Boris Akunin Books in Order
Boris Akunin has written 30 books, published between 1998 and 2023. The first book is The Winter Queen (1998) and the newest is Pit (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 30
- Published
- 1998–2023
- Pages on record
- 3,603 in 11 of 30 books
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, a Georgian and Russian writer resident in the United Kingdom. Historical fiction is the ground, and the Erast Fandorin detective novels are the best known part of it, with Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia heading further series. Thirty books are catalogued between 1998 and 2023, four of them in 1998 alone, The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, The Death of Achilles and Murder on the Leviathan, and several appear under their Russian titles. Pit (2023) is the newest. Moscow, Russia and private investigators recur as subjects.
How many Boris Akunin books are there?
Boris Akunin has 30 books, released between 1998 and 2023. They include 4 separate series.
Boris Akunin Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 30 Boris Akunin 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.
- 119982562/4
- 219982402/4
- 319982402/4
- 41998–2/4
- 52001–2/4
- 62002–2/4
- 72003–2/4
- 82005–2/4
- 920062732/4
- 102006–2/4
- 112006–2/4
- 12Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk / Pelagia and the Black MonkSister Pelagia Mysteries #22007 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420073682/4
- 132007–2/4
- 1420073522/4
- 15Pelagia and the Red Rooster / Sister Pelagia and the Red CockerelSister Pelagia Mysteries #32008 · confirmed 2/42008–2/4
- 162008–2/4
- 172008–2/4
- 182009–2/4
- 192009–2/4
- 202009–2/4
- 212010–2/4
- 222010–2/4
- 2320115142/4
- 242012–2/4
- 2520174322/4
- 2620181282/4
- 2720183682/4
- 2820194322/4
- 292020–2/4
- 302023–2/4
Boris Akunin characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Erast Fandorin books in order 15 books
Boris Akunin 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.
Erast Fandorin Mysteries in order
15 books- 1. The Winter Queen
- 2. The Turkish Gambit
- 3. Murder on the Leviathan / Leviathan
- 4. The Death of Achilles
- 5. The Jack of Spades
- 7. The State Counsellor
- 8. The Coronation
- 9. She Lover of Death
- 10. He Lover of Death
- 11. The Diamond Chariot
- 12. All The World's a Stage
- 13. Black City
- and 3 more in the table above
Genres in order
6 booksAdventures of the Masters in order
4 booksSister Pelagia Mysteries in order
3 booksStandalone Plays
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Boris Akunin books in order?
You only need to read Boris Akunin books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Boris Akunin
Start with The Winter Queen (1998), the first Erast Fandorin book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Boris Akunin book?
Pit (2023) is the newest Boris Akunin book released so far.
Is there a new Boris Akunin book coming?
No next Boris Akunin 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 Boris Akunin has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Boris Akunin. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- The British Book Awards2024Won
Boris Akunin at a glance
- Paused
- No new Boris Akunin title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Boris Akunin books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,603 pages across the 11 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Boris Akunin books, 16 of 30, were published in the 2000s.
What the Boris Akunin books are about
17 of the 30 Boris Akunin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 11 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Private investigators 11 of 17 books
- History 8 of 17 books
- Mystery & detective 6 of 17 books
- Erast Fandorin (Fictitious character) 5 of 17 books
- Mystery & detective, historical 5 of 17 books
- Russia (federation) 5 of 17 books
- Crime 3 of 17 books
- Nuns 3 of 17 books
- Historical fiction 2 of 17 books
- Moscow (russia) 2 of 17 books
- Slavic philology 2 of 17 books