Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wanting Seed | 1956 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 2 | The Doctor is Sick | 1960 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 3 | The Right to an Answer | 1960 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 4 | Devil of a State | 1961 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 5 | One Hand Clapping, | 1961 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 6 | The Worm and the Ring | 1961 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 7 | A Clockwork Orange | 1962 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 8 | Honey for the Bears | 1963 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 9 | Inside Mr. Enderby | 1963 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 10 | The Eve of Saint Venus | 1964 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 11 | Nothing like the Sun | 1964 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 12 | A Vision of Battlements | 1965 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 13 | Tremor of Intent | 1966 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 14 | MF | 1971 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 15 | Napoleon Symphony | 1974 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 16 | A Long Trip to Teatime | 1976 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 17 | Beard’s Roman Women | 1976 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 18 | Moses | 1976 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 19 | Abba Abba | 1977 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 20 | 1985 | 1978 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 21 | Man of Nazareth | 1979 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 22 | The Kingdom of the Wicked | 1980 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 23 | Earthly Powers | 1980 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 24 | The End of the World News | 1982 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 25 | The Pianoplayers | 1986 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 26 | Any Old Iron | 1989 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 27 | Mozart and the Wolf Gang | 1991 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 28 | A Dead Man in Deptford | 1993 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
| 29 | Byrne | 1995 | Anthony Burgess | Buy |
Anthony Burgess’s standalone novels number twenty-nine, published between 1956 and 1995. The most famous is A Clockwork Orange (1962), a short, violent novel about free will and behavioral conditioning, written in an invented slang. Earthly Powers (1980) is his longest and most ambitious novel, narrated by an elderly writer whose memoirs span the entire 20th century.
Other notable standalones include Nothing like the Sun (1964), a fictionalized life of Shakespeare told in Elizabethan English; Tremor of Intent (1966), a spy thriller that parodies the genre; Napoleon Symphony (1974), which structures Napoleon’s life story around Beethoven’s Third Symphony; and A Dead Man in Deptford (1993), about the murder of playwright Christopher Marlowe. The range of subjects and styles across these novels reflects Burgess’s restless intellect and his refusal to repeat himself.