C. S. Lewis bibliography

This is a list of writings by C. S. Lewis.

Nonfiction

• The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
• Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939; two essays not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
• The Problem of Pain (1940)
• The Case for Christianity (1942)
• A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
• Broadcast Talks (1942)
• The Abolition of Man (1943)
• Christian Behaviour (1943)
• Beyond Personality (1944)
• "The Inner Ring" (1944) ^[1]
• Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
• Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams's poetry)
• Transposition, and Other Addresses (1949)
• Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama. Oxford University Press. 1954; 1975. ISBN 0-19-881298-1
• Major British Writers, Vol I (1954; contribution on Edmund Spenser)
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
• Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
• The Four Loves (1960)
• Studies in Words (1960)
• The World's Last Night and Other Essays (1960)
• An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
• A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk)
• They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
• Introduction to Selections from Layamon's Brut (ed. G. L. Brook, Oxford University Press, 1963)

Posthumous publications:

• Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
• Beyond the Bright Blur (1963) (a limited-run 30-page excerpt taken from Letters to Malcolm and "published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author", according to the opening page)
• The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
• Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces (1965)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature (ed. Walter Hooper, 1966)
• Spenser's Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
• Letters to an American Lady (1967)
• Christian Reflections (1967; essays and papers; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
• Selected Literary Essays (1969; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
• Undeceptions (1971; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
• Of Other Worlds (1982; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis (Walter Hooper, ed.; 1984)
• Present Concerns (1986; essays; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
• All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
• Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology (1998)
• The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis (1999)
• Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
• Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
• Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000)
• From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis (2003)
• Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004)
• Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
• Language and Human Nature with J.R.R. Tolkien (draft discovered in 2009) ^[2]
• Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews (2013)

Fiction

• The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
• The Space Trilogy

1. Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
2. Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
3. That Hideous Strength (1945)
4. The Dark Tower (1977) - posthumously published abandoned sequel to the first novel

• The Screwtape Letters (1942)
  • "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
• The Great Divorce (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . Geoffrey Bles. 1950.
2. Prince Caspian . Geoffrey Bles. 1951.
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . Geoffrey Bles. 1952.
4. The Silver Chair . Geoffrey Bles. 1953.
5. The Horse and His Boy . Geoffrey Bles. 1954.
6. The Magician's Nephew . The Bodley Head. 1955.
7. The Last Battle . The Bodley Head. 1956.

• Till We Have Faces (1956)
• "The Shoddy Lands" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction , February 1956)
• "Ministering Angels" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction , January 1958)
• After Ten Years (1959) - fragment of a novel, included in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories ^[3]
• Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)
• "Forms of Things Unknown" (n.d.) - included in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories ^[3]

Poetry

• Spirits in Bondage (1919; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
• Dymer (1926; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
• "The End of the Wine" (published in Punch, 3 Dec 1947; reprinted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1964)
• Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1964, a collection of Lewis poems not included in Dymer or Spirits in Bondage)
• Narrative Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1969; includes Dymer , Launcelot, The Nameless Isle, and The Queen of Drum .
• The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1994; expanded edition of the 1964 Poems book; includes Spirits in Bondage)
• C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and Exile (ed. A.T. Reyes, 2011; includes the surviving fragments of Lewis's translation of Virgil's Aeneid , presented in parallel with the Latin text, and accompanied by synopses of missing sections)
• The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition (edited by Don W. King, 2015; Kent State University Press; ISBN   978-1606352021)

As editor

• George MacDonald: An Anthology. 1947.
• Essays Presented to Charles Williams. 1947.

References

1. "The Inner Ring". LewisSociety.org. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
2. "Beebe discovers unpublished C.S. Lewis manuscript". TXState.edu. 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2 June 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
3. "LEWISIANA: A Survey of the shorter writings of C. S. Lewis". www.lewisiana.nl. Retrieved 3 July 2025.

Further reading

• John Beversluis, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. Eerdmans, 1985. ISBN   0-8028-0046-7
• Ronald W. Bresland. The Backward Glance: C.S. Lewis and Ireland. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University of Belfast, 1999.
• Brown, Devin. Bringing Narnia Home; Lessons from the Other Side of the Wardrobe (2015; Abingdon Press; ISBN   978-1426791628)
• Brown, Devin. Discussing Mere Christianity (2015; Zondervan; ISBN   978-0310699842)
• Brown, Devin. A Life Observed; A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis. (2013; Brazos Press; ISBN   1587433354)
• Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends. George Allen & Unwin, 1978. ISBN   0-04-809011-5
• Joe R. Christopher, C. S. Lewis. Twayne Publishers, 1987. ISBN   0-8057-6944-7
• Joe R. Christopher & Joan K. Ostling, C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings a;bout him and his Works. Kent State University Press, n.d. (1972). ISBN   0-87338-138-6
• Clare, David (February 2010). "CS Lewis: An Irish Writer". Irish Studies Review. 18 (1): 17–38. doi:10.1080/09670880903533409. S2CID   144348160..
• James Como, Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis, Spence, 1998.
• “A Note on C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.” The Anglican Digest 49, no. 2 (2007): 55–58.
• James Como, Remembering C. S. Lewis (3rd ed. of C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table). Ignatius, 2006
• Sean Connolly, Inklings of Heaven: C. S. Lewis and Eschatology, Gracewing, 2007. ISBN   978-0-85244-659-1
• Michael Coren, The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis. Eerdmans Pub Co, Reprint edition 1996. ISBN   0-8028-3822-7
• Derrick, Christopher (1981). CS Lewis and the Church of Rome: A Study in Proto-Ecumenism. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN   978-99917-1-850-7.
• David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis. InterVarsity, 2005. ISBN   0-8308-3284-X
• David C. Downing, Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles. Jossey-Bass, 2005. ISBN   0-7879-7890-6
• David C. Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith. InterVarsity, 2002. ISBN   0-8308-3271-8
• David C. Downing, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. ISBN   0-87023-997-X
• Colin Duriez and David Porter, The Inklings Handbook: The Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Their Friends. 2001, ISBN   1-902694-13-9
• Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. Paulist Press, 2003. ISBN   1-58768-026-2
• Edwards, Bruce L (2005). Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia. Tyndale. ISBN   1-4143-0381-5..
• ———————— (2005). Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Broadman and Holman. ISBN   0-8054-4070-4..
• ————————, ed. (2007). CS Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy. Praeger Perspectives. ISBN   978-0-275-99116-6..
• Bruce L. Edwards, Editor. The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. The Popular Press, 1988. ISBN   0-87972-407-2
• Bruce L. Edwards, A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy. Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 1986. ISBN   0-939555-01-8
• Alastair Fowler, 'C. S. Lewis: Supervisor', Yale Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (October 2003).
• Jocelyn Gibb (ed.), Light on C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1965 & Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. ISBN   0-15-652000-1
• Douglas Gilbert & Clyde Kilby, C. S. Lewis: Images of His World. Eerdmans, 1973 & 2005. ISBN   0-8028-2800-0
• Glyer, Diana (2007). The Company They Keep: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN   978-0-87338-890-0..
• David Graham (ed.), We Remember C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001. ISBN   0-8054-2299-4
• Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. Fully revised & expanded edition. HarperCollins, 2002. ISBN   0-00-628164-8
• Douglas Gresham, Jack's Life: A Memory of C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005. ISBN   0-8054-3246-9
• Gresham, Douglas (1994). Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN   0-06-063447-2..
• William Griffin, C. S. Lewis: The Authentic Voice. (Formerly C. S. Lewis: A Dramatic Life) Lion, 2005. ISBN   0-7459-5208-9
• Joel D. Heck, Irrigating Deserts: C. S. Lewis on Education. Concordia Publishing House, 2006. ISBN   0-7586-0044-5
• Edward Henderson (ed.), C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination. London: SPCK; Eugene, Ore.: Cascade, 2011.
• Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide. HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN   0-00-627800-0
• Walter Hooper, Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C. S. Lewis. Macmillan, 1982. ISBN   0-02-553670-2
• Jacobs, Alan (2005). The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of CS Lewis . San Francisco: Harper. ISBN   0-06-076690-5..
• Carolyn Keefe, C. S. Lewis: Speaker & Teacher. Zondervan, 1979. ISBN   0-310-26781-1
• Jon Kennedy, The Everything Guide to C.S. Lewis and Narnia. Adams Media, 2008. ISBN   1598694278
• Clyde S. Kilby, The Christian World of C. S. Lewis. Eerdmans, 1964, 1995. ISBN   0-8028-0871-9
• W.H. Lewis (ed), Letters of C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1966. ISBN   0-00-242457-6
• Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C. S. Lewis. Multnomah Pub., 1994. ISBN   0-88070-695-3
• Susan Lowenberg, C. S. Lewis: A Reference Guide 1972–1988. Hall & Co., 1993. ISBN   0-8161-1846-9
• Wayne Mardindale & Jerry Root, The Quotable Lewis. Tyndale House Publishers, 1990. ISBN   0-8423-5115-9
• Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis – Eccentric Genius; Reluctant Prophet. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013. ISBN   978-1-4143-3935-1.
• Alister McGrath, The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 ISBN   978-0-470-672792
• David Mills (editor) (ed), The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. Eerdmans, 1998. ISBN   0-8028-3777-8
• Mueller, Steven P., Not a Tame God: Christ in the Writings of C. S. Lewis. Concordia Publishing House, Saint Louis, Mo., 2002. ISBN   0-570-05296-3
• Markus Mühling, A Theological Journey into Narnia. An Analysis of the Message beneath the Text, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN   3-525-60423-8
• Joseph Pearce, C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church. Ignatius Press, 2003. ISBN   0-89870-979-2
• Thomas C. Peters, Simply C. S. Lewis. A Beginner's Guide to His Life and Works. Kingsway Publications, 1998. ISBN   0-85476-762-2
• Justin Phillips, C. S. Lewis at the BBC: Messages of Hope in the Darkness of War. Marshall Pickering, 2003. ISBN   0-00-710437-5
• Victor Reppert, C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason. InterVarsity Press, 2003. ISBN   0-8308-2732-3
• George Sayer, Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times. Macmillan, 1988. ISBN   0-333-43362-9
• Peter J. Schakel, Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds. University of Missouri Press, 2002. ISBN   0-8262-1407-X
• ———————— (1984). Reason and Imagination in CS Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces". Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN   0-8028-1998-2. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
• Peter J. Schakel, ed. The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Kent State University Press, 1977. ISBN   0-87338-204-8
• Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar, ed. Word and Story in C. S. Lewis. University of Missouri Press, 1991. ISBN   0-8262-0760-X
• Stephen Schofield. In Search of C. S. Lewis. Bridge Logos Pub. 1983. ISBN   0-88270-544-X
• Jeffrey D. Schultz and John G. West, Jr. (eds.), The C. S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia. Zondervan, 1998. ISBN   0-310-21538-2
• G. B. Tennyson (ed.), Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis. Wesleyan University Press, 1989. ISBN   0-8195-5233-X.
• Richard J. Wagner. C. S. Lewis and Narnia for Dummies. For Dummies, 2005. ISBN   0-7645-8381-6
• Walker, Andrew; James, Patrick, eds. (1998). Rumours of Heaven: Essays in Celebration of CS Lewis. Guildford: Eagle. ISBN   0-86347-250-8..
• Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics. Macmillan, 1949.
• Chad Walsh, The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. ISBN   0-15-652785-5.
• Michael Ward, Planet Narnia, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN   978-0-19-531387-1.
• George Watson (ed.), Critical Essays on C. S. Lewis. Scolar Press, 1992. ISBN   0-85967-853-9
• Michael White, C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. Abacus, 2005. ISBN   0-349-11625-3
• Erik J. Wielenberg, God and the Reach of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN   978-0-521-70710-7
• A. N. Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. W. W. Norton, 1990. ISBN   0-393-32340-4

External links

• Works by C. S. Lewis bibliography in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
• C. S. Lewis’s essays, short stories, and other short prose writings as published in collected editions, 1939–2013