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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone 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 Standalone series? Start with "Fanshawe" (1828) and follow publication order through all 77 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

Fanshawe
1828

The Devil in Manuscript
0

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
0

The Scarlet Letter
0

The Blithedale Romance
0

The House of the Seven Gables
0

The Marble Faun
0

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret; A Romance ..
0

The Ancestral Footstep
0

Septimius Felton
1978

The Gray Champion
2014

Grandfather's Chair
2016

My Kinsman Major Molineux
1831

Young Goodman Brown
0

The Minister's Black Veil
0

Endicott and the Red Cross
0

The Birthmark
0

Earth's Holocaust
0

Rappaccini's Daughter
0

The Golden Touch
0

From the Snow Image
0

The Dolliver Romance
0

The Paradise of Children
1967

Great Stone Face
1970

The Ambitious Guest and Lady Eleanore's Mantle
1980

The Three Golden Apples
1993

The Magic Pitcher
2005

The Christmas Banquet
2005

Main-Street
2005

Sights from a Steeple
2005

The Old Apple-Dealer
2005

Snowflakes
2005

Sunday at Home
2009

In Colonial Days
2010

Puritan Passions
2011

The Wedding-Knell
2013

The Wayside
2014

David Swan
2014

The Shaker Bridal
2014

The Antique Ring
2015

The Pomegranate Seeds
2015

The Light and the Lure
2016

Legends of the Province House
2017

Circe's Palace
2018

The Gentle Boy
2018

Septimius Felton, or, The Elixir of Life
2019

Twice-Told Tales
1837

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories
0

Tales of the White Mountains
0

Mosses from an Old Manse
0

Tanglewood Tales
0

Greek Myths
0

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
0

Our Old Home
0

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
0

The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1937

Hawthorne's Short Stories
1955

The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1959

Selected Tales and Sketches
1959

The Complete Greek Stories
1963

Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories
1964

Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1966

The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales
1970

The Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1977

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
1978

Haunting Tales
1980

Selected Stories (With: Brenda Wineapple)
1982

Rappaccini's Daughter, And Other Tales
1991

Selected Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
2002

The Hawthorne Collection
2008

Legends of the Province House and Other Twice-Told Tales
2009

The House of the Seven Gables and Other Tales
2009

Myths That Every Child Should Know
2011

The Birthmark & Five Other Tales
2013

Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers
2018

Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories
2018

The Snow Image: and Other Twice-Told Tales
2019
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