Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| World’s Great Mystery Stories | 1943 | Buy |
| Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction | 1948 | Buy |
| Great Tales of Action and Adventure | 1958 | Buy |
| 21 Great Stories | 1969 | Buy |
| Scottish Tales of Terror | 1972 | Buy |
| Sea Tales of Terror | 1974 | Buy |
| The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | 1977 | Buy |
| Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | 1979 | Buy |
| Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 2 | 1979 | Buy |
| The 14th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories | 1981 | Buy |
| 65 Great Spine Chillers | 1982 | Buy |
| Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries | 1982 | Buy |
| Mysterious Sea Stories | 1987 | N/A |
| English Country House Murders | 1988 | Buy |
| Tales of the Occult | 1989 | Buy |
| Hound Dunnit | 1989 | Buy |
| Great Law and Order Stories | 1990 | Buy |
| Great Tales of Crime and Detection | 1992 | Buy |
| Horse & Pony Stories | 1992 | Buy |
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Volume Three | 1992 | Buy |
| Murder British Style | 1993 | Buy |
| Sea-Cursed | 1994 | Buy |
| Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories | 1997 | Buy |
| The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | 2000 | Buy |
| Crime Never Pays | 2001 | Buy |
| On Glorious Wings | 2003 | Buy |
| The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | 2004 | Buy |
| H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural | 2006 | Buy |
| The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes | 2007 | Buy |
| Stories to Get You Through the Night | 2010 | Buy |
| 50 Classic Novellas | 2011 | Buy |
| London Stories | 2013 | Buy |
| A Short Story Anthology | 2013 | Buy |
| Togas and Tyrants: Collected Tales of Ancient Rome | 2014 | Buy |
| The Phantom Coach | 2014 | Buy |
| Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age | 2017 | Buy |
| Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses | 2017 | Buy |
| Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays | 2019 | Buy |
| The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 | 2019 | Buy |
| Murder Takes a Holiday | 2021 | Buy |
Gerard Short Story Collections Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Gerard | 1903 | Buy |
| The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard | 1896 | Buy |
Gothic Fantasy Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Paradise Lost & Other Poems | - | Buy |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: With Poems, Letters & Biography | - | 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 |
MIT Press/Radium Age Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Voices from the Radium Age | 2022 | Buy |
| A World of Women | 2022 | Buy |
| The World Set Free | 2022 | Buy |
| The Clockwork Man | 2022 | Buy |
| Of One Blood | 2022 | Buy |
| Nordenholt’s Million | 2022 | Buy |
| What Not | 2022 | Buy |
| Theodore Savage | 2023 | Buy |
| The Lost World and The Poison Belt | 2023 | Buy |
| More Voices from the Radium Age | 2023 | Buy |
| The Napoleon of Notting Hill | 2023 | Buy |
| The Inhumans and Other Stories | 2024 | Buy |
| Before Superman | 2025 | Buy |
Murderous Christmas Stories Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Murder under the Christmas Tree | 2016 | Buy |
| Murder on Christmas Eve | 2017 | Buy |
| Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season | 2017 | N/A |
| A Very Murderous Christmas | 2018 | Buy |
| A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2018 | N/A |
| Murder at Christmas | 2019 | Buy |
| Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2019 | N/A |
| Murder in Midwinter | 2020 | Buy |
| Murder on a Winter’s Night | 2021 | Buy |
| Murder in the Falling Snow | 2022 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Great Boer War | 1900 | Buy |
| The War in South Africa, Its Cause & Conduct; | 1902 | Buy |
| Through the Magic Door | 1907 | Buy |
| The Crime of the Congo | 1909 | Buy |
| The Case Of Oscar Slater | 1912 | Buy |
| The New Revelation | 1917 | Buy |
| The Vital Message | 1919 | Buy |
| The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1915 | 1920 | Buy |
| The Wanderings of a Spiritualist | 1921 | Buy |
| The Coming of the Fairies | 1921 | Buy |
| Memories and Adventures and Western Wanderings | 1924 | Buy |
| The History of Spiritualism | 1926 | Buy |
| The Edge of the Unknown | 1930 | Buy |
| Dangerous Work | 2012 | Buy |
Professor Challenger Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Isčezli svet | 1912 | N/A |
| The Lost World | 1912 | Buy |
| The Poison Belt | 1913 | Buy |
| The Land of Mist | 1926 | Buy |
| When the World Screamed | 1928 | Buy |
| The Disintegration Machine | 1929 | Buy |
Sherlock Holmes Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Sherlock Homes | 1905 | N/A |
| 福尔摩斯探案全集 | 1930 | N/A |
| Знак четырех | 1890 | N/A |
| Su último saludo | 1892 | N/A |
| Memoar Sherlock Holmes | 1893 | N/A |
| درنده باسكرویل | 1902 | N/A |
| Návrat Sherlocka Holmese | 1905 | N/A |
| Долина страха | 1914 | N/A |
| His Last Bow | 1892 | N/A |
| قضايا شيرلوك هولمز | 1927 | N/A |
| Aventuras Inéditas de Sherlock Holmes | 1892 | N/A |
| A Study in Scarlet | 1887 | Buy |
| The Sign of Four | 1890 | Buy |
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge | 1908 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans | 1908 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmesin seikkailut | 1892 | N/A |
| The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot | 1910 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Red Circle | 1911 | Buy |
| The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | 1911 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Dying Detective | 1913 | Buy |
| The Valley of Fear | 1914 | Buy |
| His Last Bow | 1917 | Buy |
Sherlock Holmes Short Story Collections Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1 | 2015 | N/A |
| Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2 | 1894 | N/A |
| Sherlock Holmes: Volume 3 | 1905 | N/A |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | 1905 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes: Volume 4 | 1917 | N/A |
| Sherlock Holmes - Read by Stephen Fry | 1927 | Buy |
| The Complete Sherlock Holmes | 1927 | N/A |
| The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | 1927 | Buy |
| The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1982 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume One | 1985 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume Two | 1986 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume Three | 1986 | N/A |
| The Sherlock Holmes Theatre | 2005 | Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection | 2013 | Buy |
| A Case of Identity | 1891 | Buy |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1892 | Buy |
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | 1894 | Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Lot No. 249 | - | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Cardboard Box | - | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Yellow Face | - | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Naval Treaty | - | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Final Problem | - | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Empty House | 1903 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Red Circle | 1911 | Buy |
| The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | 1911 | Buy |
| The Horror of the Heights | 1913 | N/A |
| The Problem of Thor Bridge | 1922 | Buy |
| The Ring Of Thoth | 1968 | Buy |
| The Leather Funnel | 2003 | Buy |
| John Barrington Cowles | 2011 | Buy |
| The Case of Lady Sannox | 2013 | Buy |
| A Literary Mosaic | 2014 | Buy |
| That Little Square Box | 2014 | Buy |
| The Crime of the Brigadier | 2014 | Buy |
| The Croxley Master | 2016 | Buy |
| The Gully of Bluemansdyke | 2018 | Buy |
Short Story Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Captain of the Polestar | - | Buy |
| My Friend The Murderer And Other Mysteries And Adventures | - | Buy |
| Round the Red Lamp | - | Buy |
| Tales of Unease | - | Buy |
| The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport | 1900 | Buy |
| Round the Fire Stories | 1908 | Buy |
| The Last Galley | 1911 | Buy |
| Danger! And Other Stories | 1918 | Buy |
| The Great Keinplatz Experiment | 1919 | Buy |
| Tales Of Adventure And Medical Life | 1920 | Buy |
| Tales Of Pirates And Blue Water | 1922 | Buy |
| Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates | 1925 | Buy |
| The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago | 1925 | Buy |
| The Black Doctor and other Tales of Terror and Mystery | 1937 | Buy |
| The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure | 2009 | Buy |
| Gothic Tales | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales of Terror and Mystery | 2022 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Surgeon of Gaster Fell | - | Buy |
| The Mystery of Cloomber | - | Buy |
| Micah Clarke | - | Buy |
| The Firm of Girdlestone | - | Buy |
| The White Company | - | Buy |
| The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales | - | Buy |
| The Doings of Raffles Haw | - | Buy |
| Beyond the City | - | Buy |
| The Refugees | - | Buy |
| My Friend the Murderer | - | Buy |
| The Parasite | - | Buy |
| The Stark Munro Letters | - | Buy |
| Rodney Stone | - | Buy |
| Uncle Bernac | - | Buy |
| The Tragedy of the Korosko | - | Buy |
| A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus | - | Buy |
| Sir Nigel | 1906 | Buy |
| The Maracot Deep | 1929 | Buy |
| The Narrative of John Smith | 2011 | Buy |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Su último saludo | 1892 | N/A |
| Mavi Yakutun Sırrı | 1892 | N/A |
| The Speckled Band | 1892 | N/A |
| The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story | 1892 | N/A |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Beryl Coronet | 1892 | N/A |
| A Case of Identity | 1891 | Buy |
| A Scandal in Bohemia | 1891 | Buy |
| The Boscombe Valley Mystery | 1891 | Buy |
| The Five Orange Pips | 1891 | Buy |
| The Man with the Twisted Lip | 1891 | Buy |
| The Red-headed League | 1891 | Buy |
| Adventure of the Beryl Coronet | 1892 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | 1892 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Copper Beeches | 1892 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb | 1892 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor | 1892 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Speckled Band | 1892 | Buy |
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Problem of Thor Bridge | 1922 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Creeping Man | 1923 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Illustrious Client | 1925 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone | 1921 | Buy |
| How Watson Learned the Trick | 1924 | Buy |
| The Adventure of Black Peter | 1904 | N/A |
| The Adventure of the Three Garridebs | 1925 | Buy |
| The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton | 1904 | N/A |
| The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire | 1924 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Three Gables | 1926 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier | 1926 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane | 1926 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Retired Colourman | 1927 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger | 1927 | Buy |
| The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place | 1927 | Buy |
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Blaze | 1892 | N/A |
| The Yellow Face | 1893 | N/A |
| The Gloria Scott, Sherlock Holmes: | 1893 | N/A |
| لغز بلدة ريغيت | 1893 | N/A |
| The Greek Interpreter, Sherlock Holmes: | 1893 | N/A |
| The Naval Treaty | 1893 | N/A |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1901 | Buy |
| The Adventure of Silver Blaze | 1892 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Cardboard Box | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Crooked Man | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Final Problem | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Gloria Scott | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Naval Treaty | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Reigate Squire | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Resident Patient | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk | 1893 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Yellow Face | 1893 | Buy |
| The Field Bazaar | 1896 | Buy |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Adventure of the Norwood Builder | 1903 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Dancing Men | 1903 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Empty House | 1903 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Priory School | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of Black Peter | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Six Napoleons | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Three Students | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Abbey Grange | 1904 | Buy |
| The Adventure of the Second Stain | 1904 | Buy |
Arthur Conan Doyle trained as a doctor at the University of Edinburgh, where one of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bell, became the model for Sherlock Holmes. Doyle published A Study in Scarlet in 1887 and within a few years Holmes had become one of the most popular characters in English literature. The detective stories appeared in The Strand Magazine throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, and Doyle famously killed Holmes off at Reichenbach Falls in 1893 before public demand forced him to bring the character back in 1903.
Doyle considered his historical fiction to be his best work. Novels like The White Company (set during the Hundred Years’ War) and Micah Clarke (set during the Monmouth Rebellion) showed his deep interest in English and European history. His Professor Challenger stories, beginning with The Lost World in 1912, placed him alongside H.G. Wells as an early voice in science fiction. He also wrote numerous horror and supernatural short stories that remain widely anthologized.
In his later years, Doyle became a passionate advocate for spiritualism, writing books like The New Revelation and The History of Spiritualism. He defended the Cottingley Fairies photographs in The Coming of the Fairies, a stance that damaged his reputation in some circles. He was also active in public life, running for Parliament twice, campaigning against injustice in the Congo, and working to overturn wrongful convictions. He was knighted in 1902 for his pamphlet defending British conduct during the Boer War.