New York Times Bestsellers
P D James has placed 11 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 144 weeks on the charts. One title reached #1.
Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James Other Novels
13 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #3 · debuted Dec 2011 · 38 weeks across 3 NYT lists
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A Taste for Death
Adam Dalgliesh Series
16 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #4 · debuted Nov 1986 · 17 weeks across 2 NYT lists
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Reading Order
8 series · 61 booksCordelia Gray Series
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| 1 | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | 1972 | 🎬 2 adaptations → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | The Skull Beneath the Skin | 1982 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
P.D. James Other Novels
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| 1 | Innocent Blood / Innocent House | 1980 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Children of Men | 1992 | 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | Death Comes to Pemberley | 2012 | 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
P.D. James Short Stories/Novellas
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| 1 | The Part-Time Job | 2005 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
P.D. James Short Story Collections
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| 1 | The Mistletoe Murder | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Sleep No More | 2017 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
P D James Non-Fiction Books
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| 1 | The Maul and The Pear Tree ( With: T.A. Critchley) | 1971 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Time To Be In Earnest | 1999 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Talking About Detective Fiction | 2009 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | P.D. James in Her Own Words | 2017 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
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| 1 | A Good Man Is Hard To Find ( By: Flannery O'Connor) | 1955 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Inner Room (Short Story) ( By: Robert Aickman) | 1968 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Daughters of Passion (Short Story) ( By: Julia O'Faolain) | 1982 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Giacomo Joyce (Short Story) ( By: Richard Ellmann) | 1983 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Homeland ( By: Barbara Kingsolver) | 1989 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Shanti (Short Story) ( By: Vikram Chandra) | 1997 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine ( By: Thom Jones) | 1998 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | An Elegy for Easterly (Short Story) ( By: Petina Gappah) | 2009 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Short Story) ( By: Alan Bennett) | 2011 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 10 | The Cheater's Guide to Love (Short Story) ( By: Junot Díaz) | 2012 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 11 | Mrs Fox (Short Story) ( By: Sarah Hall) | 2014 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 12 | Mostly Hero (Short Story) ( By: Anna Burns) | 2014 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 13 | Mr Salary (Short Story) ( By: Sally Rooney) | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 14 | Come Rain or Come Shine (Short Story) ( By: Kazuo Ishiguro) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 15 | The Victim (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 16 | Dante and the Lobster (Short Story) ( By: Samuel Beckett) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 17 | Paradise (Short Story) ( By: Edna O'Brien) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 18 | Cosmopolitan (Short Story) ( By: Akhil Sharma) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 19 | The Lydia Steptoe Stories (Short Story) ( By: Djuna Barnes) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 20 | Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom ( By: Sylvia Plath) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 21 | Terrific Mother (Short Story) ( By: Lorrie Moore) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 22 | The Country Funeral (Short Story) ( By: John McGahern) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 23 | The Forester's Daughter (Short Story) ( By: Claire Keegan) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 24 | Three Types of Solitude (Short Story) ( By: Brian W. Aldiss) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 25 | A River in Egypt (Short Story) ( By: David Means) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 26 | Fairy Tales (Short Story) ( By: Marianne Moore) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 27 | Ghostly Stories (Short Story) ( By: Celia Fremlin) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 28 | Intruders (Short Story) ( By: Adrian Tomine) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
P.D. James Anthologies
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| 1 | Verdict of Thirteen | 1979 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Murder in the Dark | 1983 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | English Country House Murders | 1988 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Great Law and Order Stories | 1990 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | The Man Who... | 1992 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | 1995 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | The Detection Collection | 2005 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
About the Author
Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer.