Angela Carter

Angela Carter is an English novelist, journalist, short fiction author, and poet who was known for her picaresque, magical realist and feminist works. Her most critically acclaimed and popular work was the novel “The Bloody Chamber.” She was born in 1940 in Eastbourne, but had to move in with her maternal grandmother in Yorkshire as a child. She graduated with a bachelors in English literature before she got a job at the Croydon Advertiser as a journalist just like her father before her.

The best place to start is the Bristol series, the earliest of Angela Carter's multi-book series: it opens with Shadow Dance (1966) and runs to 3 books across 1966–1971, ending with Love (1971).

Angela Carter has 61 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1966 and 2023. 3 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Bristol series with 3 books — and 58 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Angela Carter's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Bristol (1966–1971, 3 books).

This guide splits Angela Carter's 61 books into 1 named series and 58 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Bristol (3 books, 1966–1971).