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Orhan Pamuk Books in Order

Orhan Pamuk has written 17 books, published between 1983 and 2024. The first book is Silent House (1983) and the newest is Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022 (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1983–2024
Pages on record
3,183 in 10 of 17 books
Reading time
53–80 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,183 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Orhan Pamuk, author

Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul in 1952, is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter and academic, and the first Turkish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 2006. Silent House (1983) opens the catalogue, followed by The White Castle (1985), The Black Book (1990), The New Life (1994), My Name Is Red (1998), Snow (2002) and The Museum of Innocence (2008), with the memoir Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003) alongside. Istanbul, family life, East and West, and Turkish social custom are the recurring subjects. Pamuk has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, teaches writing and comparative literature at Columbia University, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.

How many Orhan Pamuk books are there?

Orhan Pamuk has 17 books, released between 1983 and 2024.

Orhan Pamuk Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Orhan Pamuk 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 The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk (1985)
  2. Cover of The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk (1990)
  3. Cover of The New Life by Orhan Pamuk (1994)
  4. Cover of My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (1998)
  5. Cover of Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk (1999)
  6. Cover of Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk (2003)
  7. Cover of My Father's Suitcase by Orhan Pamuk (2007)
  8. Cover of The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (2008)
  9. Cover of The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk (2010)
  10. Cover of The Innocence of Objects by Orhan Pamuk (2012)
  11. Cover of A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk (2014)
  12. Cover of The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk (2016)
  13. Cover of Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk (2021)
  1. 1
    Silent House1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  2. 2
    The White Castle1985 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985176
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  3. 3
    The Black Book1990 · 466 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990466
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  4. 4
    The New Life1994 · 290 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994290
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  5. 5
    My Name Is Red1998 · 671 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998671
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  6. 6
    Other Colors1999 · 433 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999433
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  7. 7
    Snow2002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  8. 8
    Istanbul: Memories and the City2003 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003384
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  9. 9
    My Father's Suitcase2007 · 28 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200728
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  10. 10
    The Museum of Innocence2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  11. 11
    The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist2010 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010200
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  12. 12
    The Innocence of Objects2012 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012263
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  13. 13
    A Strangeness in My Mind2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  14. 14
    Rebel with a Cause2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  15. 15
    The Red-Haired Woman2016 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016272
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  16. 16
    Nights of Plague2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  17. 17
    Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-20222024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Orhan Pamuk 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

17 books

17 Orhan Pamuk titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Orhan Pamuk books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 17 Orhan Pamuk books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Orhan Pamuk

Start with Silent House (1983), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Orhan Pamuk book?

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022 (2024) is the newest Orhan Pamuk book released so far.

Is there a new Orhan Pamuk book coming?

No next Orhan Pamuk 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 Orhan Pamuk has won

Wikidata records 11 awards and 1 nomination for Orhan Pamuk. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Erdal Öz Literature Award2015Won
  • Norman Mailer Prize2010Won
  • Ovid Prize2008Won
  • Nobel Prize in Literature2006Won
  • Prix Médicis étranger2005Won
  • Ricarda-Huch-Preis2005Won
  • Dublin Literary Award2003Won
  • prix du meilleur livre étranger - roman ou poésie2002Won
  • Grinzane Cavour Prize2002Won
  • prix du meilleur livre étranger - roman ou poésie2001Won
  • Prix France-Culture de littérature étrangère1995Won
  • International Booker Prize2016Shortlistedfor A Strangeness in My Mind

Orhan Pamuk at a glance

Still publishing
Orhan Pamuk published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Orhan Pamuk books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,183 pages across the 10 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 281 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Orhan Pamuk books, 5 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Orhan Pamuk books are about

12 of the 17 Orhan Pamuk 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 3 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Biography 3 of 12 books
  • Turkish Authors 3 of 12 books
  • Turkish literature 3 of 12 books
  • Essays 2 of 12 books
  • Family life 2 of 12 books
  • Istanbul (turkey) 2 of 12 books
  • Social life and customs 2 of 12 books
  • Turkey 2 of 12 books