Philip Pullman Books In Order
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Northern Lights / The Golden Compass | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Subtle Knife | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amber Spyglass | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lyra's Oxford | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Once Upon a Time in the North | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Serpentine | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Imagination Chamber | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Collectors | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of His Dark Materials Graphic Novels
The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 2 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Subtle Knife Graphic Novel | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Adventures Of John Blake Graphic Novels
Publication Order of Book Of Dust Books
La Belle Sauvage | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Commonwealth | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Canongate Myths Books
Publication Order of New Cut Gang Books
Thunderbolt's Waxwork | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gas Fitters' Ball | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of the New Cut Gang | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Crafty Criminals! | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sally Lockhart Books
The Ruby in the Smoke | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow in the North | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tiger in the Well | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tin Princess | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Haunted Storm | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galatea | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Count Karlstein | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How to Be Cool | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spring-Heeled Jack | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Broken Bridge | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Mercedes | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Firework-Maker's Daughter | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Butterfly Tattoo | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mossycoat | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Was a Rat! | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scarecrow and His Servant | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Force of Evil | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grimm Tales for Young and Old | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Key: And Other Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Frankenstein | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
His Dark Materials | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ancient civilizations | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imaginary Friends | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daemon Voices | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Point Horror Books
Avalanche | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blind Date | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twisted | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nightmare Man | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beach House | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Party Line | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prom Dress | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baby-Sitter | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Secret Admirer | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Final Exam | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Funhouse | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beach Party | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boyfriend | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Foggiest | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baby-Sitter II | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Snowman | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Accident | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Tales of Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mother's Helper | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sister Dearest | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girlfriend | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Freeze Tag | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Window | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Secrets | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Perfume | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invitation | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirror, Mirror | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fever | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hit And Run | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Train | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ripper | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Waitress | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheerleader | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halloween Night | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Date | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Game | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baby-Sitter 3 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Girlfriend | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hitchhiker | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stranger | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yearbook | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twins | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hunter | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Witness | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Call Waiting | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Watcher | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen More Tales of Horror | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halloween Night II | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chase | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Diary | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Saw You That Night! | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kill | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witness | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driver's Dead | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Camp Fear | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night School | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Babysitter IV | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boy Next Door | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mummy | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Surfer | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Again | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hide and Seek | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Curse | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Spell | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Claw | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amnesia | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spring Break | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stalker | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prom Date | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Krazy 4 U | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweet Sixteen | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Date | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second Sight | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
X-Isle | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark 2 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon II | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return to X-Isle | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon III | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Defriended | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wickedpedia | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark: v. 1 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Point Horror Series may be missing books or out of order because every online source for these lists these books in a different order and varies on the books included. In no other listing are the books numbered. Compilations and Short Story Collections are listed at the bottom.Point Horror Unleashed & Mutant Point Horror & Nightmare Hall are spinoffs of this series |
Publication Order of Shaun Tan Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Dramascripts Books
Werewolf | (1642) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Valley of Fear | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All My Sons | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Salesman | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crucible | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A View from the Bridge | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brother in the Land | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Demon Headmaster | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across the Barricades | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Question of Courage | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paper Tigers | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Cakes | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burston School Strike | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Tale of Two Cities | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jane Eyre | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Labyrinth: Play | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Working Parts | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dracula | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Canterbury Tales | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Deamon Headmaster | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Johnny and the Dead | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frankenstein | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Macbeth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Snake-Stone | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Faustus | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Troy 24 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Rose and the Swatiska | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Salem | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three Musketeers | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cry, the Beloved Country | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bog Child | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oxford Playscripts: Solace of the Road | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King of Shadows | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invisible Man | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Garbage King | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil Walks | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Christmas Carol | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Our Day Out | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Brothers | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flesh and Blood | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dodger | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stone Cold | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beowulf | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Homer's Odyssey | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arson About | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Treasure Island | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unman Wittering and Zigo | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Diary of Anne Frank | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hound of the Baskervill | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cowgirl | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Brotherhood of Smoke | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Red Hot Reads Books
Ghost Stories | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystifying | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ballet Stories | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detective Stories | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Animal Stories | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Life and Death | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy: Red Hot Reads | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whodunit? | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Tales | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gifts of Reading | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
About Philip Pullman:
Philip Pullman is a British author who is best known for his young adult novels, most of which can be classed under the genre of fantasy fiction. Although he is a prolific writer with a long line of published books to his name, his most famous works are Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, which together comprise the His Dark Materials trilogy. Both critically and commercially successful, many of Philip Pullman’s novels have been adapted for television as well as the silver screen.
A Youth Spent in Travel
Philip Pullman was born on October 19, 1946 to Alfred O. Pullman, a Royal Air Force pilot, and his wife, Audrey Evelyn Pullman. While he was born in Norwich, England, he spent the first few years of his life travelling the world with his family, as his father was stationed to various posts. However, when Philip was barely seven years old, his father passed away in a plane crash while on active duty. His mother moved the family back to England, but soon remarried and took her son to Australia to start a new life.
As a child, Philip found himself fascinated by the world of comic book superheroes, and he would carry the moral lessons and grand narrative themes of good versus evil and cosmic battle into his own work. In 1957 Philip returned to the United Kingdom, where he continued his schooling in Gwynedd, Wales, although he spent a lot of time in Norfolk as well, under the care of his grandfather, who was a clergyman. The time he spent with his grandfather was pivotal to his later atheistic beliefs as well as the religious and moral themes that underlie his work.
University and the Academic Life
In 1963, Philip Pullman began his higher education at the prestigious Exeter College at Oxford University. However, despite his later success as a writer, he proved to be a mediocre student at best, barely graduating five years later with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Ironically enough, in later years Pullman reflected on his time as a student of English as not being very inspiring and clearly states that it was not an enjoyable experience for him.
In 1970, Philip Pullman married Judith Speller and settled down to life as a middle school teacher in North Oxford. While there, he wrote the first of many school plays and began work on his first published novel, The Haunted Storm. While it garnered him a coveted Young Writer’s Award, Pullman with his typical modesty refers to it as a poor effort, and for the most part shies away from discussing the novel.
Over the next several years, Pullman continued teaching at school and simultaneously worked on his plays and novels. He published a few more books over the next few years, most notably Galatea in 1976 and The Ruby in the Smoke, the first of his Sally Lockhart series, in 1986. With the publication and critical success of The Ruby in the Smoke, Philip Pullman became well-established as a writer of young adult fiction and was well on his way to becoming one of the most prodigious literary talents of our time.
Although he continued to teach, he gave up his permanent position as a middle school teacher in 1988 and took a position as a part-time instructor at Oxford’s Westminster College. While he continued to create plays for school children, he also began work on a series of more adult novels at this time, the first of which was published in 1995. Entitled The Northern Lights, it was the first book of his seminal trilogy, His Dark Materials and gained him critical acclaim as well as a number of literary awards, including the highly prestigious Carnegie Medal.
The Northern Lights
The Northern Lights is the first installment in the chronicles of a young English girl named Lyra Belacqua, who lives in a parallel universe dominated by the authority and tyranny of a body known as the Magesterium, which forms a theocracy that is single-mindedly devoted to the ruthless suppression of anything they deem to be heresy. It is a complicated world, in which humans lives with a disjointed soul that is embodied in the form of an animal companion, called a daemon. In this world, each human has a daemon of their own that accompanies them throughout their life – the daemon is an integral part of the human being it is attached to, and no human can survive detached from their daemon.
The plot centers on Lyra’s quest to find her Uncle Asriel, a scientist who has incurred the wrath of the Magesterium for pursuing his research into a substance he calls Dust. During a visit to his niece, he disappears mysteriously through a portal into a parallel universe. Around the same time, Lyra’s best friend Roger disappears as well and the young heroine is convinced that his disappearance is connected to the activities of a shadow group called the Gobblers. Determined to find her friend and her uncle, Lyra embarks on a quest to save them, aided by her daemon and an alethiometer, a four-sided compass which points her unerringly to the truth.
Over the course of a series of adventures, Lyra finds her uncle, only to discover that he is really her father and that his purpose all along was to use Roger to his advantage. In the final act of the novel, Lord Asriel severs Roger from his daemon and the resultant violent energy causes a massive explosion to rip through time and space, opening the door for Asriel to enter the parallel universe he has been searching for. As he enters the portal, he vows to find the Dust and destroy it. However, Lyra knows now that her father cannot be trusted, and suspecting that the Dust is worth protecting, she enters the void along with her daemon to stop her father from carrying out his plans.
Published in America as The Golden Compass, The Northern Lights was adapted into a major Hollywood motion picture in 2007, starring such heavyweights as Nicole Kidman and Ian McKellan. However, box office reviews were mixed and any plans to adapt the remaining works in the series into movies have been put on hold indefinitely.
The Subtle Knife
The Subtle Knife is the second in the His Dark Materials trilogy and continues the story of Lyra Belacqua’s adventures. The story continues to revolve around Lyra’s attempts to find and stop her father, this time with the aid of a young boy named Will Parry, who accidentally fell through the door into Lyra’s parallel universe. Lyra and Will join forces to find Will’s father, later revealed to be the mysterious adventurer Stanislaus Grumman, and stop Lord Asriel. However, they face a serious threat from the council of witches who have banded together under the command of Lyra’s mother, Mrs. Coulter, in order to support the cause of the evil Lord Asriel. Matters are further complicated by the discovery of a knife, which when wielded by its true guardian can protect people from the evil Spectres, which prey on the souls of people in this parallel universe. Will finds that he is the true guardian of the knife and the young protagonists struggle to keep this vitally valuable weapon from Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter. As the book winds to a close, Lyra disappears, leaving behind her prized alethiometer. Determined to find her, Will continues on his journey, temporarily abandoning his quest for Lord Asriel.
Criticism and Atheism
Like most of his works, the His Dark Materials trilogy has received rave reviews and a great deal of critical acclaim. However, Pullman’s blatantly anti-theistic views have caused more religiously conservative readers to criticize his work somewhat harshly. An avowed atheist and philosopher, Pullman takes these criticisms in stride, arguing that his goal is to present a new interpretation of the typical religious duality, presenting the world in shades of grey where morality is really in the eye of the beholder.
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