Order of V.S. Naipaul Books

Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British writer known for his novels, travel literature, and essays. He has produced both humorous novels set in Trinidad and Tobago and more somber works, including autobiographical pieces. Naipaul's ancestry traces back to Nepal, then to India, and finally to Trinidad, where he was born. He relocated to London in 1954. In 2001, Naipaul received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989. He made his literary debut in 1957 with the novel The Mystic Masseur. Below is a chronological list of V.S. Naipaul’s published works.

V.S. Naipaul became a published novelist in 1867 with the novel The Mimic Men. Below is a list of V.S. Naipaul's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
A Flag on the Island	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Collected Short Fiction	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Vintage Naipaul	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of India Trilogy Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
An Area of Darkness	(1964)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Wounded Civilization	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Million Mutinies Now	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Willie Chandran Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Half a Life	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Magic Seeds	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Mimic Men	(1867)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mystic Masseur	(1957)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Suffrage of Elvira	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Miguel Street	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A House for Mr Biswas	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr Stone And The Knights Companion	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In a Free State	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Guerrillas	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Bend in the River	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Finding the Center	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Overcrowded Barracoon	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Enigma of Arrival	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Way in the World	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Middle Passage	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reading and Writing	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Loss of El Dorado	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Return of Eva Peron	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Congo Diary	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Among the Believers	(1981)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Turn In The South	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beyond Belief	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Between Father and Son	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Writer and the World	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Literary Occasions	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Writer's People	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Masque of Africa	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
India Essays	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Island Voices	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
From The Green Antilles Writings Of The Caribbean	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Tangled Web	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Four Continents	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Trinidad Noir: The Classics	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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