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William Makepeace Thackeray Books in Order

63 books are credited to William Makepeace Thackeray, published between 1837 and 2019; 32 of them appeared after William Makepeace Thackeray's death in 1863. The first book is The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (1837) and the newest is The Four Georges (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

William Makepeace Thackeray also publishes as George Fitz-Boodle, Ikey Solomons, Michael Angelo Titmarsh.

Books
63
Published
1837–2019
Pages on record
9,145 in 32 of 63 books
Reading time
152–229 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,145 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 63 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of William Makepeace Thackeray, author of the William Makepeace Thackeray Collection series

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist and illustrator known for satire. Vanity Fair, serialised across 1847 and 1848, draws a panorama of British society; The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) reached the screen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film. Thackeray was born in Calcutta and sent to England after his father's death in 1815, attended Trinity College, Cambridge briefly, and lost much of an inheritance to gambling and failed newspapers. The catalogue records 63 titles dated 1837 to 2019, from The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush onward, and the 1840s were the busiest decade.

How many William Makepeace Thackeray books are there?

William Makepeace Thackeray has 63 books, released between 1837 and 2019. 32 of them were published after William Makepeace Thackeray's death in 1863.

William Makepeace Thackeray Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 63 William Makepeace Thackeray 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 The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
  2. Cover of Catherine by William Makepeace Thackeray (1840)
  3. Cover of The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray (1840)
  4. Cover of The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray (1841)
  5. Cover of Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray (1846)
  6. Cover of Eastern Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray (1846)
  7. Cover of The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
  8. Cover of The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
  9. Cover of The Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
  10. Cover of Rebecca and Rowena by William Makepeace Thackeray (1850)
  11. Cover of The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray (1855)
  12. Cover of The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by William Makepeace Thackeray (1856)
  13. Cover of The English Humourists by William Makepeace Thackeray (1861)
  14. Cover of The Adventures of Philip by William Makepeace Thackeray (1862)
  15. Cover of Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray (1863)
  16. Cover of Denis Duval by William Makepeace Thackeray (1864)
  17. Cover of Sulton Stork by William Makepeace Thackeray, book 3 of the William Makepeace Thackeray Collection series (1887)
  18. Cover of Thackerayana by William Makepeace Thackeray (1970)
  19. Cover of The Letters And Private Papers Of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1980)
  20. Cover of A Shabby Genteel Story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1985)
  21. Cover of The Fatal Boots by William Makepeace Thackeray (2001)
  22. Cover of Letters to an American Family by William Makepeace Thackeray (2003)
  23. Cover of Novels By Eminent Hands by William Makepeace Thackeray (2004)
  24. Cover of Mrs. Perkins's Ball by William Makepeace Thackeray (2004)
  1. 1
    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush1837 · 131 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1837131
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  2. 2
    Catherine1840 · 186 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1840186
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  3. 3
    The Story of Mary Ancel1840 · confirmed 1/4
    1840–
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  4. 4
    The Paris Sketch Book1840 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1840288
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  5. 5
    George Cruikshank1840 · confirmed 1/4
    1840–
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  6. 6
    The Second Funeral of Napoleon1841 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1841116
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  7. 7
    The Fitz-Boodle Papers1842 · confirmed 1/4
    1842–
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  8. 8
    The Irish Sketch-Book1843 · confirmed 1/4
    1843–
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  9. 9
    The Luck of Barry Lyndon1844 · confirmed 1/4
    1844–
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  10. 10
    Legend of the Rhine1845 · confirmed 1/4
    1845–
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  11. 11
    Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo1846 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1846144
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  12. 12
    Eastern Sketches1846 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1846184
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  13. 13
    Vanity Fair1847 · confirmed 1/4
    1847–
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  14. 14
    The Book of Snobs1848 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1848128
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  15. 15
    The History of Pendennis1848 · 810 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1848810
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  16. 16
    The Great Hoggarty Diamond1848 · 136 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1848136
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  17. 17
    Our Street1848 · 44 pages · confirmed 1/4
    184844
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  18. 18
    Rebecca and Rowena1850 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/4
    185090
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  19. 19
    Men's Wives1852 · confirmed 1/4
    1852–
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  20. 20
    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.1852 · 196 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1852196
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  21. 21
    Ballads1855 · confirmed 1/4
    1855–
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  22. 22
    The Rose and the Ring1855 · confirmed 1/4
    1855–
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  23. 23
    The Newcomes1855 · 801 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1855801
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  24. 24
    The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan1855 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1855112
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  25. 25
    BurlesquesWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Collection #11856 · confirmed 1/4
    1856–
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  26. 26
    The Bedford-Row Conspiracy1856 · 148 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1856148
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  27. 27
    The Virginians1859 · 664 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1859664
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  28. 28
    The English Humourists1861 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1861304
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  29. 29
    The Adventures of Philip1862 · 592 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1862592
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  30. 30
    Roundabout Papers1863 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1863260
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William Makepeace Thackeray 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.

William Makepeace Thackeray Collection

3 books

3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

60 books

60 William Makepeace Thackeray titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read William Makepeace Thackeray books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 63 William Makepeace Thackeray books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with William Makepeace Thackeray

Start with The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (1837), the earliest published title.

What is the newest William Makepeace Thackeray book?

The Four Georges (2019) is the newest William Makepeace Thackeray book released so far.

Is there a new William Makepeace Thackeray book coming?

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

William Makepeace Thackeray at a glance

Died
William Makepeace Thackeray died in 1863, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to William Makepeace Thackeray are still being published after William Makepeace Thackeray's death in 1863; the newest appeared in 2019.
Release pace
William Makepeace Thackeray books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
9,145 pages across the 32 of 63 books with a recorded length, a median of 166 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most William Makepeace Thackeray books, 16 of 63, were published in the 1840s.

What the William Makepeace Thackeray books are about

18 of the 63 William Makepeace Thackeray books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: classic literature is tagged on 5 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.