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J.G. Ballard Books in Order

45 books are credited to J.G. Ballard, published between 1962 and 2023; 2 of them appeared after J.G. Ballard's death in 2009. The first book is Billenium (1962) and the newest is Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
45
Published
1962–2023
Pages on record
9,409 in 32 of 45 books
Reading time
157–235 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,409 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 45 titles with a page count on record.

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J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist and essayist whose fiction takes the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media as its subject. Post-apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World (1962) among them, tied Ballard to New Wave science fiction; the story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) and the novel Crash (1973), about car-crash fetishists, brought controversy. Forty-five books are catalogued, from 1962 to a 2023 volume of selected non-fiction, at a median length of 222 pages.

How many J.G. Ballard books are there?

J.G. Ballard has 45 books, released between 1962 and 2023. 2 of them were published after J.G. Ballard's death in 2009. 2 of them belong to the Empire Of The Sun series.

J.G. Ballard Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 45 J.G. Ballard 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 Billenium by J.G. Ballard (1962)
  2. Cover of The Wind from Nowhere by J.G. Ballard (1962)
  3. Cover of The Voices of Time by J.G. Ballard (1962)
  4. Cover of The Drought by J.G. Ballard (1964)
  5. Cover of The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard (1964)
  6. Cover of The Day of Forever by J.G. Ballard (1967)
  7. Cover of The Disaster Area by J.G. Ballard (1967)
  8. Cover of Love and Napalm by J.G. Ballard (1970)
  9. Cover of The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard (1970)
  10. Cover of Chronopolis by J.G. Ballard (1971)
  11. Cover of Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard (1971)
  12. Cover of Chronopolis and Other Stories by J.G. Ballard (1971)
  13. Cover of Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard (1974)
  14. Cover of Low Flying Aircraft and Other Stories by J.G. Ballard (1976)
  15. Cover of The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard (1979)
  16. Cover of Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard (1982)
  17. Cover of Running Wild by J.G. Ballard (1988)
  18. Cover of War Fever and Other Stories by J.G. Ballard (1990)
  19. Cover of The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard, book 2 of the Empire Of The Sun series (1991)
  20. Cover of A User's Guide to the Millennium by J.G. Ballard (1996)
  21. Cover of Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard (1996)
  22. Cover of Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard (2000)
  23. Cover of The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard (2001)
  24. Cover of Quotes by J.G. Ballard (2004)
  1. 1
    Billenium1962 · 159 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1962159
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  2. 2
    The Wind from Nowhere1962 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1962192
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  3. 3
    The Drowned World1962 · 175 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1962175
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  4. 4
    The Voices of Time1962 · 197 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1962197
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  5. 5
    The Subliminal Man1963 · confirmed 2/4
    1963–
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  6. 6
    Passport To Eternity1963 · confirmed 2/4
    1963–
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  7. 7
    The Drought1964 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1964192
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  8. 8
    The Terminal Beach1964 · confirmed 2/4
    1964–
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  9. 9
    The Crystal World1966 · 209 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1966209
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  10. 10
    The Day of Forever1967 · 126 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1967126
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  11. 11
    The Disaster Area1967 · confirmed 2/4
    1967–
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  12. 12
    Love and Napalm1970 · 156 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1970156
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  13. 13
    The Atrocity Exhibition1970 · confirmed 2/4
    1970–
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  14. 14
    Chronopolis1971 · 371 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1971371
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  15. 15
    Vermilion Sands1971 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1971208
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  16. 17
    Crash1973 · confirmed 2/4
    1973–
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  17. 18
    Concrete Island1974 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1974180
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  18. 19
    High-Rise1975 · 207 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1975207
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  19. 21
    The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard1978 · confirmed 2/4
    1978–
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  20. 22
    The Unlimited Dream Company1979 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1979240
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  21. 23
    The Venus Hunters / The Overloaded Man1980 · 142 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1980142
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  22. 24
    Hello America1981 · 234 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1981234
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  23. 25
    Myths of the Near Future1982 · 205 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982205
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  24. 26
    Empire of the SunEmpire Of The Sun #11984 · confirmed 2/4
    1984–
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  25. 27
    The Day of Creation1987 · confirmed 2/4
    1987–
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  26. 28
    Running Wild1988 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988112
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  27. 30
    The Kindness of WomenEmpire Of The Sun #21991 · 343 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991343
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J.G. Ballard 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.

Empire Of The Sun in order

2 books
  1. 1. Empire of the Sun
  2. 2. The Kindness of Women

Standalone books

43 books

43 J.G. Ballard titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read J.G. Ballard books in order?

You only need to read J.G. Ballard books in order within the Empire Of The Sun series, which holds 2 of the 45 J.G. Ballard books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with J.G. Ballard

Start with Billenium (1962), the earliest published title.

What is the newest J.G. Ballard book?

Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 (2023) is the newest J.G. Ballard book released so far.

Is there a new J.G. Ballard book coming?

No next J.G. Ballard 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 J.G. Ballard has won

Wikidata records 5 awards and 19 nominations for J.G. Ballard. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Jean Monnet Prize2005Won
  • Tähtivaeltaja Award2004Won
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize1984Won
  • Golden Graoully for Best Foreign Novel1982Won
  • BSFA Award for Best Novel1979Wonfor The Unlimited Dream Company
  • Locus Award for Best Collection2002Shortlistedfor The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
  • BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction1996Shortlistedfor The Dying Fall
  • Locus Award for Best Short Story1993Shortlistedfor The Message from Mars
  • Locus Award for Best Short Story1992Shortlistedfor Dream Cargoes
  • Locus Award for Best Collection1991Shortlistedfor The Atrocity Exhibition
  • Locus Award for Best Novelette1990Shortlistedfor War Fever
  • Locus Award for Best Short Story1990Shortlistedfor The Enormous Space

J.G. Ballard at a glance

Died
J.G. Ballard died in 2009, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to J.G. Ballard are still being published after J.G. Ballard's death in 2009; the newest appeared in 2023.
Release pace
J.G. Ballard books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
9,409 pages across the 32 of 45 books with a recorded length, a median of 222 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most J.G. Ballard books, 11 of 45, were published in the 1970s.

What the J.G. Ballard books are about

36 of the 45 J.G. Ballard books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 12 of 36. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.