Oliver Sacks Books in Order
21 books are credited to Oliver Sacks, published between 1970 and 2024; 5 of them appeared after Oliver Sacks's death in 2015. The first book is Migraine (1970) and the newest is Letters (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 21
- Published
- 1970–2024
- Confirmed
- 1 of 21 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,114 in 14 of 21 books
- Reading time
- 69–103 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,114 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 21 titles with a page count on record.
Born in London on 9 July 1933, Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist and historian of science as well as a writer, and died on 30 August 2015. Sacks took a medical degree from The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1958, then moved to the United States, interning at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completing a residency in neurology and neuropathology at UCLA. Migraine (1970) is the first catalogued book, followed by Awakenings (1973), A Leg to Stand On (1984), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), Seeing Voices (1989), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) and Uncle Tungsten (2001). Letters (2024) is the newest of 21 books, and neurology, case studies and cognition disorders appear among the subjects.
How many Oliver Sacks books are there?
Oliver Sacks has 21 books, released between 1970 and 2024. 5 of them were published after Oliver Sacks's death in 2015. 2 of them belong to the Publication Order of' Memoirs Books series.
Oliver Sacks Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 21 Oliver Sacks 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.
- 1Migraine1970 · 338 pages · confirmed 2/419703382/4
- 2Awakenings1973 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/419734642/4
- 3A Leg to Stand On1984 · confirmed 2/41984–2/4
- 4The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat1985 · 243 pages · confirmed 2/419852432/4
- 5Seeing Voices1989 · 222 pages · confirmed 2/419892222/4
- 6An Anthropologist on Mars1995 · 327 pages · confirmed 2/419953272/4
- 7The Island of the Colorblind1996 · confirmed 2/41996–2/4
- 820012502/4
- 9Oaxaca Journal2002 · confirmed 2/42002–2/4
- 10The Best American Science Writing 2003Best American Science Writing #12003 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/420032722/4
- 11Musicophilia2007 · 425 pages · confirmed 2/420074252/4
- 12Asylum2009 · 209 pages · confirmed 2/420092092/4
- 13The Mind's Eye2010 · 263 pages · confirmed 2/420102632/4
- 14Hallucinations2012 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420123522/4
- 1520154162/4
- 16Gratitude2015 · 45 pages · confirmed 2/42015452/4
- 172016–3/4
- 18The River of Consciousness2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 19Everything in Its Place2019 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420192882/4
- 20The Creative Self2019 · confirmed 2/42019–2/4
- 21Letters2024 · confirmed 2/42024–2/4
Oliver Sacks 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.
Publication Order of' Memoirs Books in order
2 booksBest American Science Writing in order
1 bookLast Interview in order
1 book- 15. Oliver Sacks
Standalone books
17 books17 Oliver Sacks titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Oliver Sacks books in order?
You only need to read Oliver Sacks books in order within the Publication Order of' Memoirs Books series, which holds 2 of the 21 Oliver Sacks books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Oliver Sacks
Start with Migraine (1970), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Oliver Sacks book?
Letters (2024) is the newest Oliver Sacks book released so far.
Is there a new Oliver Sacks book coming?
No next Oliver Sacks 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 Oliver Sacks has won
Wikidata records 3 awards for Oliver Sacks. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Bodley Medal2003Won
- Lewis Thomas Prize2001Won
- Hawthornden Prize1974Won
Oliver Sacks at a glance
- Died
- Oliver Sacks died in 2015, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Oliver Sacks are still being published after Oliver Sacks's death in 2015; the newest appeared in 2024.
- Release pace
- Oliver Sacks books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 4,114 pages across the 14 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Oliver Sacks books, 8 of 21, were published in the 2010s.
What the Oliver Sacks books are about
18 of the 21 Oliver Sacks books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 5 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 5 of 18 books
- Neurologists 5 of 18 books
- Neurology 5 of 18 books
- Anecdotes 3 of 18 books
- Case studies 2 of 18 books
- Cognition disorders 2 of 18 books
- History 2 of 18 books
- Neurologie 2 of 18 books
- Neurologists, biography 2 of 18 books
- Neurologues 2 of 18 books
- Neuropsychology 2 of 18 books