Yasmina Khadra

Author Information
Yasmina Khadra's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

Inspector Llob

Double Blank (Apr-2005)
Autumn of the Phantoms (Mar-2006)
Dead Man's Share (Oct-2009)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • In the Name of God

    The descent of a peaceful village into the horrors of civil war: Khadra brings to life a conflict largely unknown to those in the English speaking world. Imagine becoming accustomed to terror on a daily basis. Imagine finding it normal to betray your...

  • Morituri

    This remarkable roman policier introduces us to the formidable and yet very human detective-writer, Superintendent Llob and his devoted lieutenant Lino. It follows Llob in his search for the missing daughter of Ghoul Malek, one of the top power broke...

  • Double Blank

    Inspector Llob

    Ben Ouda, a senior diplomat, is found savagely murdered. Is this yet another victim of the never ending Islamic fundamentalist violence in Algiers? Inspector Llob has doubts: Ben Ouda had too many friends, too many far fetched theories... Navigating ...

  • The Swallows of Kabul

    Set in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, this extraordinary novel "puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban" (San Francisco Chronicle), taking readers into the seemingly divergent lives of two couples -- and depicting ...

  • Autumn of the Phantoms

    Inspector Llob

    Brahim Llob, Khadra's policeman-turned-detective writer is summoned by the chief of Algerian police and fired for having published Morituri, the book which the establishment considers dishonorable and full of lies - and in actuality, Yasmina Khadra's...

  • The Attack

    From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism. Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired an...

  • Wolf Dreams

  • The Sirens of Baghdad

    The third novel in Yasmina Khadra's bestselling trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism brings readers into Baghdad. Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man from a small desert village returns home, where...

  • Dead Man's Share

    Inspector Llob

    Superintendent Brahim Llob is bored. Nothing seems to need his attention in an unusually peaceful Algiers. Then suddenly peace is shatterd in ways Llob could never have imagined. His subordinate, Lieutenant Lino, falls for an entirely unsuitable woma...



  • What the Day Owes the Night

  • Cousin K

    “Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well.” And such is the twisted logic of good and bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most powerful voices to emerge from North Africa...

  • The African Equation

    "Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish." -- Los Angeles TimesFrankfurt MD Kurt Krausmann is devastated by his wife's suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, Kurt agrees to join his frie...

  • The Dictator's Last Night

    ‘Captivating and perversely delightful.’ The Wall Street JournalIn this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Yasmina Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figu...

  • The Angels Die

    "A writer who can understand man wherever he is." -- The New York Times

    "Khadra's prose is gentle and precise." -- The New Yorker

    As a child living in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. When his family find a home in the c...

  • Khalil

    From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man's involvement in France's worst terrorist attack.Khalil, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, p...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yasmina Khadra has published 15 books.

Yasmina Khadra does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Khalil, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Yasmina Khadra, In the Name of God, was published in January 2000.

Yes. Yasmina Khadra has 1 series.
Author Series
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe