Virginia Woolf Books in Order: All 74 books (1915

How many Virginia Woolf books are there?

Virginia Woolf has 74 books, released between 1915 and 2022. 45 of them were published after Virginia Woolf's death in 1941. They include 3 series and 29 titles listed outside any series.

Virginia Woolf Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 74 Virginia Woolf 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.

Cover of The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf (1917)

Cover of Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (1919)

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Virginia Woolf 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.

Essays in order

20 books

1. The Common Reader
2. On Not Knowing Greek
3. How Should One Read a Book?
4. A Room of One's Own
5. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
6. On Being Ill
7. The London Scene
8. The Common Reader: Second Series
9. Three Guineas
10. Reviewing
11. Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
12. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
and 8 more in the table above

Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals in order

9 books

1. A Writer's Diary
2. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One
3. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two
4. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
5. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four
6. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five
7. A Moment's Liberty
8. Passionate Apprentice
9. Travels With Virginia Woolf

Collected Essays in order

7 books

1. The Essays, Vol. 1
2. The Essays, Vol. 2
3. The Essays, Vol. 3
4. The Essays, Vol. 4
5. The Essays, Vol. 5
6. The Essays, Vol. 6
7. Street Haunting

Letters of Virginia Woolf in order

7 books

1. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1
2. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2
3. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3
4. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4
5. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5
6. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6
7. Paper Darts

Anton Chekhov Plays in order

1 book

2. Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando

Modern Library Torchbearers in order

1 book

9. The Voyage Out

Standalone books

29 books

29 Virginia Woolf titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Virginia Woolf Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Virginia Woolf books run from The Voyage Out (1915) to Street Haunting (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Virginia Woolf in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Virginia Woolf books in order?

You only need to read Virginia Woolf 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 Virginia Woolf

Start with The Voyage Out (1915), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Virginia Woolf book?

Street Haunting (2022) is the newest Virginia Woolf book released so far.

Is there a new Virginia Woolf book coming?

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

Virginia Woolf at a glance

Died: Virginia Woolf died in 1941, according to Wikidata.
After death: Books credited to Virginia Woolf are still being published after Virginia Woolf's death in 1941; the newest appeared in 2022.
Release pace: Virginia Woolf books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length: 16,532 pages across the 58 of 74 books with a recorded length, a median of 244 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Virginia Woolf books, 12 of 74, were published in the 1970s.

What the Virginia Woolf books are about

55 of the 74 Virginia Woolf books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 14 of 55. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Biography 14 of 55 books
Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941 11 of 55 books
Authors 9 of 55 books
Novelists 8 of 55 books
History and criticism 7 of 55 books
Women authors 7 of 55 books
Correspondence 6 of 55 books
English literature 6 of 55 books
Cartas inglesas 5 of 55 books
Correspondencia, memorias 5 of 55 books
Diaries 5 of 55 books
Lesbian authors 5 of 55 books