Order of V.S. Naipaul Books
Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British author of novels, travel literature and essays. He has written comic novels set in Trinidad and Tobago as well as bleaker novels and autobiographical works. Naipaul’s family originated in Nepal, moved to India, then to Trinidad (where he was born). He moved to London in 1954. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989.
V.S. Naipaul made his debut as a published author in 1957 with the novel The Mystic Masseur. Below is a list of V.S. Naipaul’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of India Trilogy Books
| An Area of Darkness | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Wounded Civilization | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Million Mutinies Now | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Willie Chandran Books
| Half a Life | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Magic Seeds | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Mimic Men | (1867) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystic Masseur | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Suffrage of Elvira | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Miguel Street | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A House for Mr Biswas | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mr Stone And The Knights Companion | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In a Free State | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guerrillas | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Bend in the River | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Finding the Center | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Overcrowded Barracoon | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Enigma of Arrival | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Way in the World | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| A Flag on the Island | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Short Fiction | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vintage Naipaul | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Middle Passage | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reading and Writing | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Loss of El Dorado | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Return of Eva Peron | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Congo Diary | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Among the Believers | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Turn In The South | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond Belief | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Between Father and Son | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Writer and the World | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Literary Occasions | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Writer's People | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Masque of Africa | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| India Essays | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Akashic Noir 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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Note: Sir Vidia’s Shadow was written with Paul Theroux.
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V.S. Naipaul Synopsis: Miguel Street is a standalone novel by V.S. Naipaul. To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner in the capital of Trinidad, their neighbourhood is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband.
