David Mitchell Books in Order

David Mitchell has written 10 books, published between 1999 and 2020. The first book is Ghostwritten (1999) and the newest is Utopia Avenue (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books: 10
Published: 1999–2020
Total pages: 3,745 across 10 books
Reading time: 62–94 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,745 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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David Mitchell, born 12 January 1969, is an English novelist and screenwriter with nine novels. Two of them, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), reached the Booker Prize shortlist. Mitchell has written for newspapers including The Guardian and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013. With Keiko Yoshida, Mitchell translated a Japanese children's book about autism and its sequel into English. Catalogued novels include Ghostwritten (1999), Black Swan Green (2006), The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), The Bone Clocks (2014), Slade House (2015) and Utopia Avenue (2020).

How many David Mitchell books are there?

David Mitchell has 10 books, released between 1999 and 2020.

David Mitchell 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.

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Standalone books

8 books

8 David Mitchell titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read David Mitchell books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 10 David Mitchell books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with David Mitchell

Start with Ghostwritten (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest David Mitchell book?

Utopia Avenue (2020) is the newest David Mitchell book released so far.

Is there a new David Mitchell book coming?

No next David Mitchell 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 Mitchell has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 13 nominations for David Mitchell. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

World Fantasy Awards2015Won
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel2015Wonfor The Bone Clocks
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel2021Shortlistedfor Utopia Avenue
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel2016Shortlistedfor Slade House
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2015Shortlistedfor The Bone Clocks
Booker Prize2014Shortlistedfor The Bone Clocks
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel2011Shortlistedfor The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Booker Prize2010Shortlistedfor The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Booker Prize2006Shortlistedfor Black Swan Green
Arthur C. Clarke Award2005Shortlistedfor Cloud Atlas
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2005Shortlistedfor Cloud Atlas
Nebula Award for Best Novel2005Shortlistedfor Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell at a glance

No recent titles: The newest David Mitchell title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace: David Mitchell books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length: 3,745 pages across all 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 413 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most David Mitchell books, 4 of 10, were published in the 2000s.

What the David Mitchell books are about

8 of the 10 David Mitchell books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fantasy is tagged on 2 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Fantasy 2 of 8 books