Reading Order
8 series · 61 books| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cover Her Face | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | A Mind to Murder | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Unnatural Causes | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Shroud for a Nightingale | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Black Tower | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Death of an Expert Witness | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | A Taste for Death | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Devices and Desires | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Original Sin | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | A Certain Justice | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Death in Holy Orders | 2001 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | The Murder Room | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | The Lighthouse | 2005 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | The Private Patient | 2008 | Buy from Amazon |
Cordelia Gray Series
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Skull Beneath the Skin | 1982 | Buy from Amazon |
P.D. James Other Novels
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innocent Blood / Innocent House | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Children of Men | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Death Comes to Pemberley | 2012 | Buy from Amazon |
P.D. James Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Part-Time Job | 2005 | Buy from Amazon |
P.D. James Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mistletoe Murder | 2016 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Sleep No More | 2017 | Buy from Amazon |
P D James Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Maul and The Pear Tree ( With: T.A. Critchley) | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Time To Be In Earnest | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Talking About Detective Fiction | 2009 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | P.D. James in Her Own Words | 2017 | Buy from Amazon |
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Good Man Is Hard To Find ( By: Flannery O'Connor) | 1955 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Inner Room (Short Story) ( By: Robert Aickman) | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Daughters of Passion (Short Story) ( By: Julia O'Faolain) | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Giacomo Joyce (Short Story) ( By: Richard Ellmann) | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Homeland ( By: Barbara Kingsolver) | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Shanti (Short Story) ( By: Vikram Chandra) | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine ( By: Thom Jones) | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | An Elegy for Easterly (Short Story) ( By: Petina Gappah) | 2009 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Short Story) ( By: Alan Bennett) | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Cheater's Guide to Love (Short Story) ( By: Junot Díaz) | 2012 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Mrs Fox (Short Story) ( By: Sarah Hall) | 2014 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Mostly Hero (Short Story) ( By: Anna Burns) | 2014 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Mr Salary (Short Story) ( By: Sally Rooney) | 2016 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | Come Rain or Come Shine (Short Story) ( By: Kazuo Ishiguro) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | The Victim (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Dante and the Lobster (Short Story) ( By: Samuel Beckett) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Paradise (Short Story) ( By: Edna O'Brien) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | Cosmopolitan (Short Story) ( By: Akhil Sharma) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | The Lydia Steptoe Stories (Short Story) ( By: Djuna Barnes) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom ( By: Sylvia Plath) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | Terrific Mother (Short Story) ( By: Lorrie Moore) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | The Country Funeral (Short Story) ( By: John McGahern) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | The Forester's Daughter (Short Story) ( By: Claire Keegan) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | Three Types of Solitude (Short Story) ( By: Brian W. Aldiss) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | A River in Egypt (Short Story) ( By: David Means) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | Fairy Tales (Short Story) ( By: Marianne Moore) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | Ghostly Stories (Short Story) ( By: Celia Fremlin) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | Intruders (Short Story) ( By: Adrian Tomine) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon |
P.D. James Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdict of Thirteen | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Murder in the Dark | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | English Country House Murders | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Great Law and Order Stories | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Man Who... | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | 1995 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Detection Collection | 2005 | Buy from Amazon |
Phyllis Dorothy James, known by her pen name P. D. James, was a renowned British crime writer, poet, and dramatist. Born in 1920 in Oxford, James began her writing career while working as a civil servant for the National Health Service. Her breakthrough came in 1962 with the publication of her first novel, "Cover Her Face," featuring Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh. Over the following decades, James published 14 Dalgliesh novels, establishing herself as a master of the crime genre. Her works were praised for their complex plots, psychological depth, and exploration of social issues. Among her many accolades, James received the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award four times, the Edgar Award, and the Cartier Diamond Dagger. She was also awarded a CBE and a DBE for her contributions to literature. P. D. James's critical success and enduring popularity lie in her ability to create intricate and suspenseful mysteries that transcended the genre and resonated with readers on a deeper level.