Order of Ian McEwan Books
Ian McEwan is an English novelist and screenwriter. McEwan got his BA in English Literature from the University of Sussex and his MA from the University of East Anglia. He has won several awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Whitebread Novel Award, Prix Femina Etranger, Shakespeare Prize, WH Smith Literary Award, National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction Award, Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, Santiago Prize for the European Novel, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Galaxy Book of the Year and the Reader’s Digest Author of the Year.
Ian McEwan’s first published work was First Love, Last Rites, which was published in 1975 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. Below is a list of Ian McEwan’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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The Cement Garden |
(1978) |
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The Comfort of Strangers |
(1981) |
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The Child in Time |
(1987) |
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The Innocent |
(1990) |
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Black Dogs |
(1992) |
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The Daydreamer |
(1994) |
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Enduring Love |
(1997) |
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Amsterdam |
(1998) |
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Atonement |
(2001) |
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Saturday |
(2005) |
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On Chesil Beach |
(2007) |
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For You |
(2008) |
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Solar |
(2010) |
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Sweet Tooth |
(2012) |
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The Children Act |
(2014) |
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Nutshell |
(2016) |
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Machines Like Me |
(2019) |
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Lessons |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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My Purple Scented Novel |
(2016) |
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The Cockroach |
(2019) |
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Science |
(2019) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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First Love, Last Rites |
(1975) |
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In Between the Sheets |
(1978) |
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The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television |
(1981) |
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Or Shall We Die? |
(1983) |
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A Move Abroad |
(1989) |
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The Short Stories |
(1995) |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
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The Ploughman’s Lunch |
(1985) |
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Soursweet |
(1989) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Conversations with Ian McEwan |
(2010) |
Publication Order of Instaread Summary Books
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Summary of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell |
(2016) |
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Summary of A Little Life |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Children Act |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Light Between Oceans |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Boston Girl |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Invention of Wings |
(2016) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories |
(1981) |
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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories |
(1987) |
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers |
(2005) |
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Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change |
(2006) |
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Berlin |
(2010) |
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That Glimpse of Truth |
(2014) |
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Thinking Ahead: Pirelli: 150 Years of Industry, Innovation and Culture |
(2022) |