Richard Llewellyn Books in Order
Richard Llewellyn has written 24 books, published between 1939 and 1982. The first book is How Green Was My Valley (1939) and the newest is I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 24
- Published
- 1939–1982
- Pages on record
- 4,197 in 13 of 24 books
- Reading time
- 70–105 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,197 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 24 titles with a page count on record.
Richard Llewellyn (8 December 1906 - 30 November 1983) was the pen name of Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, an English novelist of Welsh descent born in London and died in Dublin. The 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, an account of life in a coal mining village in the South Wales Valleys, is the work Llewellyn is best remembered for, and that novel heads a series of the same name. The catalogue holds 24 books, from that novel to I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982), among them Few Flowers for Shiner (1950), Sweet Witch (1955), Chez Pavan (1959) and Up Into The Singing Mountain (1960). Subject tags name coal mining, Welsh fiction and family life.
How many Richard Llewellyn books are there?
Richard Llewellyn has 24 books, released between 1939 and 1982. 4 of them belong to the How Green Was My Valley series.
Richard Llewellyn Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 24 Richard Llewellyn 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.
- 11939–1/4
- 2Few Flowers for Shiner1950 · 398 pages · confirmed 1/419503981/4
- 3A Flame for Doubting Thomas1953 · confirmed 1/41953–1/4
- 4Sweet Witch1955 · confirmed 1/41955–1/4
- 5Mr. Hamish Gleave1956 · 507 pages · confirmed 1/419565071/4
- 6The Flame of Hercules1957 · confirmed 1/41957–1/4
- 7Warden of the Smoke and Bells1958 · confirmed 1/41958–1/4
- 8Chez Pavan1959 · confirmed 1/41959–1/4
- 919602881/4
- 10None But The Lonely Heart1961 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/419614641/4
- 11A Man in a Mirror1964 · confirmed 1/41964–1/4
- 12Sweet Morn of Judas Day1965 · confirmed 1/41965–1/4
- 131968–1/4
- 141969–1/4
- 1519703671/4
- 1619723531/4
- 17Bride of Israel, My Love1973 · 297 pages · confirmed 1/419732971/4
- 1819742821/4
- 19A Hill of Many Dreams1974 · 254 pages · confirmed 1/419742541/4
- 2019752211/4
- 21At Sunrise, The Rough Music1976 · 299 pages · confirmed 1/419762991/4
- 22Tell Me Now, and Again1978 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/419782801/4
- 23Night of Bright Stars1979 · confirmed 1/41979–1/4
- 24I Stand on a Quiet Shore1982 · 187 pages · confirmed 1/419821871/4
Richard Llewellyn 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.
How Green Was My Valley in order
4 booksCollier Spymasters in order
4 booksStandalone books
16 books16 Richard Llewellyn titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Richard Llewellyn books in order?
You only need to read Richard Llewellyn books in order within the How Green Was My Valley series, which holds 4 of the 24 Richard Llewellyn books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Richard Llewellyn
Start with How Green Was My Valley (1939), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Richard Llewellyn book?
I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982) is the newest Richard Llewellyn book released so far.
Is there a new Richard Llewellyn book coming?
No next Richard Llewellyn book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Richard Llewellyn has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Richard Llewellyn. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Award1940Won
Richard Llewellyn at a glance
- Died
- Richard Llewellyn died in 1983, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Richard Llewellyn on record dates from 1982.
- Release pace
- Richard Llewellyn books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,197 pages across the 13 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 297 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Richard Llewellyn books, 9 of 24, were published in the 1970s.
What the Richard Llewellyn books are about
10 of the 24 Richard Llewellyn 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 6 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Fiction in English 6 of 10 books