Author

Ian McEwan

British author best known for literary novels such as *Atonement* and *Amsterdam*. Winner of the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, his works have sold millions worldwide. This page provides the Ian McEwan books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All books · chronological
1975 First Love, Last Rites PO · 1 No link
1978 The Cement Garden PO · 1 No link
1978 In Between the Sheets PO · 2 No link
1981 The Comfort of Strangers PO · 2 No link
1981 The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television PO · 3 No link
1983 Or Shall We Die? PO · 4 No link
1985 The Ploughman's Lunch PO · 1 No link
1987 The Child in Time PO · 3 No link
1989 A Move Abroad PO · 5 No link
1989 Soursweet PO · 2 No link
1990 The Innocent PO · 4 No link
1992 Black Dogs PO · 5 No link
1994 The Daydreamer PO · 6 No link
1995 The Short Stories PO · 6 No link
1997 Enduring Love PO · 7 No link
1998 Amsterdam PO · 8 No link
2001 Atonement PO · 9 No link
2005 Saturday PO · 10 No link
2007 On Chesil Beach PO · 11 No link
2008 For You PO · 12 No link
2010 Conversations with Ian McEwan PO · 1 No link
2010 Solar PO · 13 No link
2012 Sweet Tooth PO · 14 No link
2014 The Children Act PO · 15 No link
2016 Nutshell PO · 16 No link
2016 My Purple Scented Novel PO · 1 No link
2019 Machines Like Me PO · 17 No link
2019 The Cockroach PO · 2 No link
2019 Science PO · 3 No link
2022 Lessons PO · 18 No link
2024 The Compass of the Moon and Stars PO · 1 No link
2025 What We Can Know PO · 19 No link
Book series
Publication Order of Short Story Collections 6 books · 1975–1995
01 First Love, Last Rites 1975 No link
02 In Between the Sheets 1978 No link
03 The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television 1981 No link
04 Or Shall We Die? 1983 No link
··· 2 more books in this series
Publication Order of Standalone Novels 19 books · 1978–2025
01 The Cement Garden 1978 No link
02 The Comfort of Strangers 1981 No link
03 The Child in Time 1987 No link
04 The Innocent 1990 No link
··· 15 more books in this series
Publication Order of Standalone Plays 2 books · 1985–1989
01 The Ploughman's Lunch 1985 No link
02 Soursweet 1989 No link
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 1 book · 2010
01 Conversations with Ian McEwan 2010 No link
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas 3 books · 2016–2019
01 My Purple Scented Novel 2016 No link
02 The Cockroach 2019 No link
03 Science 2019 No link
Publication Order of The Compass of the Moon and Stars Books 1 book · 2024
01 The Compass of the Moon and Stars 2024 No link