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Portable Library Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Portable Library 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 Portable Library series? Start with "The Portable Cervantes (By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)" (1976) and follow publication order through all 10 books.
The complete Portable Library reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Portable Cervantes (By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
1976
The Portable Nietzsche
1977
The Portable Roman Reader (By: Basil Davenport)
1977
The Portable Medieval Reader (By: James Bruce Ross)
1977
The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition (By: Geoffrey Chaucer)
1977
The Portable Thomas Jefferson (By: Thomas Jefferson)
1977
The Portable Machiavelli (By: Niccolò Machiavelli)
1979
The Portable Emerson: New Edition (By: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1981
The Portable American Realism Reader (By: James Nagel)
1997
The Portable Edmund Burke (By: Edmund Burke)
1999
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