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Critic, journalist, mystery novelist, Christian apologetics and  Catholic apologetics                          

Selected Works:

Greybeards at Play - 1900 - poetry
The Wild Knight and Other Poems - 1900 - poetry
The Defendant - 1901
Thomas Carlyle - 1902 - with J. E. H. Williams
Twelve Types - 1902
Robert Browning - 1903
Tennyson - 1903, with R. Garnett
Thackeray - 1903, with L. Melville
Leo Tolstoy - 1903, with G. H. Perris and Edward Garnett
Varied Types - 1903
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - 1904 - novel
G.F. Watts - 1904
The Club of Queer Trades - 1905 - stories
Heretics - 1905
Charles Dickens - 1906
The Man Who Was Thursday - 1908 - novel
Orthodoxy - 1908
All Things Considered - 1908
George Bernard Shaw - 1909
Tremendous Trifles - 1909
The Ball and the Cross - 1909 - novel

1910-1919:

Five Types - 1910,  essays, selected from Twelve Types
William Blake - 1910
Alarms and Discursions - 1910
What's Wrong With the World - 1910
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens - 1911
The Ballad Of The White Horse - 1911 - poetry
Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton - 1911
The Innocence Of Father Brown - 1911 - stories
Manalive - 1912 - novel
A Miscellany Of Men - 1912
Simplicity and Tolstoy - 1912
Magic - 1913 - play
The Victorian Age in Literature - 1913
The Flying Inn - 1914 - novel
The Wisdom Of Father Brown - 1914 - stories
Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood - 1914
London - 1914
The Barbarism of Berlin - 1914
Poems - 1915
Wine, Water And Song - 1915 - poetry
The Appetite of Tyranny - 1915
The Crimes of England - 1915
Divorce vs. Democracy - 1916
The Book of Job - 1916
A Shilling for My Thoughts - 1916
Temperance and The Great Alliance - 1916 - pamphlet
Utopia Of Usurers - 1917
Lord Kitchener - 1917
A Short History of England - 1917
How to Help Annexation - 1918
Irish Impressions - 1919

1920-1929

The Superstition of Divorce - 1920
The Uses of Diversity - 1920
The New Jerusalem - 1920
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems - 1922 - poetry
The Man Who Knew Too Much - 1922 - stories
Eugenics and other Evils - 1922
What I Saw in America - 1922
St. Francis of Assisi - 1923
Poems - 1923
Fancies Versus Fads - 1923 - essays
The End of the Roman Road - 1924
Tales Of The Long Bow - 1925 - stories
The Superstitions of the Sceptic - 1925
The Everlasting Man - 1925
William Cobbett - 1925
The Queen of Seven Swords - 1926 - poetry
The Outline of Sanity - 1926
The Incredulity Of Father Brown - 1926 - stories
The Catholic Church and Conversion - 1926
Collected Works - 1926 - nine volumes
Collected Poems - 1926
Robert Louis Stevenson - 1927
The Secret Of Father Brown - 1927 - stories
The Return of Don Quixote - 1927 - novel
The Judgment of Dr. Johnson - 1927-  play

The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton: 1927
Gloria in Profundis - 1927 - poetry
Culture and the Coming Peril - 1927
Social Reform vs. Birth Control - 1927
Generally Speaking - 1928
Do We Agree? - 1928 - debate with George Bernard Shaw
The Sword of Wood - 1928 - stories
The Thing: Why I am a Catholic - 1929
G.K.C. as M.C - 1929 - collected introductions, edited by J. P. de Fonseka.
Father Brown Omnibus - 1929 - collected stories
The Poet and the Lunatics - 1929 - stories
Ubi Ecclesia - 1920 - poetry
Christmas Poems - 1929
New and Collected Poems - 1929

1930-1936:

Four Faultless Felons - 1930 - stories, separately in US as The Ecstatic Thief; The Honest Quack; The Loyal Traitor; The Moderate Murderer

The Turkey and the Turk - 1930
The Grave of Arthur - 1930
Come to Think of It - 1930
The Resurrection of Rome - 1930
All is Grist - 1931
The Floating Admiral - 1931 - collaborative detective story
Chaucer - 1932
New Poems - 1932
Christendom in Dublin - 1932
Sidelights of New London and Newer York - 1932
All I Survey - 1933
St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox - 1933
Avowals and Denials - 1934
GK's: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues OF G.K.'S Weekly - 1934
The Well and the Shallows - 1935
The Way of the Cross - 1935
The Scandal Of Father Brown - 1935 - stories
Stories, Essays And Poems - 1935
Autobiography - 1936
As I Was Saying - 1936

Posthumous:

The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond - 1937
The Man Who Was Chesterton - 1937 - anthology
The Coloured Lands - 1938
The End of the Armistice - 1940 - edited by Frank Sheed
The Pocket Book of Father Brown - 1943, and many other reprint collections, including The Second Father Brown 1959, Ten Adventures of Father Brown 1961, The Penguin Complete Father Brown 1981, The Father Brown Omnibus 1983, The Best of Father Brown 1987, The Annotated Innocence Of Father Brown 1989, Father Brown Crime Stories 1990, Father Brown of the Church of Rome 1996
The Common Man - 1950
The Surprise - 1952 - play
A Handful of Authors - 1953
Collected Poems - 1954
The Glass Walking-Stick - 1955, edited by Dorothy Collins
Lunacy and Letters - 1958, edited by Dorothy Collins
Where All Roads Lead - 1961
The Spice of Life - 1965, edited by Dorothy Collins
G. K. Chesterton. A selection from his non-fictional prose  - 1970, edited by W. H. Auden
Chesterton on Shakespeare - 1972, edited by Dorothy Collins
The Apostle and the Wild Ducks - 1975, edited by Dorothy Collins
The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems - 1978
The Spirit of Christmas - 1984, edited by Marie Smith
Basic Chesterton - 1984
The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton - 1985, edited by P.J. Kavanagh
Daylight and Nightmare - 1986, uncollected short fiction, edited by Marie Smith
GK's Weekly: A Sampler - 1986

The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton - 1986, begun by Ignatius Press
Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986)
Illustrated London News, 1908-1910 (1987)
Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (1988)
Illustrated London News, 1914-1916 (1988)
Illustrated London News, 1917-1919 (1989)
Illustrated London News, 1920-1922 (1989)

Thirteen Detectives - 1989, edited Marie Smith

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Plays - 1989
Seven Suspects - 1990, edited by Marie Smith
Brave New Family - 1990, edited by Alvaro de Silva

Illustrated London News, 1923-1925 (1990)
Illustrated London News, 1926-1928 (1991)
Illustrated London News, 1929-1931 (1991)

The Mask of Midas - 1991

Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: Collected Poetry: Part 1 - 1994

Platitudes Undone - 1997, annotations to a book by Holbrook Jackson
Prophet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton - 1997, edited by Russel Sparkes
Eugenics and Other Evils - 2000
On Lying in Bed and Other Essays - 2000
Criticisms and Appreciations of the works of Charles Dickens -  2001
The G.K. Chesterton Papers: Additional Manuscripts - 2001
Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton - 2002
Essential Writings - 2003
G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry: Greybeards at Play, The White Knight and Other Poems, The Ballad of the White Horse - 2004.