Javier Marias

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1993
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Your Face Tomorrow

1 - Fever and Spear (Sep-2007)
2 - Dance and Dream (Jul-2006)
3 - Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Dec-2009)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • All Souls

    From one of the most important voices in world literature -- and the award-winning author of The Infatuations -- a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. • "Javier Marías is in my opini...

  • A Heart So White

    ​​WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past -- from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Rob...

  • Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

    A riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret, from "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Sunday Globe) -- and the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatu...

  • When I Was Mortal

    Twelve short stories by "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe) -- and the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatuations.Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur...

  • The Man of Feeling

    A story of love and memory from "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe) and the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatuations. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young ope...

  • Dark Back of Time

    From one of Spain's greatest writers -- and the international bestselling, award-winning author of The Infatuations -- comes an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time that  weaves together fact and fiction into a completely or...

  • Voyage Along the Horizon

    Voyage Along the Horizon revolves around an intrepid expedition: the eccentric, wealthy Captain Kerrigan, an attractive man with a shadowy past, organizes a trip to Antarctica for a select group of writers, artists, and scientists.Amid sudden kidnapp...

  • Dance and Dream

    Your Face Tomorrow - 2

    A book unlike any other, a daring experiential unfolding Spanish masterpiece, Your Face Tomorrow now leaps into uncharted new territory in Volume Two: Dance and Dream.Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in t...

  • Fever and Spear

    Your Face Tomorrow - 1

    A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe) Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and ...



  • Poison, Shadow, and Farewell

    Your Face Tomorrow - 3

    Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marías’s daring novel in three parts culminates triumphantly in this much-anticipated final volume. Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ...

  • Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

    A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire ...

  • While the Women Are Sleeping

    A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review). Slippery figures in anomalous situations -- ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals -- haunt these stories by Javier...

  • Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3

    'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer

    'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali Smith

    The concluding part in Javier Marías' spy trilogy masterwork

  • The Infatuations

    From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand -- or do we? -...

  • Written Lives

    In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Maras, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very hum...

  • To Begin at the Beginning

    In To Begin at the Beginning celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marias explores his impulse to write the origins of his own family and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings Exploring the difference between what...

  • Thus Bad Begins

    Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young ma...

  • Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

  • Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1

    'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer

    'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali Smith

    'I am myself my own fever and pain'

    Jacques Deza has been ...



  • Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2

    'Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation ... Your Face Tomorrow is rich, haunting, intriguing' Observer

    'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' Antony Beevor

    'Fear is the greatest force...

  • Berta Isla

    From the award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping new novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies. W...

  • Tomas Nevinson

    The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence • “Marías’s best work.” -- El País“Compelling, hypnotic, and exciting at the same tim...

  • Tom?s Nevinson

    The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence • “Marías’s best work.” —El País“Compelling, hypn...

Award-Winning Books by Javier Marias

A Heart So White
1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Javier Marias has published 23 books.

Javier Marias does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tom?s Nevinson, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Javier Marias, All Souls, was published in November 1993.

Yes. Javier Marias has 1 series.
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