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D.J. Taylor Books in Order

D.J. Taylor has written 26 books, published between 1986 and 2019. The first book is Great Eastern Land (1986) and the newest is On 1984 (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
26
Published
1986–2019
Pages on record
5,971 in 19 of 26 books
Reading time
100–149 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,971 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 19 of 26 titles with a page count on record.

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Novelist, critic and biographer D.J. Taylor was born in 1960 and grew up in Norwich. Taylor studied modern history at St John's College, Oxford, and has written for The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Spectator and Private Eye. The 26 catalogued books run from Great Eastern Land (1986) to On 1984 (2019). Taylor's Orwell (2003) won the Whitbread Award, and the novel Derby Day made the 2011 Man Booker Prize longlist. Other titles include Thackeray (1999) and The Comedy Man (2002).

How many D.J. Taylor books are there?

D.J. Taylor has 26 books, released between 1986 and 2019.

D.J. Taylor Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 26 D.J. Taylor 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 Great Eastern Land by D.J. Taylor (1986)
  2. Cover of A Vain Conceit by D.J. Taylor (1989)
  3. Cover of The Comedy Man by D.J. Taylor (2002)
  4. Cover of Orwell by D.J. Taylor (2003)
  5. Cover of Kept by D.J. Taylor (2006)
  6. Cover of Bright Young People by D.J. Taylor (2007)
  7. Cover of Ask Alice by D.J. Taylor (2009)
  8. Cover of On The Corinthian Spirit by D.J. Taylor (2010)
  9. Cover of At the Chime of a City Clock by D.J. Taylor (2010)
  10. Cover of The Windsor Faction by D.J. Taylor (2013)
  11. Cover of The Lost Girls by D.J. Taylor (2019)
  1. 1
    Great Eastern Land1986 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986192
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  2. 2
    A Vain Conceit1989 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989128
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  3. 3
    Real Life1992 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992256
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  4. 4
    After the War1993 · 310 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993310
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  5. 5
    English Settlement1996 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996304
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  6. 6
    After Bathing at Baxter's1997 · 182 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997182
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  7. 7
    Trespass1998 · 335 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998335
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  8. 8
    Thackeray1999 · 528 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999528
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  9. 9
    The Comedy Man2002 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002352
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  10. 10
    Orwell2003 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003496
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  11. 11
    Kept2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006–
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  12. 12
    Bright Young People2007 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007384
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  13. 13
    Ask Alice2009 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009352
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  14. 14
    On The Corinthian Spirit2010 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010160
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  15. 15
    At the Chime of a City Clock2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  16. 16
    Derby Day2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  17. 17
    What You Didn't Miss2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  18. 18
    Secondhand Daylight2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  19. 19
    The Windsor Faction2013 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013400
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  20. 20
    From the Heart2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  21. 21
    Wrote for Luck2014 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014208
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  22. 22
    The Prose Factory2016 · 501 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016501
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  23. 23
    The New Book of Snobs2017 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017288
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  24. 24
    'Rock and Roll is Life'2018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018–
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  25. 25
    The Lost Girls2019 · 387 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019387
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  26. 26
    On 19842019 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019208
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D.J. Taylor 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

26 books

26 D.J. Taylor titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read D.J. Taylor books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 26 D.J. Taylor books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with D.J. Taylor

Start with Great Eastern Land (1986), the earliest published title.

What is the newest D.J. Taylor book?

On 1984 (2019) is the newest D.J. Taylor book released so far.

Is there a new D.J. Taylor book coming?

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

D.J. Taylor at a glance

No recent titles
The newest D.J. Taylor title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
D.J. Taylor books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,971 pages across the 19 of 26 books with a recorded length, a median of 310 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most D.J. Taylor books, 13 of 26, were published in the 2010s.

What the D.J. Taylor books are about

21 of the 26 D.J. Taylor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 6 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.