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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "Language of Fiction" (1966) and follow publication order through all 19 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Language of Fiction
1966
Graham Greene
1966
Jane Austen, Emma
1968
The Novelist At The Crossroads
1971
Evelyn Waugh
1971
20th Century Literary Criticism
1972
Working with Structuralism
1981
Souls and Bodies
1981
Write On
1986
Modern Criticism and Theory
1988
After Bakhtin
1990
The Art of Fiction
1992
The Practice of Writing
1996
Consciousness and the Novel
2002
The Year of Henry James
2006
Lives in Writing
2014
Quite A Good Time to be Born
2015
Writer's Luck
2018
Varying Degrees of Success
2021
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