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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 "Yet Again" (1909) and follow publication order through all 35 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Yet Again
1909
Zuleika Dobson
1911
Seven Men
1919
And Even Now
1921
The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill
1928
A Stranger in Venice
1928
A Variety of Things
1928
A Defence of Cosmetics
1896
The Happy Hypocrite, a Fairy Tale for Tired Men
0
Enoch Soames
1916
A. V. Laider
1919
James Pethel
1919
The Happy Hypocrite
2017
Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen
1896
Happy Hypocrite and Other Pieces
0
Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull
1911
A Christmas Garland
1912
Fifty Caricatures
1913
A Survey
1921
Things New and Old
1923
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
1931
The Poets Corner
1943
Mainly on the Air
1946
Seven Men and Two Others
1950
Selected Essays
1958
Max's Nineties
1958
The Bodley Head Max Beerbohm
1970
A Peep into the Past
1972
Max and Will (With: William Rothenstein)
1975
Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures
1977
The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm
1985
Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse
1994
The Early Works
2000
The Prince of Minor Writers
2015
The Works of Max Beerbohm
2018
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