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Max Beerbohm Books in Order

44 books are credited to Max Beerbohm, published between 1896 and 2018; 16 of them appeared after Max Beerbohm's death in 1956. The first book is A Defence of Cosmetics (1896) and the newest is The Works of Max Beerbohm (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
44
Published
1896–2018
Pages on record
4,798 in 22 of 44 books
Reading time
80–120 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,798 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 44 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Max Beerbohm, author

Max Beerbohm, born Henry Maximilian Beerbohm on 24 August 1872, was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist who signed his drawings Max. Beerbohm reviewed drama for the Saturday Review from 1898 to 1910, then moved to Rapallo in Italy, and died on 20 May 1956. Zuleika Dobson (1911) is the one novel. The 44 catalogued titles open with A Defence of Cosmetics (1896) and take in Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen (1896), A Christmas Garland (1912) and Fifty Caricatures (1913), with The Works of Max Beerbohm collected in 2018. Humour, theatre criticism and cartooning define the subject list.

How many Max Beerbohm books are there?

Max Beerbohm has 44 books, released between 1896 and 2018. 16 of them were published after Max Beerbohm's death in 1956.

Max Beerbohm Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 44 Max Beerbohm 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 Happy Hypocrite and Other Pieces by Max Beerbohm (1897)
  2. Cover of Yet Again by Max Beerbohm (1909)
  3. Cover of Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)
  4. Cover of Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm (1916)
  5. Cover of Seven Men by Max Beerbohm (1919)
  6. Cover of A. V. Laider by Max Beerbohm (1919)
  7. Cover of Rossetti and His Circle by Max Beerbohm (1922)
  8. Cover of Lytton Strachey by Max Beerbohm (1943)
  9. Cover of Seven Men and Two Others by Max Beerbohm (1950)
  10. Cover of Last Theatres, 1904-1910 by Max Beerbohm (1970)
  11. Cover of The Bodley Head Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm (1970)
  12. Cover of Max and Will by Max Beerbohm (1975)
  13. Cover of The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm (1985)
  14. Cover of Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse by Max Beerbohm (1994)
  15. Cover of The Early Works by Max Beerbohm (2000)
  1. 1
    A Defence of Cosmetics1896 · confirmed 1/4
    1896–
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  2. 2
    Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen1896 · confirmed 1/4
    1896–
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  3. 3
    The Happy Hypocrite, a Fairy Tale for Tired Men1896 · confirmed 1/4
    1896–
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  4. 4
    Happy Hypocrite and Other Pieces1897 · confirmed 1/4
    1897–
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  5. 5
    Yet Again1909 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1909152
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  6. 6
    Zuleika Dobson1911 · 236 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1911236
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  7. 7
    Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull1911 · confirmed 1/4
    1911–
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  8. 8
    A Christmas Garland1912 · 197 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1912197
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  9. 9
    Fifty Caricatures1913 · confirmed 1/4
    1913–
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  10. 10
    Enoch Soames1916 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191648
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  11. 11
    Seven Men1919 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1919208
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  12. 12
    A. V. Laider1919 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191948
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  13. 13
    James Pethel1919 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191924
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  14. 14
    Herbert Beerbohm Tree1920 · confirmed 1/4
    1920–
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  15. 15
    And Even Now1921 · confirmed 1/4
    1921–
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  16. 16
    A Survey1921 · confirmed 1/4
    1921–
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  17. 17
    Rossetti and His Circle1922 · 79 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192279
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  18. 18
    Things New and Old1923 · confirmed 1/4
    1923–
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  19. 19
    Observations1926 · 51 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192651
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  20. 20
    The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill1928 · confirmed 1/4
    1928–
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  21. 21
    A Stranger in Venice1928 · confirmed 1/4
    1928–
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  22. 22
    A Variety of Things1928 · confirmed 1/4
    1928–
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  23. 23
    Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet1931 · confirmed 1/4
    1931–
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  24. 24
    Lytton Strachey1943 · 26 pages · confirmed 1/4
    194326
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  25. 25
    The Poets Corner1943 · confirmed 1/4
    1943–
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  26. 26
    Mainly on the Air1946 · confirmed 1/4
    1946–
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  27. 27
    Seven Men and Two Others1950 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1950288
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  28. 28
    Around Theatres1953 · confirmed 1/4
    1953–
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  29. 29
    Selected Essays1958 · confirmed 1/4
    1958–
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  30. 30
    Max's Nineties1958 · confirmed 1/4
    1958–
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Max Beerbohm 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.

Standalone books

44 books

44 Max Beerbohm titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Max Beerbohm books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 44 Max Beerbohm books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Max Beerbohm

Start with A Defence of Cosmetics (1896), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Max Beerbohm book?

The Works of Max Beerbohm (2018) is the newest Max Beerbohm book released so far.

Is there a new Max Beerbohm book coming?

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

Award nominations for Max Beerbohm

Wikidata records 1 nomination for Max Beerbohm. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Nobel Prize in Literature1933Shortlisted

Max Beerbohm at a glance

Died
Max Beerbohm died in 1956, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Max Beerbohm are still being published after Max Beerbohm's death in 1956; the newest appeared in 2018.
Release pace
Max Beerbohm books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,798 pages across the 22 of 44 books with a recorded length, a median of 202 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Max Beerbohm books, 9 of 44, were published in the 1920s.

What the Max Beerbohm books are about

17 of the 44 Max Beerbohm books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: beerbohm, max, sir, 1872-1956 is tagged on 3 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Beerbohm, max, sir, 1872-1956 3 of 17 books
  • Caricatures and cartoons 3 of 17 books
  • Authors 3 of 17 books
  • Humor 3 of 17 books
  • Cartoonists 2 of 17 books
  • Character sketches 2 of 17 books
  • Correspondence 2 of 17 books
  • Dandies 2 of 17 books
  • Drama 2 of 17 books
  • History and criticism 2 of 17 books
  • Pictorial English wit and humor 2 of 17 books