György Lukács books in order
Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic
- Lived
- 1885–1971
- Country
- Hungary
- Books
- 18
György Lukács published 3 novels, 1 novella, 7 non-fiction books and 7 other books, beginning with History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923).
Updated September 2026
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
György Lukács's most-read book.
Standalone novels in order
The Theory of the Novel (1916)
Studies in European Realism (1950)
The Historical Novel (1962)
Novellas in order
The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1969)
Non-fiction in order
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923)
Goethe and His Age (1947)
The Destruction of Reason (1954)
Realism in Our Time (1964)
Tactics and Ethics (1972)
Soul and Form (1974)
German Realists in the Nineteenth Century (1993)
Other books in order
Essays on Thomas Mann (1964)
Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Writer & Critic, and Other Essays (1970)
Marxism and Human Liberation (1973)
Open Statments Essays on Realism (1983)
Lenin (1997)
A Defence of History and Class Consciousness (2000)
About György Lukács
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Vladimir Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.
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György Lukács FAQ
- How many books has György Lukács written?
- György Lukács published 3 novels, 1 novella, 7 non-fiction books and 7 other books that we list, as of September 2026.
- What order should I read György Lukács's books in?
- Publication order is a safe choice; the full list is above. Most readers start with History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics.
- What is György Lukács's last book?
- Tactics and Ethics (1972).
- What is György Lukács's most famous book?
- History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923) is György Lukács's most widely read book.
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