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Modern Library Torchbearers Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Modern Library Torchbearers books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Modern Library Torchbearers series? Start with "Persuasion (By: Jane Austen)" (1818) and follow publication order through all 39 books.
The complete Modern Library Torchbearers reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Persuasion (By: Jane Austen)
1818
Wuthering Heights (By: Emily Brontë)
0
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (By: Harriet Ann Jacobs)
0
Lady Audley's Secret (By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
0
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings (By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
0
The Awakening
0
The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories (By: Alice Dunbar-Nelson)
0
The Custom of the Country (By: Edith Wharton)
1913
The Voyage Out (By: Virginia Woolf)
1915
Regiment of Women (By: Clemence Dane,Melissa Broder)
1917
The Heads of Cerberus (By: Francis Stevens)
1919
The Transformation of Philip Jettan (By: Georgette Heyer)
1923
A Daughter of the Samurai (By: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto)
1925
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (By: Anita Loos)
1925
Quicksand (By: Nella Larsen)
1928
Passing (By: Nella Larsen)
1929
Nada (By: Carmen Laforet)
1944
The Return of the Soldier (By: Rebecca West)
1970
The Selected Poetry (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay,Olivia Gatwood,Nancy Milford)
2002
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (By: Marie Vieux-Chauvet)
2010
American Indian Stories (By: Ziktala-Sa)
2018
Narrative Of Sojourner Truth (By: Sojourner Truth,Oliver Gilbert)
2019
There Is Confusion (By: Jessie Redmon Fauset)
2020
Villette (By: Charlotte Brontë)
2020
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (By: Sawako Nakayasu,Chika Sagawa)
2020
The Squatter and the Don (By: Ana Castillo,María Amparo Ruiz de Burton)
2021
Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings (By: C Pam Zhang,Sui Sin Far)
2021
The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction (By: Elizabeth Spencer)
2021
The Princess of 72nd Street (By: Elaine Kraf)
2024
I Am Clarence (By: Sarah Manguso,Elaine Kraf)
2025
Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman (By: Sylvia Townsend Warner)
2025
The House of Madelaine (By: Elaine Kraf)
2025
Plum Bun Without a Moral (By: Jessie Redmon Fauset)
2025
Find Him! (By: Elaine Kraf)
2025
Nothing Grows by Moonlight (By: Torborg Nedreaas)
2026
Memory House (By: Elaine Kraf)
2026
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (By: Katherine Mansfield,Sloane Crosley)
2026
A Country Doctor (By: Sarah Orne Jewett)
2026
Bread Givers (By: Anzia Yezierska)
2026
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