Roald Dahl Books in Order

RAF pilot Gus learns that the tiny gremlins blamed for wrecked aircraft may be real, and that they have their own grudge against humans. Dahl turns wartime folklore into a strange, energetic fantasy.

These wartime stories draw on Dahl's experience as a flier and focus on danger, fear, and luck in the air. The mood is leaner and more serious than his children's fiction.

Dahl's first adult novel imagines gremlins, war, and a bleak future shaped by humanity's talent for self-destruction. It is a strange mix of fantasy, satire, and early nuclear-age anxiety.

An adult short-story collection where ordinary settings tilt suddenly into horror, irony, or black comedy. Bets, meals, marriages, and small obsessions all hide sharp teeth here.

A ghost anthology chosen and introduced by Dahl, gathering eerie tales by other writers that he especially admired. It is less about gore than atmosphere, unease, and old-fashioned chills.

These adult stories are cool, funny, and deeply unsettling, with vanity, cruelty, and desire often leading straight to disaster. Dahl's twist endings hit especially hard here.

A later collection that gathers some of Dahl's darker adult tales, from strange bargains to grisly ironies. It is a good sampler of his macabre wit and carefully timed shocks.

Orphaned James escapes his cruel aunts inside an enormous peach, joined by a band of oversized insect friends. Their trip turns into a joyous, perilous journey across sea and sky.

Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket and enters Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory with four other children. Wonder, greed, and good manners collide in one of Dahl's most famous adventures.

Uncle Oswald arrives at a house in search of pleasure and easy conquest, only to wander into a trap of his own making. One of Dahl's most scandalous adult tales.

A girl who hates hunting turns her mysterious power on the Gregg family after they kill birds for fun. The story is short, funny, and pointed about cruelty and empathy.

A compact selection of Dahl's adult short fiction, chosen for suspense, wit, and nasty surprises. If you want the twist-ending side of his work, this is a solid place to start.

This volume brings together the stories from Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss in one place. It is a big dose of Dahl's adult fiction, stylish, sly, and often wicked.

Mr Fox keeps stealing food from Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three farmers who are tired of being outsmarted. What follows is a siege story with wit, tunneling, and family teamwork.

The sequel begins the instant Charlie leaves the factory, sending Charlie, Wonka, and the Bucket family into space. It is stranger, faster, and even more chaotic than the first book.

Four adult stories about sex, vanity, and manipulation, told with Dahl's usual deadpan control and sting in the tail. This is firmly his most grown-up and least child-friendly side.

Danny lives in a caravan with his clever, loving father and thinks him the best dad in the world. Together they take on the rich bully Mr Hazell with a daring pheasant-poaching plan.

A smug antique dealer poses as a humble clergyman to trick country people out of valuable furniture. His perfect little con runs into one of Dahl's most brutal punch lines.

Henry Sugar is a rich, aimless man who discovers a method for seeing without using his eyes. What begins as a selfish stunt turns into a story about discipline, luck, and change.

A huge, greedy crocodile prowls the jungle inventing secret plans and clever tricks to eat a child. The other animals are not about to let him get away with it.

Uncle Oswald hatches a wildly shameless scheme involving seduction, famous men, and money. It is one of Dahl's most outrageous adult books, broad, bawdy, and full of nerve.

A classic adult collection of Dahl's dark short fiction, full of smooth narrators, quiet menace, and final-page reversals. These are clever, nasty little stories that almost always spring a trap.

A themed selection of adult stories built around appetite, pride, revenge, and sudden reversals. Like many Dahl collections, it turns ordinary conversation into danger very quickly.

Nine of Dahl's adult short stories, gathered as a brisk introduction to his darker side. Expect calm prose, nasty humor, and endings that flip the whole story in a sentence.

Another helping of twisty adult stories, with jealousy, greed, and bad impulses pushing people toward disaster. The pleasures here are suspense, economy, and the final snap shut.

A further selection of Dahl's adult suspense stories, built on deception, nerves, and the shock of a late reveal. It is easy to dip into and hard to trust.

Mr and Mrs Twit are filthy, cruel, and forever playing spiteful tricks on each other and their animals. Their nastiness becomes the engine of one of Dahl's funniest short books.

This collection leans into tension inside ordinary homes, marriages, and routines, then twists them just enough to become sinister. Dahl makes politeness feel positively dangerous.

George decides his foul grandmother needs a new medicine and mixes a wildly dangerous potion from everything he can find. The results are funny, alarming, and completely out of control.

Dahl retells familiar fairy tales in bouncy verse, then gleefully wrecks their tidy endings. It is rude, musical, and one of his most quotable books.

Sophie is snatched from her orphanage by the Big Friendly Giant and lands in a world of child-eating giants, dream-catching, and gobblefunk. Together they hatch a bold plan to stop the monsters for good.

A machine that can write fiction is only the start of this unsettling collection. Dahl mixes satire, greed, absurd invention, and dark humor with great control.

A selection of Dahl tales about charming strangers, small cons, and terrible luck. The stories are brisk and playful, but there is always a sting close behind.

This verse collection introduces a parade of unruly animals, most of them hungry, bad-tempered, or both. Quentin Blake's drawings and Dahl's rhymes make the whole thing gleefully gross.

A handpicked collection of Dahl's adult short fiction, chosen for suspense, dark comedy, and memorable twists. It is a strong sampler of the side of him many children never meet.

A boy and his witch-hunting grandmother uncover a gathering of real witches led by the terrifying Grand High Witch. They are badly outnumbered, and the witches have a plan for every child in England.

Dahl's childhood memoir is packed with school stories, sweets, Norway trips, and the famous Great Mouse Plot. It reads with the same mischief and momentum as his fiction.

Billy meets a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey who run a ladderless window-cleaning company. Their odd jobs lead to a jewel thief and Billy's dream of opening a sweet shop.

A smug man devises an outrageous bedroom plot that depends on vanity, deceit, and perfect timing. Dahl turns the premise into a dark adult farce with a nasty aftertaste.

This anthology rounds up more of Dahl's adult short fiction, where small choices and bad character traits spiral into trouble. The tone moves between sly comedy and real menace.

The sequel to Boy follows Dahl into East Africa and then into World War II. It is a brisk memoir of work, flying, survival, and the accidents that changed his life.

Two short illustrated pieces let Dahl play with mock-moral fable form and animal absurdity. They are brief, odd, and knowingly silly, with his usual crooked smile.

Another short sampler of Dahl's adult fiction, chosen for bite, speed, and surprise. It is full of people who think they are in control until the last page proves otherwise.

Matilda Wormwood is brilliant, bookish, and badly underestimated by her awful parents and the monstrous Miss Trunchbull. Her wit, courage, and unusual powers help her fight back.

These adult country stories trade city nerves for farms, animals, sex, and sly rural comedy. The tone is earthy, funny, and often more tender than Dahl's darker collections.

Another helping of Dahl verse, mixing new poems with rude jokes, odd creatures, and comic reversals. It is looser and more varied than Revolting Rhymes, but just as mischievous.

Mr Hoppy loves his neighbor Mrs Silver but can only speak easily to her tortoise, Alfie. His plan to win her heart is sweet, sneaky, and very unlike Dahl's harsher books.

Part memoir and part cookbook, this book shares family recipes, kitchen memories, and the food life of the Dahls at home. It is warm, domestic, and full of personality.

A short safety booklet that uses cartoons, jokes, and plain warnings to tell children how dangerous trains and tracks can be. It is brisk, practical, and memorable.

Billy slips past the garden gate into a forbidden forest and meets the Minpins, tiny people living in the trees. Together they must outwit the terrifying Gruncher.

A kindly new vicar develops a comic kind of back-to-front dyslexia and starts saying exactly the wrong thing in church. It is short, silly, and written with affection.

Dahl moves through the seasons with memories, recipes, letters, and family routines from life at Gipsy House. It feels like a scrapbook of the year, funny in spots and quietly personal.

A children's cookbook built around the memorable food in Dahl's stories, from disgusting jokes to genuinely tempting treats. It is playful enough to read even before you cook.

This selection gathers some of Dahl's best-known adult tales of murder, irony, and revenge. The title story sets the tone, neat setup, calm voice, brutal payoff.

Cats, music, obsession, and eccentric belief all feature in this off-kilter collection of adult stories. Dahl keeps things elegant on the surface and deeply odd underneath.

A later edition of the Gipsy House food book, mixing recipes with anecdotes from family life. It is as much about eating and remembering as it is about cooking.

A richly illustrated family anthology that samples Dahl's children's stories, poems, and characters in one volume. It is part celebration, part introduction, and easy to browse.

More adult stories of nerves, tricks, and sudden reversals, collected under Dahl's best-known suspense banner. These are quick reads with a deliciously sharp snap at the end.

Based on a true story, this tells how an ordinary man unearthed a remarkable Roman silver hoard in Suffolk. Dahl treats the discovery with wonder, frustration, and a storyteller's eye.

Designed for seven-year-olds, this anthology collects short pieces by favorite children's authors, among them Judy Blume. The stories celebrate school, friends, and small adventures at an age when kids are old enough to explore but still firmly in childhood.

A follow-up cookbook with more edible inventions drawn from Dahl's story worlds. It keeps the same mix of gross-out fun, recognizable characters, and kitchen play.

An Oxford Bookworms Collection volume containing ten short stories by writers including Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Joanna Trollope. Compiled by Christine Lindop, it brings together a varied selection of concise fiction for English-language readers.

A short, tempting sampler of Dahl's adult fiction, chosen for tension, appetite, and surprise. It is built for readers who want quick shocks and crisp storytelling.

This collection gathers poems, rhymes, and lyrical pieces from across Dahl's work. It is a handy way to revisit his ear for sound, bounce, and comic menace.

A slim volume of Dahl poems and comic verse, full of rude humor, sharp rhymes, and gleeful nastiness. It works best as a quick dip into his playful side.

A broad gathering of Dahl's adult short fiction, from famous twist-ending classics to less familiar oddities. If you want the full dark, witty range, start here.

A year-round grab bag of Dahl facts, jokes, quizzes, and snippets from his life and stories. It is designed for dipping into rather than reading straight through.

Edited by David Remnick, this New Yorker anthology collects essays, fiction, poems, humor, and cartoons about food and drink. Its varied selections move from restaurants, cooking, and culinary memory to wine, dieting, and appetite, including Louise Erdrich’s story “The Butcher’s Wife.”

A follow-up miscellany of facts, jokes, quizzes, and bite-size pieces from Dahl's books and life. Like the first volume, it is made for browsing and quick bursts of fun.

Edited by Dorothy Spears, this anthology traces a century of writing about flight, from aviation pioneers’ letters and memoirs to modern fiction and essays. Contributors including Roald Dahl, James Salter, Mary Gaitskill, and David Sedaris examine wonder, fear, inconvenience, and social change in air travel.

A companion to Boy, this slim book adds photographs, letters, extra anecdotes, and background to Dahl's childhood world. It is a nice next step if the memoir leaves you wanting more.

A companion book to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, packed with trivia, behind-the-scenes material, and an extra chapter. It is made for readers who want to linger in Wonka's world.

This Charlie companion volume offers an extra chapter, trivia, games, and background from behind the factory gates. It is a treat for readers who want more Wonka after the novel ends.

An interactive retelling of the classic story, with pop-ups and paper engineering that bring Wonka's factory to life. It is shorter than the novel but big on visual fun.

A big collection of jokes, riddles, limericks, and comic bits aimed at children who like their humor noisy and slightly gross. It keeps Dahl's mischievous spirit front and center.

A worried mother prays that her frail newborn son will survive, while small details slowly point to the child's terrible future identity. It is short, tender, and chilling.

A brisk collection of trivia, jokes, quizzes, and bite-size pieces drawn from Dahl's life and story worlds. Good for browsing, dipping in, and finding a favorite odd fact.

A sticker activity book filled with scenes, characters, and puzzles inspired by Dahl's stories. It is light, colorful fun rather than a storybook.

Three Dahl stories are gathered here in one playful volume, linked by tricks, odd powers, and comic trouble. It is a handy sampler for younger readers.

This playful spin-off mixes Dahl extracts, pranks, quizzes, and activities for readers who love the naughtiest parts of his books. It celebrates clever trouble without feeling mean.

A themed adult collection that gathers Dahl stories of malice, greed, and revenge. The fun comes from watching polite surfaces crack and nasty impulses take over.

A themed selection of adult stories about lies, manipulation, and people outsmarting one another. As ever with Dahl, the last move is usually the one that hurts most.

This collection groups Dahl's more sensual and adult stories around desire, vanity, and appetite. It is witty, provocative, and very far from his children's fiction.

These selected stories lean into obsession, fear, and states of mind slipping off balance. Dahl keeps the prose cool while the situations grow steadily stranger.

A suspense-focused selection of adult tales driven by dread, pressure, and the sense that something is about to go badly wrong. Even the quiet scenes feel loaded.

These stories turn on youth, naivety, or misplaced trust meeting a harder world. The tone is gentler in places, but Dahl still finds room for irony and unease.

A themed selection built around cons, schemes, and neat little acts of fraud. If you enjoy Dahl at his slyest, this volume leans hard into the art of the setup.

This themed volume gathers Dahl stories shaped by military life, flying, danger, and the absurdities of wartime. It shows the harder, firsthand edge behind some of his fiction.

Another early board book, this one uses characters and art from Dahl's world to teach simple shapes. It is bright, tactile, and made for little hands.

A Halloween-themed board book that brings Dahl characters into a friendly first look at costumes, creatures, and spooky fun. It is playful rather than scary.

A sturdy board book that introduces first words with Quentin Blake art and familiar characters from Dahl's stories. It is aimed at the very youngest readers.

This kid-friendly cookbook offers fifty recipes inspired by Dahl's stories, from silly gross-out ideas to famous treats. It is meant for young cooks who want to bring the books into the kitchen.