Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Yellow Book | 1895 | Buy |
| Cosmopolitan Crimes : Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | 1971 | Buy |
| Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | 1979 | Buy |
| The Joy of Football | 1986 | Buy |
| 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | 2019 | Buy |
Clayhanger Family Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Clayhanger | 1910 | Buy |
| Hilda Lessways | 1911 | Buy |
| These Twain | 1915 | Buy |
| The Roll-Call | 1975 | Buy |
Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Loot of Cities | 1905 | Buy |
| Elsie and the Child and Other Stories | 1924 | Buy |
| The Woman Who Stole Everything and Other Stories | 1927 | Buy |
| The Night Visitor and Other Stories | 1931 | Buy |
| The Penguin Arnold Bennett | 1954 | N/A |
| Polite Farces for the Drawing Room | 1975 | Buy |
| The Feud; The Lion’s Share; The Silent Brothers | 2005 | Buy |
| The Dog; The Elixir of Youth; The Baby’s Bath | 2005 | Buy |
| Lord Dover & Other Lost Stories | 2011 | Buy |
| Arnold Bennett’s Uncollected Short Stories, 1892-1932 | 2011 | Buy |
Fantasias Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Grand Babylon Hotel / T. Racksole and Daughter | 1902 | Buy |
| The Gates of Wrath | 1903 | Buy |
| Teresa of Watling Street | 1904 | Buy |
| Hugo | 1906 | Buy |
| The Ghost | 1907 | Buy |
| The City of Pleasure | 1907 | Buy |
| The Vanguard / The Strange Vanguard | 1927 | Buy |
Five Towns Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Man from the North | 1898 | Buy |
| Anna of the Five Towns / Cupid and Commonsense | 1902 | Buy |
| Tales of the Five Towns | 1905 | Buy |
| The Grim Smile of the Five Towns | 1907 | Buy |
| The Old Wives’ Tale | 1908 | Buy |
| Clayhanger | 1910 | N/A |
| The Card / Denry the Audacious | 1911 | Buy |
| The Card | 1911 | N/A |
| The Matador of the Five Towns | 1912 | Buy |
| The Old Adam | 1913 | Buy |
| Married Life / The Regent | 1913 | Buy |
| These Twain | 1915 | N/A |
Gothic Fantasy Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Paradise Lost & Other Poems | 1925 | Buy |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: With Poems, Letters & Biography | 2016 | Buy |
| H.G. Wells Short Stories | 1990 | Buy |
| Science Fiction Short Stories | 2015 | Buy |
| Chilling Horror Short Stories | 2015 | Buy |
| Chilling Ghost Short Stories | 2015 | Buy |
| Crime & Mystery Short Stories | 2016 | Buy |
| Swords & Steam Short Stories | 2016 | Buy |
| Dystopia Utopia Short Stories | 2016 | Buy |
| Murder Mayhem Short Stories | 2016 | Buy |
| Lovecraft Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Lost Worlds Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Supernatural Horror Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Time Travel Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Heroic Fantasy Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Edgar Allan Poe Collection | 2017 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Agents & Spies Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales of King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table | 2017 | Buy |
| Alien Invasion Short Stories | 2018 | Buy |
| Norse Myths & Tales | 2018 | Buy |
| Bram Stoker Horror Stories | 2018 | Buy |
| Endless Apocalypse Short Stories | 2018 | Buy |
| Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories | 2018 | Buy |
| Lost Souls | 2018 | Buy |
| Greek Myths & Tales | 2018 | Buy |
| Chinese Myths & Tales | 2018 | Buy |
| Irish Fairy Tales | 2018 | Buy |
| Mary Shelley Horror Stories | 2018 | Buy |
| Celtic Myths & Tales | 2018 | Buy |
| Haunted House Short Stories | 2019 | Buy |
| Cosy Crime Short Stories | 2019 | Buy |
| Brothers Grimm Short Stories | 2019 | Buy |
| American Gothic Short Stories | 2019 | Buy |
| Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria | 2019 | Buy |
| Urban Crime Short Stories | 2019 | Buy |
| Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | 2020 | Buy |
| Epic Fantasy Short Stories | 2020 | Buy |
| A Dying Planet Short Stories | 2020 | Buy |
| Detective Thrillers Short Stories | 2020 | Buy |
| Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories | 2020 | Buy |
| African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | 2020 | Buy |
| Heroes & Heroines Short Stories | 2020 | Buy |
| Native American MythsTales | 2020 | Buy |
| Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales | 2020 | Buy |
| George Orwell Visions of Dystopia | 2021 | Buy |
| Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales | 2021 | Buy |
| Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories | 2021 | Buy |
| Black Sci-Fi Short Stories | 2021 | Buy |
| M.R. James Ghost Stories | 2021 | Buy |
| Chilling Crime Short Stories | 2021 | Buy |
| Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | 2022 | Buy |
| Japanese Myths & Tales | 2022 | Buy |
| BeastsCreatures MythsTales: Epic Tales | 2022 | Buy |
| Asian Ghost Short Stories | 2022 | Buy |
| Weird Horror Short Stories | 2022 | Buy |
| Christmas Gothic Short Stories | 2022 | Buy |
| First Peoples Shared Stories: Gothic Fantasy | 2022 | Buy |
| Alternate History Short Stories | 2023 | Buy |
| Hidden Realms Short Stories | 2023 | Buy |
| Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories | 2023 | Buy |
| Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories | 2023 | Buy |
| Lost Atlantis Short Stories | 2023 | Buy |
| Aztec Myths & Tales | 2023 | Buy |
| Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories | 2023 | Buy |
| Viking Folk & Fairy Tales | 2023 | Buy |
| Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales | 2023 | Buy |
| Egyptian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | 2023 | Buy |
| Learning to Be Human Short Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| Shadows on the Water Short Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| Arthur Machen Horror Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| William Hope Hodgson Horror Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| African Ghost Short Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| Titans & Giants Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | 2024 | Buy |
| Quests & Journeys | 2024 | Buy |
| Babylon & Sumer Myths & Tales | 2024 | Buy |
| Sun Rising Short Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| Moon Falling Short Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Stories | 2025 | Buy |
| Afrofuturism Short Stories | 2025 | Buy |
| Were Wolf Short Stories | 2025 | Buy |
| Prophecies & Oracles Myths & Tales | 2025 | Buy |
| Robots Past & Future Short Stories | 2025 | Buy |
| Kalevala & Finnish Myths & Tales | 2026 | Buy |
| Faeries & Nymphs Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | 2026 | Buy |
| Slavic Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | 2026 | Buy |
| Africanfuturism Short Stories | 2026 | Buy |
| Folklore Horror Short Stories | 2026 | Buy |
| Wars in the Stars Short Stories | 2026 | Buy |
| Christmas Horror Short Stories | 2026 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide | 1898 | Buy |
| The Truth About an Author | 1903 | Buy |
| How to Become an Author: A Practical Guide | 1903 | Buy |
| The Reasonable Life / Mental Efficiency | 1907 | Buy |
| How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | 1908 | Buy |
| The Human Machine | 1908 | Buy |
| Literary Taste | 1909 | Buy |
| The Feast of St. Friend / Friendship and Happiness | 1911 | Buy |
| Your United States / Those United States | 1912 | Buy |
| Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People | 1913 | Buy |
| The Plain Man and His Wife | 1913 | Buy |
| Liberty!: A Statement of the British Case | 1914 | Buy |
| From the Log of the Velsa, Part 967 | 1914 | Buy |
| The Author’s Craft | 1914 | Buy |
| Over There | 1915 | Buy |
| Self and Self-Management | 1918 | Buy |
| Our Women | 1920 | Buy |
| Things That Have Interested Me | 1921 | Buy |
| How to Make the Best of Life | 1923 | Buy |
| Mediterranean Scenes | 1928 | Buy |
| The Savour of Life | 1928 | Buy |
| Journal of Things New and Old | 1930 | Buy |
| The Journal of Arnold Bennett, 1896-1910 | 1932 | Buy |
| The Journal of Arnold Bennett, 1911-1920 | 1932 | Buy |
| The Journal of Arnold Bennett, 1921-1928 | 1932 | Buy |
| Arnold Bennett In Love | 1972 | Buy |
| Arnold Bennett: Evening Standard Years - ‘Books and Persons,’ 1926-1931 | 1974 | Buy |
| Piccadilly: Story of the Film | 1975 | Buy |
| Frank Swinnerton | 1975 | Buy |
| Sketches for Autobiography | 1979 | Buy |
| Fame and Fiction | 2012 | Buy |
Plays
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Question of Sex | 1900 | Buy |
| What the Public Wants | 1910 | Buy |
| Cupid and Commonsense | 1910 | Buy |
| Milestones | 1912 | Buy |
| The Great Adventure | 1913 | Buy |
| Judith | 1919 | Buy |
| Body and Soul | 1921 | Buy |
| The Love Match | 1922 | Buy |
| London Life | 1924 | Buy |
| Flora | 1933 | Buy |
| The Honeymoon | 2013 | Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Bracelet at Bruges | 1905 | Buy |
| The Fire of London | 1905 | Buy |
| From One Generation to Another | 1910 | Buy |
| Death, Fire, and Life | 1926 | Buy |
| The Murder of the Mandarin | 2014 | Buy |
| The Burglary | 2014 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Leonora | 1903 | Buy |
| A Great Man | 1904 | Buy |
| Sacred and Profane Love / The Book of Carlotta | 1905 | Buy |
| Whom God Hath Joined | 1906 | Buy |
| Doubloons / Sinews of War | 1906 | Buy |
| Buried Alive | 1908 | Buy |
| The Statue | 1908 | Buy |
| The Glimpse | 1909 | Buy |
| Helen with the High Hand | 1910 | Buy |
| The Price of Love | 1914 | Buy |
| The Lion’s Share | 1916 | Buy |
| The Title | 1918 | Buy |
| The Pretty Lady | 1918 | Buy |
| Mr. Prohack | 1922 | Buy |
| Lilian | 1922 | Buy |
| Riceyman Steps | 1923 | Buy |
| Don Juan de Marana | 1923 | Buy |
| The Bright Island | 1926 | Buy |
| Lord Raingo | 1926 | Buy |
| Accident | 1929 | Buy |
| Imperial Palace | 1930 | Buy |
| Tabletop | 1939 | N/A |
| Stroke of Luck and Dream of Destiny: An Unfinished Novel | 1975 | Buy |
Arnold Bennett was one of the most productive English writers of the early twentieth century. His fiction is rooted in the industrial towns of North Staffordshire, where he grew up. The Five Towns novels and the Clayhanger Family series give detailed, unromantic portraits of middle-class life in the Potteries district, from shop owners and printers to their wives and children.
Bennett also wrote fantasias (lighter novels of adventure and intrigue), plays, short stories, and a large body of non-fiction including journalism, literary criticism, and self-help. His output was enormous, and his reputation has gone through cycles of critical favor, but the best of his realist novels remain in print and continue to find readers who appreciate their careful attention to ordinary lives.