Author

William Golding

British author best known for the dystopian novel *Lord of the Flies*, a modern classic that has sold tens of millions of copies and earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature. This page provides the William Golding books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All books · chronological
1954 Lord of the Flies PO · 1 No link
1955 The Inheritors PO · 2 No link
1956 Pincher Martin / The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin PO · 3 No link
1957 Sometime, Never PO · 1 No link
1958 The Brass Butterfly PO · 1 No link
1959 Free Fall PO · 4 No link
1964 The Spire PO · 5 No link
1965 The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces PO · 1 No link
1967 The Pyramid PO · 6 No link
1971 The Scorpion God PO · 2 No link
1979 Darkness Visible PO · 7 No link
1980 Rites of Passage PO · 1 No link
1982 A Moving Target PO · 2 No link
1984 The Paper Men PO · 8 No link
1985 An Egyptian Journal PO · 3 No link
1987 Close Quarters PO · 2 No link
1989 Fire Down Below PO · 3 No link
1995 The Double Tongue PO · 9 No link
Book series
Publication Order of Standalone Novels 9 books · 1954–1995
01 Lord of the Flies 1954 No link
02 The Inheritors 1955 No link
03 Pincher Martin / The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin 1956 No link
04 Free Fall 1959 No link
··· 5 more books in this series
Publication Order of Short Story Collections 2 books · 1957–1971
01 Sometime, Never 1957 No link
02 The Scorpion God 1971 No link
Publication Order of Plays 1 book · 1958
01 The Brass Butterfly 1958 No link
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 3 books · 1965–1985
01 The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces 1965 No link
02 A Moving Target 1982 No link
03 An Egyptian Journal 1985 No link
Publication Order of To the Ends of the Earth Books 3 books · 1980–1989
01 Rites of Passage 1980 No link
02 Close Quarters 1987 No link
03 Fire Down Below 1989 No link