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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 "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) and follow publication order through all 23 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Gulliver's Travels
1726
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
1704
Journal to Stella
0
The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift
1940
The Portable Swift
1948
Selected Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
1949
Selected Writings
1950
Collected Poems: v. 1
1958
The Poems of Jonathan Swift
1958
Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces 1733-42
1959
Selected Prose and Poetry
1959
Best of Swift
1967
Selected Poems
1967
Stella's Birth-Days
1967
The Prose Writings
1968
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Pope, Swift and Gay
1972
The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism
1973
Jonathan Swift, the Complete Poems
1983
Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works
1984
Major Works
2003
Jonathan Swift: Poems selected by Derek Mahon
2006
Cadenus And Vanessa
2010
Baucis and Philemon
2017
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