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Kazuo Ishiguro Books in Order

Find every Kazuo Ishiguro book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 137 books / 6 series

British author and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro is best known for *The Remains of the Day* and *Never Let Me Go*. His critically acclaimed novels have sold millions worldwide. This page lists Kazuo Ishiguro’s books in order, including both chronological publication and series reading order.

All Kazuo Ishiguro Books in Chronological Order

1955 A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor) POoFSB / 1 Buy
1968 The Inner Room(By: Robert Aickman) POoFSB / 2 Buy
1969 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges POoLCB / 1 Buy
1981 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz POoLCB / 2 Buy
1982 A Pale View of Hills POoSN / 1 Buy
1982 Daughters of Passion(By: Julia O'Faolain) POoFSB / 3 Buy
1983 A Family Supper POoSS / 1 Buy
1983 Conversations with Graham Greene POoLCB / 3 Buy
1983 Giacomo Joyce(By: Richard Ellmann) POoFSB / 4 Buy
1985 Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 4 Buy
1985 Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 5 Buy
1985 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer POoLCB / 6 Buy
1985 Conversations with William Styron POoLCB / 7 Buy
1986 An Artist of the Floating World POoSN / 2 Buy
1986 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley POoLCB / 8 Buy
1986 Conversations with Lillian Hellman POoLCB / 9 Buy
1986 Conversations with Tennessee Williams POoLCB / 10 Buy
1986 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway POoLCB / 11 Buy
1987 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter POoLCB / 12 Buy
1987 Truman Capote: Conversations POoLCB / 13 Buy
1987 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor POoLCB / 14 Buy
1987 Conversations with Peter Taylor POoLCB / 15 Buy
1987 Conversations with Arthur Miller POoLCB / 16 Buy
1988 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut POoLCB / 17 Buy
1988 Conversations with Edward Albee POoLCB / 18 Buy
1988 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell POoLCB / 19 Buy
1988 Conversations with Norman Mailer POoLCB / 20 Buy
1989 The Remains of the Day POoSN / 3 Buy
1989 Homeland(By: Barbara Kingsolver) POoFSB / 5 Buy
1989 Conversations with Robert Graves POoLCB / 21 Buy
1989 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates POoLCB / 22 Buy
1989 Conversations with Shelby Foote POoLCB / 23 Buy
1989 Conversations with Robertson Davies POoLCB / 24 Buy
1989 Conversations with James Baldwin POoLCB / 25 Buy
1990 Conversations with John Gardner POoLCB / 26 Buy
1990 Conversations with Richard Wilbur POoLCB / 27 Buy
1990 Conversations with Tom Wolfe POoLCB / 28 Buy
1990 Conversations with Raymond Carver POoLCB / 29 Buy
1990 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill POoLCB / 30 Buy
1991 Conversations with Reynolds Price POoLCB / 31 Buy
1991 Conversations with Bernard Malamud POoLCB / 32 Buy
1991 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer POoLCB / 33 Buy
1992 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni POoLCB / 34 Buy
1992 Conversations With Thornton Wilder POoLCB / 35 Buy
1992 Conversations with Robert Coles POoLCB / 36 Buy
1992 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher POoLCB / 37 Buy
1993 More Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 38 Buy
1993 Conversations with Richard Wright POoLCB / 39 Buy
1993 Conversations with Paul Bowles POoLCB / 40 Buy
1994 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris POoLCB / 41 Buy
1994 Conversations with Amiri Baraka POoLCB / 42 Buy
1994 Conversations with Toni Morrison POoLCB / 43 Buy
1994 Conversations with Saul Bellow POoLCB / 44 Buy
1994 Conversations with Henry Miller POoLCB / 45 Buy
1995 The Unconsoled POoSN / 4 Buy
1995 Conversations With S.J. Perelman POoLCB / 46 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ernest Gaines POoLCB / 47 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ralph Ellison POoLCB / 48 Buy
1995 Conversations with Chester Himes POoLCB / 49 Buy
1995 Conversations with Susan Sontag POoLCB / 50 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ishmael Reed POoLCB / 51 Buy
1996 Conversations with Derek Walcott POoLCB / 52 Buy
1996 More Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 53 Buy
1996 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop POoLCB / 54 Buy
1996 Conversations with Pauline Kael POoLCB / 55 Buy
1997 Shanti(By: Vikram Chandra) POoFSB / 6 Buy
1997 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul POoLCB / 56 Buy
1997 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday POoLCB / 57 Buy
1997 Conversations with Chinua Achebe POoLCB / 58 Buy
1998 Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine(By: Thom Jones) POoFSB / 7 Buy
1998 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston POoLCB / 59 Buy
1998 Conversations with Denise Levertov POoLCB / 60 Buy
1999 Conversations With William Faulkner POoLCB / 61 Buy
1999 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow POoLCB / 62 Buy
1999 Conversations With John Fowles POoLCB / 63 Buy
2000 When We Were Orphans POoSN / 5 Buy
2000 Conversations with Salman Rushdie POoLCB / 64 Buy
2000 Conversations with William S. Burroughs POoLCB / 65 Buy
2000 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko POoLCB / 66 Buy
2001 A Village After Dark POoSS / 2 Buy
2001 Conversations with Chaim Potok POoLCB / 67 Buy
2001 Conversations with Richard Ford POoLCB / 68 Buy
2001 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood POoLCB / 69 Buy
2002 Conversations with Mary Gordon POoLCB / 70 Buy
2002 Conversations with Jim Harrison POoLCB / 71 Buy
2002 Conversations with Clarence Major POoLCB / 72 Buy
2002 Conversations with Margaret Walker POoLCB / 73 Buy
2002 Conversations with Erica Jong POoLCB / 74 Buy
2002 Elie Wiesel: Conversations POoLCB / 75 Buy
2003 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations POoLCB / 76 Buy
2003 Conversations with Rita Dove POoLCB / 77 Buy
2003 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald POoLCB / 78 Buy
2003 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks POoLCB / 79 Buy
2003 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann POoLCB / 80 Buy
2004 Conversations with Gloria Naylor POoLCB / 81 Buy
2004 Conversations with Audre Lorde POoLCB / 82 Buy
2004 Conversations with Ray Bradbury POoLCB / 83 Buy
2004 Conversations With John le Carr’ POoLCB / 84 Buy
2005 Never Let Me Go POoSN / 6 Buy
2005 Conversations with Isaac Asimov POoLCB / 85 Buy
2005 Conversations with Don DeLillo POoLCB / 86 Buy
2005 Conversations with Gore Vidal POoLCB / 87 Buy
2005 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren POoLCB / 88 Buy
2005 Conversations with Jack Kerouac POoLCB / 89 Buy
2005 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez POoLCB / 90 Buy
2006 Conversations with Thomas McGuane POoLCB / 91 Buy
2007 Conversations with Larry Brown POoLCB / 92 Buy
2007 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez POoLCB / 93 Buy
2007 Conversations with Wendell Berry POoLCB / 94 Buy
2007 Conversations with Leon Forrest POoLCB / 95 Buy
2008 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro POoLCB / 96 Buy
2009 Nocturnes POoSSC / 1 Buy
2009 An Elegy for Easterly(By: Petina Gappah) POoFSB / 8 Buy
2011 The Shielding of Mrs Forbes(By: Alan Bennett) POoFSB / 9 Buy
2012 The Cheater's Guide to Love(By: Junot D’az) POoFSB / 10 Buy
2014 Mrs Fox(By: Sarah Hall) POoFSB / 11 Buy
2014 Mostly Hero(By: Anna Burns) POoFSB / 12 Buy
2015 The Buried Giant POoSN / 7 Buy
2016 Mr Salary(By: Sally Rooney) POoFSB / 13 Buy
2019 Come Rain or Come Shine POoFSB / 14 Buy
2019 The Victim(By: P.D. James) POoFSB / 15 Buy
2019 Dante and the Lobster(By: Samuel Beckett) POoFSB / 16 Buy
2019 Paradise(By: Edna O'Brien) POoFSB / 17 Buy
2019 Cosmopolitan(By: Akhil Sharma) POoFSB / 18 Buy
2019 The Lydia Steptoe Stories(By: Djuna Barnes) POoFSB / 19 Buy
2019 Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom(By: Sylvia Plath) POoFSB / 20 Buy
2019 Terrific Mother(By: Lorrie Moore) POoFSB / 21 Buy
2019 The Country Funeral(By: John McGahern) POoFSB / 22 Buy
2019 The Forester's Daughter(By: Claire Keegan) POoFSB / 23 Buy
2019 Three Types of Solitude(By: Brian W. Aldiss) POoFSB / 24 Buy
2019 A River in Egypt(By: David Means) POoFSB / 25 Buy
2019 Fairy Tales(By: Marianne Moore) POoFSB / 26 Buy
2019 Ghostly Stories(By: Celia Fremlin) POoFSB / 27 Buy
2019 Intruders(By: Adrian Tomine) POoFSB / 28 Buy
2021 Klara and the Sun POoSN / 8 Buy
2023 Conversations with Jimmy Carter POoLCB / 97 Buy
2024 The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain POoGN / 1 Buy

Kazuo Ishiguro Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor) 1955 Buy
02 The Inner Room(By: Robert Aickman) 1968 Buy
03 Daughters of Passion(By: Julia O'Faolain) 1982 Buy
04 Giacomo Joyce(By: Richard Ellmann) 1983 Buy
05 Homeland(By: Barbara Kingsolver) 1989 Buy
06 Shanti(By: Vikram Chandra) 1997 Buy
07 Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine(By: Thom Jones) 1998 Buy
08 An Elegy for Easterly(By: Petina Gappah) 2009 Buy
09 The Shielding of Mrs Forbes(By: Alan Bennett) 2011 Buy
10 The Cheater's Guide to Love(By: Junot D’az) 2012 Buy
11 Mrs Fox(By: Sarah Hall) 2014 Buy
12 Mostly Hero(By: Anna Burns) 2014 Buy
13 Mr Salary(By: Sally Rooney) 2016 Buy
14 Come Rain or Come Shine 2019 Buy
15 The Victim(By: P.D. James) 2019 Buy
16 Dante and the Lobster(By: Samuel Beckett) 2019 Buy
17 Paradise(By: Edna O'Brien) 2019 Buy
18 Cosmopolitan(By: Akhil Sharma) 2019 Buy
19 The Lydia Steptoe Stories(By: Djuna Barnes) 2019 Buy
20 Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom(By: Sylvia Plath) 2019 Buy
21 Terrific Mother(By: Lorrie Moore) 2019 Buy
22 The Country Funeral(By: John McGahern) 2019 Buy
23 The Forester's Daughter(By: Claire Keegan) 2019 Buy
24 Three Types of Solitude(By: Brian W. Aldiss) 2019 Buy
25 A River in Egypt(By: David Means) 2019 Buy
26 Fairy Tales(By: Marianne Moore) 2019 Buy
27 Ghostly Stories(By: Celia Fremlin) 2019 Buy
28 Intruders(By: Adrian Tomine) 2019 Buy
01 The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain 2024 Buy
01 Nocturnes 2009 Buy
01 A Family Supper 1983 Buy
02 A Village After Dark 2001 Buy
01 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969 Buy
02 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981 Buy
03 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983 Buy
04 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985 Buy
05 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985 Buy
06 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985 Buy
07 Conversations with William Styron 1985 Buy
08 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986 Buy
09 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986 Buy
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986 Buy
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986 Buy
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987 Buy
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987 Buy
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987 Buy
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987 Buy
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987 Buy
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988 Buy
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988 Buy
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988 Buy
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988 Buy
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989 Buy
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989 Buy
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989 Buy
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989 Buy
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989 Buy
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990 Buy
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990 Buy
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990 Buy
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990 Buy
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990 Buy
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991 Buy
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991 Buy
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991 Buy
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992 Buy
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992 Buy
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992 Buy
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992 Buy
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993 Buy
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993 Buy
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993 Buy
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994 Buy
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994 Buy
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994 Buy
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994 Buy
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994 Buy
46 Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995 Buy
47 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995 Buy
48 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995 Buy
49 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995 Buy
50 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995 Buy
51 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995 Buy
52 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996 Buy
53 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996 Buy
54 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996 Buy
55 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996 Buy
56 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997 Buy
57 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997 Buy
58 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997 Buy
59 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998 Buy
60 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998 Buy
61 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999 Buy
62 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999 Buy
63 Conversations With John Fowles 1999 Buy
64 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000 Buy
65 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000 Buy
66 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000 Buy
67 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001 Buy
68 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001 Buy
69 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001 Buy
70 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002 Buy
71 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002 Buy
72 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002 Buy
73 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002 Buy
74 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002 Buy
75 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002 Buy
76 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003 Buy
77 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003 Buy
78 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003 Buy
79 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003 Buy
80 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003 Buy
81 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004 Buy
82 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004 Buy
83 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004 Buy
84 Conversations With John le Carr’ 2004 Buy
85 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005 Buy
86 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005 Buy
87 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005 Buy
88 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005 Buy
89 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005 Buy
90 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez 2005 Buy
91 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006 Buy
92 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007 Buy
93 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007 Buy
94 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007 Buy
95 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007 Buy
96 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008 Buy
97 Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 8 books / 1982-2021
01 A Pale View of Hills 1982 Buy
02 An Artist of the Floating World 1986 Buy
03 The Remains of the Day 1989 Buy
04 The Unconsoled 1995 Buy
05 When We Were Orphans 2000 Buy
06 Never Let Me Go 2005 Buy
07 The Buried Giant 2015 Buy
08 Klara and the Sun 2021 Buy

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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