Introduction
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.
Above: Some first edition covers of books by Roald Dahl.
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).