Order of Robert Harris Books

Order of Robert Harris Books

Robert Harris
Robert Harris is an English author of historical fiction and non-fiction. He has also worked as a journalist and a television reporter for the BBC. He spent the first eight years of his career writing non-fiction on several different subjects before moving on to a career as a novelist. Harris lives near Newbury, Berkshire, England with his wife and fellow writer, Gil Hornby (sister of novelist Nick Hornby).

Robert Harris began his writing career in 1982 with the non-fiction book A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare, which was co-authored by Jeremy Paxman. His next (and first solo) work would be the following year, entitled Gotcha: The Media, The Government and The Falklands Crisis. His debut as a novelist was Fatherland, an alternative history novel published in 1992. Below is a list of Robert Harris’ books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Cicero Books

Imperium

(2006)

Conspirata / Lustrum

(2009)

Dictator

(2016)

Imperium: The Cicero Plays Backstage View (With: Mike Poulton)

(2017)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Fatherland

(1991)

Enigma

(1995)

Archangel

(1998)

Pompeii

(2003)

The Ghost

(2007)

The Fear Index

(2011)

An Officer and a Spy

(2013)

Conclave

(2016)

Munich

(2017)

The Second Sleep

(2019)

V2

(2020)

Act of Oblivion

(2022)

Precipice

(2024)

Publication Order of Robert Harris Non-Fiction Books

A Higher Form of Killing

(1982)

Gotcha!: The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis

(1983)

The Making of Neil Kinnock

(1984)

Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorized Biography of Bernard Ingham

(1990)

Selling Hitler

(1996)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Speaking With the Angel

(2000)

Notes: Lustrum was also published as Conspirata. The Ghost was also published under the title The Ghost Writer. A Higher Form of Killing was written with Jeremy Paxman.