V.S. Naipaul

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1957
  • Latest Book:
    August 2012
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Mystic Masseur

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    The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a Dickensian novel that traces the unlikely career of a failed schoolteacher and village masseur who becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. “No on...

  • Miguel Street

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    A tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad’s capital and narrated by an unnamed boy -- from the Nobel Prize-winning author.“One of the few con...

  • A House for Mr. Biswas

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    From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.“A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for...

  • The Mimic Men

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    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world.“No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as...

  • Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies

    The Caribbean area--a scattering of ethnic and racial groups with a history of colonialism and bloody attempts to assert nationhood--provides an exciting background for these tales of wit, melancholy, resentment, fantasy, and superstition. If the ...

  • In a Free State

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    From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread.“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewNo writer has rendered our boundari...

  • Guerrillas

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims.“A brilliant novel in every way.… [It] shimmers with artistic cer...

  • The Loss of El Dorado

    In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times).The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on t...

  • A Bend in the River

    In this "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man -- an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly ...



  • The Overcrowded Barracoon

  • Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion

  • Suffrage of Elvira

  • Finding the Center

  • The Enigma of Arrival

    The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." -- Chicago Tri...

  • A Flag on the Island

  • The Middle Passage

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writing -- a deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism.“Belongs in the same category of travel w...

  • A Way In The World

    The Nobel Prize-winning author -- and "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angeles Times) -- spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian … a brilliant ...

  • Half a Life

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produced his finest novel, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity."A mast...

  • The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book: and Other Comic Inventions

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes two novels and a collection of stories that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.“The world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” -- The...



  • Magic Seeds

    The Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.“The most essential English-language novelist of our time.” -- New YorkHa...

  • Vintage Naipaul

    Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

    “The most splendid writer of English alive today. . . . He looks into the mad eye of history and does not ...

  • An Area of Darkness

  • The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book

  • Collected Short Fiction

    For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that move...

  • Beyond Belief

Award-Winning Books by V.S. Naipaul

In a Free State
1971 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

V.S. Naipaul has published 25 books.

V.S. Naipaul does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beyond Belief, was published in August 2012.

The first book by V.S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur, was published in January 1957.

No. V.S. Naipaul does not write books in series.
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