New York Times Bestsellers
J R R Tolkien has placed 6 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 82 weeks on the charts. 3 titles reached #1.
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien Short Story Collections
59 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Sep 1977
Full chart history →The Children of Húrin
J.R.R. Tolkien Other Novels
13 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted May 2007
Full chart history →
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Reading Order
11 series · 55 booksThe Lord of the Rings Series
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| 1 | The Hobbit | 1937 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Fellowship of the Ring | 1954 | Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek 2002Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | The Two Towers | 1954 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | The Return of the King | 1955 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Middle-Earth Universe Series
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-Earth | 1992 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Poems From The Hobbit (Short Story) | 1999 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Book of Lost Tales, Part One | 1983 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two | 1983 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Lays of Beleriand | 1985 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | The Shaping of Middle-earth | 1986 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | The Lost Road and Other Writings | 1987 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | The War of the Jewels | 1994 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | The History of Middle Earth Index | 2002 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | The Great Tales of Middle-Earth | 2018 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
History Of The Lord Of The Rings Collections
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| 1 | The Return of the Shadow | 1988 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Treason of Isengard | 1989 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The War of the Ring | 1990 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Sauron Defeated | 1992 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Tales of Middle Earth Series
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| 1 | The Fall of Gondolin | 2018 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth | 2022 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Later Silmarillion Collections
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| 1 | Morgoth's Ring: The Legends of Aman | 1993 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.R.R. Tolkien Other Novels
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| 1 | The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (Short Story) | 1945 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Farmer Giles of Ham | 1949 | Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 2000Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | Drawings by Tolkien | 1976 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Roverandom | 1998 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 2000Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 5 | The Children of Húrin | 2007 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún | 2009 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | The Story of Kullervo | 2015 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | The Lost Manuscript | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | Beren and Lúthien | 2017 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.R.R. Tolkien Short Stories/Novellas
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| 1 | Smith of Wootton Major (Short Story) | 1967 | Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 2006Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.R.R. Tolkien Short Story Collections
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J.R.R. Tolkien Non-Fiction Books
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| 1 | A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary | 1921 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Beowulf and the Critics | 1936 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Tolkien on Fairy-stories | 1939 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien | 1981 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode | 1982 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | The Monsters and the Critics: The Essays of J.R.R. Tolkien | 1983 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Father Christmas Letters (Short Story) | 1994 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | The Nature of Middle-Earth ( With: Carl F. Hostetter) | 2021 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.R.R. Tolkien Anthologies
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Over the Rainbow | 1983 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories | 1997 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction | 2008 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
About the Author
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth.