Order of John Buchan Books

Order of John Buchan Books


John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist of adventure novels and an author of many non-fiction books. Buchan served as the 15th Governor General of Canada. His most famous novel was The Thirty-Nine Steps, which was adapted into the Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps. Buchan would feature that novel’s protagonist, Richard Hannay, in four other novels as a major character and two others as a minor character. Following his death in 1940, Buchan received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were sent to the United Kingdom.

John Buchan became a published author with Sir Quixote of the Moors, published in 1895. His final original work was the non-fiction book The History of the First World War, not published until 1991. His final novel was The Long Traverse, published in 1941. Below is a list of John Buchan’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Richard Hannay Books

(with Ford Madox Ford)

The Thirty-Nine Steps

(1915)

Greenmantle

(1916)

Mr. Standfast

(1919)

The Three Hostages

(1924)

The Courts Of The Morning

(1929)

The Island of Sheep

(1936)

Publication Order of Leithen Stories Books

(with Robin Hardy)

The Power-House

(1916)

John MacNab

(1924)

The Dancing Floor

(1926)

The Gap in the Curtain

(1932)

Sick Heart River

(1941)

Publication Order of Dickson McCunn Books

Huntingtower

(1922)

Castle Gay

(1930)

The House of the Four Winds

(1935)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

John Burnet of Barns

(1898)

A Lost Lady of Old Years

(1899)

The Half-Hearted

(1900)

A Lodge in the Wilderness

(1906)

Prester John

(1910)

Salute to Adventurers

(1915)

Midwinter

(1923)

Witch Wood

(1927)

The Magic Walking Stick

(1927)

The Blanket Of The Dark

(1931)

A Prince of the Captivity

(1933)

The Free Fishers

(1934)

The Long Traverse

(1941)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Novel and the Fairy Tale

(1977)

The Kirk in Scotland

(1985)

These for Remembrance

(1987)

Gordon At Khartoum

(2006)

Sir Quixote of the Moors

(2008)

Musa Piscatrix

(2013)

No-Man’s-Land

(2014)

What I Saw In California

(2015)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People

(1899)

The Watcher By the Threshold and Other Tales

(1902)

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies

(1912)

The Runagates Club

(1928)

The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn

(1932)

The Clearing House: A Survey of One’s Mind

(1946)

Best Short Stories

(1984)

The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan

(1991)

Supernatural Buchan

(1997)

Collected Supernatural Stories

(2012)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Scholar Gipsies

(1896)

Sir Walter Raleigh

(1897)

Some Eighteenth Century Byways, And Other Essays

(1908)

Sir Walter Scott

(1911)

Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall

(1913)

History of the Battle of the Somme

(1917)

Francis and Riversdale Grenfell, a Memoir

(1920)

A History of the Great War

(1922)

The Last Secrets

(1923)

Days to Remember

(1923)

Lord Minto

(1924)

Montrose

(1928)

Julius Caesar

(1932)

The Massacre of Glencoe

(1933)

Oliver Cromwell

(1934)

The King’s Grace: 1910-1935

(1935)

Episodes of the Great War

(1936)

Augustus

(1937)

Naval Episodes of the Great War

(1938)

Memory Hold-the-Door

(1940)

Pilgrim’s Way

(1940)

John Buchan By His Wife and Friends

(1947)

A History of the First World War

(1991)

The Marquis of Montrose

(1996)

History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers

(2005)

The Battle of the Somme, First Phase

(2012)

The Last Secrets – The Final Mysteries of Exploration

(2013)

John Buchan’s 1914

(2014)

Buchan’s War

(2015)

The Path of the King

(2015)

Britain’s War by Land

(2015)

The Nations of To-Day

(2015)

The First World War in Africa 1914-1918

(2018)

Italy: The Nations of To-day

(2019)

Nine Journeys of Wonder

(2020)

Publication Order of Poetry Collections

John Buchan’s Collected Poems

(1996)

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Yellow Book

(1897)

Atlantic Harvest: Memoirs of the Atlantic

(1947)

Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy

(1984)

Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls

(1985)

Great Flying Stories

(1991)

Spies And Secret Agents

(1993)

From the Line: Scottish War Poetry 1914 – 1945

(2014)

Scottish Stories

(2023)

Notes: Sick Heart River was also published as Mountain Meadow. The Long Traverse is also titled Lake of Gold. Memory Hold-the-Door was titled Pilgrim’s Way in the United States.