Bibliography of G K Chesterton

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G K Chesterton was a prolific writer. Here is a more complete bibliography of his works:

• Greybeards at Play (poetry) (1900)
• The Wild Knight and Other Poems (poetry) (1900)
• The Defendant , London: R. Brimley Johnson (1901)
• Thomas Carlyle (1902)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1902)
• Twelve Types (1902)
• Robert Browning (1903)
• Charles Dickens (1903)
• Tennyson (1903)
• Thackeray (1903)
• Leo Tolstoy (1903)
• Varied Types (1903)
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill (novel) (1904)
• G.F. Watts (1904)
• The Club of Queer Trades (stories) (1905)
• Heretics (1905)
• Charles Dickens (1906)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (novel) (1908)
• Orthodoxy (1908)
• All Things Considered (1908)
• George Bernard Shaw (1909)
• Tremendous Trifles (1909)
• The Ball and the Cross (novel) (1909)
• Five Types (essays), selected from Twelve Types. (1910)
• William Blake (1910)
• Alarms and Discursions (1910)
• What's Wrong With the World (1910)
• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911)
• The Ballad of the White Horse (poetry) (1911)
• The Wit and Wisdom of GK Chesterton (1911)
• The Innocence of Father Brown (stories) (1911)
• A Chesterton Calendar. Compiled from the Writings of G.K.C. (Calendar) (1911)
• Manalive (novel) (1912)
• A Miscellany of Men (1912)
• Simplicity and Tolstoy (1912)
• Magic (play) (1913)
• The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
• The Flying Inn (novel) (1914)
• The Wisdom of Father Brown (stories) (1914)
• Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood (1914)
• London (1914)
• The Barbarism of Berlin (1914)
• Poems (1915)
• Wine, Water and Song (poetry) (1915)
• The Appetite of Tyranny (1915)
• The Crimes of England (1915)
• Divorce vs. Democracy (1916)
• The Book of Job (1916)
• A Shilling for My Thoughts (1916)
• Temperance and The Great Alliance (pamphlet) (1916)
• Utopia of Usurers (1917)
• Lord Kitchener (1917)
• A Short History of England (1917)
• How to Help Annexation (1918)
• Irish Impressions (1919)
• The Superstition of Divorce (1920)
• The Uses of Diversity (1920)
• The New Jerusalem (1920)
• The Ballad of St Barbara and Other Poems (poetry) (1922)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (stories) (1922)
• Eugenics and other Evils (1922)
• What I Saw in America (1922)
• St Francis of Assisi (1923)
• Poems (1923)
• Fancies Versus Fads (essays) (1923)
• The End of the Roman Road (1924)
• Tales of The Long Bow (stories) (1925)
• The Superstitions of the Sceptic (1925)
• The Everlasting Man (1925)
• William Cobbett (1925)
• The Queen of Seven Swords (poetry) (1926)
• The Outline of Sanity (1926)
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (stories) (1926)
• The Catholic Church and Conversion (1926)
• Collected Works. Nine volumes (1926)
• Collected Poems (1926)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1927)
• The Secret of Father Brown (stories) (1927)
• The Return of Don Quixote (novel) (1927)
• The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (play) (1927)
• The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton (1927)
• Gloria in Profundis (poetry) (1927)
• Culture and the Coming Peril (1927)
• Social Reform vs. Birth Control (1927)
• Generally Speaking (1928)
• Do We Agree? (debate) with Shaw, George Bernard (1928)
• The Sword of Wood (stories) (1928)
• The Thing: Why I am a Catholic (1929)
• G.K.C. as M.C (collected introductions), de Fonseka, J.P. (ed. )(1929)
• Father Brown Omnibus (collected stories) (1929)
• The Poet and the Lunatics (stories) (1929)
• Ubi Ecclesia (poetry) (1929)
• Christmas Poems (1929)
• New and Collected Poems (1929)
• Four Faultless Felons (stories), separately in US as The Ecstatic Thief; The Honest Quack; The Loyal Traitor; The Moderate Murderer (1930)
• The Turkey and the Turk (play for mummers) (1930)
• The Grave of Arthur (1930)
• Come to Think of It (1930)
• The Resurrection of Rome (1930)
• All is Grist (1931)
• The Floating Admiral (collaborative detective story) (1931)
• Chaucer (1932)
• New Poems (1932)
• Christendom in Dublin (1932)
• Sidelights of New London and Newer York (1932)
• All I Survey (1933)
• St Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)
• Avowals and Denials (1934)
• GK's: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues of G. K.'s Weekly (1934)
• The Well and the Shallows (1935)
• The Way of the Cross (1935)
• The Scandal of Father Brown (stories) (1935)
• Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)
• Autobiography (1936)
• As I Was Saying (1936)

Published Posthumously

• The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937)
• The Man Who Was Chesterton (anthology) (1937)
• The Coloured Lands (1938)
• The End of the Armistice, Sheed, Frank (ed.) (1940)
• The Pocket Book of Father Brown, (1943) and many other reprint collections, including:
  • (1959), The Second Father Brown,
  • (1961), Ten Adventures of Father Brown,
  • (1981), The Penguin Complete Father Brown,
  • (1983), The Father Brown Omnibus,
  • (1987), The Best of Father Brown,
  • (1989), The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown,
  • (1990), Father Brown Crime Stories,
  • (1996), Father Brown of the Church of Rome.
  • (1950), The Common Man.
  • (1952), The Surprise (play).
  • (1953), A Handful of Authors.
  • (1954), Collected Poems.

for books about G K Chesterton, see GKC bibliography on Wikipedia

Acknowledgments

G K Chesterton on Wikipedia