Iain Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish novelist who wrote science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding his middle initial, to differentiate between his regular literary fiction and his science fiction novels. He is perhaps best known for his The Culture series of books. Banks has been named one of “The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945” by The Times daily newspaper in the UK.

Banks made his debut as a published author with The Wasp Factory in 1984. Since that time, he has split his time between his Culture books (the series started in ’87) and standalone novels such as Stonemouth. Below is a list of Iain M. Banks’ books in order of publication and in chronological order:

Publication Order of Culture Books

Consider Phlebas(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Player of Games(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The State of the Art(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Use of Weapons(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Excession(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inversions(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Look to Windward(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Matter(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Surface Detail(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hydrogen Sonata(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Culture: The Drawings(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Against a Dark Background(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Feersum Endjinn(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Algebraist(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Transition(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine Books

Shoreline of Infinity 1 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 2 (With: Anton Rose,Duncan Lunan,Megan Neumann,Steve Green,Ian Hunter,Noel Chidwick,Ken Poyner,Iain Maloney,Ken McLeod,Michael Fontana,Tyler J Petty,Ryan L. Daly,Bethany Ruth Anderson,Steve Simpson,Kathy Steinemann,Ann Craig,Elsa Bouet,Russell Jones)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 3 (By: Jane Yolen,Edd Vick,Marge Simon,David Lindsay,Ian Hunter,Noel Chidwick,Guy Stewart,Sára Júlia,J.K. Fulton,Miriam Johnson,Thomas Broderick,Tracey S. Rosenberg,Dee Raspin,Sara Ljeskovac)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 4 (By: Ken MacLeod,Holly Schofield,Tricia Sullivan,Gary Gibson,Ruth E.J. Booth,Shelly Bryant,Robert Neilson,Paul Holmes,Noel Chidwick,Andrew J. Wilson,Caroline Grebbell,Michael Stroh,Clive Tern,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Benjamin Dodds,Sára Júlia,J. Leslie Mitchell)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 5 (By: Craig Thompson,George MacDonald,Ruth E.J. Booth,ThomasClark,Paul Holmes,Noel Chidwick,Sára Júlia,Monica Burns,Iain Maloney,Andrew Blair,Rob Butler,Adam Connors,Jack Schouten,Simon Mordem,Ruth Aylett,Stuart Beel,Net Newman,Daniel Rosen,Gary Dalkin)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 6 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 7 (By: Andrew Lang,Shannon Connor Winward,May Kendall,David L. Clements,Ruth E.J. Booth,Tim Major,Paul Holmes,Noel Chidwick,Monica Burns,Dan Grace,Davyne DeSye,Katie Gray,Mark Toner,Terry Jackman,Daniel Soule,Steve Pickering)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 8 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 8½ (With: Jane Yolen,Charles Stross,Ken MacLeod,Adam Roberts,Nalo Hopkinson,Jo Walton,Marge Simon,Gary Gibson,Ada Palmer,Ruth E.J. Booth,ThomasClark,Noel Chidwick,Pippa Goldschmidt,Andrew J. Wilson,Caroline Grebbell,Benjamin Dodds,Iain Maloney,Des Raspin,Katie Gray,Mark Toner,Shelley Bryant,Grahame Barrasford Young,Russell Jones)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 9 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 10 (By: Die Booth,Noel Chidwick,Ephiny Gale,Daniel Rosen,Marija Smits,Matthew Castle,SK Farrell,Serna Johe,K.E. Macphee,Chris Baily)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 11 (By: Karen Heuler)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 12 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 13 (By: Premee Mohamed,Bo Balder,Tim Major,Noel Chidwick,Preston Grassmann,Rachel Armstrong,Caroline Grebbell,Esme Carpenter,Laura Young)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 14 (By: Ken MacLeod,Neil Williamson,Cat Hellisen,Andrew Reichard,Noel Chidwick,Eris Young,Thomas Broderick,Emma Levin,Rhiannon Grist,Vicki Jarrett)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 15 (By: Gareth L. Powell,Callum McSorley,Tim Major,Tiffany Meuret,Noel Chidwick,Teika Marija Smits,DA D’Amico,Lidia Molina Whyte,E.M. Faulds,J.G. Sarmiento)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 16 (By: Allen Ashley,Ahmed A. Khan,Noel Chidwick,Rachel Plummer,Helen French,Laura Duerr,Petra Kuppers,Kate Macdonald,Vicki Jarrett,Calum L Macleoid)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 17 (By: Chris Beckett,Bo Balder,Ruth E.J. Booth,Noel Chidwick,Brian M. Milton,Dave Ring,Simon Fung,S.A.M. Rundell,Peyman Saremian,Jeremey Nelson)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 18 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 19 (By: Ian Watson,Tony Ballantyne,Chris Beckett,F.J. Bergmann,Sherry Shahan,Raman Mundair,Noel Chidwick,Pippa Goldschmidt,Davide Mana,Mariah Montoya,Teika Marija Smits,Hûw Steer,Anya Ow,Gregory A. Austin)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 20 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 21 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 22 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 23 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 24 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 25 (By: Elana Gomel,Gary Gibson,Cat Hellisen,Noel Chidwick,E. M. Faulds,David L Clements,Simon Nagel,Alex Storer)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 26 (By: Eris Young)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 27 (By: Callum McSorley,Noel Chidwick,Christopher Collingwood,Alex Storer,Jack Schouten,Jo Ross-Barrett,RV Neville)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 28 (By: Ely Percy)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 29 (By: Noel Chidwick)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 30 (By: Eric Brown,Gary Gibson,Cat Hellisen,Noel Chidwick,Christopher R. Muscato,Teika Marina Smits,Raymond W Gallacher)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 31 (By: Ken MacLeod,Andy McKell,Chris Barnham,Bo Balder,Ruth E.J. Booth,Heather Valentine,Noel Chidwick,Lindz McLeod,Adam Marx)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 32 (By: Jane Yolen,Adam Roberts,Sofia Samatar,Cat Hellisen,Noel Chidwick,Teika Marija Smits,Dave Weaver,Bethany Davis,Laura Scotland,Woody Dismukes,Edmind Fines)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 33 (By: T.L. Huchu,Callum McSorley,Noel Chidwick,Benjamin C. Kinney,Lucy Zhang,Brent Baldwin,M.H. Ayinde,M. Luke McDonell,David Lawrie,Jesse Rowell)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 34 (By: Ian Whates,Vaughan Stanger,Eris Young,L.R. Lam,Lyndsey Croal,Moussa Ould Ebnou,Robert Bagnall,Louis Evans,Emma Levin)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 35 (By: Ken MacLeod,Eric Brown,John Buchan,Callum McSorley,Noel Chidwick,Rachel Plummer,Jeda Pearl,T.H. Dray,Beth Nuttall)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 36 (By: Kim Stanley Robinson,Noel Chidwick,Christopher R. Muscato,Lyndsey Croal,Tania Chen,Rhiannon Grist,Gessica Sakamoto Martini,Knighton Knighton,Sara Kate Ellis,Greta Colombani)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 37 (By: Andrew Knighton)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 38 (By: Tim Major,David McGillveray,Ruth E.J. Booth,Noel Chidwick,Paul McQuade,Andrew Kozma,Jeda Pearl,Bram E. Gieben,Anna Ziemons-McLean,Anna Cheung,Dylan Kwok,LeeAnn Perry,M.A.R. Rinaldi,S.J. Groenewegen)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 39 (By: Eugen Bacon,Noel Chidwick,Douglas Gwilym,Kenzie Lappin,Jamie M Boyd,M Shedric Simpson,Darryl A Smith,Caitriana NicNeacail,Ruth EJ Booth)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 40 (By: Chris Kelso,Noel Chidwick,Pippa Goldschmidt,Hiron Ennes,John J Kennedy,Scott Payne,T. Lucas Earle,Franki Halliwell,Timothy Quinn,Joyce Bingham)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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2 Responses to “Order of Iain M. Banks Books”

  1. Felonious Monk: 11 years ago

    And let’s not forget “The State of the Art” 1993 (I think)

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  2. Jeff J: 12 years ago

    Bank’s last novel was The Quarry, published in 2013, just after his death.

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