Order of Leo Tolstoy Books
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author who is best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His works falls into the realist fiction genre, looking at what it was like to live in the same surroundings as he did. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Tolstoy would become a published author in 1852 with the autobiographical novel Childhood as well as the short story The Raid. Below is a list of Leo Tolstoy’s novels in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Autobiographical Novels
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Childhood |
(1852) |
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Boyhood |
(1854) |
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Youth |
(1856) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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War and Peace |
(1867) |
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Anna Karenina |
(1877) |
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The Resurrection |
(1899) |
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The Decembrists |
(2004) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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The Raid |
(1853) |
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Two Hussars |
(1856) |
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Albert |
(1858) |
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Family Happiness |
(1859) |
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The Cossacks |
(1863) |
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God Sees the Truth, but Waits |
(1872) |
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A Prisoner in the Caucasus |
(1872) |
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The Death of Ivan Ilych |
(1886) |
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Kholstomer |
(1886) |
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The Kreutzer Sonata |
(1889) |
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Walk in the Light While There is Light |
(1893) |
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Master and Man |
(1895) |
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The Devil |
(1911) |
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Father Sergius |
(1911) |
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The Forged Coupon |
(1911) |
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Hadji Murat |
(1912) |
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Polikushka and Two Hussars |
(1955) |
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Divine and Human and Other Stories |
(2000) |
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A Lost Opportunity |
(2000) |
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The Long Exile and Other Stories |
(2001) |
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An Old Acquaintance |
(2008) |
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Diary of a Lunatic/Three Deaths |
(2016) |
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Work, Death, and Sickness |
(2017) |
Publication Order of Leo Tolstoy Fables Books
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What Men Live by and Other Tales |
(1885) |
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories |
(1886) |
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Ivan the Fool |
(1886) |
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The Candle |
(2000) |
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The Godson |
(2001) |
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The Wisdom of Children |
(2004) |
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Two Old Men |
(2005) |
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Esarhaddon, And Other Tales |
(2010) |
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Where Love is There God is Also |
(2018) |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
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The Power of Darkness |
(1886) |
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The Light That Shines in the Darkness |
(2001) |
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The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All |
(2004) |
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The Living Corpse |
(2014) |
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The Fruits of Enlightenment |
(2019) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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What Then Must We Do? |
(1391) |
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A Confession |
(1880) |
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The Gospel in Brief |
(1883) |
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What I Believe |
(1884) |
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On Life and Essays on Religion |
(1887) |
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The First Step: on vegetarianism |
(1892) |
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
(1893) |
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Bethink Yourselves! |
(1904) |
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A Calendar of Wisdom |
(1906) |
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Tolstoy on Shakespeare |
(1906) |
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The Law of Love and the Law of Violence |
(1909) |
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The Slavery of Our Times |
(1972) |
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Guy De Maupassant |
(1974) |
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Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? |
(1975) |
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Christianity and Patriotism |
(2002) |
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What Is to Be Done? and Life |
(2007) |
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Church and State and Other Essays |
(2009) |
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The Christian Teaching |
(2015) |
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The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy |
(2015) |
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Religion and Morality |
(2016) |
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What is Art? |
(2020) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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The Sebastopol Sketches |
(1855) |
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Twenty-three Tales |
(1907) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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War: An Anthology |
(1969) |
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Magical Realist Fiction |
(1984) |
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Famous and Curious Animal Stories |
(1989) |
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Horse & Pony Stories |
(1992) |
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On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question |
(1992) |
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50 Classic Novellas |
(2011) |
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Selected Stories by Leo Tolstoy |
(2014) |
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Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell |
(2018) |
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Writers: Their Lives and Works |
(2018) |
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Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together |
(2021) |
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Best Russian Short Stories |
(2022) |
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Great Russian Short Stories |
(2022) |
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The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance |
(2023) |
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The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories |
(2023) |