Order of William Golding Books

William Golding (1911-1993) was a British novelist, best known for his classic Lord of the Flies. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. In addition to his novels, Golding also wrote plays, essays, reviews, short stories, poems and a travel book about Egypt. He challenged himself to diversify the subject matter of his novels. Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. He was survived by his wife and their two children, David and Judith.

William Golding’s first novel was Lord of the Flies, published in 1954. Below is a list of William Golding’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of To the Ends of the Earth Books

Rites of Passage	(1980)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
Close Quarters	(1987)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
Fire Down Below	(1989)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Lord of the Flies	(1954)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
The Inheritors	(1955)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
Pincher Martin / The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin	(1956)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
Free Fall	(1959)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
The Spire	(1964)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
The Pyramid	(1967)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
Darkness Visible	(1979)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
The Paper Men	(1984)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
The Double Tongue	(1995)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Sometime, Never	(1957)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
The Scorpion God	(1971)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces	(1965)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
A Moving Target	(1982)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
An Egyptian Journal	(1985)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de

Publication Order of Plays

Brass Butterfly

(1958)

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Publication Order of Anthologies

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories	(1987)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de
Friendship	(1990)	Amazon.com \| Amazon.de

Note: Pincher Martin was also published as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin.