Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the critically acclaimed authors from Scotland, who was well known for writing some of the popular works based on the poetry, fiction, and travel genres. He was highly praised and celebrated as an author, but in spite of that he was treated as a second class novelist following the events of the First World War by top class authors like Virginia Woolf. However, his praise and popularity returned soon when writers like Oxford Inking labeled Louis as a writer, having a high level of imaginative power and literary skills.

The best place to start is the NHB Modern Plays series, the earliest of Robert Louis Stevenson's multi-book series: it opens with Great Expectations (1861) and runs to 131 books across 1861–2025, ending with James V: Katherine (2025).

Robert Louis Stevenson has 326 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1667 and 2026. 254 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the NHB Modern Plays series with 131 books — and 72 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. Robert Louis Stevenson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are NHB Modern Plays (1861–2025, 131 books), David Balfour (1886–1893, 2 books) and The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (2021, 2 books).

This guide splits Robert Louis Stevenson's 326 books into 5 named series and 72 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: NHB Modern Plays (131 books, 1861–2025); David Balfour (2 books, 1886–1893); The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (2 books, 2021); Gothic Fantasy (91 books, 1667–2026); Poetry for Young People (28 books, 1977–2017).