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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 "This Side of Paradise" (1920) and follow publication order through all 67 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
This Side of Paradise
1920
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
1922
The Beautiful and Damned
1922
The Great Gatsby
1926
Tender Is the Night
1934
The Last Tycoon
1941
Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby
2000
The Popular Girl
2006
Babes in the Woods
1919
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1920
May Day
1920
The Ice Palace
1920
The Offshore Pirate
1920
Head and Shoulders
1920
The Lees of Happiness
1920
The Jelly-Bean
1920
The Camel's Back
1920
Benediction
1920
Myra Meets His Family
1920
Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink
1920
The Four Fists
1920
Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside
1921
Winter Dreams
1922
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1922
Absolution
1924
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk
1924
Gretchen's Forty Winks
1924
Love in the Night
1925
The Rich Boy
1926
Magnetism
1928
The Night at Chancellorsville
1935
Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar
2018
Basil the Freshest Boy
2018
What a Handsome Pair !
2018
F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14
1914
The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917
1917
Spires and Gargoyles
1919
The Short Stories
1920
Flappers and Philosophers
1920
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1920
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories
1921
Tales of the Jazz Age
1922
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
1922
Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age
1922
The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1924
All the Sad Young Men
1926
The Basil and Josephine Stories
1928
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
1931
The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1931
The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1935
Taps at Reveille
1935
The Lost Decade and other stories
1939
Poems 1911-1940
1940
The Pat Hobby Stories
1940
Bits of Paradise (With: Zelda Fitzgerald)
1973
The Price Was High
1979
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1983
Afternoon of an Author
1987
Before Gatsby
2001
On Booze
2011
Gatsby Girls
2013
The Love Boat and Other Stories
2015
Mystery & Fantasy Stories
2015
I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories
2017
The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories
2019
All of the Belles
2020
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories
2020
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