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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 "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1950) and follow publication order through all 61 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1950

Moise and the World of Reason
1975

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
1945

One Arm and Other Stories
1948

Hard Candy
1954

Four Plays
1956

The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
1957

Baby Doll and Other Plays
1958

Three Players Of A Summer Game, And Other Stories
1960

Five Plays
1962

In the Winter of Cities
1964

American Blues
1965

A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
1965

The Knightly Quest
1966

Dragon Country
1970

Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed
1974

Androgyne, Mon Amour
1977

It Happened the Day the Sun Rose
1983

Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays
1984

Collected Stories
1985

Baby Doll & Tiger Tail
1991

The Collected Poems
2002

Tales of Desire
2010

Caterpillar Dogs
2023

Candles to the Sun
1936

The Magic Tower
1936

Fugitive Kind
1937

The Palooka
1937

Spring Storm
1937

Battle of Angels
1940

The Glass Menagerie
1945

A Streetcar Named Desire
1947

Summer and Smoke
1948

Camino Real
1948

The Rose Tattoo
1951

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1955

Baby Doll
1956

Orpheus Descending
1957

A Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot.
1958

Suddenly Last Summer
1958

Sweet Bird of Youth
1959

The Night of the Iguana
1961

Period of Adjustment
1961

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
1963

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1964

Kingdom of Earth
1968

Small Craft Warnings
1972

The Red Devil Battery Sign
1975

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, volume 5
1976

The Two-Character Play
1979

Vieux Carré
1979

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
1979

Clothes for a Summer Hotel
1981

The Long Goodbye
1992

Something Cloudy, Something Clear
1995

Not About Nightingales
1998

Stairs to the Roof
2000

Gentlemen Callers
2005

Summer At the Lake
2020

The Fat Man's Wife
2020

Adam and Eve on a Ferry
2020
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