Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of her time, and her work still resonates with readers today.  The Vintage Classics Woolf Series is a beautifully designed set of books that are great for gifting and perfect if you’re a fan of Woolf’s writing or if you’re getting interested in her work.

Who is Virginia Woolf?

Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in using the stream of consciousness as a narrative device.  Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, England.  Her parents were Sir Leslie Stephen, an eminent critic and historian, and Julia Jackson, who had served as a model for pre-Raphaelite painters.

Virginia Woolf was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature and then attended King’s College.  Her home was filled with intellectual visitors who significantly impacted Virginia’s life and writing.

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List of Virginia Woolf Books in Order

Virginia Woolf Novels

– The Voyage Out (1915)

– Night and Day (1919)

– Jacob’s Room (1922)

– Mrs Dalloway (1925)

– To the Lighthouse (1927)

– Orlando (1928)

– The Waves (1931)

– The Years (1937)

– Between the Acts (1941)

Virginia Woolf Short Story Collections

– Kew Gardens (1919)

– Monday or Tuesday (1921)

– A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)

– Mrs Dalloway’s Party (1973)

– The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)

– Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches (2003)

Virginia Woolf Biographies

– Orlando: A Biography (1928))

– Flush: A Biography (1933)

– Roger Fry: A Biography (1940)

Virginia Woolf Nonfiction Books

– Modern Fiction (1919)

– The Common Reader (1925)

– A Room of One’s Own (1929)

– On Being Ill (1930)

– The London Scene (1931)

– The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)

– Three Guineas (1938)

– The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

– The Moment and Other Essays (1947)

– The Captain’s Death Bed And Other Essays (1950)

– Granite and Rainbow (1958)

– Books and Portraits (1978)

– Women And Writing (1979)

– Collected Essays (four volumes)

The Vintage Classics Woolf Series

The Vintage Classics Woolf Series is a beautifully designed set of books that are great for gifting and perfect if you’re a fan of Woolf’s writing or if you’re getting interested in her work.

The covers are illustrated by Aino-Maija Metsola, an independent Helsinki-based visual artist working in the fields of illustration, design, and art.

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love, and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival.

The Years by Virginia Woolf

The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them endure and remember heartbreak, loss, radical change, stifling conformity, marriage, and regret.

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

One of the great literary achievements of the 20th century, To the Lighthouse, is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece about changing relationships and attitudes amongst the early 20th-century middle class.

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway vividly portrays one day in a woman’s life. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. Yet, as she readies her house, she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Orlando follows a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern 36-year-old woman, and three centuries will have passed.

A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas combines two books that were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality.

Flush by Virginia Woolf

The story is told from the perspective of Flush, a dog who belonged to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. We see Elizabeth’s life through Flush’s eyes and learn about her relationships with her husband, Robert Browning.

Have you read any Virginia Woolf books?

Are any of these books on your TBR?   What book by Virginia Woolf is your favorite?  Let’s talk in the comments below.