Anne Billson Books in Order

Anne Billson has written 17 books, published between 1988 and 2019. The first book is Screen Lovers (1988) and the newest is The Ex (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1988–2019
Pages on record
1,650 in 8 of 17 books

Anne Billson, born 1954 in Southport, England, works as a novelist, photographer and film critic. Billson's fiction sets horror beside satire, in novels including Suckers (1993), Stiff Lips (1997), The Coming Thing and The Half Man. Granta named Billson among the Best Young British Novelists in 1993. The criticism side of the catalogue holds My Name Is Michael Caine: A Life in Film (1992), The Thing (1997), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2005) and Let the Right One In (2010). Seventeen books are listed, from Screen Lovers (1988) to The Ex (2019), with Camillography the one series.

How many Anne Billson books are there?

Anne Billson has 17 books, released between 1988 and 2019. 1 of them belong to the Camillography series.

Anne Billson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Anne Billson 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. 1
    Screen Lovers1988 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988208
  2. 2
    Dream Demon1989 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989192
  3. 3
    My Name Is Michael Caine: A Life in Film1992 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992192
  4. 4
    Suckers1993 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993312
  5. 5
    Stiff Lips1997 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997384
  6. 6
    The ThingBFI Film Classics #91997 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199796
  7. 7
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer2005 · 154 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005154
  8. 8
    Let the Right One InDevils Advocates #12010 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010112
  9. 9
    Spoilers Part 12012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012
  10. 10
    Spoilers Part 22012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012
  11. 11
    Billson Film Database2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014
  12. 12
    Breast Man2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016
  13. 13
    The Coming Thing2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017
  14. 14
    Cats on Film2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017
  15. 15
    Blood PearlCamillography #12019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  16. 16
    The Half Man2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  17. 17
    The Ex2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019

Anne Billson 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.

Devils Advocates in order

1 book
  1. 1. Let the Right One In

Camillography in order

1 book
  1. 1. Blood Pearl

BFI Film Classics in order

1 book
  1. 9. The Thing

Standalone books

14 books

14 Anne Billson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Anne Billson books in order?

You only need to read Anne Billson books in order within the Camillography series, which holds 1 of the 17 Anne Billson books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Anne Billson

Start with Screen Lovers (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Anne Billson book?

The Ex (2019) is the newest Anne Billson book released so far.

Is there a new Anne Billson book coming?

No next Anne Billson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Award nominations for Anne Billson

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

  • Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel1993Shortlistedfor Suckers

Anne Billson at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Anne Billson title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Anne Billson books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,650 pages across the 8 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Anne Billson books, 10 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Anne Billson books are about

7 of the 17 Anne Billson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history and criticism is tagged on 2 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • History and criticism 2 of 7 books
  • Actors and actresses 2 of 7 books
  • Motion pictures, history 2 of 7 books