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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 "Scenes of Clerical Life" (1857) and follow publication order through all 20 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Scenes of Clerical Life
1857
Mr Gilfil's Love Story
0
Adam Bede
0
The Lifted Veil
0
The Mill on the Floss
0
Silas Marner
0
Romola
0
Felix Holt, the Radical
0
Middlemarch
0
Daniel Deronda
0
The Collected Complete Works of George Eliot
2018
The Gentlewomen of Evil
1967
Thrillers
1994
The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping
2007
The Darker Sex
2009
50 Classic Novellas
2011
Winter: A Folio Anthology
2016
The Greatest Books of All Time #4
2017
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories
2019
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