Order of Anita Brookner Books
Anita Brookner (1928-2016) was an English author, best known for her Booker Prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac. Born in London in 1928, Anita Brookner received a B.A. from King’s College, University of London, and a Ph.D in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute. Brookner taught at the University of Reading from 1959 to 1964, and was a Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld. From 1967 to 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge – the first woman to hold that position.
Anita Brookner made her debut as a published novelist in 1981 with the novel A Start in Life (aka The Debut). Her final novel was Strangers, published in 2009. Below is a list of Anita Brookner’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| A Start in Life | (1981) |    |
| Providence | (1982) | |
| Look at Me | (1983) | |
| Hotel du Lac | (1984) | |
| Family And Friends | (1985) | |
| A Misalliance | (1986) | |
| A Friend From England | (1987) | |
| Latecomers | (1988) | |
| Lewis Percy | (1989) | |
| The Debut | (1990) | |
| A Closed Eye | (1991) | |
| Fraud | (1992) | |
| Brief Lives | (1992) | |
| A Family Romance | (1993) | |
| Dolly | (1994) | |
| A Private View | (1995) | |
| Incidents in the Rue Laugier | (1995) | |
| Altered States | (1996) | |
| Visitors | (1997) | |
| Falling Slowly | (1998) | |
| Undue Influence | (1999) | |
| The Bay of Angels | (2001) | |
| Making Things Better / The Next Big Thing | (2002) | |
| The Rules of Engagement | (2003) | |
| Leaving Home | (2005) | |
| Strangers | (2009) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| At the Hairdresser's | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Jacques-Louis David | (1987) | |
| Soundings | (1998) | |
| Romanticism and Its Discontents | (2000) | |
Notes: A Start in Life was also titled The Debut. A Family Romance was also published as Dolly. The Next Big Thing was also published as Making Things Better.
If You Like Anita Brookner Books, You’ll Love…
Anita Brookner Synopses: In Look at Me by Anita Brookner, a lonely art historian engulfed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.
Latecomers by Anita Brookner is about a 50-year friendship of two very different German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a humourous yet touching model for the ways in which people deal with the tragedy of life.
In the 36-page short story At the Hairdresser’s by Anita Brookner, solitude is to be expected for Elizabeth Warner. She lives in a basement flat near Victoria and leaves the house only to go shopping and to have her hair done – until a chance encounter at the hairdresser’s brings unexpected change.