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Andre Alexis Books in Order

Andre Alexis has written 13 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994) and the newest is Other Worlds: Stories (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1994–2025
Pages on record
2,562 in 12 of 13 books
Reading time
43–64 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,562 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Andre Alexis is a Canadian writer, born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, raised in Ottawa and now based in Toronto. The Quincunx Cycle, five novels set in and around Southern Ontario, is Alexis's best known work, and Fifteen Dogs (2015) from that cycle won the Giller Prize. Other honours include the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Trillium Award and a 2026 Guggenheim fellowship. The catalogue lists 13 books from Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994) to Other Worlds: Stories (2025).

How many Andre Alexis books are there?

Andre Alexis has 13 books, released between 1994 and 2025. 5 of them belong to the Quincunx series.

Andre Alexis Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Andre Alexis 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.

  1. Cover of Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa by Andre Alexis (1994)
  2. Cover of Childhood by Andre Alexis (1998)
  3. Cover of Lambton Kent by Andre Alexis, book 1 of the Standalone Plays series (1999)
  4. Cover of The Night Piece by Andre Alexis (1999)
  5. Cover of Ingrid and the Wolf by Andre Alexis (2005)
  6. Cover of Asylum by Andre Alexis (2008)
  7. Cover of A by Andre Alexis, book 1 of the Short Stories / Novellas series (2013)
  8. Cover of Pastoral by Andre Alexis, book 1 of the Quincunx series (2014)
  9. Cover of Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis, book 2 of the Quincunx series (2015)
  10. Cover of The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis, book 3 of the Quincunx series (2016)
  11. Cover of Days by Moonlight by Andre Alexis, book 4 of the Quincunx series (2019)
  1. 2
    Childhood1998 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998272
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  2. 3
    Lambton KentStandalone Plays #11999 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199948
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  3. 4
    The Night Piece1999 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999240
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  4. 5
    Ingrid and the Wolf2005 · 168 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005168
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  5. 6
    Asylum2008 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008496
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  6. 7
    AShort Stories / Novellas #12013 · 74 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201374
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  7. 8
    PastoralQuincunx #12014 · 162 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014162
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  8. 9
    Fifteen DogsQuincunx #22015 · 171 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015171
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  9. 10
    The Hidden KeysQuincunx #32016 · 230 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016230
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  10. 11
    Days by MoonlightQuincunx #42019 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019224
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  11. 12
    RingQuincunx #52021 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021248
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  12. 13
    Other Worlds: Stories2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Andre Alexis 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.

Quincunx in order

5 books
  1. 1. Pastoral
  2. 2. Fifteen Dogs
  3. 3. The Hidden Keys
  4. 4. Days by Moonlight
  5. 5. Ring

Standalone Plays

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Short Stories / Novellas

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

6 books

6 Andre Alexis titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Andre Alexis books in order?

You only need to read Andre Alexis books in order within the Quincunx series, which holds 5 of the 13 Andre Alexis books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Andre Alexis

Start with Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Andre Alexis book?

Other Worlds: Stories (2025) is the newest Andre Alexis book released so far.

Is there a new Andre Alexis book coming?

No next Andre Alexis 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 Andre Alexis has won

Wikidata records 3 awards for Andre Alexis. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes2017Won
  • Giller Prize2015Wonfor Fifteen Dogs
  • Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2015Wonfor Fifteen Dogs

Andre Alexis at a glance

Still publishing
Andre Alexis published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Andre Alexis books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,562 pages across the 12 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 226 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Andre Alexis books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Andre Alexis books are about

12 of the 13 Andre Alexis books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: romans, nouvelles is tagged on 4 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Romans, nouvelles 4 of 12 books
  • Trinidadians 3 of 12 books
  • Canadian fiction 2 of 12 books
  • Family life 2 of 12 books
  • Ontario 2 of 12 books
  • Travel 2 of 12 books
  • Trinidadiens 2 of 12 books