Order of William Golding Books

William Golding (1911-1993) was a British novelist, best known for his classic Lord of the Flies. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. In addition to his novels, Golding also wrote plays, essays, reviews, short stories, poems and a travel book about Egypt. He challenged himself to diversify the subject matter of his novels. Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. He was survived by his wife and their two children, David and Judith.

William Golding’s first novel was Lord of the Flies, published in 1954. Below is a list of William Golding’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of To the Ends of the Earth Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Plays

Publication Order of Anthologies

Note: Pincher Martin was also published as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin.

If You Like William Golding Books, You’ll Love…

• Herman Melville
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Kurt Vonnegut

William Golding Synopses: Lord of the Flies is a standalone title by William Golding. A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys’ delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.

In The Inheritors by William Golding, eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.