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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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