Graham Joyce Standalone Novels books in order

Graham Joyce's standalone novels span twenty books of literary dark fantasy from Dreamside (1991) to The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (2013), blending the uncanny with everyday life.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Dreamside 1991 Graham Joyce Buy
2 Dark Sister 1992 Graham Joyce Buy
3 House of Lost Dreams 1993 Graham Joyce Buy
4 Requiem 1995 Graham Joyce Buy
5 The Tooth Fairy 1996 Graham Joyce Buy
6 The Stormwatcher 1998 Graham Joyce Buy
7 Leningrad Nights 1999 Graham Joyce Buy
8 Indigo 1999 Graham Joyce Buy
9 Smoking Poppy 2001 Graham Joyce Buy
10 The Facts of Life 2002 Graham Joyce Buy
11 The Limits of Enchantment 2005 Graham Joyce Buy
12 T.W.O.C. 2005 Graham Joyce Buy
13 Do The Creepy Thing / The Exchange 2006 Graham Joyce Buy
14 Three Ways to Snog an Alien 2008 Graham Joyce Buy
15 How to Make Friends with Demons 2008 Graham Joyce Buy
16 Memoirs of a Master Forger 2008 Graham Joyce Buy
17 The Devil’s Ladder 2009 Graham Joyce Buy
18 The Silent Land 2010 Graham Joyce Buy
19 Some Kind of Fairy Tale 2012 Graham Joyce Buy
20 The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit / The Year of the Ladybird 2013 Graham Joyce Buy

Graham Joyce published twenty standalone novels between 1991 and 2013, each blending literary fiction with elements of the uncanny. His debut Dreamside (1991) set the template — a group of students experiment with lucid dreaming and unleash something they cannot control. Subsequent novels like Dark Sister (1992), Requiem (1995), and The Tooth Fairy (1996) refined his approach to stories where the supernatural intrudes on recognizable daily life.

His later novels maintained the same quality. Smoking Poppy (2001) sends a father to Thailand to find his daughter, The Limits of Enchantment (2005) follows a rural healer in 1960s England, and Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2012) deals with a woman who returns after twenty years claiming she was taken by fairies. Joyce also wrote YA fiction including Do The Creepy Thing and Three Ways to Snog an Alien.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Graham Joyce Standalone Novels series?

There are twenty books in the Graham Joyce Standalone Novels series, published between 1991 and 2013.

What is the first book in the Graham Joyce Standalone Novels series?

The first book in the Graham Joyce Standalone Novels series is Dreamside, published in 1991.

Which Graham Joyce novel should I start with?

The Tooth Fairy (1996) is his most accessible and widely loved novel. Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2012) is his most acclaimed later work. The Facts of Life (2002) won the British Fantasy Award.

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