Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Watch and Ward | 1871 |
| Roderick Hudson | 1875 |
| The American | 1877 |
| The Europeans | 1878 |
| Confidence | 1879 |
| Washington Square | 1880 |
| The Portrait of a Lady | 1881 |
| The Bostonians | 1886 |
| The Princess Casamassima | 1886 |
| The Reverberator | 1888 |
| The Tragic Muse | 1890 |
| The Other House | 1896 |
| The Spoils of Poynton | 1897 |
| What Maisie Knew | 1897 |
| The Awkward Age | 1899 |
| The Sacred Fount | 1901 |
| The Wings of the Dove | 1902 |
| The Ambassadors | 1903 |
| The Golden Bowl | 1904 |
| The Outcry | 1911 |
| The Ivory Tower | 1917 |
| The Sense of the Past | 1917 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| A Passionate Pilgrim | 1871 |
| Madame de Mauves | 1874 |
| Daisy Miller | 1878 |
| An International Episode | 1878 |
| Georgina’s Reasons | 1884 |
| The Aspern Papers | 1888 |
| A London Life | 1888 |
| The Lesson of the Master | 1888 |
| The Turn of the Screw | 1898 |
| In the Cage | 1898 |
| The Beast in the Jungle | 1903 |
| Julia Bride | 1908 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales | 1875 |
| The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales | 1879 |
| The Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters | 1880 |
| The Siege of London, The Pension Beaurepas, and The Point of View | 1883 |
| Tales of Three Cities | 1884 |
| The Author of Beltraffio, Pandora, Georgina’s Reasons, The Path of Duty, Four Meetings | 1885 |
| Stories Revived | 1885 |
| The Aspern Papers, Louisa Pallant, The Modern Warning | 1888 |
| A London Life, The Patagonia, The Liar, Mrs. Temperly | 1889 |
| The Lesson of the Master | 1892 |
| The Real Thing and Other Tales | 1893 |
| The Private Life, The Wheel of Time, Lord Beaupré, The Visits, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave | 1893 |
| Terminations | 1895 |
| Embarrassments | 1896 |
| The Two Magics | 1898 |
| The Soft Side | 1900 |
| The Better Sort | 1903 |
| The Finer Grain | 1910 |
| Gabrielle de Bergerac | 1918 |
| A Landscape Painter | 1919 |
| Travelling Companions | 1919 |
| Master Eustace | 1920 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Transatlantic Sketches | 1875 |
| French Poets and Novelists | 1878 |
| Hawthorne | 1879 |
| Portraits of Places | 1883 |
| A Little Tour in France | 1884 |
| Partial Portraits | 1888 |
| Essays in London and Elsewhere | 1893 |
| Picture and Text | 1893 |
| William Wetmore Story and His Friends | 1903 |
| The Question of Our Speech; The Lesson of Balzac: Two Lectures | 1905 |
| English Hours | 1905 |
| The American Scene | 1907 |
| Views and Reviews | 1908 |
| Italian Hours | 1909 |
| A Small Boy and Others | 1913 |
| Notes on Novelists | 1914 |
| Notes of a Son and Brother | 1914 |
| The Middle Years | 1917 |
| Within the Rim | 1918 |
| The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces | 1934 |
About Henry James
Henry James (1843 to 1916) was an American-born novelist who spent most of his working life in England and became a British citizen in 1915. His books include “The Portrait of a Lady”, “The Wings of the Dove”, “The Ambassadors” and the ghost story “The Turn of the Screw”.
James was born in New York City on 15 April 1843, the son of the theologian Henry James Sr. and the younger brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James. The family moved repeatedly between America and Europe during his childhood, and he was educated largely by tutors. He attended Harvard Law School briefly in 1862 before turning to literature. His first short story, “A Tragedy of Error”, was published anonymously in 1864, and his first novel, “Watch and Ward”, was serialised in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871.
In 1875 he moved to Paris, where he met Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Turgenev, and a year later he settled in London. “Daisy Miller” (1878), about a young American woman whose behaviour falls outside European social norms, made him known on both sides of the Atlantic. Much of his fiction deals with Americans encountering English and continental European society, a subject he treated at length in “The Portrait of a Lady” (1881).
“The Bostonians” and “The Princess Casamassima” (both 1886) sold poorly, and James spent several years writing for the theatre. After his play “Guy Domville” failed on stage in 1895 he returned to fiction. He moved to Rye in Sussex in the late 1890s, where he wrote “The Turn of the Screw” (1898), which remains his most widely adapted work.
Three long novels followed in quick succession: “The Wings of the Dove” (1902), “The Ambassadors” (1903) and “The Golden Bowl” (1904). These late books are more experimental in style than his earlier work. He revisited America in 1904, wrote about the trip in “The American Scene”, and between 1907 and 1909 revised his fiction for the 24-volume New York Edition.
His last years produced two volumes of autobiography, “A Small Boy and Others” and “Notes of a Son and Brother”. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times and was awarded the Order of Merit shortly before he died in Chelsea, London, on 28 February 1916. Two unfinished novels, “The Ivory Tower” and “The Sense of the Past”, were published in 1917.
Photo: John Singer Sargent (1913 portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).