D.H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was an English painter, literary critic, essayist, playwright, poet, and novelist that was born in 1885 and died in 1930. He was born at Brinsley Colliry to barely literate miner Arthur John Lawrence and teacher Lydia Beardsall. Lawrence spent much of his childhood in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coalmining town of England.

The best place to start is the Sons and Lovers series, the earliest of D.H. Lawrence's multi-book series: it opens with Sons and Lovers Volume I (1913) and runs to 2 books across 1913, ending with Sons and Lovers Volume II (1913). D.H. Lawrence's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

D.H. Lawrence has 279 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1667 and 2026. 115 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Brangwen Family series with 2 books — and 164 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. D.H. Lawrence's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Sons and Lovers (1913, 2 books) and Brangwen Family (1915–1920, 2 books).

This guide splits D.H. Lawrence's 279 books into 5 named series and 164 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Brangwen Family (2 books, 1915–1920); Sons and Lovers (2 books, 1913); Gothic Fantasy (91 books, 1667–2026); Selected Shorts (17 books, 1993–2012); The Dark Descent (3 books, 1987–1991).