Arundhati Roy Books in Order
Arundhati Roy has written 24 books, published between 1997 and 2025. The first book is The God of Small Things (1997) and the newest is Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 24
- Published
- 1997–2025
- Pages on record
- 4,991 in 20 of 24 books
- Reading time
- 83–125 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,991 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 24 titles with a page count on record.
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer whose 24 catalogued books divide between fiction and political essays. The God of Small Things (1997) took the Booker Prize for Fiction that year and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. The essays that follow, The Cost of Living (1999), Power Politics (2000), The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2002), War Talk (2003) and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2004) among them, take up globalisation, militarism, nuclear weapons, dams and state power. Roy was born in 1961 and works as a political activist on human rights and environmental causes. Roy took the PEN Pinter Prize in 2024 and named the imprisoned British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the Writer of Courage she shared it with. Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) is the newest title.
How many Arundhati Roy books are there?
Arundhati Roy has 24 books, released between 1997 and 2025.
Arundhati Roy Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 24 Arundhati Roy 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.
- 1The God of Small Things1997 · 321 pages · confirmed 1/419973211/4
- 2The Cost of Living1999 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/419991441/4
- 3Power Politics2000 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/420001921/4
- 4War Is Peace2001 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/42001961/4
- 5The Algebra of Infinite Justice2002 · 324 pages · confirmed 1/420023241/4
- 6The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile2003 · 178 pages · confirmed 1/420031781/4
- 7War Talk2003 · confirmed 1/42003–1/4
- 8Come September2004 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/42004801/4
- 9An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire2004 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/420041561/4
- 10Public Power in the Age of Empire2004 · 59 pages · confirmed 1/42004591/4
- 11The Shape of the Beast2008 · 271 pages · confirmed 1/420082711/4
- 12Listening To Grasshoppers2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 13Broken Republic2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 14Kashmir2011 · 140 pages · confirmed 1/420111401/4
- 15Walking with the Comrades2011 · 220 pages · confirmed 1/420112201/4
- 16The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament2013 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420133361/4
- 17Capitalism2014 · 125 pages · confirmed 1/420141251/4
- 18The End of Imagination2016 · 402 pages · confirmed 1/420164021/4
- 19Things that Can and Cannot Be Said2016 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/420161221/4
- 20The Ministry of Utmost Happiness2017 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/420174641/4
- 21The Doctor and the Saint2017 · 171 pages · confirmed 1/420171711/4
- 22My Seditious Heart2019 · 1040 pages · confirmed 1/4201910401/4
- 23Azadi2020 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/420201501/4
- 24Mother Mary Comes to Me2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Arundhati Roy 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
24 books24 Arundhati Roy titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Arundhati Roy books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 24 Arundhati Roy books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Arundhati Roy
Start with The God of Small Things (1997), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Arundhati Roy book?
Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) is the newest Arundhati Roy book released so far.
Is there a new Arundhati Roy book coming?
No next Arundhati Roy 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 Arundhati Roy has won
Wikidata records 5 awards and 1 nomination for Arundhati Roy. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon2023Won
- Norman Mailer Prize2011Won
- Sahitya Akademi Award in English2005Wonfor The Algebra of Infinite Justice
- Orwell Award2004Won
- Booker Prize1997Wonfor The God of Small Things
- Booker Prize2017Shortlistedfor The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy at a glance
- Still publishing
- Arundhati Roy published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Arundhati Roy books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,991 pages across the 20 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 174 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Arundhati Roy books, 10 of 24, were published in the 2010s.
What the Arundhati Roy books are about
20 of the 24 Arundhati Roy books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: politics and government is tagged on 11 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Politics and government 11 of 20 books
- Globalization 6 of 20 books
- World politics 5 of 20 books
- Economic conditions 3 of 20 books
- History 3 of 20 books
- International relations 3 of 20 books
- Military policy 3 of 20 books
- Nuclear weapons 3 of 20 books
- Social conditions 3 of 20 books
- Capitalism 2 of 20 books
- Dams 2 of 20 books
- Essays 2 of 20 books