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Anne Enright Books in Order

Anne Enright has written 16 books, published between 1992 and 2025. The first book is The Portable Virgin (1992) and the newest is Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
1992–2025
Pages on record
3,017 in 13 of 16 books
Reading time
50–75 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,017 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Anne Enright, author

Anne Enright is an Irish writer whose fiction takes up family, love, identity and motherhood. The Gathering, her fourth novel, won the Man Booker Prize in 2007, and Enright served as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2015 to 2018. Alongside eight novels and several story collections sits Making Babies (2004), a nonfiction account of the birth of her two children. Her essays appear in the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, and she writes for the Irish Times and the Guardian. 16 books are catalogued, from The Portable Virgin (1992) to Attention (2025).

How many Anne Enright books are there?

Anne Enright has 16 books, released between 1992 and 2025.

Anne Enright Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Anne Enright 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 The Wig My Father Wore by Anne Enright (1995)
  2. Cover of The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright (2002)
  3. Cover of Making Babies by Anne Enright (2004)
  4. Cover of The Gathering by Anne Enright (2007)
  5. Cover of Taking Pictures by Anne Enright (2008)
  6. Cover of Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright (2008)
  7. Cover of The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (2011)
  8. Cover of Babies by Anne Enright (2017)
  9. Cover of Actress by Anne Enright (2020)
  10. Cover of The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023)
  1. 1
    The Portable Virgin1992 · 180 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992180
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  2. 2
    The Wig My Father Wore1995 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995214
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  3. 3
    What are You Like?2000 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000259
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  4. 4
    The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch2002 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002240
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  5. 5
    Making Babies2004 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004208
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  6. 6
    The Gathering2007 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007260
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  7. 7
    Taking Pictures2008 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008226
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  8. 8
    Yesterday's Weather2008 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008320
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  9. 9
    The Forgotten Waltz2011 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011272
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  10. 10
    The Green Road2015 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015336
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  11. 11
    Babies2017 · 114 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017114
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  12. 12
    No Authority2020 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020110
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  13. 13
    Actress2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  14. 14
    The Wren, the Wren2023 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023278
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  15. 15
    Attention2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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  16. 16
    Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Anne Enright 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

16 books

16 Anne Enright titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Anne Enright books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 16 Anne Enright books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Anne Enright

Start with The Portable Virgin (1992), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Anne Enright book?

Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World (2025) is the newest Anne Enright book released so far.

Is there a new Anne Enright book coming?

No next Anne Enright 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 Anne Enright has won

Wikidata records 3 awards and 1 nomination for Anne Enright. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Anne Enright at a glance

Still publishing
Anne Enright published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Anne Enright books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,017 pages across the 13 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Anne Enright books, 6 of 16, were published in the 2000s.

What the Anne Enright books are about

13 of the 16 Anne Enright books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: women is tagged on 4 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.