Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was a reputed novelist from England, who was famous for writing fiction, humor, and horror novels. He was also a well known critic, poet, and teacher. Amis had written over 20 novels, numerous short stories, a memoir, 6 poetry volumes, scripts for television and radio, literary and social criticism works, etc. in his career.

The best place to start is the Jim Dixon series, the earliest of Kingsley Amis's multi-book series: it opens with Lucky Jim (1954) and runs to 4 books across 1954–1968, ending with Lucky Jim's Politics. (1968). Kingsley Amis's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Kingsley Amis has 110 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1921 and 2022. 44 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Jim Dixon series with 4 books — and 66 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. Kingsley Amis's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Jim Dixon (1954–1968, 4 books), Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn (1960–1988, 2 books) and Spectrum (1961–1965, 4 books).

This guide splits Kingsley Amis's 110 books into 4 named series and 66 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Jim Dixon (4 books, 1954–1968); Spectrum (4 books, 1961–1965); Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn (2 books, 1960–1988); James Bond (34 books, 1968–2022).