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Penelope Fitzgerald Books in Order

16 books are credited to Penelope Fitzgerald, published between 1975 and 2008; 3 of them appeared after Penelope Fitzgerald's death in 2000. The first book is Edward Burne-Jones (1975) and the newest is So I Have Thought of You (2008). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
1975–2008
Pages on record
3,890 in 15 of 16 books
Reading time
65–97 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,890 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

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Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England, and a winner of the Booker Prize. The Times placed Fitzgerald among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 in 2008, and in 2012 The Observer listed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among the ten best historical novels. A.S. Byatt called her Jane Austen's nearest heir for precision and invention. Sixteen books are catalogued between 1975 and 2008, opening with Edward Burne-Jones (1975) and taking in The Bookshop (1978), Offshore (1979), Human Voices (1980), At Freddie's (1982) and The Beginning of Spring (1988).

How many Penelope Fitzgerald books are there?

Penelope Fitzgerald has 16 books, released between 1975 and 2008. 3 of them were published after Penelope Fitzgerald's death in 2000.

Penelope Fitzgerald Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Penelope Fitzgerald 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 Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald (1975)
  2. Cover of The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald (1977)
  3. Cover of The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald (1977)
  4. Cover of The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
  5. Cover of Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald (1980)
  6. Cover of At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald (1982)
  7. Cover of Charlotte Mew And Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald (1984)
  8. Cover of Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald (1986)
  9. Cover of The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald (1990)
  10. Cover of The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (1995)
  11. Cover of The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald (2000)
  12. Cover of The Afterlife by Penelope Fitzgerald (2003)
  1. 1
    Edward Burne-Jones1975 · confirmed 1/4
    1975–
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    The Golden Child1977 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977188
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  3. 3
    The Knox Brothers1977 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977304
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  4. 4
    The Bookshop1978 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978192
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  5. 5
    Offshore1979 · 140 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979140
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  6. 6
    Human Voices1980 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980144
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  7. 7
    At Freddie's1982 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982160
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  8. 8
    Charlotte Mew And Her Friends1984 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984304
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  9. 9
    Innocence1986 · 222 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986222
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  10. 10
    The Beginning of Spring1988 · 187 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988187
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  11. 11
    The Gate of Angels1990 · 167 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990167
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  12. 12
    The Blue Flower1995 · 225 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995225
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    The Means of Escape2000 · 157 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000157
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  14. 14
    The Afterlife2003 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003416
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  15. 15
    A House of Air2003 · 552 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003552
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  16. 16
    So I Have Thought of You2008 · 532 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008532
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Penelope Fitzgerald 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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16 books

16 Penelope Fitzgerald titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Penelope Fitzgerald books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 16 Penelope Fitzgerald books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Penelope Fitzgerald

Start with Edward Burne-Jones (1975), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Penelope Fitzgerald book?

So I Have Thought of You (2008) is the newest Penelope Fitzgerald book released so far.

Is there a new Penelope Fitzgerald book coming?

No next Penelope Fitzgerald 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 Penelope Fitzgerald has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 3 nominations for Penelope Fitzgerald. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Penelope Fitzgerald at a glance

Died
Penelope Fitzgerald died in 2000, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Penelope Fitzgerald are still being published after Penelope Fitzgerald's death in 2000; the newest appeared in 2008.
Release pace
Penelope Fitzgerald books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,890 pages across the 15 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Penelope Fitzgerald books, 5 of 16, were published in the 1980s.

What the Penelope Fitzgerald books are about

All 16 Penelope Fitzgerald books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: england is tagged on 6 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.