G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, England on May 29th, 1874 and passed away at the age of 62 on June 14th, 1936.

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G.K. Chesterton Stats: The highest rated book by G.K. Chesterton on Book Notification is The Scandal of Father Brown, the 5th novel in the Father Brown series. The second-highest rated book is The Secret of Father Brown (Father Brown #4).

The most read book by G.K. Chesterton on Book Notification is The Innocence of Father Brown, the first novel in the Father Brown series. The second most read book is The Man Who Was Thursday, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of G.K. Chesterton books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by G.K. Chesterton is the Father Brown Series.

List of Father Brown Books in Publication Order

List of Father Brown Collections in Publication Order

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

List of Short Stories in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Club of Queer Trades
1905
2
The Blue Cross
1910
3
The Invisible Man
1911
4
The Queer Feet
1911
5
The Trees of Pride
1922
6
The Oracle of the Dog
2004
7
The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois
2011
8
The Wrong Shape
2012
9
The Sins of Prince Saradine
2017
10
The Honour of Israel Gow
2018
11
The Flying Stars
2018
12
The Eye of Apollo
2018
13
The Three Tools of Death
2018
14
The Absence of Mr. Glass
2018
15
The Secret Garden
2018
16
The Hammer of God
2019

List of Standalone Plays in Publication Order

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
6
Heretics
1905
2
The Ballad of the White Horse
1911
3
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
1914
4
Wine, Water, and Song
1915
5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1922
6
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses
1922
7
The Poet and the Lunatics
1929
8
The Paradoxes of Mr Pond
1936
9
Stories, Essays and Poems
1936
10
The Coloured Lands
1938
11
The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton
1980
12
The Spirit of Christmas
1984
13
Collected Nonsense and Light Verse
1987
14
Seven Suspects
1990
15
The Wild Knight
2000
16
Tales of the Long Bow
2001
17
G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes
2003
18
The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I
2008
19
The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II
2008
20
Greybeards at Play
2008
21
The G.K. Chesterton Calendar
2015
22
Poems
2016
23
G.K. Chesterton - Four Faultless Felons
2016
24
The Queen of Seven Swords
2020
25
Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday
2020
26
The Man Who Was Chesterton
2020

List of Picture Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Shop of Ghosts (With: Tony Ross)
The Shop of Ghosts (With: Tony Ross)
1995

List of Chesterton's Biographies Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
1902
2
Thomas Carlyle
1902
3
Tennyson
1903
4
Thackeray
1903
5
G.F. Watts
1904
6
Charles Dickens
1906
7
William Blake
1909
8
Saint Francis of Assisi
1923
9
St. Thomas Aquinas
1933
10
George Bernard Shaw
1935
11
William Cobbett
2001
12
Chaucer
2016
13
Leo Tolstoy
2017
14
Robert Browning
2018

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

List of The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton
1936
2
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
1936
3
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 01
1986
4
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 02
1986
5
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 04
1987
6
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28
1987
7
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 05
1987
8
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 15
1989
9
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 11
1989
10
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 31
1989
11
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 21
1990
12
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 03
1990
13
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 06
1991
14
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 06
1991
15
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 14
1993
16
Collected Works Volume 10
1994
17
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 08
1999
18
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 20
2001
19
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 07
2004
20
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 10
2008

List of Murderous Christmas Stories Books in Publication Order

List of G.K. Chesterton Anthologies in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
1931
2
The Floating Admiral
1931
3
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction
1948
4
Great Tales of Action and Adventure
1958
5
The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes
1968
6
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions
1983
7
The Amis Story Anthology
1992
8
Thrillers
1994
9
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories
1997
10
Red Sky
2014
11
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays
2019
12
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories
2019
13
Finding the Kingdom: Discover a Faith that is Costly, Rich, Alive & True
2023
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G.K. Chesterton: Biography

G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) was born on May 29th, 1874. G.K. passed away June 14th, 1936 at 62 years old. G.K. Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, England.

G.K. Chesterton was the author of the G.K. Chesterton Short Story Collections series which consists of 26 novels. The G.K. Chesterton Short Story Collections series started in 1905 with the novel Heretics. The most recently released novel in the G.K. Chesterton Short Story Collections series was The Man Who Was Chesterton which was released in 2020. There are no upcoming novels for the G.K. Chesterton Short Story Collections series.

G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) also wrote The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton series which has 20 books including The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton and Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton.

G.K. Chesterton has made one appearance on Japan's Honkaku Mystery Best 10 international list. His book Four Faultless Felons was ranked #6 on the 2002 list.

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  1. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings Series.
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  3. Harlan Coben, author of the Myron Bolitar Series.
  4. Dean Koontz, author of the Odd Thomas Series.
  5. Agatha Christie, author of the novel: And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians.

G.K. Chesterton: F.A.Q

When was G.K. Chesterton Born?

G.K. Chesterton was born on May 29th, 1874.

When did G.K. Chesterton die?

G.K. Chesterton died on June 14th, 1936 at 62 years old.

Where was G.K. Chesterton Born?

G.K. Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, England.

What was the first book G.K. Chesterton wrote?

The first novel written by G.K. Chesterton was Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1902.

What was the most recent book G.K. Chesterton wrote?

His most recently released work was Alarms and Discursions on March 28th, 2023.

How many books has G.K. Chesterton written?

G.K. Chesterton has written 111 books across 13 series.
  • 5 books in the Father Brown Series
  • 7 Father Brown Collections
  • 7 Standalone Novels
  • 16 Short Stories
  • 3 Standalone Plays
  • 26 Short Story Collections
  • 1 Picture Books
  • 14 Chesterton's Biographies Non-Fiction Books
  • 9 Non-Fiction Books
  • 2 E.C. Bentley Collections
  • 20 books in The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton Series
  • 1 book in the Murderous Christmas Stories Series

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