Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice au Pays des Merveilles | 2010 | Lewis Carroll | N/A |
| 2 | Alice in Wonderland | 1862 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 3 | Alice’s Adventures Under Ground | 1865 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 4 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | 1865 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 5 | Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | 1871 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 6 | Alice through the Looking Glass: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation | 1871 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 7 | Alicia | 1871 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 8 | Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There | 1871 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 9 | The Wasp In A Wig | 1877 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
| 10 | The Nursery | 1889 | Lewis Carroll | Buy |
Lewis Carroll’s Alice books began as an improvised story told on a boat trip to the Liddell sisters in Oxford on July 4, 1862. Alice Liddell, age ten, asked Carroll to write it down. He produced a handwritten manuscript titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which he later expanded and published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865.
The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, appeared in 1871 and used a chess game as its structural framework. Where the first book was built around a pack of playing cards, the second had Alice moving across a chessboard, encountering Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Red Queen, and Humpty Dumpty along the way.
The Alice books have been translated into over 170 languages and adapted into countless films, stage productions, and other media. Carroll also published The Nursery “Alice” (1889), an abridged version for very young children with enlarged color illustrations.