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David Lodge Books in Order

David Lodge has written 40 books, published between 1960 and 2021. The first book is The Picturegoers (1960) and the newest is Varying Degrees of Success (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
40
Published
1960–2021
Pages on record
10,151 in 36 of 40 books
Reading time
169–254 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 10,151 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 36 of 40 titles with a page count on record.

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David Lodge (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English novelist and literary critic who taught literature at the University of Birmingham until 1987. Several Lodge novels satirise academic life, above all the Campus Trilogy of Changing Places (1975), Small World (1984) and Nice Work (1988); the last two reached the Booker Prize shortlist. Roman Catholicism is another recurring theme, present from the debut novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays, and went on publishing criticism after retiring. The catalogue lists 40 books from 1960 to 2021.

How many David Lodge books are there?

David Lodge has 40 books, released between 1960 and 2021. 3 of them belong to the Campus series.

David Lodge Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 40 David Lodge 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 Ginger, You're Barmy by David Lodge (1962)
  2. Cover of The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge (1965)
  3. Cover of Language of Fiction by David Lodge (1966)
  4. Cover of Out of the Shelter by David Lodge (1970)
  5. Cover of Evelyn Waugh by David Lodge (1971)
  6. Cover of Changing Places by David Lodge, book 1 of the Campus series (1975)
  7. Cover of How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge (1980)
  8. Cover of Souls and Bodies by David Lodge (1981)
  9. Cover of Small World by David Lodge, book 2 of the Campus series (1984)
  10. Cover of Write On by David Lodge (1986)
  11. Cover of Nice Work by David Lodge, book 3 of the Campus series (1988)
  12. Cover of After Bakhtin by David Lodge (1990)
  13. Cover of The Writing Game by David Lodge (1991)
  14. Cover of Paradise News by David Lodge (1991)
  15. Cover of Therapy by David Lodge (1995)
  16. Cover of The Practice of Writing by David Lodge (1996)
  17. Cover of The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories by David Lodge (1997)
  18. Cover of Home Truths by David Lodge (1999)
  19. Cover of Thinks . . . by David Lodge (2001)
  20. Cover of Consciousness and the Novel by David Lodge (2002)
  21. Cover of Author, Author by David Lodge (2004)
  22. Cover of Scenes of Academic Life by David Lodge (2005)
  23. Cover of The Year of Henry James by David Lodge (2006)
  24. Cover of Deaf Sentence by David Lodge (2008)
  1. 1
    The Picturegoers1960 · 237 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1960237
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  2. 2
    Ginger, You're Barmy1962 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1962217
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  3. 3
    The British Museum Is Falling Down1965 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1965176
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  4. 4
    Language of Fiction1966 · 323 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966323
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  5. 5
    Graham Greene1966 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196648
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  6. 6
    Jane Austen, Emma1968 · confirmed 1/4
    1968–
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  7. 7
    Out of the Shelter1970 · 270 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1970270
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  8. 8
    The Novelist At The Crossroads1971 · 297 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1971297
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  9. 9
    Evelyn Waugh1971 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197148
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  10. 10
    20th Century Literary Criticism1972 · 683 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1972683
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  11. 11
    Changing PlacesCampus #11975 · 250 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975250
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  12. 12
    The Modes of Modern WritingBloomsbury Revelations #251977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  13. 13
    How Far Can You Go?1980 · 243 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980243
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  14. 14
    Working with Structuralism1981 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981224
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  15. 15
    Souls and Bodies1981 · 243 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981243
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  16. 16
    Small WorldCampus #21984 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984352
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  17. 17
    Write On1986 · 211 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986211
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  18. 18
    Nice WorkCampus #31988 · 276 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988276
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  19. 19
    Modern Criticism and Theory1988 · 532 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988532
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  20. 20
    After Bakhtin1990 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990198
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  21. 21
    The Writing Game1991 · 118 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991118
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  22. 22
    Paradise News1991 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991368
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  23. 23
    The Art of Fiction1992 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992240
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  24. 24
    Therapy1995 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995320
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  25. 25
    Surprised by Summer1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996–
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  26. 26
    The Practice of Writing1996 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996340
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  27. 28
    Home Truths1999 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999160
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  28. 29
    Thinks . . .2001 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001352
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  29. 30
    Consciousness and the Novel2002 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002320
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  30. 31
    Author, Author2004 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004400
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  31. 32
    Scenes of Academic Life2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  32. 33
    The Year of Henry James2006 · 332 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006332
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  33. 34
    Deaf Sentence2008 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008294
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  34. 35
    Secret Thoughts2011 · 82 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201182
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  35. 36
    A Man of Parts2011 · 436 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011436
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  36. 37
    Lives in Writing2014 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014272
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  37. 38
    Quite A Good Time to be Born2015 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015496
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  38. 39
    Writer's Luck2018 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018400
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  39. 40
    Varying Degrees of Success2021 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021217
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David Lodge series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

David Lodge 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.

Bloomsbury Revelations in order

1 book
  1. 25. The Modes of Modern Writing

Standalone books

36 books

36 David Lodge titles here are not listed as part of any series.

David Lodge Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the David Lodge books run from The Picturegoers (1960) to Varying Degrees of Success (2021), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for David Lodge in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read David Lodge books in order?

You only need to read David Lodge books in order within the Campus series, which holds 3 of the 40 David Lodge books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with David Lodge

Start with Changing Places (1975), the first Campus book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Picturegoers (1960).

What is the newest David Lodge book?

Varying Degrees of Success (2021) is the newest David Lodge book released so far.

Is there a new David Lodge book coming?

No next David Lodge 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 David Lodge has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 2 nominations for David Lodge. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Hawthornden Prize1975Won
  • Booker Prize1988Shortlistedfor Nice Work
  • Booker Prize1984Shortlistedfor Small World: An Academic Romance

David Lodge at a glance

Died
David Lodge died in 2025, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to David Lodge on record dates from 2021.
Release pace
David Lodge books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
10,151 pages across the 36 of 40 books with a recorded length, a median of 271 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most David Lodge books, 9 of 40, were published in the 1990s.

What the David Lodge books are about

36 of the 40 David Lodge books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history and criticism is tagged on 13 of 36. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • History and criticism 13 of 36 books
  • English fiction 10 of 36 books
  • English literature 6 of 36 books
  • Authors 4 of 36 books
  • Authorship 4 of 36 books
  • College teachers 4 of 36 books
  • Criticism 4 of 36 books
  • American fiction 3 of 36 books
  • Littérature anglaise 3 of 36 books
  • Theory 3 of 36 books
  • 18.05 English literature 2 of 36 books
  • Anglais (langue) 2 of 36 books