Olivia Laing Books in Order
Olivia Laing has written 9 books, published between 2011 and 2025. The first book is To the River (2011) and the newest is The Silver Book (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 2011–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,759 in 6 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 29–44 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,759 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Olivia Laing, born in 1977, is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. Five works of non-fiction carry the Laing name: The Lonely City (2016), To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), Everybody (2021) and The Garden Against Time (2024). An essay collection, Funny Weather (2020), and two novels, Crudo and The Silver Book (2025), sit alongside them. Laing took the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction in 2018, then the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crudo in 2019, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature that same year, and became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2025. A ninth catalogued title is The Abandoned Person's Tale (2018).
How many Olivia Laing books are there?
Olivia Laing has 9 books, released between 2011 and 2025.
Olivia Laing Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Olivia Laing 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.
- 1To the River2011 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420113041/4
- 2The Trip to Echo Spring2013 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/420133401/4
- 3The Lonely City2016 · 315 pages · confirmed 1/420163151/4
- 4Crudo2018 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/420181601/4
- 52018–1/4
- 6Funny Weather2020 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420203681/4
- 7Everybody2021 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420212721/4
- 8The Garden Against Time2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 9The Silver Book2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Olivia Laing 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.
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8 books8 Olivia Laing titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Olivia Laing books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 9 Olivia Laing books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Olivia Laing
Start with To the River (2011), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Olivia Laing book?
The Silver Book (2025) is the newest Olivia Laing book released so far.
Is there a new Olivia Laing book coming?
No next Olivia Laing book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Olivia Laing at a glance
- Still publishing
- Olivia Laing published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Olivia Laing books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,759 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 310 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Olivia Laing books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2010s.
What the Olivia Laing books are about
6 of the 9 Olivia Laing books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychological aspects is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Psychological aspects 2 of 6 books