This reading list is designed to offer two selected lists of books; publications by Noël Coward that show his writing in different genres and books about Noël Coward that provide an insight into his life and works. For books that are out-of-print use www.bookfinder.com to find copies.

The Works of Noël Coward:

Novel
Pomp and Circumstance - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen, 1999. ISBN: 978-0413563705

Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories - currently out-of-print but available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Minerva, 1991. ISBN: 978-0749391362

Verse
Collected Verse - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen. 1987. ISBN: 978-0413551504

Sketches
Revue Sketches - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen, 1999. ISBN: 978-0413733900

Lyrics
The Complete Lyrics of Noël Coward - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen Drama, 1998. ISBN: 978-0413732309

Plays
The Coward Collected Plays - eight volumes - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen Drama, 1999 with reprints since that date. Volume 1 ISBN: 978-0413460608

Music
The Essential Noël Coward Songbook - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Music Sales Ltd., 1989. ISBN: 978-0860017103

Satire
A Withered Nosegay, Chelsea Buns, Spangled Unicorn - currently out-of-print but available from used-book sellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen, 1984.

Travel
Australia Visited - currently out-of-print but available from used-book sellers. Most recent publication in the UK by Heinemann, 1941.
Middle East Diary - currently out-of-print but available from used-book sellers. Most recent publication in the UK by Heinemann, 1944.

Autobiography and Diaries
Present Indicative, Future Indefinite and Past Conditional - available collectively. Present Indicative and Future Indefinite available separately - available from booksellers and online.
The Noël Coward Diaries - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Da Capo P. ISBN: 978-0306809606

Quotations
Noël Coward In His Own Words - available from booksellers and online. Published by Methuen, 2004. ISBN: 978-0413774414

Books About Noël Coward:
Remembered Laughter - The Life of Noël Coward by Cole Lesley - out-of-print but available from used-book sellers and online. Various publishers including Penguin, 1978. ISBN: 978-0140046311

A Talent To Amuse by Sheridan Morley - out-of-print but available from used-book sellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Little Brown and Company, 1985. ISBN: 978-0316583718

My Life With Noël Coward by Graham Payn and Barry Day - out-of-print but available from used-book sellers and online. Publisher: Applause Theatre Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 978-1557831903.

Coward The Playwright by John Lahr - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Methuen Drama, 1982. ISBN: 978-0413480507.

Noël Coward A Biography by Philip Hoare - available from booksellers and online. Most recent publication in the UK by Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN: 978-0684809373