Order of Iain M. Banks Books
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 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Wasp Factory | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Walking on Glass | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Bridge | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Espedair Street | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Canal Dreams | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Crow Road | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Complicity | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Against a Dark Background | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Feersum Endjinn | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Whit | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Song of Stone | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Business | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dead Air | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Algebraist | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Transition | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Stonemouth | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Quarry | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Raw Spirit | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
Poems | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Arrows Of Eros | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Burning Brightly | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
And let’s not forget “The State of the Art” 1993 (I think)
Bank’s last novel was The Quarry, published in 2013, just after his death.