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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone 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 Standalone series? Start with "My Enemy's Enemy" (1962) and follow publication order through all 30 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
My Enemy's Enemy
1962
One Fat Englishman
1963
The Egyptologists
1966
The Anti-Death League
1966
I Want It Now
1968
The Green Man
1969
Girl, 20
1971
Dear Illusion
1972
The Riverside Villas Murder
1973
Ending Up
1974
The Crime of the Century
1975
The Alteration
1976
The Darkwater Hall Mystery
1978
Jake's Thing
1978
Russian Hide-and-Seek
1980
Stanley and the Women
1984
The Old Devils
1986
The Folks That Live on the Hill
1990
We Are All Guilty
1991
The Russian Girl
1992
The Biographer's Moustache
1995
Bright November
1947
A Frame of Mind
1953
A Case of Samples
1956
A Look Around the Estate
1967
Collected Poems, 1944-1979
1979
Collected Short Stories
1980
The Pleasure of Poetry
1990
Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories
1993
Complete Stories
2011
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