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Pat Barker Books in Order

Pat Barker has written 17 books, published between 1982 and 2024. The first book is Union Street (1982) and the newest is The Voyage Home (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1982–2024
Pages on record
3,905 in 15 of 17 books
Reading time
65–98 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,905 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Pat Barker, author

Pat Barker, born in 1943, is an English novelist whose work returns to memory, trauma and survival. The Regeneration trilogy - Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995) - sets poets, soldiers and psychiatrists against the First World War and the treatment of war neurosis. A later sequence retells the Trojan War, opening with The Silence of the Girls in 2018 and running to The Voyage Home in 2024. Barker's catalogue holds 17 books, beginning with Union Street in 1982.

How many Pat Barker books are there?

Pat Barker has 17 books, released between 1982 and 2024. They include 3 series and 8 titles listed outside any series.

Pat Barker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Pat Barker 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 Union Street by Pat Barker (1982)
  2. Cover of Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker (1984)
  3. Cover of The Man Who Wasn't There by Pat Barker (1989)
  4. Cover of Regeneration by Pat Barker, book 1 of the Regeneration series (1991)
  5. Cover of The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker, book 2 of the Regeneration series (1993)
  6. Cover of Another World by Pat Barker (1998)
  7. Cover of Border Crossing by Pat Barker (2001)
  8. Cover of Double Vision by Pat Barker (2003)
  9. Cover of War Talk by Pat Barker (2005)
  10. Cover of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, book 1 of the Women Of Troy series (2018)
  11. Cover of The Women of Troy by Pat Barker, book 2 of the Women Of Troy series (2021)
  1. 1
    Union Street1982 · 245 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982245
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  2. 2
    Blow Your House Down1984 · 213 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984213
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  3. 3
    The Century's Daughter / Liza's England1986 · 284 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986284
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  4. 4
    The Man Who Wasn't There1989 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989160
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  5. 5
    RegenerationRegeneration #11991 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991352
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  6. 6
    The Eye in the DoorRegeneration #21993 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993288
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  7. 7
    The Ghost RoadRegeneration #31995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  8. 8
    Another World1998 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998277
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  9. 9
    Border Crossing2001 · 215 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001215
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  10. 10
    Double Vision2003 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003272
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  11. 11
    War Talk2005 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200564
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  12. 12
    Life ClassBrooke Family #12007 · 311 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007311
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  13. 13
    Toby's RoomBrooke Family #22012 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012320
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  14. 14
    NoondayBrooke Family #32015 · 307 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015307
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  15. 15
    The Silence of the GirlsWomen Of Troy #12018 · 293 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018293
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  16. 16
    The Women of TroyWomen Of Troy #22021 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021304
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  17. 17
    The Voyage HomeWomen Of Troy #32024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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Pat Barker 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.

Regeneration in order

3 books
  1. 1. Regeneration
  2. 2. The Eye in the Door
  3. 3. The Ghost Road

Brooke Family in order

3 books
  1. 1. Life Class
  2. 2. Toby's Room
  3. 3. Noonday

Women Of Troy in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Silence of the Girls
  2. 2. The Women of Troy
  3. 3. The Voyage Home

Standalone books

8 books

8 Pat Barker titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Pat Barker books in order?

You only need to read Pat Barker books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Pat Barker

Start with Union Street (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Pat Barker book?

The Voyage Home (2024) is the newest Pat Barker book released so far.

Is there a new Pat Barker book coming?

No next Pat Barker 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 Pat Barker has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Pat Barker. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Pat Barker at a glance

Still publishing
Pat Barker published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Pat Barker books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,905 pages across the 15 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Pat Barker books, 4 of 17, were published in the 2000s.

What the Pat Barker books are about

15 of the 17 Pat Barker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: world war, 1914-1918 is tagged on 5 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.