Les Rougon-Macquart: reading order

By Émile Zola

20 books, published from 1871 to 1893.

All 20 books in order

  1. Book 1The Fortune of the Rougons1 edition1871
  2. Book 2La Curée5 editions1871
  3. Book 3Le Ventre de Paris8 editions1873
  4. Book 4La Conquête de Plassans1 edition1874
  5. Book 5La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret7 editions1875
  6. Book 6Son Excellence Eugène Rougon3 editions1876
  7. Book 7L'Assommoir1 edition1876
  8. Book 8Une Page d'amour4 editions1879
  9. Book 9Nana43 editions1880
  10. Book 10Pot-Bouille6 editions1882
  11. Book 11The Ladies' Paradise24 editions1883
  12. Book 12La Joie de vivre5 editions1884
  13. Book 13Germinal58 editions1885
  14. Book 14L'Œuvre1 edition1886
  15. Book 15La Terre32 editions1887
  16. Book 16Le Rêve22 editions1888
  17. Book 17La Bête humaine9 editions1890
  18. Book 18L'Argent1 edition1891
  19. Book 19La Débâcle4 editions1892
  20. Book 20Doctor Pascal4 editions1893