The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles. Dickens's novels were serialized initially in weekly or monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.
Novels TitleYearPublicationNotesText at WikisourceThe Pickwick Papers1837 Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837Text Oliver Twist1838 Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839TextNicholas Nickleby1839 Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839TextThe Old Curiosity Shop1841 Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840 to 6 February 1841TextBarnaby Rudge1841 Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841 Historical novelText Martin Chuzzlewit1844Monthly serial, December 1842 to July 1844TextA Christmas Carol1843Christmas novellaTextThe Chimes1844Christmas novellaTextThe Cricket on the Hearth1845Christmas novellaTextThe Battle of Life1846Christmas novellaTextThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain1848Christmas novellaTextDombey and Son1848Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848TextDavid Copperfield1850Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850TextBleak House1853Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853 TextHard Times1854Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854TextLittle Dorrit1857Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857TextA Tale of Two Cities1859Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859Historical novelText Great Expectations1861Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861Text Our Mutual Friend1865Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865TextNo Thoroughfare1867Written with Wilkie Collins, also published as a stageplayThe Mystery of Edwin Drood1870Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870Unfinished – Only six of twelve planned numbers completedText
Short stories
"Mr. Minns and his Cousin" (1833) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Mrs. Joseph Porter" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Horatio Sparkins" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Bloomsbury Christening" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Boarding-House" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Sentiment" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Steam Excursion" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle" (1835) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Great Winglebury Duel" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Black Veil" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Tuggses at Ramsgate" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Drunkard's Death" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Stroller's Tale" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Convict's Return" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "A Madman's Manuscript" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Bagman's Story" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Parish Clerk" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Old Man's Tale" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The True Legend of P. B." (1837) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle" (1837) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The Pantomime of Life" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "Some Particulars Concerning a Lion" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The First Meeting" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The Second Meeting" (1838) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "Mr. Robert Bolton" (1838) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child" (1838) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The Lamplighter" (1838) "The Five Sisters of York" (1839) (part of Nicholas Nickleby) "The Baron of Grogzwig" (1839) (part of Nicholas Nickleby) "First Night of the Giant Chronicles" (1840) (part of Master Humphrey's Clock) "A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second" (1840) (part of Master Humphrey's Clock) "Mr. Pickwick's Tale" (1840) (part of Master Humphrey's Clock) "A Child's Dream of a Star" (1850) "Captain Murderer" (1850) (part of The Uncommercial Traveller) "To Be Read at Dusk" (1852) "The Long Voyage" (1853) "Prince Bull" (1855) "The Thousand and One Humbugs" (1855) "The History of a Self-Tormentor" (1857) (part of Little Dorrit) "Mrs. Gamp" (1858) (part of Martin Chuzzlewit) "Hunted Down" (1859) "The Substance of the Shadow" (1859) (part of A Tale of Two Cities) "George Silverman's Explanation" (1868) "Holiday Romance" (1868)
Stories from collaborative works
"The Poor Relation's Story" (1852) (part of A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire) "The Child's Story" (1852) (part of A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire) "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853) (part of Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire) "Nobody's Story" (1853) (part of Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire) "The First Poor Traveller" (1854) (part of The Seven Poor Travellers) "The Road" (1854) (part of The Seven Poor Travellers) "The Guest" (1855) (part of The Holly-tree Inn) "The Boots" (1855) (part of The Holly-tree Inn) "The Bill" (1855) (part of The Holly-tree Inn) "The Wreck" (1856) (part of The Wreck of the Golden Mary) "The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber" (1857) (part of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices) "The Island of Silver-Store" (1857) (part of The Perils of Certain English Prisoners) "The Rafts on the River" (1857) (part of The Perils of Certain English Prisoners) "Going into Society" (1858) (part of A House to Let) "The Mortals in the House" (1859) (part of The Haunted House) "The Ghost in Master B.'s Room" (1859) (part of The Haunted House) "The Ghost in the Corner Room" (1859) (part of The Haunted House) "The Village" (1860) (part of A Message from the Sea) "The Money" (1860) (part of A Message from the Sea) "The Restitution" (1860) (part of A Message from the Sea) "Picking Up Soot and Cinders" (1861) (part of Tom Tiddler's Ground) "Picking Up Miss Kimmeens" (1861) (part of Tom Tiddler's Ground) "Picking Up the Tinker" (1861) (part of Tom Tiddler's Ground) "His Leaving It Till Called For" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage) "His Boots" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage) "His Brown-Paper Parcel" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage) "His Wonderful End" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage) "How Mrs. Lirriper Carried on the Business" (1863) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings) "How the Parlour Added a Few Words" (1863) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings) "How She Went On, and Went Over" (1864) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy) "How Jemmy Topped Up" (1864) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy) "To Be Taken Immediately" (1865) (part of Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions) "The Trial for Murder" (1865) (part of Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions) "To Be Taken for Life" (1865) (part of Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions) "Barbox Brothers" (1866) (part of Mugby Junction) "The Boy at Mugby" (1866) (part of Mugby Junction) "The Signal-Man" (1866) (part of Mugby Junction)
Short story collections Sketches by Boz (1836) The Mudfog Papers (1837–38) Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838) Sketches of Young Couples (1840) Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–41) The Poor Traveller, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn and Mrs. Gamp (1858) Reprinted Pieces (1861) Three Ghost Stories (1866) Christmas Stories (1868) The Lamplighter, To Be Read at Dusk and Sunday under Three Heads (1868)
Collaborative works During his tenure as editor of Household Words and All the Year Round, Dickens collaborated with other writers, usually for seasonal issues of the magazines, producing the following works: Published in Household Words: "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire" (1852) (with William Moy Thomas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edmund Ollier, James White, Edmund Saul Dixon, Harriet Martineau, Samuel Sidney and Eliza Griffiths) "Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire" (1853) (with Eliza Linton, George Sala, Adelaide Procter, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edmund Saul Dixon, William Henry Wills and Samuel Sidney) "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Procter, George Sala and Eliza Linton – about the Six Poor Travellers House) "The Holly-tree Inn" (1855) (with Wilkie Collins, William Howitt, Harriet Parr and Adelaide Procter) "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Procter, Harriet Parr, Percy Fitzgerald and James White) "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) "A House to Let" (1858) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Procter)
Published in All the Year Round: "The Haunted House" (1859) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Procter, George Sala and Hesba Stretton) "A Message from the Sea" (1860) (with Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and Harriet Parr) "Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861) (with Wilkie Collins, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and John Harwood) "Somebody's Luggage" (1862) (with John Oxenford, Charles Allston Collins, Arthur Locker and Julia Cecilia Stretton) "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863) (with Elizabeth Gaskell, Andrew Halliday, Edmund Yates, Amelia Edwards and Charles Allston Collins) "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy" (1864) (with Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards, Rosa Mulholland, Henry Spicer and Hesba Stretton) "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) (with Charles Allston Collins, Hesba Stretton, George Walter Thornbury and Caroline Leigh Gascoigne) "Mugby Junction" (1866) (with Andrew Halliday, Hesba Stretton, Charles Allston Collins and Amelia Edwards) "No Thoroughfare" (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
Poetry Songs from The Village Coquettes (1836) "The Ivy Green", "A Christmas Carol", "Gabriel Grub's Song" and "The Romance of Dick Turpin" (from The Pickwick Papers) (1837) "Duet" (from The Lamplighter) (1838) "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" (1839) Three Political Squibs from the Examiner ("The Fine Old English Gentleman", "The Quack Doctor's Proclamation" and "Subjects for Painters") (1841) "Prologue" (from John Westland Marston's play The Patrician's Daughter (1842) "A Word in Season" (1844) "All Hail to the Vessel of Pecksniff the Sire" and "It May Lighten and Storm" (from Martin Chuzzlewit) (1844) Verses from the Daily News ("The British Lion" and "The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers") (1846) "New Song" (to Mark Lemon) (1849) "Prologue" and "The Song of the Wreck" (from Wilkie Collins' play The Lighthouse) (1855) "A Child’s Hymn" (from The Wreck of the Golden Mary) (1856) "Prologue" (from Dickens and Collins' play The Frozen Deep) (1857) The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens (collection, 1885)
Plays
TitleYearStyleNotesThe Strange Gentleman1836Comic operaThe Village Coquettes1836Comic operaIs She His Wife? Or, Something Singular! 1837Comic operaThe Lamplighter1838FarceMr. Nightingale's Diary1851Farcewith Mark LemonThe Frozen Deep1857with Wilkie CollinsNo Thoroughfare1867With Wilkie Collins
Nonfiction
Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) (under the pseudonym "Timothy Sparks") Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838) (edited by Dickens under his regular , "Boz") American Notes for General Circulation (1842) Pictures from Italy (1846) The Life of Our Lord (1846–1849, pub. 1934) A Child's History of England (1853) The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869) Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870) Miscellaneous Papers (1912) Contributions to All The Year Round (1912) Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1851–1870, pub. 1892) (selected by Georgina Hogarth)
Letters