Margaret Drabble Books in Order

How many Margaret Drabble books are there?

Margaret Drabble has 39 books, released between 1963 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Radiant Way series.

Margaret Drabble Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 39 Margaret Drabble 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.

Margaret Drabble 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.

Do you have to read Margaret Drabble books in order?

You only need to read Margaret Drabble books in order within the Radiant Way series, which holds 3 of the 39 Margaret Drabble books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Margaret Drabble

Start with Summer Bird Cage (1963), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Margaret Drabble book?

Margaret Drabble on the Romantics (2025) is the newest Margaret Drabble book released so far.

Is there a new Margaret Drabble book coming?

No next Margaret Drabble 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 Margaret Drabble has won

Wikidata records 3 awards for Margaret Drabble. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• St. Louis Literary Award2003Won
• E. M. Forster Award1973Won
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize1967Won

Margaret Drabble at a glance

Still publishing

Margaret Drabble published a book as recently as 2025.

Release pace

Margaret Drabble books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.

Length

10,540 pages across the 34 of 39 books with a recorded length, a median of 292 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Margaret Drabble books, 7 of 39, were published in the 1990s.

What the Margaret Drabble books are about

33 of the 39 Margaret Drabble books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: england is tagged on 6 of 33. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• England 6 of 33 books
• Authors 3 of 33 books
• English literature 3 of 33 books
• In literature 3 of 33 books
• Intellectual life 3 of 33 books
• Man-woman relationships 3 of 33 books
• Social life and customs 3 of 33 books
• Bio-bibliography 2 of 33 books
• Biography 2 of 33 books
• Encyclopedias 2 of 33 books
• Family life 2 of 33 books