The list below supplies, in chronological order, all of C. S. Lewis’s books.

The reason for composing it is that many Lewis fans want to read “everything he wrote” but may have a hard time actually finding everything he wrote. There are lots of unpublished or hard-to-find essays, letters, and introductions. This list is only about full books. Making this list has helped me find some hidden gems in the Lewisian corpus. Hence I present it for you.

Explanation and more information on how it’s organized is below (scroll to the bottom).

Happy reading!

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#	Year	Book	Category (and Genre)	Notes
1	1919	Spirits in Bondage: a Cycle of Lyrics	Essays, Poetry, Letters	First published book. Poetry. Published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton.
2	1933	Pilgrim’s Regress	Fiction (Fantasy)	First book as a Christian. Third book (after Spirits in Bondage and Dymer)
3	1936	The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition	Scholarly (Literature)	First scholarly book.
4	1938	Out of the Silent Planet	Fiction (Science Fiction)	Cosmic trilogy 1 - A philologist is abducted by proud Western intellectuals who are bent on colonizing Mars.
5	1939	The Personal Heresy	Essay collection	Three essays by Lewis and Tillyard about poetry and whether it is about the person or the object
6	1939	Rehabilitation and Other Essays	Essay collection	Two essays not included in Essay Collection
7	1940	Problem of Pain	Popular (Non-Fiction)	An apologetic examination of the problem of evil, suffering, and death.
8	1942	Screwtape Letters	Fiction (Epistolary Novel)	Epistolary novel on non-fictional themes
9	1942	A Preface to Paradise Lost	Scholarly (Literature)	A study of Milton’s great epic, its style, and its Christian orthodoxy.
10	1943	Perelandra	Fiction (Science Fiction)	Cosmic trilogy 2 - Ransom visits Venus to prevent that planet’s own fall into sin.
11	1943	Abolition of Man	Non-Fiction (Philosophy)	A philosophical case for objective value, with reference to education and science.
12	1944	16th Century English Literature Excluding Drama	Scholarly (Literature)	Oxford History of English Literature. A critical study of 16th century English literature, poetry, and novels. This book got him the post at Cambridge. It was renamed “Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century”.
13	1945	That Hideous Strength	Fiction (Science Fiction)	Cosmic triology 3, Ransom and his team fight the N.I.C.E. in a supernatural, apocalyptic war. The title refers to a Shelly poem about the Tower of Babel.
14	1945	Great Divorce	Fiction (Novel)	A dream visitation to the afterlife and examination of the problem of evil and predestination & free will. The title responds to William Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell”.
15	1948	Arthurian Torso	Scholarly (Criticism)	A critical study of Charles Williams’ poetry in Taliesson Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars.
16	1952	Mere Christianity	Non-Fiction (Theology)	Four radio broadcast talks on fundamentals of Christian theology and ethics. Originally titled “Broadcast Talks.”
17	1947	Miracles	Non-Fiction (Philosophy)	A philosophical case that miracles are possible, fitting, and indeed real.
18	1950	Narnia - Lion, Witch, Wardrobe	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 3rd in series, written 1st
19	1951	Narnia - Prince Caspian	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 4th in series, written 2nd
20	1952	Narnia - Voyage of Dawn Treader	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 5th in series, written 3rd
21	1953	Narnia - Silver Chair	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 6th in series, written 4th
22	1954	Narnia - Horse and His Boy	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 2nd in series, written 5th
23	1955	Narnia - Magician’s Nephew	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 1st in series, written 6th
24	1956	Narnia - Last Battle	Fiction (Young Adult Novel)	Narnia 7th in series, written 7th
25	1955	Surprised by Joy - The Shape of my Early Life	Non-Fiction (autobiography)	An autobiographical reflection on Lewis’ boyhood, young adulthood, and conversion to Christianity, with particular attention to the books and imaginative devices that awoke “sehnsucht”, “joy”. For Lewis, “joy” is a painful, unsatisfied longing that is more desirable than any satisfaction. This book was written before he had fallen in love with or married Joy Davidman in 1956.
26	1956	Till We Have Faces	Fiction (Novel)	A historical novel retelling a classic myth of Aphrodite and Cupid. The title is pulled from one of the lines in a chapter at toward the end of the book, where the main character asks, “How can we meet god face to face till we have faces?”
27	1958	Reflections on the Psalms	Non-Fiction (Theology/Bible)	A laymen’s exploration of difficult passages and problems in the most beloved book of the Bible.
28	1960	Studies in Words	Scholarly (Philology)	A study of the words and concepts from medieval literature that moderns are most liable to misunderstand.
29	1960	The Four Loves	Non-Fiction (Philosophy)	On the four Greek words for love: affection (storge), romantic love (eros), friendship (phileo), and charity (agape), plus an initial discussion of sub-human loves.
30	1960	The World’s Last Night	Essay collection	Seven essays by Lewis on second coming, prayer, Screwtape, science fiction
31	1961	An Experiment in Criticism	Scholarly (Criticism)	Essays on how to read books and judge them. The title refers to the “experiment” of judging a book by how it is read, rather than judging a reader by what books he likes.
32	1961	A Grief Observed	Non-Fiction (Memoir)	Journals and reflections the death of his wife, Joy.
33	1963	Letters to Malcom, Chiefly on Prayer	Fiction (Epistolary Novel)	An epistolary novel on themes such as prayer, liturgy, church, translations, corporate life, intercession to the saints, and more.
34	1964	Discarded Image	Scholarly (History)	A study of the medieval picture of the cosmos, man, god, animals, and longaevi.
35	1966	Of Other Worlds	Essay collection	Essays on Sci Fi / Fantasy, one essay not included in Essay collection
36	1967	Letters to an American Lady	Letters
37	1967	Spenser’s Images of Life	Scholarly (Literature)
38	1969	Narrative Poems	Poetry	Ed. Walter Hooper Includes Dymer, Launcelot, Nameless Isle, Queen of Drum
39	1970	Weight of Glory	Essay collection	Essays on theology and ethics. The eponymous “Weight of Glory” essay was a sermon Lewis delivered.
40	1970	God in the Dock	Essay collection	Essays on theology and ethics
41	1971	Undeceptions	Essay collection	One essay not included in Essay Collection
42	1977	Dark Tower		An unfinished novel probably by Lewis, possibly an early draft of a Space Triology
43	1980	Selected Literary Essays	Essay collection
44	1991	All my Road Before Me: Diaries	Diary
45	1994	Collected Poems	Poetry	Ed. Walter Hooper
46	1996	Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology	Essay collection
47	1998	Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature	Scholarly (Literature)	Book reviews, lectures, articles to show the twentieth century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.
48	2003	From Narnia to Space Odyssey: War b/w Arthur C. Clarke	Essay collection	Only 17 pages of letters between Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke
49	2000	Collected Letters Vol. I	Letters
50	2004	Collected Letters Vol. II	Letters
51	2007	Collected Letters Vol. III	Letters
52	2009	The Latin Letters of Lewis	Essay collection	Correspondence between Lewis and St. Giovanni Calabria

As far as I can discover, this type of exhaustive list doesn’t exist on cslewis.com, Wikipedia, Goodreads, Amazon, or anywhere else. Amazon and such places lean heavily on the books that made him most popular: Narnia, Mere Christianity and Screwtape Letters. A narrower set of books are known and read by die-hard fans – Great Divorce or An Experiment in Criticism. But some books even raving Lewis fans may not have heard: the theologically exploratory Reflections on the Psalms or the literary criticism of the poetry of Charles Williams (Arthurian Torso).

A few words about the information. There is a column for the year of composition, the title of the book. These are self-explanatory.

There is a “category” column for sorting (fiction, scholarly books, popular non-fiction books, and essays) and a catch all “notes” column. One could easily break things down into more subcategories, such as fiction for children (Narnia) and fiction for adults (The Cosmic Trilogy), but I opted for simplicity over a high resolution. I did put the Genre of the book in parentheses.

Finally, there is a “Notes” column where I put a sentence or two of relevant information about the book, such as the origin of the title, or the theme of the book.

Regarding essay collections: there are quite a few redundant essay collections out there. I include them all, and try to clarify in the “Notes” whether there are actually any essays in the collection you couldn’t read elsewhere. The problem of so many redundant essay collections is due to various publishers retaining the rights to various essays and collections. No one publisher or individual has yet hazarded the creation of a complete and non-repetitive collection of “The Complete Essays of C.S. Lewis”. And one is likely to do so for a few decades until the Lewis copyright runs out in the U.S.

Personally, I have not read everything on the list – the scholarly books are slow going, and the letters and many essays are hard to come by. But this list has helped me find some hidden gems in the Lewisian corpus. Hence I present it for you.