Georges Simenon books in order
Belgian writer
- Lived
- 1903–1989
- Country
- Belgium
- Books
- 271
- Series
- 1
- Also writes as
- Kim, Pan, Aramis, Miquette
Georges Simenon published 261 novels, 6 novellas, 2 short story collections and 2 other books, beginning with A Battle of Nerves (1931). The series is Maigret (75 books, starting with Pietr-le-Letton). 97 feature Jules Maigret. The best-known is Maigret Sets a Trap (1955).
Updated September 2026
Maigret books in order (75)Series page
Reading order: 1 Pietr-le-Letton (1930) · 2 M. Gallet, décédé (1931) · 3 Le pendu de St Pholien (1931) · 4 Le charretier de La Providence (1931) · 5 Le chien jaune (1931) · 6 La nuit du carrefour (1931) · 7 Un crime en Hollande (1931) · 8 Au Rendez-vous des Terre-Neuvas (1931) · 9 La tête d'un homme (1931) · 10 La danseuse du Gai-Moulin (1931) · … all 75 below
- 1.
Pietr-le-Letton (1930)
- 2.
M. Gallet, décédé (1931)
- 3.
Le pendu de St Pholien (1931)
- 4.
Le charretier de La Providence (1931)
- 5.
Le chien jaune (1931)
- 6.
La nuit du carrefour (1931)
- 7.
Un crime en Hollande (1931)
- 8.
Au Rendez-vous des Terre-Neuvas (1931)
- 9.
La tête d'un homme (1931)
- 10.
La danseuse du Gai-Moulin (1931)
- 11.
La guinguette à deux sous (1932)
- 12.
L'ombre chinoise (1932)
- 13.
L'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1932)
- 14.
Chez les Flamands (1932)
- 15.
Le Fou De Bergerac (1973)
- 16.
Le port des brumes (1932)
- 17.
Liberty Bar (1932)
- 18.
L'ecluse n° 1 (1933)
- 19.
Maigret (1934)
- 20.
Cécile Est Morte (1942)
- 21.
Les caves du Majestic (1942)
- 22.
La maison du juge (1942)
- 23.
Signé Picpus (1944)
- 24.
L'inspecteur Cadavre (1944)
- 25.
Félicie est là (1944)
- 26.
Maigret se fâche (1944)
- 27.
Maigret à New York (1947)
- 28.
Les Vacances De Maigret (1948)
- 29.
Maigret et son mort (1948)
- 30.
La première enquête de Maigret (1949)
- 31.
Mon ami Maigret (1949)
- 32.
Maigret Chez Le Coroner (1949)
- 33.
Maigret et la vieille Dame (1950)
- 34.
L'amie de Mme Maigret (1950)
- 35.
Les mémoires de Maigret (1951)
- 36.
Maigret au Picratt's (1951)
- 37.
Maigret en meublé (1951)
- 38.
Maigret et la Grande Perche (1951)
- 39.
Maigret, Longon et les gangsters (1951)
- 40.
Le revolver de Maigret (1952)
- 41.
Maigret et l'homme du banc (1953)
- 42.
Maigret a peur (1953)
- 43.
Maigret se trompe (1953)
- 44.
Maigret à l'ecole (1954)
- 45.
Maigret et la jeune morte (1954)
- 46.
Maigret chez le ministre (1955)
- 47.
Maigret et le corps sans tête (1955)
- 48.
Maigret tend un piège (1955)
- 49.
Un Échec De Maigret (1962)
- 50.
Maigret s'amuse (1957)
- 51.
Maigret voyage (1957)
- 52.
Les scrupules de Maigret (1958)
- 53.
Maigret et les temoins récalcitrants (1959)
- 54.
Une confidence de Maigret (1959)
- 55.
Maigret aux assises (1960)
- 56.
Maigret et les vieillards (1960)
- 57.
Maigret et le voleur paresseux (1961)
- 58.
Maigret et les braves gens (1962)
- 59.
Maigret et le client du Samedi (1962)
- 60.
Maigret et le clochard (1963)
- 61.
La colère de Maigret (1963)
- 62.
Maigret et le fantôme (1964)
- 63.
Maigret se defend (1964)
- 64.
La patience de Maigret (1965)
- 65.
Maigret et l'affaire Nahour (1966)
- 66.
Le voleur de Maigret (1967)
- 67.
Maigret à Vichy (1968)
- 68.
Maigret hésite (1968)
- 69.
L'ami d'enfance de Maigret (1968)
- 70.
Maigret et le tueur (1969)
- 71.
Maigret et le marchand de vin (1970)
- 72.
La folle de Maigret (1970)
- 73.
Maigret et l'homme tout seul (1971)
- 74.
Maigret et l'indicateur (1971)
- 75.
Maigret et M. Charles (1972)
Books featuring Jules Maigret (97)
A Battle of Nerves (1931)
Lock 14 (1931)
Maigret and the Yellow Dog (1931)
Maigret at the Crossroads (1931)
Maigret at the Gai-Moulin (1931)
Maigret in Holland (1931)
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (1931)
The Sailors' Rendezvous (1931)
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (1931)
Maigret Goes Home (1932)
Maigret on the Riviera (1932)
The Flemish House (1932)
The Night Club (1932)
The Port of Shadows (1932)
The Lock at Charenton (1933)
The Lodger (1934)
Pitards (1935)
L'Homme Qui Regardait Passer Les Trains (1938)
A Maigret Trio (1940)
Les Inconnus Dans La Maison (1940)
Maigret Travels South (1940)
The Bar on the Seine (1940)
La Vérité Sur Bébé Donge (1941)
Maigret Sits It Out (1941)
Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (1942)
Maigret in Exile (1942)
Maigret and the Fortuneteller (1944)
Maigret's Rival (1944)
Magnet of Doom (1945)
Monsieur Monde Vanishes (1945)
The Couple from Poitiers (1946)
Maigret in New York (1947)
Maigret's Dead Man (1948)
The Reckoning (1948)
Maigret's First Case (1949)
My Friend Maigret (1949)
Maigret and the Old Lady (1950)
The Friend of Madame Maigret (1950)
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (1951)
Maigret in Montmartre (1951)
Maigret Takes a Room (1951)
Maigret's Memoirs (1951)
Inspector Maigret and the Killers (1952)
Maigret's Revolver (1952)
Maigret Afraid (1953)
Maigret's Mistake (1953)
Maigret Goes to School (1954)
Maigret and the Calame Report (1955)
Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955)
Maigret Sets a Trap (1955)
Maigret and the Millionaires (1957)
None of Maigret's Business (1957)
Strip-tease (1958)
The Murderer (1958)
Maigret Has Scruples (Jun 1958)
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (1959)
Maigret Has Doubts (1959)
Maigret in Court (1960)
Maigret and the Idle Burglar (1961)
Maigret Stonewalled (1962)
Maigret and the Dosser (1963)
Maigret Loses His Temper (1963)
The Bells of Bicêtre (1963)
The Shadow Puppet (1963)
La Chambre Bleue (1964)
Maigret and the Apparition (1964)
Maigret on the Defensive (1964)
The Patience of Maigret (1965)
The Venice Train (1965)
Maigret and the Nahour Case (1966)
Maigret and the Pickpocket (1967)
The Cat (1967)
Maigret Hesitates (1968)
Maigret in Vichy (1968)
Maigret's Boyhood Friend (1968)
Big Bob (1969)
Maigret and the Killer (1969)
November (1969)
The Girl with a Squint (1969)
Maigret and the Mad Woman (1970)
Maigret and the Wine Merchant (1970)
The Rich Man (1970)
Maigret and the Flea (1971)
Maigret and the Loner (1971)
The Glass Cage (1971)
Maigret and Monsieur Charles (1972)
The Innocents (1972)
Betty (1975)
Maigret and the Black Sheep (1976)
The Family Lie (1976)
Maigret's Pipe (1977)
The Little Doctor (1978)
Intimate Memoirs (1981)
The Long Exile (1982)
The Outlaw (1986)
Uncle Charles (1987)
Maigret and the Man on the Bench (1990)
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Maigret Sets a Trap
Georges Simenon's most-read book.
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Maigret and the Dosser
One of the most-read, at about 154 pages.
Standalone novels in order
Guinguette by the Seine (1931)
The Crime at Lock 14 (1931)
The Late Monsieur Gallet (1931)
La Maison Du Canal (1932)
The Madman of Bergerac (1932)
The Shadow in the Courtyard (1932)
Les Fiançailles De M. Hire (1933)
Tropic Moon (1933)
L'homme De Londres (1934)
Quartier Nègre (1935)
Donadieu's Will (1937)
Blind Alley (1938)
Chit of a Girl (1938)
Marie of the Port (1938)
Poisoned Relations (1938)
The Survivors (1938)
The Suspect (1938)
Three Crimes (1938)
Chez Krull (1939)
Le Bourgmestre De Furnes (1939)
The Mouse (1939)
Strange Inheritance (1941)
The Delivery (1941)
Death Threats (1942)
La Veuve Couderc (1942)
Young Cardinaud (1942)
Escape in Vain (1943)
New Investigations of Inspector Maigret (1944)
On the Danger Line (1944)
Across the Street (1945)
The Mahé Circle (1946)
Three Beds in Manhattan (1946)
Act of Passion (1947)
Black Rain (1947)
Maigret in Retirement (1947)
Dirty Snow (1948)
Maigret on Holiday (1948)
Pedigree (1948)
Le Fond De La Bouteille (1949)
Aunt Jeanne (1950)
Inquest on Bouvet (1950)
The Heart of a Man (1950)
Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper (1951)
Maigret as Furnished Mr (1951)
Belle (1952 Novel) (1952)
Le Temps D'Anaïs (1952)
Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters (1952)
The Man from Everywhere, And, Newhaven - Dieppe (1952)
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard (1953)
Red Lights (1953)
Crime Impuni (1954)
Maigret and the Dead Girl (1954)
The Watchmaker of Everton (1954)
Les Complices (1955)
The Magician, and the Widow (1955)
In Case of Emergency (1956)
Maigret's Failure (1956)
The Little Man from Archangel (1956)
The Son (1956)
Maigret's Little Joke (1957)
The Stowaway (1957)
Madame Maigret's Own Case (1959)
The Grandmother (1959)
The Widower (1959)
Maigret in Society (1960)
The Train (1961)
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (1962)
The House on Quai Notre Dame (1962)
The Iron Staircase (1964)
The Man with the Little Dog (1964)
Sunday (1965)
The Little Saint (1965)
Le Destin Des Malou (1966)
The Confessional (1966)
The Move, Tr. from the French by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson (1967)
Maigret Takes the Waters (1968)
The Man on the Bench in the Barn (1968)
The Prison (1968)
When I Was Old (1970)
Teddy Bear (1971)
The Disappearance of Odile (1971)
Les Gens D'en Face (1972)
The Clockmaker (1975)
Un Homme Comme Un Autre (1975)
The Hatter's Phantoms (1976)
Un Banc Au Soleil (1977)
African Trio (1979)
The White Horse Inn (1979)
The Rules of the Game (1988)
Novellas in order
Maigret and the Toy Village (1944)
The Evidence of the Altar-Boy (1946)
The Novel of Man (1959)
Maigret and the Saturday Caller (1962)
The Door (1962)
Letter to My Mother (1974)
Short story collections in order
Maigret and the Surly Inspector (1947)
Maigret's Christmas (1951)
Other books in order
Death of a Nobody (1966)
Maigret Et L'Inspecteur Malgracieux (1987)
Film and TV adaptations
- La Tête d'un homme (1933)Film · from A Battle of Nerves
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950)Film · from A Battle of Nerves
- The Yellow Dog (1932)Film · from Maigret and the Yellow Dog
- Night at the Crossroads (1932)Film · from Maigret at the Crossroads
- Night at the Crossroads (2017)Film · from Maigret at the Crossroads
- Enter Inspector Maigret (1966)Film · from Maigret at the Gai-Moulin
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)Film · from Maigret Goes Home
- Panique (1946)Film · from Les Fiançailles De M. Hire
- Monsieur Hire (1989)Film · from Les Fiançailles De M. Hire
- Équateur (1983)Film · from Tropic Moon
- La Marie du port (1950)Film · from Marie of the Port
- The Strangers in the House (1941)Film · from Les Inconnus Dans La Maison
- Stranger in the House (1992)Film · from Les Inconnus Dans La Maison
- La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952)Film · from La Vérité Sur Bébé Donge
- Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)Film · from Strange Inheritance
- Cecile Is Dead (1944)Film · from Cécile Est Morte
- The Widow Couderc (1971)Film · from La Veuve Couderc
- Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945)Film · from Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
- Blood to the Head (1956)Film · from Young Cardinaud
- Picpus (1943)Film · from Maigret and the Fortuneteller
- Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)Film · from Three Beds in Manhattan
- Forbidden Fruit (1952)Film · from Act of Passion
- Stain in the Snow (1953)Film · from Dirty Snow
- The Green Shutters (2022)Film · from The Heart of a Man
- Maigret a Pigalle (1967)Film · from Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper
- The Passion of Slow Fire (1960)Film · from Belle (1952 Novel)
- Maigret Sees Red (1963)Film · from Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters
- Red Lights (2004)Film · from Red Lights
- Maigret (2022)Film · from Maigret and the Dead Girl
- The Clockmaker (1974)Film · from The Watchmaker of Everton
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)Film · from Maigret Sets a Trap
- Maigret Sets a Trap (2016)Film · from Maigret Sets a Trap
- The Train (1973)Film · from The Train
- Le Chat (1971)Film · from The Cat
About Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Georges Simenon FAQ
- How many books has Georges Simenon written?
- Georges Simenon published 261 novels, 6 novellas, 2 short story collections and 2 other books that we list, as of September 2026.
- What order should I read Georges Simenon's books in?
- Read each series in its own order: start Maigret with Pietr-le-Letton. The other books stand alone and can be read in any order.
- What is Georges Simenon's last book?
- Maigret and the Man on the Bench (1990).
- What is Georges Simenon's most famous book?
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1955) is Georges Simenon's most widely read book.
- Are Georges Simenon's books connected?
- 75 books belong to 1 series (Maigret); the other 196 books stand alone.
- Does Georges Simenon write under a pen name?
- Yes: Georges Simenon has also published as Kim, Pan, Aramis and Miquette.
- Which Georges Simenon books have been adapted?
- 29 books have been adapted for film or TV, including A Battle of Nerves (as La Tête d'un homme, film, 1933), Maigret and the Yellow Dog (as The Yellow Dog, film, 1932), Maigret at the Crossroads (as Night at the Crossroads, film, 1932) and Maigret at the Gai-Moulin (as Enter Inspector Maigret, film, 1966).
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Sources: book lists and dates from Wikidata and Open Library, ratings from Open Library readers. Last updated September 2026.