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Publication Order of Berlin Stories Books
Start with: Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935)
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Start with: All the Conspirators (1928)
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Start with: Jacob's Hands (1939)
ⓘ About Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was a published British author. He is known for The Berlin Stories, which are widely regarded as being the formative inspiration for the musical Cabaret, which won an Academy Award. He also was a diarist, autobiographer, screenwriter, playwright, homosexual and advocate of the gay rights movement as well as a major part of the literary and entertainment world. He was born in Cheshire, England to the full name of Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood on August 26, 1904. He would grow up to realize he was homosexual and this would go on to be a frequently utilized theme and incorporated into his writing. Growing up in north England’s Manchester, the author would eventually go on to become a certified citizen of the United States in 1946.
All Book Series by Christopher Isherwood
1
Mr Norris Changes Trains
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 1935
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2
Goodbye to Berlin
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 1939
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All the Conspirators
Series opener · book 1 of 10 · published 1928
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2
Lions and Shadows
Book 2 of 10 · published 1938
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4
The World In The Evening
Book 4 of 10 · published 1954
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5
Down There on a Visit
Book 5 of 10 · published 1962
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6
Approach to Vedanta
Book 6 of 10 · published 1963
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8
A Meeting by the River
Book 8 of 10 · published 1967
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10
My Guru And His Disciple
Latest in the series · book 10 of 10 · published 1980
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Jacob's Hands
Single-title series · published 1939 Co-authored · Aldous Huxley
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1
The Dog Beneath the Skin, Or, Where Is Francis
Single-title series · published 1986
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1
The Ascent Of F6 / On The Frontier
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 1958
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5
People One Ought to Know
Book 5 of 7 · published 1982
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6
Where Joy Resides
Book 6 of 7 · published 1989
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7
The Mortmere Stories
Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 1994
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1
The Memorial
Series opener · book 1 of 20 · published 1932
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2
Journey to a War
Book 2 of 20 · published 1939 Co-authored · W.H. Auden
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3
The Condor And The Cows
Book 3 of 20 · published 1949
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4
Vedanta for Modern Man
Book 4 of 20 · published 1951
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5
Vedanta for the Western World
Book 5 of 20 · published 1960
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6
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
Book 6 of 20 · published 1965
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7
Kathleen and Frank
Book 7 of 20 · published 1971
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8
Christopher and His Kind
Book 8 of 20 · published 1976
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10
The Wishing Tree
Book 10 of 20 · published 1986
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11
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1
Book 11 of 20 · published 1996
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12
The Repton Letters
Book 12 of 20 · published 1997
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14
Kathleen and Christopher
Book 14 of 20 · published 2005
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15
Isherwood on Writing
Book 15 of 20 · published 2007
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16
The Sixties: Diaries Volume Two
Book 16 of 20 · published 2010
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17
What Vedanta Means To Me
Book 17 of 20 · published 2011
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18
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3
Book 18 of 20 · published 2012
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20
The Song of God Bhagavad-Gita
Latest in the series · book 20 of 20 · published 2020
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1
Jacob's Hands
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 1939 Co-authored · Aldous Huxley
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2
A Teacher's Guide to Brave New World
Book 2 of 3 · published 2014 Anthology · Aldous Huxley,Amy Jurskis
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3
The Legend of the Gamer
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2024 Anthology · Aldous Huxley
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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
Series opener · book 1 of 97 · published 1969
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2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
Book 2 of 97 · published 1981
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3
Conversations with Graham Greene
Book 3 of 97 · published 1983
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Conversations with Eudora Welty
Book 4 of 97 · published 1985
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Conversations with Walker Percy
Book 5 of 97 · published 1985
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Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
Book 6 of 97 · published 1985
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Conversations with William Styron
Book 7 of 97 · published 1985
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Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
Book 8 of 97 · published 1986
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9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
Book 9 of 97 · published 1986
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Conversations with Tennessee Williams
Book 10 of 97 · published 1986
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Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
Book 11 of 97 · published 1986
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12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
Book 12 of 97 · published 1987
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13
Truman Capote: Conversations
Book 13 of 97 · published 1987
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Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
Book 14 of 97 · published 1987
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Conversations with Peter Taylor
Book 15 of 97 · published 1987
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Conversations with Arthur Miller
Book 16 of 97 · published 1987
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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
Book 17 of 97 · published 1988
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Conversations with Edward Albee
Book 18 of 97 · published 1988
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Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
Book 19 of 97 · published 1988
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Conversations with Norman Mailer
Book 20 of 97 · published 1988
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Conversations with Robert Graves
Book 21 of 97 · published 1989
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Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
Book 22 of 97 · published 1989
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Conversations with Shelby Foote
Book 23 of 97 · published 1989
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Conversations with Robertson Davies
Book 24 of 97 · published 1989
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Conversations with James Baldwin
Book 25 of 97 · published 1989
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Conversations with John Gardner
Book 26 of 97 · published 1990
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Conversations with Richard Wilbur
Book 27 of 97 · published 1990
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Conversations with Tom Wolfe
Book 28 of 97 · published 1990
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Conversations with Raymond Carver
Book 29 of 97 · published 1990
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Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
Book 30 of 97 · published 1990
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Conversations with Reynolds Price
Book 31 of 97 · published 1991
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Conversations with Bernard Malamud
Book 32 of 97 · published 1991
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Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
Book 33 of 97 · published 1991
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Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
Book 34 of 97 · published 1992
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Conversations With Thornton Wilder
Book 35 of 97 · published 1992
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Conversations with Robert Coles
Book 36 of 97 · published 1992
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Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
Book 37 of 97 · published 1992
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More Conversations with Walker Percy
Book 38 of 97 · published 1993
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Conversations with Richard Wright
Book 39 of 97 · published 1993
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Conversations with Paul Bowles
Book 40 of 97 · published 1993
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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
Book 41 of 97 · published 1994
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Conversations with Amiri Baraka
Book 42 of 97 · published 1994
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Conversations with Toni Morrison
Book 43 of 97 · published 1994
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Conversations with Saul Bellow
Book 44 of 97 · published 1994
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Conversations with Henry Miller
Book 45 of 97 · published 1994
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Conversations With S.J. Perelman
Book 46 of 97 · published 1995
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Conversations with Ernest Gaines
Book 47 of 97 · published 1995
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison
Book 48 of 97 · published 1995
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Conversations with Chester Himes
Book 49 of 97 · published 1995
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Conversations with Susan Sontag
Book 50 of 97 · published 1995
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Conversations with Ishmael Reed
Book 51 of 97 · published 1995
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Conversations with Derek Walcott
Book 52 of 97 · published 1996
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More Conversations with Eudora Welty
Book 53 of 97 · published 1996
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Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
Book 54 of 97 · published 1996
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Conversations with Pauline Kael
Book 55 of 97 · published 1996
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Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Book 56 of 97 · published 1997
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Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
Book 57 of 97 · published 1997
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Conversations with Chinua Achebe
Book 58 of 97 · published 1997
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
Book 59 of 97 · published 1998
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Conversations with Denise Levertov
Book 60 of 97 · published 1998
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Conversations With William Faulkner
Book 61 of 97 · published 1999
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Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
Book 62 of 97 · published 1999
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Conversations With John Fowles
Book 63 of 97 · published 1999
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Conversations with Salman Rushdie
Book 64 of 97 · published 2000
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Conversations with William S. Burroughs
Book 65 of 97 · published 2000
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Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
Book 66 of 97 · published 2000
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Conversations with Chaim Potok
Book 67 of 97 · published 2001
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Conversations with Richard Ford
Book 68 of 97 · published 2001
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69
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
Book 69 of 97 · published 2001
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70
Conversations with Mary Gordon
Book 70 of 97 · published 2002
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71
Conversations with Jim Harrison
Book 71 of 97 · published 2002
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72
Conversations with Clarence Major
Book 72 of 97 · published 2002
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73
Conversations with Margaret Walker
Book 73 of 97 · published 2002
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Conversations with Erica Jong
Book 74 of 97 · published 2002
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Elie Wiesel: Conversations
Book 75 of 97 · published 2002
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Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
Book 76 of 97 · published 2003
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Conversations with Rita Dove
Book 77 of 97 · published 2003
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Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book 78 of 97 · published 2003
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Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
Book 79 of 97 · published 2003
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Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
Book 80 of 97 · published 2003
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81
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
Book 81 of 97 · published 2004
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82
Conversations with Audre Lorde
Book 82 of 97 · published 2004
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83
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
Book 83 of 97 · published 2004
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84
Conversations With John le Carré
Book 84 of 97 · published 2004
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85
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
Book 85 of 97 · published 2005
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86
Conversations with Don DeLillo
Book 86 of 97 · published 2005
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Conversations with Gore Vidal
Book 87 of 97 · published 2005
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Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
Book 88 of 97 · published 2005
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89
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
Book 89 of 97 · published 2005
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90
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
Book 90 of 97 · published 2005
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91
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
Book 91 of 97 · published 2006
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92
Conversations with Larry Brown
Book 92 of 97 · published 2007
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93
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
Book 93 of 97 · published 2007
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94
Conversations with Wendell Berry
Book 94 of 97 · published 2007
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95
Conversations with Leon Forrest
Book 95 of 97 · published 2007
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96
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
Book 96 of 97 · published 2008
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97
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
Latest in the series · book 97 of 97 · published 2023
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1
Great English Short Stories
Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 1957
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2
Two Hearts Desire
Book 2 of 6 · published 1997
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3
Writing Los Angeles
Book 3 of 6 · published 2002
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4
Why are You Telling Me This?
Book 4 of 6 · published 2010
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6
The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s: Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2023
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? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Christopher Isherwood?
Christopher Isherwood was a published British author. He is known for The Berlin Stories, which are widely regarded as being the formative inspiration for the musical Cabaret, which won an Academy Award. He also was a diarist, autobiographer, screenwriter, playwright, homosexual and advocate of the gay rights movement as well as a major part of the literary and entertainment world.
Which Christopher Isherwood series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Aldous Huxley Short Stories/Novellas series, the earliest of Christopher Isherwood's multi-book series: it opens with Jacob's Hands (1939) and runs to 3 books across 1939–2024, ending with The Legend of the Gamer (2024).
How many books has Christopher Isherwood written?
Christopher Isherwood has 147 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1928 and 2024. 102 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Aldous Huxley Short Stories/Novellas series with 3 books — and 45 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Christopher Isherwood's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Christopher Isherwood's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Berlin Stories (1935–1939, 2 books) and Aldous Huxley Short Stories/Novellas (1939–2024, 3 books).
How are Christopher Isherwood's books organised into series?
This guide splits Christopher Isherwood's 147 books into 3 named series and 45 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Aldous Huxley Short Stories/Novellas (3 books, 1939–2024); Berlin Stories (2 books, 1935–1939); Literary Conversations (97 books, 1969–2023).
