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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 "Watch and Ward" (1871) and follow publication order through all 82 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Watch and Ward
1871
Roderick Hudson
0
The American
0
The Europeans
0
Washington Square
0
Confidence
0
The Portrait of a Lady
0
The Bostonians
0
The Princess Casamassima
0
The Reverberator
0
The Tragic Muse
0
The Spoils of Poynton
0
The Other House
0
What Maisie Knew
0
The Awkward Age
0
The Sacred Fount
1901
The Wings of the Dove
1902
The Ambassadors
1903
The Golden Bowl
1904
The Outcry
1911
The Ivory Tower
1917
The Sense of the Past
1917
My Friend Bingham
1867
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
0
The Story of a Masterpiece
0
A Passionate Pilgrim
0
At Isella
0
The Sweetheart of M. Briseux
0
The Madonna of the Future
0
Madame de Mauves
0
The Last of the Valerii
0
Adina
0
Osborne's Revenge
0
Professor Fargo
0
Eugene Pickering
0
Benvolio
0
Crawfords Consistency
0
An International Episode
0
Four Meetings
0
Daisy Miller
0
Longstaff's Marriage
0
The Diary of a Man of Fifty
0
The Pension Beaurepas
0
The Point of View
0
Pandora
0
Georgina's Reasons
0
The Path of Duty
0
The Author of Beltraffio
0
The Lesson of the Master
0
The Patagonia
0
The Aspern Papers
0
The Pupil
0
Sir Edmund Orme
0
The Real Thing
0
Greville Fane
0
Owen Wingrave
0
Sir Dominick Ferrand
0
The Private Life
0
The Death of the Lion
0
The Coxon Fund
0
The Altar of the Dead
0
The Figure in the Carpet
0
John Delavoy
0
In the Cage
0
The Turn of the Screw
0
The Great Condition
0
Paste
0
Maud-Evelyn
1900
The Great Good Place
1900
The Third Person
1900
The Tone of Time
1900
Broken Wings
1900
The Beldonald Holbein
1901
Mrs. Medwin
1901
The Beast in the Jungle
1903
The Birthplace
1903
The Marriages
1908
The Jolly Corner
1908
The Bench of Desolation
1909
Crapy Cornelia
1909
The Velvet Glove
1909
A Modern Warning / The Two Countries
2016
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