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All Book Series by George Bernard Shaw
Plays. Pleasant and Unpleasant. (Arms and the Man / Candida / Man of Destiny / Mrs. Warren's Profession / Philanderer / Widower's Houses / You Never Can Tell)
Book 9 of 48 · published 1898
Pleasant Plays (Arms and the Man / Candida / Man of Destiny / You Never Can Tell)
Book 10 of 48 · published 1898
Three Plays for Puritans (Caesar and Cleopatra / Captain Brassbound's Conversation / Devil's Disciple)
Book 11 of 48 · published 1898
Unpleasant Plays (Mrs. Warren's Profession / Philanderer / Widowers' Houses)
Book 12 of 48 · published 1898
Plays (How He Lied to Her Husband / John Bull's Other Island / Major Barbara
Book 27 of 48 · published 1907
The Doctor's Dilema, Getting Married and the Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
Book 37 of 48 · published 1911
Misalliance, The dark lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's first play. With a treatise on Parents and children.
Book 42 of 48 · published 1914
Plays (Androcles and the Lion / Overruled / Pygmalion)
Book 43 of 48 · published 1916
Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War
Book 46 of 48 · published 1919
The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism
Book 27 of 48 · published 1928
Seven One-Act Plays (Admirable Bashville / Dark Lady of the Sonnets / How He Lied to Her Husband / Man of Destiny / Overruled / Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction / Village Wooing)
Book 34 of 48 · published 1958
Bernard Shaw's Plays (Heartbreak House / Major Barbara / Saint Joan / Too True to be Good)
Book 39 of 48 · published 1970
Last Plays (Buoyant Billions / Farfetched Fables / In Good King Charles's Golden Days / Shakes Versus Shav / Why She Would Not)
Book 42 of 48 · published 1985
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (Doctor's Dilemma / Heartbreak House / Major Barbara / Pygmalion)
Book 44 of 48 · published 2004
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
Book 4 of 9 · published 1932
The Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw, 1893-1921
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2012
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism
Book 9 of 18 · published 1928
Collected Letters, Vol. 3
Latest in the series · book 18 of 18 · published 1985
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
George Bernard Shaw has 114 books catalogued in this guide spanning 1878–2021.
Which George Bernard Shaw series should I start with?
George Bernard Shaw's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is The Irrational Knot (1880).
How many books has George Bernard Shaw written?
George Bernard Shaw has 114 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1878 and 2021. They are filed under 5 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Standalone Novels, Plays and Non-Fiction.
In what order should George Bernard Shaw's series be read?
No reading order is needed: none of the 114 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.
How are George Bernard Shaw's books organised into series?
This guide splits George Bernard Shaw's 114 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (48 books); Plays (38 books); Non-Fiction (18 books); Collections (9 books); Short Stories/Novellas (1 book).