1939	Academic
Rehabilitations and Other Essays	1939	Academic
The Problem of Pain	1940	Nonfiction
Mere Christianity part 1 – The Case for Christianity	1942	Nonfiction
The Screwtape Letters	1942	Fiction – Adult
Preface to Paradise Lost	1942	Academic
Perelandra	1943	Fiction – Adult – Scifi
The Abolition of Man	1943	Nonfiction
Mere Christianity part 2 – Christian Behavior	1943	Nonfiction
Mere Christianity part 3 – Beyond Personality	1944	Nonfiction
The Great Divorce	1945	Fiction – Adult
That Hideous Strength	1945	Fiction – Adult – Scifi
George Macdonald: An Anthology	1946	Nonfiction
Essays Presented to Charles Williams	1947	Academic
Miracles	1947	Nonfiction
Arthurian Torso	1948	Academic
Collected Letters Vol. 2 1931-1949	1949	Letters
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe	1950	Fiction – Juvenile
Prince Caspian	1951	Fiction – Juvenile
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	1952	Fiction – Juvenile
The Silver Chair	1953	Fiction – Juvenile
The Horse and His Boy	1954	Fiction – Juvenile
Reading the Classics with C.S. Lewis		Supplemental
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century	1954	Academic
Major British Writers, Vol. 1	1954	Academic
Surprised by Joy	1955	Nonfiction
The Magician’s Nephew	1955	Fiction – Juvenile
The Last Battle	1956	Fiction – Juvenile
A Year with Aslan		Supplemental
Knowing Aslan		Supplemental
Narnia movies – various		Supplemental
Other Narnia essays, etc.
C.S. Lewis and Narnia for Dummies		Supplemental
Planet Narnia		Supplemental
The Narnia Cookbook		Supplemental
Of Other Worlds	1950s	Academic
Till We Have Faces	1956	Fiction – Adult
Reflections on the Psalms	1958	Nonfiction
The Four Loves	1960	Nonfiction
Studies in Words	1960	Academic
The World’s Last Night and Other Essays	1960	Nonfiction
A Grief Observed	1961	Nonfiction
Shadowlands [movie]		Supplemental
An Experiment in Criticism	1961	Academic
They Asked for a Paper	1962	Academic
Posthumous publications
Letters to Malcolm	1963	Nonfiction
Collected Letters Vol. 3 1950-1963	1963	Letters
The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis	various	Letters
Letters to an American Lady	various	Letters
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature	1964	Academic
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature	1966	Academic
Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church	various	Nonfiction
Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories	various	Academic
Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology		Nonfiction
Selected Literary Essays	various	Academic
God in the Dock	various	Nonfiction
The Weight of Glory	various	Nonfiction

Helpful aid: C.S. Lewis Chronology: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~edwards/chron.html