Anna Burns is an Irish author best known for writing novels like No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman. Her novel Milkman was the winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2018 as well as the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.. The book was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.

Burns was born in Belfast, but she made her way to London in the 1980s. She now makes her home in East Sussex. She published her first novel, No Bones, in 2001 and it was the winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize presented by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Faber Stories Books

A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor) (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman) (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain) (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann) (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mostly Hero (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Victim (By: P.D. James) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A River in Egypt (By: David Means) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like Anna Burns Books, You’ll Love…

Milkman takes place in an unnamed city where middle sister stands out for all of the wrong reasons. People notice her because she reads while walking and lately she has been taking French classes at night downtown. Now, a local paramilitary known as the milkman has begun pursuing her. She attempts to avoid him and hopes that her mother won’t find out about the man, but rumors quickly spread in the small town and now the threat of violence is lingering.

Burns is also the author of Little Consequences. In this book, the Doe clan lives in a small town of Tiptoe Floorboard. The family is made up of criminals and victims who have the run of the place. However, there are signs that the family’s patriarch, John, time at the top is coming to an end. The stage for a confrontation is set when Jetty Doe breakings into a gun store and makes off with a weapon. As she makes her way across town, the narrator takes the reader on a journey as it tells the story and happenings of various members of the Doe clan.

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