Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Place at Whitton | 1964 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 2 | The Fear | 1965 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 3 | Bring Larks And Heroes | 1967 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 4 | Three Cheers for the Paraclete | 1968 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 5 | The Survivor | 1969 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 6 | A Dutiful Daughter | 1971 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 7 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1972 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 8 | Blood Red, Sister Rose of the Maid of Orleans | 1974 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 9 | Gossip from the Forest | 1975 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 10 | Season In Purgatory | 1977 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 11 | Victim of the Aurora | 1977 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 12 | Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees | 1978 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 13 | Confederates | 1979 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 14 | Passenger | 1979 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 15 | Cut Rate Kingdom | 1980 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 16 | Schindler’s List / Schindler’s Ark | 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 17 | A Family Madness | 1985 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 18 | Playmaker | 1987 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 19 | To Asmara / Towards Asmara | 1989 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 20 | Act Of Grace | 1989 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 21 | By The Line | 1989 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 22 | Flying Hero Class | 1991 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 23 | Woman of the Inner Sea | 1992 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 24 | Jacko: The Great Intruder | 1994 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 25 | A River Town | 1995 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 26 | Bettany’s Book | 2000 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 27 | The Tyrant’s Novel | 2003 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 28 | Office of Innocence | 2003 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 29 | The Widow and Her Hero | 2007 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 30 | The People’s Train | 2009 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 31 | An Angel in Australia | 2011 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 32 | The Daughters of Mars | 2012 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 33 | Shame and the Captives | 2013 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 34 | Napoleon’s Last Island | 2015 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 35 | Crimes of the Father | 2016 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 36 | Two Old Men Dying | 2018 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 37 | The Pact | 2020 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 38 | The Dickens Boy | 2020 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 39 | The Book of Science and Antiquities | 2020 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
| 40 | Corporal Hitler’s Pistol | 2021 | Thomas Keneally | Buy |
Thomas Keneally’s standalone novels number forty books published between 1964 and 2021. The range is extraordinary: from his early Australian novels through the Booker Prize-winning Schindler’s List to later works about the American Civil War, Napoleonic exile, and the Catholic priesthood.
Keneally’s fiction often centers on moral questions placed in historical settings. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972) examines racial violence in colonial Australia, while The Daughters of Mars (2012) follows nurses through the brutal campaigns of World War I. His more recent novels, including Corporal Hitler’s Pistol (2021), show a writer still engaged with history and its consequences.