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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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