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Ben Okri Books in Order

Ben Okri has written 32 books, published between 1981 and 2025. The first book is The Landscapes Within (1981) and the newest is Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
32
Published
1981–2025
Pages on record
4,361 in 22 of 32 books
Reading time
73–109 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,361 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 32 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Ben Okri, author of the Famished Road Trilogy

Ben Okri, born 1959, is a Nigerian-born British novelist and poet whose novel The Famished Road took the 1991 Booker Prize. The Landscapes Within (1981) opens a catalogue of 32 titles that reaches Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted in 2025. Songs of Enchantment (1993) continues the Famished Road Trilogy, and short stories and poetry sit alongside the novels in Incidents at the Shrine (1987) and An African Elegy (1992). Okri was knighted for services to literature in 2023.

How many Ben Okri books are there?

Ben Okri has 32 books, released between 1981 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Famished Road Trilogy series.

Ben Okri Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 32 Ben Okri 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 Landscapes Within by Ben Okri (1981)
  2. Cover of Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri (1987)
  3. Cover of Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri (1988)
  4. Cover of Flowers and Shadows by Ben Okri (1989)
  5. Cover of The Famished Road by Ben Okri, book 1 of the Famished Road Trilogy (1991)
  6. Cover of An African Elegy by Ben Okri (1992)
  7. Cover of Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri, book 2 of the Famished Road Trilogy (1993)
  8. Cover of Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri (1995)
  9. Cover of Dangerous Love by Ben Okri (1996)
  10. Cover of Infinite Riches by Ben Okri, book 3 of the Famished Road Trilogy (1998)
  11. Cover of A Way of Being Free by Ben Okri (1998)
  12. Cover of Alfredo Jaar by Ben Okri (1999)
  13. Cover of Mental Fight by Ben Okri (1999)
  14. Cover of In Arcadia by Ben Okri (2002)
  15. Cover of Starbook by Ben Okri (2007)
  16. Cover of Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri (2009)
  17. Cover of A Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri (2011)
  18. Cover of The Magic Lamp by Ben Okri (2017)
  19. Cover of Rise Like Lions by Ben Okri (2018)
  20. Cover of A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri (2019)
  21. Cover of Changing Destiny by Ben Okri (2021)
  22. Cover of Every Leaf a Hallelujah by Ben Okri (2021)
  1. 1
    The Landscapes Within1981 · 296 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981296
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  2. 2
    Incidents at the Shrine1987 · 135 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987135
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  3. 3
    Stars of the New Curfew1988 · 194 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988194
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  4. 4
    Flowers and Shadows1989 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989208
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  5. 5
    The Famished RoadFamished Road Trilogy #11991 · 500 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991500
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  6. 6
    An African Elegy1992 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199296
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  7. 7
    Songs of EnchantmentFamished Road Trilogy #21993 · 297 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993297
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  8. 8
    Astonishing the Gods1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Birds of Heaven1995 · 47 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199547
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  10. 10
    Dangerous Love1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996–
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  11. 11
    Infinite RichesFamished Road Trilogy #31998 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998337
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  12. 12
    A Way of Being Free1998 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998272
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  13. 13
    Alfredo Jaar1999 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199988
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  14. 14
    Mental Fight1999 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199980
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  15. 15
    In Arcadia2002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  16. 16
    Starbook2007 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007432
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  17. 17
    Tales of Freedom2009 · 197 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009197
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  18. 18
    A Time for New Dreams2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  19. 19
    Wild2012 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201296
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  20. 20
    The Age of Magic2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  21. 21
    The Mystery Feast2015 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201548
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  22. 22
    The Magic Lamp2017 · 134 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017134
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  23. 23
    Rise Like Lions2018 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018288
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  24. 24
    The Comic Destiny2019 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019208
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  25. 25
    A Prayer for the Living2019 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019240
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  26. 26
    The Freedom Artist2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
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  27. 27
    Changing Destiny2021 · 72 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202172
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  28. 28
    Every Leaf a Hallelujah2021 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202196
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  29. 29
    A Fire in My Head2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  30. 30
    The Last Gift of the Master Artists2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  31. 31
    Tiger Work2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  32. 32
    Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Ben Okri 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.

Famished Road Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Famished Road
  2. 2. Songs of Enchantment
  3. 3. Infinite Riches

Standalone books

29 books

29 Ben Okri titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ben Okri books in order?

You only need to read Ben Okri books in order within the Famished Road Trilogy series, which holds 3 of the 32 Ben Okri books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Ben Okri

Start with The Landscapes Within (1981), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ben Okri book?

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted (2025) is the newest Ben Okri book released so far.

Is there a new Ben Okri book coming?

No next Ben Okri 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 Ben Okri has won

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

Ben Okri at a glance

Still publishing
Ben Okri published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Ben Okri books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,361 pages across the 22 of 32 books with a recorded length, a median of 196 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ben Okri books, 10 of 32, were published in the 1990s.

What the Ben Okri books are about

28 of the 32 Ben Okri books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: nigeria is tagged on 5 of 28. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Nigeria 5 of 28 books
  • English literature 3 of 28 books
  • Poetry 3 of 28 books
  • Roman 3 of 28 books
  • Short stories 3 of 28 books
  • Social life and customs 3 of 28 books
  • Africa 2 of 28 books
  • Artists 2 of 28 books
  • Literatura africana 2 of 28 books
  • Manners and customs 2 of 28 books