Olga Tokarczuk Books in Order
Olga Tokarczuk has written 8 books, published between 2002 and 2025. The first book is House of Day, House of Night (2002) and the newest is Mr. Distinctive (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
Olga Tokarczuk also publishes as Natasza Borodin.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2002–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,210 in 5 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 37–55 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,210 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist and public intellectual, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 for a narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. Flights took the Man Booker International Prize for 2018. Eight titles are catalogued, from House of Day, House of Night in 2002 through Primeval and Other Times (2010), The Books of Jacob (2014), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2018) and The Empusium (2024) to Mr. Distinctive in 2025. Polish history, town life and Jewish messianic movements supply the material, and the writing carries a mythical tone.
How many Olga Tokarczuk books are there?
Olga Tokarczuk has 8 books, released between 2002 and 2025.
Olga Tokarczuk Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Olga Tokarczuk 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.
- 1House of Day, House of Night2002 · 293 pages · confirmed 1/420022931/4
- 2Primeval and Other Times2010 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/420102481/4
- 3The Books of Jacob2014 · 992 pages · confirmed 1/420149921/4
- 4Flights2017 · 403 pages · confirmed 1/420174031/4
- 5Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead2018 · 274 pages · confirmed 1/420182741/4
- 6The Lost Soul2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 7The Empusium2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 8Mr. Distinctive2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Olga Tokarczuk 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.
Standalone books
8 books8 Olga Tokarczuk titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Olga Tokarczuk books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Olga Tokarczuk books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Olga Tokarczuk
Start with House of Day, House of Night (2002), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Olga Tokarczuk book?
Mr. Distinctive (2025) is the newest Olga Tokarczuk book released so far.
Is there a new Olga Tokarczuk book coming?
No next Olga Tokarczuk 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 Olga Tokarczuk has won
Wikidata records 13 awards and 3 nominations for Olga Tokarczuk. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Prix Laure Bataillon2019Won
- EBRD Literature Prize2019Won
- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation2019Wonfor Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- International Booker Prize2018Wonfor Flights
- Nobel Prize in Literature2018Won
- Jan Michalski Prize2018Won
- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation2018Wonfor Flights
- Nike Award2015Won
- Vilenica Prize2013Won
- Śląski Wawrzyn Literacki2009Won
- Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize2008Won
- Nike Award2008Won
Olga Tokarczuk at a glance
- Still publishing
- Olga Tokarczuk published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Olga Tokarczuk books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,210 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 293 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Olga Tokarczuk books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Olga Tokarczuk books are about
5 of the 8 Olga Tokarczuk books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 2 of 5 books
- 891.8/5373 1 of 5 books
- City and town life 1 of 5 books
- Eccentrics and eccentricities 1 of 5 books
- Crime 1 of 5 books
- FICTION / General 1 of 5 books
- Frankistische Bewegung 1 of 5 books
- Histoire 1 of 5 books
- Historical fiction 1 of 5 books
- Human body 1 of 5 books
- Human mechanics 1 of 5 books
- Interpersonal relations 1 of 5 books