Aminatta Forna Books in Order
Aminatta Forna has written 8 books, published between 1998 and 2021. The first book is Mother Of All Myths: How Society Moulds And Constrains Mothers (1998) and the newest is The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1998–2021
- Pages on record
- 2,099 in 7 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 35–52 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,099 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Eight Forna books are catalogued between 1998 and 2021. Mother Of All Myths: How Society Moulds And Constrains Mothers (1998) comes first, followed by the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest (2002). Ancestor Stones (2006) began a run of novels that continued with The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013), and Happiness in 2018. The Memory of Love took the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in 2011 and reached the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist. The Angel of Mexico City appeared in 2016, and an essay collection, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion, followed in 2021.
How many Aminatta Forna books are there?
Aminatta Forna has 8 books, released between 1998 and 2021.
Aminatta Forna Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Aminatta Forna books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Mother Of All Myths: How Society Moulds And Constrains Mothers1998 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/419982881/4
- 2The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest2002 · 172 pages · confirmed 1/420021721/4
- 3Ancestor Stones2006 · 317 pages · confirmed 1/420063171/4
- 4The Memory of Love2010 · 445 pages · confirmed 1/420104451/4
- 5The Hired Man2013 · 293 pages · confirmed 1/420132931/4
- 6The Angel of Mexico City2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 7Happiness2018 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/420183121/4
- 8The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion2021 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420212721/4
Aminatta Forna books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
8 books8 Aminatta Forna titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Aminatta Forna books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Aminatta Forna books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Aminatta Forna
Start with Mother Of All Myths: How Society Moulds And Constrains Mothers (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Aminatta Forna book?
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion (2021) is the newest Aminatta Forna book released so far.
Is there a new Aminatta Forna book coming?
No next Aminatta Forna book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Aminatta Forna has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Aminatta Forna. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes2014Won
Aminatta Forna at a glance
- Paused
- No new Aminatta Forna title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Aminatta Forna books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,099 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 293 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Aminatta Forna books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2010s.