Sex.Ģ7. The Strange Genius of David Lindsay. With E.H. Wilson wrote the text accompanying a series of sexual photographs taken by Piero Rinaldi. Philosophy.Ģ6. L'amour: The Ways of Love. Published by City Lights, this book was subsequently significantly expanded see no. Biography/literary criticism.Ģ4. The Philosopher’s Stone. 1969. A biography and analysis of the works of George Bernard Shaw.

Criminology.Ģ3. Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment. 1969. The second book in Wilson’s trilogy on murder. Autobiography.Ģ2. A Casebook of Murder. 1969. Translated into Italian, French and Japanese. Translated into French, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. According to his introduction to the 1980 edition, Wilson considers this book to be the pinnacle of his philosophy. A summary of the ideas contained in the Outsider cycle. Psychology.ġ8. Introduction to the New Existentialism. 1966. Translated into Japanese, Dutch and Danish. Music.ġ7. Sex and the Intelligent Teenager. 1966. An expanded version of Brandy of the Damned (see no.12), with an added chapter on American composers, printed in England as Colin Wilson on Music. Literary criticism.ġ6. Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music. The sixth, and last, book in the Outsider cycle. Later expanded and reprinted as Chords and Discords. Biography.ġ2. Brandy of the Damned. 1964. Fiction.ġ1. Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs. 1964. Translated into French, Dutch, Korean, Italian and Japanese. The second book in the Gerard Sorme trilogy. Fiction.ġ0. Man Without a Shadow (US: The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme). 1963. Psychology.ĩ. The World of Violence (US: The Violent World of Hugh Greene). Philosophy.Ĩ. Origins of the Sexual Impulse. Translated into Spanish, Korean, and Japanese. Fiction.ħ. The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination. 1961. Translated into Dutch, French and Spanish. Translated into Italian, Japanese and Spanish. The first in Wilson’s trilogy on the subject of murder. Translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, German, Italian, Japanese and Norwegian. It is the first volume in the Gerard Sorme trilogy. Many still consider it to be his best work of fiction. Wilson first wrote this book in 1949 and then revised it prior to publication. Philosophy.ģ. The Age of Defeat (US: The Stature of Man). It has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Chinese and Swedish.

The first book in the Outsider cycle by Wilson, intended to outline his concept of the New Existentialism (the idea which underlies all of his work), and probably still his most famous work.

Mysteries by Colin Wilson