Works by
G. K. Chesterton
(Aka Gilbert Keith Cheston)
(Writer)
[May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936]

Anthologies

• The Man Who Was Chesterton (1937), Raymond T. Bond, ed.

Biography/Memoirs

• The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton (1936, 2006)

Criticism

• Chaucer (1932)

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1927)

• William Cobbett (1925)

• Simplicity and Tolstoy (1912)

• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911, 2001)

• William Blake (1910)

• George Bernard Shaw (1909)

• Charles Dickens (1906)

• G.F. Watts (1904)

• Robert Browning (1903)

• Tennyson (1903) with R. Garnett

• Thackeray (1903) with L. Melville

• Leo Tolstoy (1903) with G. H. Perris and Edward Garnett

Essays

• On Lying in Bed and Other Essays (2000)

• The Spirit of Christmas (1984), Marie Smith, ed.
  Stories, poems, essays

• The Spice of Life (1965), Dorothy Collins, ed.

• The Glass Walking-Stick (1955), Dorothy Collins, ed.

• A Handful of Authors (1953)
  Essays on books and writers.

• Avowals and Denials (1934)

• All I Survey (1933)

• All is Grist (1931)

• Generally Speaking (1928)

• Fancies Versus Fads (1923)

• Five Types (1910)
  Essays selected from Twelve Types

Fiction

Novels

• The Return of Don Quixote (1927)

• The Flying Inn (1914)

• Manalive (1912)

• The Ball and the Cross (1909)

• The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)

• The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

Short Stories/Short Fiction

• Daylight and Nightmare (1986), Marie Smith, ed.
  Uncollected short fiction.

• Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)

• Four Faultless Felons (1930)
  These were all sold separately in the United States as The Ecstatic Thief; The Honest Quack; The Loyal Traitor; and The Moderate Murderer

• The Poet and the Lunatics (1929)

• The Sword of Wood (1928)

• Tales Of The Long Bow (1925)

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)

• The Club of Queer Trades (1905)

Father Brown

• Father Brown Crime Stories (1990)

• The Scandal Of Father Brown (1935)

• Father Brown Omnibus (1929)

• The Secret Of Father Brown (1927)

• The Incredulity Of Father Brown (1926)

• The WiThe Innocence of Father Brown (1911)sdom of Father Brown (1914)

Miscellaneous

• The Works of G.K. Chesterton (36 Books) (2009)

• Essential Writings (2003)

• Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton (2002) by G. K. Chesterton and Michael W. Perry

• The Complete Father Brown Stories (1998)

• Platitudes Undone (1997)
  Annotations to a book (Platitudes in the Making Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk: Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk) by Holbrook Jackson.

• Prophet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton (1997), Russel Sparkes, ed.

• The Mask of Midas (1991)

• Seven Suspects (1990), Marie Smith, ed.

• Thirteen Detectives (1989)

• GK's Weekly: A Sampler (1986), Lyle W. Dorsett, ed.

• The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton (1986)
  Begun by Ignatius Press

• The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton (1985), P.J. Kavanagh, ed.

• The Spirit of Christmas (1984), Marie Smith, ed.
  Stories, poems, essays

• Basic Chesterton (1984)

• The Apostle and the Wild Ducks (1975), Dorothy Collins, ed.

• Where All Roads Lead (1961)

• Lunacy and Letters (1958), Dorothy Collins, ed.

• The Pocket Book of Father Brown (1943) and many other reprint collections
  Includes The Second Father Brown (1959), Ten Adventures of Father Brown (1961), The Penguin Complete Father Brown (1981), The Father Brown Omnibus (1983), The Best of Father Brown (1987), The Annotated Innocence Of Father Brown (1989), Father Brown Crime Stories(1990), Father Brown of the Church of Rome (1996)

• The End of the Armistice (1940), Frank Sheed, ed.

• The Coloured Lands (1938)
  Fairy stories, comic verse and fantastic pictures.

• The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937)

• As I Was Saying: A Chesterton Reader (1936)

• The Well and the Shallows (1935)

• The Way of the Cross (1935)

• GK's: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues OF G.K.'S Weekly (1934)

• St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)

• Christendom in Dublin (1932)

• Sidelights of New London and Newer York (1932)

• Come to Think of It (1930)

• The Resurrection of Rome (1930)

• The Thing: Why I am a Catholic (1929)

• Do We Agree? (1928)
  A debate with George Bernard Shaw with Hilaire Belloc as moderator.

• Culture and the Coming Peril (1927)

• Social Reform vs. Birth Control (1927)

• The Outline of Sanity (1926)

• The Catholic Church and Conversion (1926)

• Collected Works (1926)

• The Everlasting Man (1925)

• The End of the Roman Road: A Pageant of Wayfarers (1924)

• St. Francis of Assisi (1923)

• Eugenics and other Evils (1922, 2000)

• What I Saw in America (1922)

• The Superstition of Divorce (1920)

• The Uses of Diversity (1920)

• The New Jerusalem (1920)

• Irish Impressions (1919)

• How to Help Annexation (1918)

• Utopia Of Usurers (1917)

• Lord Kitchener (1917)

• A Short History of England (1917)

• Divorce vs. Democracy (1916)

• The Book of Job (1916)

• A Shilling for My Thoughts (1916)

• Temperance and The Great Alliance (1916)

• The Appetite of Tyranny (1915)

• The Crimes of England (1915)

• London (1914)

• The Barbarism of Berlin (1914)

• The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

• A Miscellany Of Men (1912)

• Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton (1911)

• Alarms and Discursions (1910)

• What's Wrong With the World (1910)

• Tremendous Trifles (1909)
  Humorous sketches

• Orthodoxy (1908)

• All Things Considered (1908)

• Heretics (1905)

• Varied Types (1903)

• Thomas Carlyle  (1902) with J. E. Hodder Williams

• Twelve Types (1902)

• The Defendant (1901)

Illustrated London News

• Illustrated London News, 1926-1928 (1991)

• Illustrated London News, 1929-1931 (1991)

• Illustrated London News, 1923-1925 (1990)

• Illustrated London News, 1917-1919 (1989)

• Illustrated London News, 1920-1922 (1989)

• Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (1988)

• Illustrated London News, 1914-1916 (1988)

• Illustrated London News, 1908-1910 (1987)

• Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986)

Non-fiction

• G.K.C. as M.C: Being a Collection of Thirty-Seven Introductions by G.K. Chesterton (1929), J. P. de Fonseka, ed.

Plays

• Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Plays (1989)

• The Surprise (1952)

• The Turkey and the Turk (1930)
  A play for mummers.

• The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (1927)
  A comedy in three acts.

• Magic (1913)

Poetry

• G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry (2004)
  Greybeards at Play, The White Knight and Other Poems, The Ballad of the White Horse

• The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 10: Collected Poetry, Part 2, Dennis J. Conlon, ed.

• Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: Collected Poetry: Part 1 (1994)

• The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems (1978)

• Collected Poems (1954)

• Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)

• New Poems (1932)

• Gloria in Profundis (1927)

• Christmas Poems (1929)

• New and Collected Poems (1929)

• Ubi Ecclesia (1929)

• The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton (1927)

• Collected Poems (1926)

• The Queen of Seven Swords (1926)

• Poems (1915, 1923)

• The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems' (1922)

• Wine, Water And Song (1915)

• The Ballad Of The White Horse (1911)

• Greybeards at Play (1900)

• The Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900)

Other

• The Floating Admiral (1931, 1980) by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, and Certain members of the Detection Club
  A collaborative detective story.

See also:

• Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874-1908 (2009) by William Oddie

• G.K. Chesterton: A Prophet for the 21st Century (2009) by Aidan Mackey

• G.K. Chesterton: Theologian (2009) by Aidan Nichols)

• G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study (2009) by Julius West

• The Historical Imagination of G.K.Chesterton: Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism (2009) by Joseph R. McCleary

• The Last of the Realists: A Distributist Biography of G. K. Chesterton (2009) by Aidan Mackey, Denis J. Conlon, and Harold Robbins

• The Prince of Paradox: A Biography of G.K. Chesterton (2009) by Julius West

• Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood: The England of G. K. Chesterton (2008) by Julia Stapleton

• G.K. Chesterton - A Criticism (2008) by Cecil Chesterton

• Advent and Christmas Wisdom From G. K. Chesterton (2007) by The Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends

• Biography - G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton (2007)
  An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team, Digital - HTML

• Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton (2006) by Dale Ahlquist

• G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward (2006) by Stephen R. L. Clark

• Literary Convert: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbeliefs (2006) by Joseph Pearce

• Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, And J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition (2006) by Donald T. Williams

• Gilbert Keith Chesterton (2005) by Maisie Ward

• The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton (2005) by Alzina Stone Dale

• The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones (2005) by Adam Schwartz

• G.K. Chesterton - The Apostle of Common Sense (2003) by Dale Ahlquist

• G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes (2003), Stephen Doyle, ed.

• Chesterton (2001) by Garry Wills

• Gilbert: The Man Who Was G. K. Chesterton (2001) by Michael Coren

• The Gift of Wonder: The Many Sides of G.K. Chesterton (2001), Dale Ahlquist, ed.

• G.K.Chesterton: One Sword at Least (1999) by Anthony Cooney

• The Universe and Mr. Chesterton (1999) by Randall Paine

• Wisdom & Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton (1997) by Joseph Pearce

• Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton (1996) by Joseph Pearce

• Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family (1990) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Alvaro De Silva

• G.K. Chesterton: A Biography (1987) by Michael Ffinch

• Chesterton - A Seer of Science (1986) by Fr. Stanley L. Jaki

• Biographical Sketch of G.K. Chesterton and an Anthology of His Various Works (1974) by Sr. M Laurence

• G.K. Chesterton: A Biography (1973, 1975) by Dudley Barker

• An Index to G. K. Chesterton (1966), Joseph W. Sprug, ed.

• Chesterton: Man and Mask (1961) by Garry Wills

• G.K. Chesterton: A Bibliography (1958) by John Sullivan