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Tom Stoppard Books in Order

Tom Stoppard has written 43 books, published between 1966 and 2022. The first book is Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon (1966) and the newest is Penelope (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
43
Published
1966–2022
Pages on record
3,958 in 36 of 43 books
Reading time
66–99 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,958 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 36 of 43 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Tom Stoppard, author of the Coast of Utopia series

Tom Stoppard (3 July 1937 to 29 November 2025), born Tomáš Sträussler, was a British playwright and screenwriter who wrote for stage, film, radio and television. Human rights, censorship and political freedom run through Stoppard's work. As a playwright of the Royal National Theatre, Stoppard was among the most internationally performed dramatists of that generation, and critics set the plays beside Shakespeare and Shaw. Stoppard was knighted in 1997 and received the Order of Merit in 2000. The catalogue lists 43 books from Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) to Penelope (2022), with Coast of Utopia as a series.

How many Tom Stoppard books are there?

Tom Stoppard has 43 books, released between 1966 and 2022. 3 of them belong to the Coast of Utopia series.

Tom Stoppard Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 43 Tom Stoppard 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 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1966)
  2. Cover of Enter a Free Man by Tom Stoppard (1968)
  3. Cover of The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard (1968)
  4. Cover of After Magritte by Tom Stoppard (1969)
  5. Cover of Albert's Bridge by Tom Stoppard (1969)
  6. Cover of Jumpers by Tom Stoppard (1972)
  7. Cover of Artist Descending a Staircase by Tom Stoppard (1973)
  8. Cover of The Fifteen Minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard (1976)
  9. Cover of If You're Glad I'll Be Frank by Tom Stoppard (1976)
  10. Cover of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Tom Stoppard (1977)
  11. Cover of Undiscovered Country by Tom Stoppard (1980)
  12. Cover of On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard (1981)
  13. Cover of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard (1982)
  14. Cover of Four Plays for Radio by Tom Stoppard (1984)
  15. Cover of Squaring the Circle by Tom Stoppard (1984)
  16. Cover of Hapgood by Tom Stoppard (1988)
  17. Cover of In the Native State by Tom Stoppard (1991)
  18. Cover of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (1993)
  19. Cover of The Television Plays, 1965-1984 by Tom Stoppard (1994)
  20. Cover of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard (1995)
  21. Cover of The Boundary by Tom Stoppard (1995)
  22. Cover of The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard (1997)
  23. Cover of Doing It: Five Performing Arts by Tom Stoppard (2001)
  24. Cover of Voyage by Tom Stoppard, book 1 of the Coast of Utopia series (2002)
  1. 1
    Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon1966 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966192
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  2. 2
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead1966 · 126 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966126
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  3. 3
    Enter a Free Man1968 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196885
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  4. 4
    The Real Inspector Hound1968 · 49 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196849
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  5. 5
    After Magritte1969 · confirmed 1/4
    1969–
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  6. 6
    A Separate Peace1969 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196932
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  7. 7
    Albert's Bridge1969 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196939
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  8. 8
    Jumpers1972 · 78 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197278
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  9. 9
    Artist Descending a Staircase1973 · 54 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197354
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  10. 10
    Travesties1975 · 99 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197599
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  11. 11
    The Fifteen Minute Hamlet1976 · 16 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197616
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  12. 12
    Dirty Linen1976 · confirmed 1/4
    1976–
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  13. 13
    If You're Glad I'll Be Frank1976 · 26 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197626
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  14. 14
    Every Good Boy Deserves Favour1977 · 93 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197793
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  15. 15
    Night and Day1978 · 94 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197894
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  16. 16
    Undiscovered Country1980 · 147 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980147
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  17. 17
    On the Razzle1981 · 79 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198179
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  18. 18
    The Real Thing1982 · 81 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198281
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  19. 19
    Four Plays for Radio1984 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984150
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  20. 20
    Squaring the Circle1984 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198490
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  21. 21
    Hapgood1988 · 77 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198877
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  22. 22
    The Plays for Radio, 1964-19831990 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990193
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  23. 23
    In the Native State1991 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199185
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  24. 24
    Arcadia1993 · 97 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199397
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  25. 25
    The Television Plays, 1965-19841994 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994264
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  26. 26
    Indian Ink1995 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199596
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  27. 27
    The Boundary1995 · 19 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199519
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  28. 28
    The Invention of Love1997 · 102 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997102
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  29. 29
    Doing It: Five Performing Arts2001 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001120
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  30. 30
    VoyageCoast of Utopia #12002 · 114 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002114
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Tom Stoppard 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.

Coast of Utopia in order

3 books
  1. 1. Voyage
  2. 2. Shipwreck
  3. 3. Salvage

Faber Drama in order

3 books
  1. 20. Shakespeare in Love
  2. 23. The Hard Problem
  3. 37. Arcadia

Standalone books

37 books

37 Tom Stoppard titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Tom Stoppard books in order?

You only need to read Tom Stoppard books in order within the Coast of Utopia series, which holds 3 of the 43 Tom Stoppard books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Tom Stoppard

Start with Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon (1966), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Tom Stoppard book?

Penelope (2022) is the newest Tom Stoppard book released so far.

Is there a new Tom Stoppard book coming?

No next Tom Stoppard 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 Tom Stoppard has won

Wikidata records 3 awards for Tom Stoppard. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • PEN Pinter Prize2013Won
  • Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement2013Won
  • Bodley Medal2004Won

Tom Stoppard at a glance

Died
Tom Stoppard died in 2025, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Tom Stoppard on record dates from 2022.
Release pace
Tom Stoppard books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,958 pages across the 36 of 43 books with a recorded length, a median of 96 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Tom Stoppard books, 8 of 43, were published in the 2010s.

What the Tom Stoppard books are about

35 of the 43 Tom Stoppard 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 19 of 35. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Drama 19 of 35 books
  • English literature 7 of 35 books
  • History 5 of 35 books
  • Anarchists 3 of 35 books
  • English Plays 3 of 35 books
  • Radicalism 3 of 35 books
  • Revolutionaries 3 of 35 books
  • Russians 3 of 35 books
  • Biography 2 of 35 books
  • Comedy 2 of 35 books