Order of Kazuo Ishiguro Books
Kazuo Ishiguro is a world-renowned author of The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, Never Let Me Go, and other novels.
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan and his family relocated to Britain when he was five years old. His writing has earned him numerous awards and honors around the world, but the most coveted has to be the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kazuo has had his books adapted into films with The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, leading to numerous awards and nominations for the cast. He has been decorated with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
A Pale View of Hills | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
An Artist of the Floating World | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Remains of the Day | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Unconsoled | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
When We Were Orphans | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Never Let Me Go | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Buried Giant | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Klara and the Sun | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Family Supper | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Village After Dark | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Nocturnes | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Faber Stories Books
Publication Order of Literary Conversations Books
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Graham Greene | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Walker Percy | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with William Styron | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Lillian Hellman | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Tennessee Williams | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Truman Capote: Conversations | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Peter Taylor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Arthur Miller | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Edward Albee | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Norman Mailer | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Robert Graves | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Shelby Foote | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Robertson Davies | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with James Baldwin | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with John Gardner | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Richard Wilbur | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Tom Wolfe | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Raymond Carver | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Reynolds Price | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Bernard Malamud | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations With Thornton Wilder | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Robert Coles | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
More Conversations with Walker Percy | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Richard Wright | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Paul Bowles | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Amiri Baraka | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Toni Morrison | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Saul Bellow | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Henry Miller | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Ernest Gaines | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Ralph Ellison | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Chester Himes | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Susan Sontag | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Ishmael Reed | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Derek Walcott | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
More Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Pauline Kael | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Chinua Achebe | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Denise Levertov | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations With William Faulkner | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations With John Fowles | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Salman Rushdie | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with William S. Burroughs | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Chaim Potok | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Richard Ford | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Mary Gordon | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Jim Harrison | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Clarence Major | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Margaret Walker | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Erica Jong | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Elie Wiesel: Conversations | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Rita Dove | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Gloria Naylor | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Audre Lorde | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Ray Bradbury | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations With John le Carré | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Isaac Asimov | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Don DeLillo | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Gore Vidal | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Jack Kerouac | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Thomas McGuane | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Larry Brown | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Wendell Berry | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Leon Forrest | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Graphic Novels
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
If You Like Kazuo Ishiguro Books, You’ll Love…
Klara and the Sun tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities. She has a place in the store where she carefully watches the behavior of the people who come into the store as well as those who pass by outside. Klara has a dream that one day a customer will choose her and she will be able to leave the store. Kazuo’s book has an unforgettable narrator and a story that explores the question of life: what does it mean to love?
Another well-received book by Ishiguro is Never Let Me Go. This book focuses on Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy. When they were children they went to an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside where they constantly reminded of just how special they were. Now, Kathy is a young woman and Ruth and Tommy have just reentered her life. The connection makes Kathy look back on their shared past in order to understand just what it is that truly makes them special, and how they can us that gift to shape their future together.
