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Deborah Levy Books in Order

Deborah Levy has written 21 books, published between 1988 and 2026. The first book is Heresies & Eva and Moses (1988) and the newest is My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1988–2026
Confirmed
1 of 21 titles
Pages on record
2,464 in 17 of 21 books
Reading time
41–62 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,464 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

See all 21 books in order Printable Deborah Levy checklist

Deborah Levy, born 6 August 1959, is a South African novelist, playwright and poet. Levy wrote first for the theatre, with plays staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and then turned to prose fiction. Early novels include Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl. Swimming Home and Hot Milk were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Man Who Saw Everything was longlisted, and Black Vodka is a short-story collection. The catalogue runs from Heresies & Eva and Moses (1988) to My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein (2026) and includes the Living Autobiography series.

How many Deborah Levy books are there?

Deborah Levy has 21 books, released between 1988 and 2026. 3 of them belong to the Living Autobiography series.

Deborah Levy Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Deborah Levy 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 Heresies & Eva and Moses by Deborah Levy, book 1 of the Standalone Plays series (1988)
  2. Cover of Ophelia and the Great Idea by Deborah Levy (1989)
  3. Cover of An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy (1990)
  4. Cover of The Unloved by Deborah Levy (1994)
  5. Cover of Billy and Girl by Deborah Levy, book 11 of the Dalkey Archive Essentials series (1996)
  6. Cover of Diary of a Steak by Deborah Levy (1997)
  7. Cover of Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places by Deborah Levy (2003)
  8. Cover of Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (2011)
  9. Cover of Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy, book 1 of the Living Autobiography series (2013)
  10. Cover of Black Vodka by Deborah Levy (2013)
  11. Cover of Stardust Nation by Deborah Levy (2016)
  12. Cover of Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
  13. Cover of Real Estate by Deborah Levy, book 3 of the Living Autobiography series (2021)
  1. 1
    Heresies & Eva and MosesStandalone Plays #11988 · 34 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198834
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  2. 2
    Beautiful mutants1989 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989112
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  3. 3
    Ophelia and the Great Idea1989 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989116
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  4. 4
    An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell1990 · 71 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199071
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  5. 5
    Swallowing Geography1993 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199396
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  6. 6
    The Unloved1994 · 199 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994199
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  7. 7
    Billy and GirlDalkey Archive Essentials #111996 · 185 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996185
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  8. 8
    Diary of a Steak1997 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199752
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  9. 9
    Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places2003 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003103
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  10. 10
    Swimming Home2011 · 157 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011157
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  11. 11
    The BBC International Short Story Award 2012BBC National Short Story Award #32012 · 198 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012198
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  12. 12
    Things I Don't Want to KnowLiving Autobiography #12013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  13. 13
    Black Vodka2013 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013144
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  14. 14
    Stardust Nation2016 · 109 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016109
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  15. 15
    Hot Milk2016 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016240
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  16. 16
    The Cost of LivingLiving Autobiography #22018 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018144
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  17. 17
    The Man Who Saw Everything2019 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019208
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  18. 18
    Real EstateLiving Autobiography #32021 · 296 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021296
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  19. 19
    August Blue2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  20. 20
    The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  21. 21
    My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein2026 · confirmed 1/4
    2026–
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Deborah Levy 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.

Living Autobiography in order

3 books
  1. 1. Things I Don't Want to Know
  2. 2. The Cost of Living
  3. 3. Real Estate

Standalone Plays

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

BBC National Short Story Award

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Dalkey Archive Essentials in order

1 book
  1. 11. Billy and Girl

Standalone books

15 books

15 Deborah Levy titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Deborah Levy books in order?

You only need to read Deborah Levy books in order within the Living Autobiography series, which holds 3 of the 21 Deborah Levy books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Deborah Levy

Start with Heresies & Eva and Moses (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Deborah Levy book?

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein (2026) is the newest Deborah Levy book released so far.

Is there a new Deborah Levy book coming?

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

Award nominations for Deborah Levy

Wikidata records 3 nominations for Deborah Levy. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Deborah Levy at a glance

Still publishing
Deborah Levy published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Deborah Levy books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,464 pages across the 17 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 144 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Deborah Levy books, 8 of 21, were published in the 2010s.

What the Deborah Levy books are about

18 of the 21 Deborah Levy books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: abused children is tagged on 2 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.