Anais Nin

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1948
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Under a Glass Bell

    Under a Glass Bell is one of Nin's finest collections of stories. First published in 1944, it attracted the attention of Edmond Wilson, who reviewed the collection in The New Yorker. It was in these stories that Nin's artistic and emotional vision to...

  • House of Incest

    “The genesis of House of Incest was in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of that exploration of the unconscious. But I discovered dreams in themselves, isolated, were not always interesting. Very few of them had the complete im...

  • Ladders to Fire

    Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happ...

  • A Spy in the House of Love

  • Children of the Albatross

    Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: “The Sealed Room” focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; “The Café” brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin’s rea...

  • Four-Chambered Heart

    The Four-Chambered Heart, Anaïs Nin's 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a house-boat on the Seine, and under the pervading influence of the boat's watchman...

  • The Winter of Artifice

  • Seduction of the Minotaur

  • Collages



  • Delta of Venus

  • Little Birds

  • White Blackbird and Other Writings

  • The Novel of the Future

    In The Novel of the Future, Anaïs Nin explores the act of creation -- in literature, film, art, and dance -- to arrive at a new synthesis for the young artist struggling against the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting muc...

  • Anais Nin Reads

    For many years the name Anais Nin was associated with the avant-garde and the literary underground. During the liberated 1960s she became widely recognized as a daring and innovative artist. Her work, at once familiar and exotic, is today considered ...

  • Waste of Timelessness: And Other Early Stories

    Written when Anaïs Nin was in her twenties and living in Louveciennes, France, these stories contain many elements that will delight her readers: details remembered from childhood, of life in Paris, the cafés, theatres; characters including dancers...

  • Henry and June

    Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Mi...

  • A Cafe in Space

    Volume 6 of A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal contains the recently discovered letters between Anais Nin and her father, Joaquin Nin, during the time of their alleged incestuous relationship. These letters finally answer the question of...

  • In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

    Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews....

  • White Stains and Love's Cyclopaedia



  • White Stains

  • Stella

    Stella, a little-known work written by Anais Nin in 1945, is an examination of self-discovery and self-worth, a theme central to much of her fiction. The title character is loosely based on actress Luise Rainer, with whom Nin had a contentious friend...

  • The Veiled Woman

  • The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2

    Volume 2 of The Quotable Anais Nin contains 365 quotations (one for each day of the year) with confirmed citations. The contents are divided into categories of Lust for Life; Love and Sensuality; Consciousness; Women and Men; and Writing and Art. The...

  • Auletris

  • Eros Unbound

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anais Nin has published 25 books.

Anais Nin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Eros Unbound, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Anais Nin, Under a Glass Bell, was published in January 1948.

No. Anais Nin does not write books in series.
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