Order of Julian Barnes Books
Julian Barnes is an English author who has written numerous award winning and successful books. Julian was born in Leicester, England before heading to Magdalen College in Oxford where he majored in modern languages and graduated with honors. After college, he would work as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supplement, a reviewer, a literary editor and a television critic before finding his way to books.
Barnes is known as an author who deal with the themes of history, reality, truth and love. He is greatly respected in his history and has been the recipient of multiple awards including the Somerset Maugham Award, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, E. M. Forster Award, Gutenberg Prize, Grinzane Cavour Prize, and the Prix Femina. He also received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2013 and the 2015 Zinklar Award at the Blixen Ceremony in Copenhagen.
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Publication Order of Talking It Over Books
| Talking It Over | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love, Etc. | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Metroland | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Before She Met Me | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flaubert's Parrot | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Staring at the Sun | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A History of the World in 10½Chapters | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Porcupine | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| England, England | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Arthur & George | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sense of an Ending | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Noise of Time | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Only Story | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elizabeth Finch | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| Arthur and George: Stage Version | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Cross Channel | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Evermore | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Explaining the Explicit | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Homage to Hemingway | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Letters From London | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Something to Declare | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pedant in the Kitchen | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nothing to be Frightened Of | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keeping an Eye Open | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Life with Books | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Through the Window | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Levels of Life | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man in the Red Coat | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Lemon Table | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pulse | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Secret Ingredients | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Birds of Prey | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stories to Get You Through the Night | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Library Book | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| That Glimpse of Truth | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lives of Houses | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Julian Barnes Books, You’ll Love…
The Sense of an Ending is one of the more popular books in Barnes oeuvre and won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. The book follows a middle-aged man named Tony Webster who is forced to deal with a past that he thought he left long behind. A traumatic experience from his youth, and a time that he has felt best to leave behind, comes back in a unique way when there is a unexpected bequeathment that seems to be impossible to obtain. Old issues are opened up and the story takes you to some very interesting psychological and emotional places.
Another great book by Barnes is called The Only Story. The book sees a man named Paul looking back at his life, the only story of his life, that started when he was nineteen and a member of a tennis club. It was there that he met Susan, a 48-year old mother and wife, who he bonds quickly with and the two become lovers. The book is an interesting journey that examines how our narratives and our lives shape one another.