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Anita Brookner Books in Order

Anita Brookner has written 30 books, published between 1981 and 2011. The first book is A Start in Life (1981) and the newest is At the Hairdresser's (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
30
Published
1981–2011
Pages on record
6,640 in 29 of 30 books
Reading time
111–166 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,640 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 29 of 30 titles with a page count on record.

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Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian who lived from 1928 to 2016. Brookner held the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge across 1967 and 1968, the first woman appointed to that visiting chair, and took the Booker Prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac. Thirty books are catalogued, from A Start in Life (1981) to At the Hairdresser's (2011). Women, families, female friendship and London life are the recurring subjects.

How many Anita Brookner books are there?

Anita Brookner has 30 books, released between 1981 and 2011.

Anita Brookner Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 30 Anita Brookner 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 Providence by Anita Brookner (1982)
  2. Cover of Look at Me by Anita Brookner (1983)
  3. Cover of Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (1984)
  4. Cover of A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (1986)
  5. Cover of A Friend From England by Anita Brookner (1987)
  6. Cover of Latecomers by Anita Brookner (1988)
  7. Cover of Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner (1989)
  8. Cover of The Debut by Anita Brookner (1990)
  9. Cover of A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner (1991)
  10. Cover of Fraud by Anita Brookner (1992)
  11. Cover of Brief Lives by Anita Brookner (1992)
  12. Cover of A Family Romance by Anita Brookner (1993)
  13. Cover of Dolly by Anita Brookner (1994)
  14. Cover of A Private View by Anita Brookner (1995)
  15. Cover of Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner (1995)
  16. Cover of Altered States by Anita Brookner (1996)
  17. Cover of Undue Influence by Anita Brookner (1999)
  18. Cover of Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner (2000)
  19. Cover of The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner (2001)
  20. Cover of The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner (2003)
  21. Cover of Strangers by Anita Brookner (2009)
  1. 1
    A Start in Life1981 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1981176
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  2. 2
    Providence1982 · 183 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982183
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  3. 3
    Look at Me1983 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1983208
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  4. 4
    Hotel du Lac1984 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984192
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  5. 5
    Family And Friends1985 · 187 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1985187
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  6. 6
    A Misalliance1986 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986208
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  7. 7
    Jacques-Louis David1987 · 223 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987223
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  8. 8
    A Friend From England1987 · 205 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987205
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  9. 9
    Latecomers1988 · 248 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988248
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  10. 10
    Lewis Percy1989 · 261 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989261
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  11. 11
    The Debut1990 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990196
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  12. 12
    A Closed Eye1991 · 263 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991263
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  13. 13
    Fraud1992 · 262 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992262
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  14. 14
    Brief Lives1992 · 260 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992260
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  15. 15
    A Family Romance1993 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993224
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  16. 16
    Dolly1994 · 260 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994260
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  17. 17
    A Private View1995 · 242 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995242
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  18. 18
    Incidents in the Rue Laugier1995 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995240
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  19. 19
    Altered States1996 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996240
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  20. 20
    Visitors1997 · 242 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997242
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  21. 21
    Soundings1998 · 214 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998214
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  22. 22
    Falling Slowly1998 · 227 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998227
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  23. 23
    Undue Influence1999 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999240
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  24. 24
    Romanticism and Its Discontents2000 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000208
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  25. 25
    The Bay of Angels2001 · 200 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001200
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  26. 26
    Making Things Better / The Next Big Thing2002 · 275 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002275
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  27. 27
    The Rules of Engagement2003 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003288
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  28. 28
    Leaving Home2005 · 212 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005212
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  29. 29
    Strangers2009 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009256
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  30. 30
    At the Hairdresser's2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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Anita Brookner 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

30 books

30 Anita Brookner titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Anita Brookner books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 30 Anita Brookner books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Anita Brookner

Start with A Start in Life (1981), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Anita Brookner book?

At the Hairdresser's (2011) is the newest Anita Brookner book released so far.

Is there a new Anita Brookner book coming?

No next Anita Brookner 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 Anita Brookner has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 1 nomination for Anita Brookner. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Booker Prize1984Wonfor Hotel du Lac
  • Booker Prize2002Shortlistedfor The Next Big Thing

Anita Brookner at a glance

Died
Anita Brookner died in 2016, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Anita Brookner on record dates from 2011.
Release pace
Anita Brookner books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
6,640 pages across the 29 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 227 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Anita Brookner books, 13 of 30, were published in the 1990s.

What the Anita Brookner books are about

29 of the 30 Anita Brookner books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: man-woman relationships is tagged on 9 of 29. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.