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Doris Lessing Bibliography

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#1
Novels
1950
The Grass Is Singing
1952
Martha Quest
1954
A Proper Marriage
1956
Retreat to Innocence
1958
A Ripple from the Storm
1962
The Golden Notebook
1965
Landlocked
1969
The Four-Gated City
1971
A Briefing for a Descent into Hell
1973
The Summer Before the Dark
1974
Memoirs of a Survivor
1979
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
1980
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
1980
The Sirian Experiments
1982
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
1983
The Diary of a Good Neighbour
1983
(Documents Relating to) The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
1984
If the Old Could...
1985
The Good Terrorist
1996
Love, Again
1999
Mara and Dann: An Adventure
2000
Ben, in the World
2001
The Sweetest Dream
2005
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
2007
The Cleft
 
 
#2
Short Story Collections
1951
This Was the Old Chief's Country
1953
Five Short Novels
1957
The Habit of Loving
1963
A Man and Two Women
1964
African Stories
1966
Winter in July
1966
The Black Madonna
1972
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man
1973
This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, Vol. 1
1973
The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Vol. 2
1978
To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, Vol. 1
1978
The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories, Vol. 2
1992
London Observed: Stories and Sketches
1992
The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
1995
Spies I Have Known
1996
The Pit
2003
The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
#3
Short Stories
1951
The Old Chief Mshlanga
1951
A Sunrise on the Veld
1951
No Witchcraft for Sale
1951
The Second Hut
1951
The Nuisance
1951
The De Wets Come to Kloof Grange
1951
Little Tembi
1951
Old John's Place
1951
'Leopard' George
1951
Winter in July
1951
A Home for the Highland Castle
1951
Eldorado
1951
The Antheap
1953
The Other Woman
1953
Hunger
1957
The Habit of Loving
1957
The Words He Said
1957
Through the Tunnel
1957
Lucy Grange
1957
Pleasure
1957
A Mild Attack of Locusts
1957
The Witness
1957
Flavours of Exile
1957
Getting Off the Altitude
1957
A Road to the Big City
1957
Flight
1957
The Day Stalin Died
1957
Plants and Girls
1957
Wine
1957
He
1957
The Eye of God in Paradise
1963
One Off the Short List
1963
The Story of Two Dogs
1963
The Sun Between Their Feet
1963
A Woman on a Roof
1963
How I Finally Lost My Heart
1963
A Man and Two Women
1963
A Room
1963
England versus England
1963
Two Potters
1963
Between Men
1963
A Letter from Home
1963
Our Friend Judith
1963
Each Other
1963
Homage for Isaac Babel
1963
Outside the Ministry
1963
Dialogue
1963
Notes for a Case History
1963
To Room Nineteen
1964
The Black Madonna
1964
The Trinket Box
1964
The Pig
1964
Traitors
1964
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man
1964
Spies I Have Known
1972
Out of the Fountain
1972
An Unposted Love Letter
1972
A Year in Regent's Park
1972
Mrs. Fortescue
1972
Side Benefits of an Honourable Profession
1972
An Old Woman and Her Cat
1972
Lions, Leaves, Roses...
1972
Report on the Threatened City
1972
Not a Very Nice Story
1972
The Other Garden
1972
The Temptation of Jack Orkney
1990
Through the Tunnel
1992
Debbie and Julie
1992
Sparrows
1992
Pleasure of the Park
1992
Womb Ward
1992
Principles
1992
D.H.S.S.
1992
Casualty
1992
In Defence of the Underground
1992
The New Cafe
1992
Romance 1988
1992
What Price the Truth?
1992
Among the Roses
1992
Storms
1992
Her
1992
The Pit
1992
Two Old Women and a Young One
1992
The Real Thing
1992
The Mother of the Child in Question
2003
The Grandmothers
2003
Victoria and the Staveneys
2003
The Reason for It
2003
A Love Child
#4
Memoirs
1957
Going Home
1992
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
 
 
#5
Plays
1959
Each His Own Wilderness
1962
Play with a Tiger
 
 
#6
Poetry Collections
1959
Fourteen Poems
2002
The Wolf People - INPOPA Anthology 2002
 
 
#7
Poems
1959
Under a Low Cloud Sky
1959
Older Woman to Younger Man (1)
1959
Older Woman to Younger Man (2)
1959
Plea for the Hated Dead Woman
1959
Bars
1959
Dark Girl's Song
1959
New Man
1959
Night-Talk
1959
Song
1959
Exiled
1959
Oh Cherry Trees You Are Too White for My Heart
1959
Fable
1959
In Time of Dryness
1959
Jealousy
2002
In the Long Dark
2002
The Misfit
2002
As If They Had Always Known It
2002
Cave Wolves
2002
Something Speaks
2002
The Sky-Fire
2002
The Ice Comes
 
 
#8
Non-Fiction Books
1960
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
1967
Particularly Cats
1987
The Wind Blows Away Our Words and Other Documents Relating to the Afghan...
1993
Particularly Cats...and Rufus the Survivor
2000
The Old Age of El Magnifico
2007
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize
#9
Essays
1987
When In the Future They Look Back on Us
1987
You Are Damned, We Are Saved
1987
Switching Off to See "Dallas"
1987
Group Minds
1987
Laboratories of Social Change
1994
The Small Personal Voice
1994
Preface to The Golden Notebook
1994
Interview with Doris Lessing by Roy Newquist
1994
Doris Lessing at Stony Brook: An Interview by Jonah Raskin
1994
A Talk with Doris Lessing by Florence Howe
1994
My Father
1994
Afterword to The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
1994
Allah Be Praised
1994
In the World, Not of It
1994
Vonnegut's Responsibility
1994
Ant's Eye View: A Review of The Soul of the White Ant by Eugene Marais
1994
A Deep Darkness: A Review of Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
1994
Being Prohibited
1994
The Fruits of Humbug
2004
Jane Austen
2004
D. H. Lawrence's 'The Fox'
2004
Carlyle's House: Newly Discovered Pieces by Virginia Woolf
2004
On Tolstoy
2004
The Man Who Loved Children
2004
Kalila and Dimna - The Fables of Bidpai
2004
Speech at Vigo on Getting the Prince of Asturias Prize 2002
2004
Censorship
2004
The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
2004
Preface to Ecclesiastes, King James Version
2004
Writing Autobiography
2004
The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith
2004
Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
2004
'Now You See Her, Now You Don't'
2004
Stendhal's Memoirs of an Egotist
2004
Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age
2004
Henry Handel Richardson
2004
A Reissue of The Golden Notebook
2004
Anna Kavan
2004
Philip Glass
2004
Trail of Feathers
2004
William Philips, Who Died in 2002
2004
Books
2004
Niccolò Tucci's Before My Time
2004
The Wrong Way Home
2004
Biography
2004
About Cats
2004
The Maimie Papers
2004
Olive Schreiner
2004
When I Was Young...
2004
Preface for the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2003
2004
Simone de Beauvoir
2004
My Room
2004
A Book That Changed Me
2004
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
2004
Old
2004
Professor Martens' Departure
2004
How Things Were
2004
A Nazi Childhood
2004
Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
2004
The Tragedy of Zimbabwe
2004
East Meets West: The Elephant in the Dark
2004
'What Novel or Novels Prompted Your Own Political Awakening?'
2004
The Most Significant Book to Come Out of Africa
2004
The Sufis
2004
The Ice Palace: Frozen Secrets Stranded in a Waterfall
2004
Problems, Myths and Stories
2004
After 9.11
2004
The Past Is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg
2004
The Story of Hai
2004
Sufi Philosophy and Poetry
2004
The Way
2004
A Week in Heidelberg
2004
Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto
2004
For a Book Trust Pamphlet
2004
The Three Royal Monkeys, Walter de la Mare
2004
Catlore, Desmond Morris
2004
The Englishman's Handbook
2004
A. E. Coppard
2004
A Festschrift, Idries Shah
2004
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats
2004
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
2004
Clarissa
2004
Summing Up: When Idries Shah Died
2004
Opera
#10
Screenplay
1981
Killing Heat
 
 
#11
Librettos
1986
The Making of a Representative for Planet 8
1997
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
 
 
#12
Essay Collections
1987
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
1994
A Small Personal Voice
2004
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
 
 
#13
Novella
1988
The Fifth Child
 
 
#14
Autobiographies
1994
Under My Skin: Volume I of My Autobiography, to 1949
1997
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962
 
 
#15
Interview Collection
1996
Putting the Questions Differently: Interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994
 
 
#16
Omnibus
2002
On Cats
 
 
#17
Non-Fiction/Fiction Book
2008
Alfred and Emily
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