John Banville

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1973
  • Latest Book:
    December 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford

1 - Snow (Oct-2020)
2 - April in Spain (Oct-2021)
3 - The Lock-Up (May-2023)
4 - The Drowned (Oct-2024)

The Revolutions Trilogy

Doctor Copernicus (1976)
The Newton Letter (Jul-1991)
Kepler (Oct-1993)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Birchwood

    A classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prizeâ€"winning author of The Sea depicts the end of innocence for a boy and his country. Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into...

  • Doctor Copernicus

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    The Revolutions Trilogy

    The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prizeâ€"winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the un...

  • Long Lankin: Stories

    A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotions -- fear, jealousy, desire -- that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple ...

  • The Book of Evidence

    Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: THE SEA, winner of the Man Booker prize, and THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE is a brilliantl...

  • Mefisto

    A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. From the author of ATHENA and BOOK OF EVIDENCE....

  • The Newton Letter

    The Revolutions Trilogy

    An historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However, as the summer wears on, he becomes obsessed by his writing. By the author of "The Book of Ev...

  • Ghosts

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely ly...

  • Kepler

    The Revolutions Trilogy

    The Booker Prizeâ€"winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Johannes Kepler, born in 1...

  • Athena

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. â€˘ "A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." -- The...



  • The Untouchable

    WINNER OF THE LANNAN LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION â€˘ From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes the fascinating story of a former British spy who's been unmasked as a Russian agent -- and "one of spy fiction's greatest charac...

  • Eclipse

    In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he can...

  • Frames

    This work includes the following works: "The Book of Evidence": Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend, and he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act. This is a remarkable cri...

  • Shroud

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a splendidly moving, "hypnotic" exploration (The New York Times) of identity, duplicity, and desire, starring a very old, recently widowed man with secrets and the mysterious young woman dest...

  • The Sea

    In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the...

  • The Infinities

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel that is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible, wonderful plight of being human.“One of the great living masters of English-language prose. The Infinities ...

  • Ancient Light

    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present liv...

  • Best European Fiction 2014

    Year five of the "Best European Fiction" series brings another crop of cutting-edge short stories from across the continent. From Belarus to Wales! Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolutionaries o...

  • The Blue Guitar

    A new novel -- at once trenchant, witty, and shattering -- about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprec...

  • Mrs. Osmond

    In Mrs. Osmond, John Banville continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charmi...



  • Snow

    Detective Inspector St. John Strafford - 1

    The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel -- the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexf...

  • April in Spain

    Detective Inspector St. John Strafford - 2

    Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast Don't disturb the dead… On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the b...

  • The Singularities

    From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.“A triumphant piec...

  • The Lock-Up

    Detective Inspector St. John Strafford - 3

    Booker Prize winner John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke ...

  • The Drowned

    Detective Inspector St. John Strafford - 4

    From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman’s sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems. “He had seen drowned ...

  • Christine Falls

    It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living.Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hierarchy—as Qui...

  • The Silver Swan

    In the second book of John Banville’s masterful Quirke series, a faked suicide ensnares the pathologist in a deadly web of cons and deceitIt has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world...

  • Elegy for April

    Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated series A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded...

  • A Death in Summer

    A powerful man's suspicious suicide has Dublin on a boil in Banville's latest, named one of the Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick̵...

  • Venetian Vespers

    A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winnerEverything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . .1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman -- a hack, by his own descriptio...



  • Vengeance

    Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from literary polymath (The New York Times) John BanvilleTwo men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But ...

  • Holy Orders

    Quirke confronts the Catholic Church in the latest from John Banville, named one of the Ten Best Mysteries of the Year by The Wall Street JournalIn Quirke’s time as a pathologist, he's come up against everything from the most influential men in...

Award-Winning Books by John Banville

The Sea
2005 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Banville has published 31 books.

The next book by John Banville, Holy Orders, will be published in December 2025.

The first book by John Banville, Birchwood, was published in June 1973.

Yes. John Banville has 2 series.
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