Hanya Yanagihara Books in Order
Hanya Yanagihara has written 3 books, published between 2013 and 2022. The first book is The People in the Trees (2013) and the newest is To Paradise (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2013–2022
- Confirmed
- 3 of 3 titles
- Total pages
- 1,936 across 3 books
- Reading time
- 32–48 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,936 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Hanya Yanagihara has published three novels: The People in the Trees (2013), A Little Life (2015) and To Paradise (2022). A Little Life was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015. Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor and travel writer, born in 1974, who grew up in Hawaii and edits T Magazine. The three books are long, at a median of 720 pages, and the subject headings name literary fiction, LGBTQ novels, immortality, anthropologists and family sagas. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.
How many Hanya Yanagihara books are there?
Hanya Yanagihara has 3 books, released between 2013 and 2022.
Hanya Yanagihara Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 3 Hanya Yanagihara 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.
- 120134963/4
- 220157203/4
- 320227203/4
Hanya Yanagihara 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.
Hanya Yanagihara Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Hanya Yanagihara books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 3 Hanya Yanagihara books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Hanya Yanagihara
Start with The People in the Trees (2013), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Hanya Yanagihara book?
To Paradise (2022) is the newest Hanya Yanagihara book released so far.
Is there a new Hanya Yanagihara book coming?
No next Hanya Yanagihara 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 Hanya Yanagihara has won
Wikidata records 1 award and 1 nomination for Hanya Yanagihara. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Kirkus Prize2015Won
- Booker Prize2015Shortlistedfor A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara at a glance
- Paused
- No new Hanya Yanagihara title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Hanya Yanagihara books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 1,936 pages across all 3 books with a recorded length, a median of 720 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Hanya Yanagihara books, 2 of 3, were published in the 2010s.
What the Hanya Yanagihara books are about
All 3 Hanya Yanagihara books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: lgbtq novels is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- LGBTQ novels 2 of 3 books
- American Dream 1 of 3 books
- Amerikanisches Englisch 1 of 3 books
- Anthropologists 1 of 3 books
- Child abuse 1 of 3 books
- Coming of age 1 of 3 books
- Dystopias 1 of 3 books
- Family life 1 of 3 books
- Fantasy 1 of 3 books
- Gay men 1 of 3 books
- Immortality 1 of 3 books
- Immunologists 1 of 3 books