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J.M. Barrie Books in Order

43 books are credited to J.M. Barrie, published between 1887 and 2018; 8 of them appeared after J.M. Barrie's death in 1937. The first book is Better Dead (1887) and the newest is An Edinburgh Eleven and Better Dead (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

J.M. Barrie also publishes as Ceyms.

Books
43
Published
1887–2018
Pages on record
5,085 in 30 of 43 books
Reading time
85–127 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,085 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 43 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of J.M. Barrie, author

Sir James Matthew Barrie, born in 1860 and died in 1937, was a British novelist and playwright, born and educated in Scotland before moving to London. There Barrie met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who prompted him to invent a baby boy having magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, first in the 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird and then in the 1904 West End fairy play Peter Pan, about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy in Neverland. The Thrums books and Sentimental Tommy account for much of the rest; 43 catalogued titles run from Better Dead (1887) onward.

How many J.M. Barrie books are there?

J.M. Barrie has 43 books, released between 1887 and 2018. 8 of them were published after J.M. Barrie's death in 1937. They include 3 series and 34 titles listed outside any series.

J.M. Barrie Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 43 J.M. Barrie books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Better Dead by J.M. Barrie (1887)
  2. Cover of Auld Licht Idylls by J.M. Barrie, book 1 of the Thrums series (1888)
  3. Cover of My Lady Nicotine by J.M. Barrie (1890)
  4. Cover of The Little Minister by J.M. Barrie, book 2 of the Thrums series (1891)
  5. Cover of A Holiday in Bed by J.M. Barrie (1892)
  6. Cover of A Tillyloss Scandal by J.M. Barrie (1893)
  7. Cover of A Lady's Shoe by J.M. Barrie (1893)
  8. Cover of Sentimental Tommy by J.M. Barrie, book 1 of the Sentimental Tommy series (1896)
  9. Cover of The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie, book 1 of the Peter Pan series (1902)
  10. Cover of Quality Street by J.M. Barrie (1902)
  11. Cover of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, book 3 of the Peter Pan series (1906)
  12. Cover of Rosalind by J.M. Barrie (1914)
  13. Cover of Dear Brutus by J.M. Barrie (1917)
  14. Cover of Echoes of the War by J.M. Barrie (1918)
  15. Cover of Courage by J.M. Barrie (1922)
  16. Cover of Mary Rose A Play In Three Acts by J.M. Barrie (1924)
  17. Cover of Margaret Ogilvy by J.M. Barrie (1925)
  18. Cover of The Representative Plays by J. M. Barrie by J.M. Barrie (1926)
  19. Cover of The Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays by J.M. Barrie (1942)
  20. Cover of The Earliest Plays of J. M. Barrie by J.M. Barrie (2013)
  1. 1
    Better Dead1887 · 88 pages · confirmed 2/4
    188788
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  2. 2
    Auld Licht IdyllsThrums #11888 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1888112
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  3. 3
    My Lady Nicotine1890 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1890180
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  4. 4
    Ibsen's Ghost1891 · 110 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1891110
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  5. 5
    The Little MinisterThrums #21891 · 375 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1891375
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  6. 6
    A Holiday in Bed1892 · 76 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189276
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  7. 7
    Window in ThrumsThrums #31892 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1892256
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  8. 8
    A Tillyloss Scandal1893 · 270 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1893270
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  9. 9
    Jane Annie Or, the Good Conduct Prize1893 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189364
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  10. 10
    A Lady's Shoe1893 · 80 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189380
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  11. 11
    Two of Them1893 · confirmed 2/4
    1893–
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  12. 12
    Margaret Ogilvy, And Others1896 · 263 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1896263
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  13. 13
    Sentimental TommySentimental Tommy #11896 · 536 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1896536
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  14. 14
    Tommy and GrizelSentimental Tommy #21900 · confirmed 2/4
    1900–
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  15. 15
    The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island1901 · confirmed 2/4
    1901–
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  16. 16
    The Little White BirdPeter Pan #11902 · 200 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1902200
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  17. 17
    The Admirable Crichton1902 · confirmed 2/4
    1902–
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  18. 18
    Quality Street1902 · 148 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1902148
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  19. 19
    Peter PanPeter Pan #21904 · confirmed 2/4
    1904–
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  20. 20
    Alice Sit by the Fire1905 · 66 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190566
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  21. 21
    Peter Pan in Kensington GardensPeter Pan #31906 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190664
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  22. 22
    What Every Woman Knows1908 · confirmed 2/4
    1908–
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  23. 23
    Peter and WendyPeter Pan #41911 · confirmed 2/4
    1911–
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  24. 24
    Pantaloon1914 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    191432
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  25. 25
    The Will1914 · 40 pages · confirmed 2/4
    191440
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  26. 26
    Rosalind1914 · 47 pages · confirmed 2/4
    191447
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  27. 27
    A Kiss for Cinderella1916 · confirmed 2/4
    1916–
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  28. 28
    Dear Brutus1917 · 100 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1917100
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  29. 29
    Echoes of the War1918 · 116 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1918116
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  30. 30
    Courage1922 · 56 pages · confirmed 2/4
    192256
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J.M. Barrie series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

J.M. Barrie books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Thrums in order

3 books
  1. 1. Auld Licht Idylls
  2. 2. The Little Minister
  3. 3. Window in Thrums

Sentimental Tommy in order

2 books
  1. 1. Sentimental Tommy
  2. 2. Tommy and Grizel

Standalone books

34 books

34 J.M. Barrie titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read J.M. Barrie books in order?

You only need to read J.M. Barrie books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with J.M. Barrie

Start with The Little White Bird (1902), the first Peter Pan book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Better Dead (1887).

What is the newest J.M. Barrie book?

An Edinburgh Eleven and Better Dead (2018) is the newest J.M. Barrie book released so far.

Is there a new J.M. Barrie book coming?

No next J.M. Barrie book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

J.M. Barrie at a glance

Died
J.M. Barrie died in 1937, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to J.M. Barrie are still being published after J.M. Barrie's death in 1937; the newest appeared in 2018.
Release pace
J.M. Barrie books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
5,085 pages across the 30 of 43 books with a recorded length, a median of 114 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most J.M. Barrie books, 11 of 43, were published in the 1890s.

What the J.M. Barrie books are about

20 of the 43 J.M. Barrie books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: drama is tagged on 5 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.