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Wilkie Collins Books in Order

88 books are credited to Wilkie Collins, published between 1840 and 2015; 8 of them appeared after Wilkie Collins's death in 1889. The first book is Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was (1840) and the newest is Black and White (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
88
Published
1840–2015
Pages on record
13,038 in 59 of 88 books
Reading time
217–326 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 13,038 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 59 of 88 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Wilkie Collins, author

Wilkie Collins, born William Wilkie Collins on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889, was an English novelist and playwright. The Woman in White (1860) is an early sensation novel; The Moonstone (1868) set out much of what the modern detective novel came to do, and stands as an early example of the police procedural. Collins was the son of the London painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, spent two years in Italy and France from the age of twelve, learned Italian and French there, and worked at first as a tea merchant. The catalogue holds 88 titles, from Iolani; Or, Tahiti as It Was (1840) onward, with the 1850s the heaviest decade.

How many Wilkie Collins books are there?

Wilkie Collins has 88 books, released between 1840 and 2015. 8 of them were published after Wilkie Collins's death in 1889.

Wilkie Collins Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 88 Wilkie Collins 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 Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was by Wilkie Collins (1840)
  2. Cover of Mr. Wray's Cash Box by Wilkie Collins (1852)
  3. Cover of A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins (1852)
  4. Cover of Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins (1854)
  5. Cover of The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins (1855)
  6. Cover of Mad Monkton And Other Stories by Wilkie Collins (1855)
  7. Cover of The Yellow Mask & Other Stories by Wilkie Collins (1855)
  8. Cover of The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins (1856)
  9. Cover of A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins (1856)
  10. Cover of The Haunted House by Wilkie Collins (1859)
  11. Cover of The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins (1859)
  12. Cover of Blow Up with the Brig by Wilkie Collins (1859)
  13. Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1859)
  14. Cover of No Name by Wilkie Collins (1862)
  15. Cover of Armadale by Wilkie Collins (1866)
  16. Cover of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
  17. Cover of Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins (1870)
  18. Cover of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (1872)
  19. Cover of The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins (1873)
  20. Cover of Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins (1873)
  21. Cover of The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins (1873)
  22. Cover of The Frozen Deep and Other Tales by Wilkie Collins (1874)
  23. Cover of The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins (1875)
  24. Cover of The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins (1879)
  1. 1
    Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was1840 · 205 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1840205
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  2. 2
    The Last Stage Coachman1843 · confirmed 1/4
    1843–
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  3. 3
    Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome1850 · confirmed 1/4
    1850–
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  4. 4
    Rambles Beyond Railways1851 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1851122
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  5. 5
    The Twin Sisters1851 · 34 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185134
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  6. 6
    Mr. Wray's Cash Box1852 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1852124
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  7. 7
    A Terribly Strange Bed1852 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185248
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  8. 8
    Basil1852 · 356 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1852356
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  9. 9
    Nine O' Clock1852 · 22 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185222
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  10. 10
    A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino Potts1852 · confirmed 1/4
    1852–
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  11. 11
    The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage1853 · confirmed 1/4
    1853–
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  12. 12
    Hide and Seek1854 · 296 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1854296
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  13. 13
    The Dream Woman1855 · 76 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185576
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  14. 16
    After Dark1856 · confirmed 1/4
    1856–
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  15. 17
    The Dead Secret1856 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1856340
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  16. 18
    A Rogue's Life1856 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1856200
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  17. 19
    The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter1856 · 38 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185638
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  18. 20
    The Diary of Anne Rodway1856 · confirmed 1/4
    1856–
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  19. 21
    The Black Cottage1857 · confirmed 1/4
    1857–
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  20. 22
    A Fair Penitent1857 · confirmed 1/4
    1857–
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  21. 23
    The Dead Hand1857 · confirmed 1/4
    1857–
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  22. 24
    The Family Secret1857 · confirmed 1/4
    1857–
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  23. 25
    The Biter Bit1858 · confirmed 1/4
    1858–
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  24. 26
    Fauntleroy1858 · confirmed 1/4
    1858–
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  25. 27
    A Plot in Private Life, and Other Tales1858 · confirmed 1/4
    1858–
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  26. 28
    The Haunted House1859 · confirmed 1/4
    1859–
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  27. 29
    The Queen of Hearts1859 · 484 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1859484
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  28. 30
    Blow Up with the Brig1859 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185948
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Wilkie Collins 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

88 books

88 Wilkie Collins titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Wilkie Collins Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Wilkie Collins books run from Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was (1840) to Black and White (2015), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Wilkie Collins in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Wilkie Collins books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 88 Wilkie Collins books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Wilkie Collins

Start with Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was (1840), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Wilkie Collins book?

Black and White (2015) is the newest Wilkie Collins book released so far.

Is there a new Wilkie Collins book coming?

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

Wilkie Collins at a glance

Died
Wilkie Collins died in 1889, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Wilkie Collins are still being published after Wilkie Collins's death in 1889; the newest appeared in 2015.
Release pace
Wilkie Collins books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
13,038 pages across the 59 of 88 books with a recorded length, a median of 187 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Wilkie Collins books, 30 of 88, were published in the 1850s.

What the Wilkie Collins books are about

43 of the 88 Wilkie Collins books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 14 of 43. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.