Selected works

James Bond Books

Nr

Name

Year

1.

Casino Royale 1

1953

2.

Live and Let Die

1954

3.

Moonraker 2

1955

4.

Diamonds Are Forever

1956

5.

From Russia with Love

1957

6.

Dr. No

1958

7.

Goldfinger

1959

8.

For Your Eyes Only (short stories) 3

1960

9.

Thunderball 4

1961

10.

The Spy Who Loved Me5

1962

11.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1963

12.

You Only Live Twice

1964

13.

The Man with the Golden Gun 6

1965

14.

Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories) 7

1966

Notes

1 First U.S. paperback edition was retitled You Asked for It.

2 First U.S. paperback edition was retitled Too Hot to Handle.

3 Short story collection: (i) "From a View to a Kill," (ii) "For Your Eyes Only," (iii) "Risico," (iv) "Quantum of Solace", and (v) "The Hildebrand Rarity."

4 Subject of a legal battle over story credit which led to the book's storyline also being credited to Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham; see the controversy over Thunderball

5 Fleming gives co-author credit to "Vivienne Michel", the fictional heroine of the book; Fleming refused to allow a paperback edition to be published in the UK, but one was eventually published after his death. His agreement with Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman only allowed the use of the title for a movie.

6 For years, it has been alleged that William Plomer, and/or others, completed this novel as Fleming died before a finished manuscript was created. Many Fleming biographers dispute this; see the controversy over The Man With The Golden Gun.

7 Posthumously compiled short story collection. Originally published with two stories: (i) "Octopussy" and (ii) "The Living Daylights". The 1967 paperback edition's title was shortened to Octopussy and a third story, "The Property of a Lady", increased its page count. In the 1990s, the collection's longer, original title was restored, and with the 2002 edition, the story, "007 in New York" (originally published in some editions of Thrilling Cities (see below) was added.

Children's story

·         Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)

Non-fiction

·         The Diamond Smugglers (1957)

·         Thrilling Cities (1963; the American editions contain the short story "007 in New York")

Unfinished/unpublished works

·         Fleming kept a scrapbook containing notes and ideas for future James Bond stories. It included fragments of possible short stories or novels featuring Bond that were never published. Excerpts from some of these can be found in The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson.[17]

·         The author Geoffrey Jenkins worked with Fleming on a James Bond story idea between 1957 and 1964. After Fleming's death, Jenkins was commissioned by Bond publishers Glidrose Productions to turn this story, Per Fine Ounce, into a novel, but it was never published.

·         In 1960 Fleming was commissioned by the Kuwait Oil Company to write a book on the country and its oil industry. The typescript is titled State of Excitement: Impressions of Kuwait but was never published due to Kuwait Government disapproval. According to Fleming: "The Oil Company expressed approval of the book but felt it their duty to submit the typescript to members of the Kuwait Government for their approval. The Sheikhs concerned found unpalatable certain mild comments and criticisms and particularly the passages referring to the adventurous past of the country which now wishes to be 'civilised' in every respect and forget its romantic origins."[18]

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