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Roald Dahl books list

Roald Dahl was as prolific a writer as he was creative, releasing fiction and poetry for children and short stories and non-fiction for adults. Here we present a chronological bibliography of works published during and after the author’s life: children’s fiction, children’s poetry, adult fiction and non-fiction.

Children’s fiction

1943 – The Gremlins

1961 – James and the Giant Peach

1964 (US) 1967 (UK) – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1966 – The Magic Finger

1970 – Fantastic Mr Fox

1972 – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

1975 – Danny, the Champion of the World

1978 – The Enormous Crocodile

1980 – The Twits

1981 – George’s Marvellous Medicine

1982 – The BFG

1983 – The Witches

1985 – The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

1988 – Matilda

1990 – Esio Trot

1991 – The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (Posthumously)

1991 – The Minpins (Posthumously)

2005 – Roald Dahl’s Incredible Chocolate Box (published posthumously for World Book Day, and including a missing chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate factory).

Children’s poetry

1982 – Revolting Rhymes

1983 – Dirty Beasts

1989 – Rhyme Stew

Adult fiction

* All short story collections except where indicated.

1946 – Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

1948 – Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen*

1953 – Someone Like You

1960 – Kiss Kiss

1969 – Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl

1974 – Switch Bitch

1977 – The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

1978 – The Best of Roald Dahl

1979 – Tales of the Unexpected

1979 – My Uncle Oswald*

1980 – More Tales of the Unexpected

1983 – Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories

1986 – The Roald Dahl Omnibus

1986 – Two Fables

1989 – Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl

1991 – The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (Posthumously)

1997 – The Roald Dahl Treasury (Posthumously)

1998 – The Great Automatic Grammatizator (Posthumously)

2000 – Skin and Other Stories (Posthumously)

2006 – Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Posthumously)

Non-fiction

1946 – The Mildenhall Treasure

1984 – Boy: Tales of Childhood (Autobiography)

1986 – Going Solo (Autobiography)

1988 – Measles: A Dangerous Illness (a pamphlet published by the Sandwell Health Authority, written 26 years after he lost his first-born daughter, Olivia, to measles in 1962).

1991 – Memories with Food at Gipsy House (Posthumously)

1991 – Roald Dahl’s Guide to Railway Safety (Posthumously)

1993 – My Year (Posthumously)

2016 – The Great Mouse Plot (published posthumously for World Book Day 2016, this title features a chapter from ‘Boy’. It became the first Roald Dahl book to reach No. 1 in the UK book chart).

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