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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1996
  • Latest Book:
    May 2026
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Books in Order: 11 titles

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  • The Booker Prize nominee???s propulsive tale of intergenerational tension and revenge with the comic zest of Maria Semple or Taffy Brodesser-Akner.???Every successful marriage has its own private language.??? So it is for baby-boomer Kate and her arc...



  • A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John...



  • A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize -- long listed author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist...




  • The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border....



  • Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ( an elegant and wonderfully witty writer New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going unde...



  • In their particulars, the Lanchesters were not Every Family. The father was an international banker, the mother a former nun. Yet in the dynamic of family life, their patterns are instantly recognizable. The heart of that dynamic is a built-in tug-of...



  • It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans se...



  • Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is far from ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips was summarily sacked. Unable to deal...






  • The triumphant return of John Lanchester, whose debut novel, The Debt to Pleasure, won the hearts of booksellers, readers, and reviewers across America.

    Mr Phillips wakes on the morning of July 31 in his modest, nearly mortgage-free home, in t...



  • Draws the reader, through descriptions of food and cooking, into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, which unfold his autobiography.

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Award-Winning Books by John Lanchester

The Debt to Pleasure
1996 Costa Book Award -- First Novel
1997 IACP Crystal Whisk Award -- Literary Food Writing


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Lanchester has published 11 books.

The next book by John Lanchester, Look What You Made Me Do, will be published in May 2026.

The first book by John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure, was published in April 1996.

No. John Lanchester does not write books in series.