Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He lives in Oxford, England.

Books in order of publication:

His Dark Materials trilogy

Northern Lights (retitled The Golden Compass in the US) (1995)

The Subtle Knife (1997)

The Amber Spyglass (2000)

The Book of Dust trilogy

La Belle Sauvage (2017)

The Secret Commonwealth (2019)

Third book (title and publication date TBC)

Companion books

Lyra’s Oxford (2003), novella, set after The Amber Spyglass

Once Upon a Time in the North (2008), novella, prequel to Northern Lights

The Collectors (2022)

Serpentine (2020), novella, set after The Amber Spyglass

The Imagination Chamber (2022), Companion, Scenes from His Dark Materials Trilogy

Sally Lockhart series

The Ruby in the Smoke (1985)

The Shadow in the North, first published as The Shadow in the Plate (1986)

The Tiger in the Well (1990)

The Tin Princess (1994)

How to Be Cool (1987)

The Broken Bridge (1990)

The White Mercedes (1992)

Children’s novels

The New-Cut Gang series.

Thunderbolt’s Waxwork (1994)

The Gas-Fitters’ Ball (1995)

Stand-alones

Count Karlstein (1982)

Spring-Heeled Jack (1989)

I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999)

The Scarecrow and his Servant (2004)

Other novels

The Haunted Storm (1972)

Galatea (1976)

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010), novella, part of the Canongate Myth series

Children’s short stories

Collections:

Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm (2012), collection of 50 short stories

Uncollected short stories:

Clockwork, or All Wound Up (1995), novella.

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (1995), novella

Picture books

The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (1993)

Mossycoat (1998)

Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline (2000)

Plays

Frankenstein (1990)

Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror (1992)

Non-fiction

Ancient Civilizations (1978)

Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary (1978)

Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling (2017)