John Banville

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1973
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford

1 - Snow (Oct-2020)
2 - April in Spain (Oct-2021)

The Revolutions Trilogy

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

Book List in Order: 24 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

    The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book . . . It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent' Richard Ford Vict...

  • 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

    On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals—...

  • 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

    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

    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."John Banville is one of my...

Award-Winning Books by John Banville

The Sea
2005 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


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John Banville has published 24 books.

The next book by John Banville, The Drowned, will be published in October 2024.

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

Yes. John Banville has 2 series.
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