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John Wyndham Books in Order

John Wyndham has written 28 books, published between 1935 and 2024. The first book is Foul Play Suspected (1935) and the newest is Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
28
Published
1935–2024
Pages on record
4,021 in 20 of 28 books
Reading time
67–101 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,021 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 28 titles with a page count on record.

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John Wyndham is the pen name used for the best-known work of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 to 11 March 1969), an English science fiction writer who also published as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) head the list of Wyndham's best-known books, and The Midwich Cuckoos reached the screen twice as Village of the Damned. Some Wyndham stories take place in post-apocalyptic landscapes. The catalogue lists 28 books from Foul Play Suspected (1935) to Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham (2024), including The Kraken Wakes (1953) and The Seeds of Time (1956).

How many John Wyndham books are there?

John Wyndham has 28 books, released between 1935 and 2024.

John Wyndham Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 28 John Wyndham 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 The Secret People by John Wyndham (1935)
  2. Cover of Stowaway To Mars / Planet Plane by John Wyndham (1935)
  3. Cover of The Day of the Triffids / Revolt of the Triffids by John Wyndham, book 1 of the Triffids series (1951)
  4. Cover of The Kraken Wakes / Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham (1953)
  5. Cover of Jizzle by John Wyndham (1954)
  6. Cover of The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham (1956)
  7. Cover of The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham (1957)
  8. Cover of Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham (1960)
  9. Cover of Chocky by John Wyndham (1968)
  10. Cover of The Man From Beyond, And Other Stories by John Wyndham (1973)
  11. Cover of The Best of John Wyndham, 1932-1949 by John Wyndham (1973)
  12. Cover of Sleepers Of Mars by John Wyndham (1973)
  13. Cover of Wanderers of Time by John Wyndham (1973)
  14. Cover of The Best Of John Wyndham, 1951-1960 by John Wyndham (1977)
  15. Cover of Web by John Wyndham (1979)
  16. Cover of Meteor by John Wyndham (1991)
  17. Cover of No Place Like Earth by John Wyndham (2003)
  18. Cover of Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham (2009)
  1. 1
    Foul Play Suspected1935 · confirmed 1/4
    1935–
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  2. 2
    The Secret People1935 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1935192
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  3. 3
    Stowaway To Mars / Planet Plane1935 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1935189
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  4. 4
    The Day of the Triffids / Revolt of the TriffidsTriffids #11951 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1951256
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  5. 5
    The Kraken Wakes / Out of the Deeps1953 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1953240
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  6. 6
    Jizzle1954 · 191 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1954191
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  7. 7
    The Chrysalids /Re-Birth1955 · confirmed 1/4
    1955–
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  8. 8
    The Seeds of Time1956 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1956224
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  9. 9
    Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter1956 · confirmed 1/4
    1956–
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  10. 10
    The Midwich Cuckoos1957 · 220 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1957220
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  11. 11
    Trouble with Lichen1960 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1960208
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  12. 12
    Consider Her Ways1961 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1961192
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  13. 13
    The Infinite Moment1961 · confirmed 1/4
    1961–
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  14. 14
    The Outward Urge1961 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1961192
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  15. 15
    The Moon Era1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
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  16. 16
    Chocky1968 · 154 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968154
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  17. 18
    The Best of John Wyndham, 1932-19491973 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973318
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  18. 19
    Sleepers Of Mars1973 · 155 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973155
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  19. 20
    Wanderers of Time1973 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973160
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  20. 21
    The Best Of John Wyndham, 1951-19601977 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977159
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  21. 22
    Web1979 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979141
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  22. 23
    Exiles on Asperus1979 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979156
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  23. 24
    Meteor1991 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991106
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  24. 25
    No Place Like Earth2003 · 285 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003285
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  25. 26
    Plan for Chaos2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  26. 27
    The Curse of the Burdens2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  27. 28
    Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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John Wyndham 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.

Triffids in order

1 book
  1. 1. The Day of the Triffids / Revolt of the Triffids

Standalone books

27 books

27 John Wyndham titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read John Wyndham books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 28 John Wyndham books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with John Wyndham

Start with Foul Play Suspected (1935), the earliest published title.

What is the newest John Wyndham book?

Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham (2024) is the newest John Wyndham book released so far.

Is there a new John Wyndham book coming?

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

John Wyndham at a glance

Still publishing
John Wyndham published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
John Wyndham books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,021 pages across the 20 of 28 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most John Wyndham books, 7 of 28, were published in the 1970s.

What the John Wyndham books are about

18 of the 28 John Wyndham books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fiction in english is tagged on 8 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.