VS Naipaul
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

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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
The Mimic Men (1967)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 Anthologies

Points of View(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From The Green Antilles Writings Of The Caribbean(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Tangled Web(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Four Continents(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trinidad Noir: The Classics(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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.

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