Book Series List

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P.D. James

P.D. James was the pen name of Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park. P.D. James was an English novelist of crime fiction, thrillers and dystopian fiction. She was best known for her detective fiction novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, a policeman and poet. She has also written a couple of novels featuring Cordelia Gray and a few standalone novels. P.D. James had been writing since 1962, when her first Adam Dalgliesh mystery entitled Cover Her Face was published. P.D. James passed away on November 27th, 2014.

Series & Books

Adam Dalgliesh Series(14 books)

The Adam Dalgliesh series by P.D. James consists of 14 books, published between 1962 and 2008. The series begins with Cover Her Face.

1

Cover Her Face(1962)

2

A Mind to Murder(1963)

3

Unnatural Causes(1967)

4

Shroud for a Nightingale(1971)

5

The Black Tower(1975)

6

Death of an Expert Witness(1977)

7

A Taste for Death(1986)

8

Devices and Desires(1989)

9

Original Sin(1994)

10

A Certain Justice(1997)

11

Death in Holy Orders(2001)

12

The Murder Room(2003)

13

The Lighthouse(2005)

14

The Private Patient(2008)

Cordelia Gray Series(2 books)

The Cordelia Gray series by P.D. James consists of 2 books, published between 1972 and 1982. The series begins with An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.

1

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman(1972)

2

The Skull Beneath the Skin(1982)

Faber Stories Series(28 books)

The Faber Stories series by P.D. James consists of 28 books, published between 1955 and 2019. The series begins with A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor).

1

A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)(1955)

2

The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)(1968)

3

Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)(1982)

4

Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)(1983)

5

Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)(1989)

6

Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)(1997)

7

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)(1998)

8

An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)(2009)

9

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)(2011)

10

The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)(2012)

11

Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)(2014)

12

Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)(2014)

13

Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)(2016)

14

Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)(2019)

14

Come Rain or Come Shine(2019)

15

The Victim(2019)

15

The Victim (By: P.D. James)(2019)

16

Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)(2019)

17

Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)(2019)

18

Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)(2019)

19

The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)(2019)

20

Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)(2019)

21

Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)(2019)

22

The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)(2019)

23

The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)(2019)

24

Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)(2019)

25

A River in Egypt (By: David Means)(2019)

26

Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)(2019)

27

Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)(2019)

28

Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)(2019)