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Salman Rushdie Books in Order

Salman Rushdie has written 27 books, published between 1975 and 2025. The first book is Grimus (1975) and the newest is The Eleventh Hour (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
27
Published
1975–2025
Pages on record
6,753 in 20 of 27 books
Reading time
113–169 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,753 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 27 titles with a page count on record.

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Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947 to a Kashmiri family, and his 27 catalogued books run from Grimus (1975) to The Eleventh Hour (2025). He won the Booker Prize in 1981, the year Midnight's Children appeared. Much of the fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent and mixes magical realism with historical fiction, returning to migration and rupture between East and West. The catalogue holds essays and short stories as well as novels, among them Imaginary Homelands (1991) and East, West (1994), alongside The Satanic Verses (1988) and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995). Rushdie continues to publish.

How many Salman Rushdie books are there?

Salman Rushdie has 27 books, released between 1975 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Khalifa Brothers series.

Salman Rushdie Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 27 Salman Rushdie 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 Grimus by Salman Rushdie (1975)
  2. Cover of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
  3. Cover of Shame by Salman Rushdie (1983)
  4. Cover of The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie (1987)
  5. Cover of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)
  6. Cover of Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, book 1 of the Khalifa Brothers series (1990)
  7. Cover of Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie (1991)
  8. Cover of East, West by Salman Rushdie (1994)
  9. Cover of The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (1995)
  10. Cover of The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie (1999)
  11. Cover of Fury by Salman Rushdie (2001)
  12. Cover of Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie (2002)
  13. Cover of Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (2005)
  14. Cover of The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (2008)
  15. Cover of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (2009)
  16. Cover of Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, book 2 of the Khalifa Brothers series (2010)
  17. Cover of Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie (2012)
  18. Cover of Home by Salman Rushdie (2017)
  19. Cover of The Golden House by Salman Rushdie (2017)
  20. Cover of Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (2019)
  21. Cover of Victory City by Salman Rushdie (2023)
  22. Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (2024)
  1. 1
    Grimus1975 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975318
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  2. 2
    The Prophet's Hair1981 · confirmed 1/4
    1981–
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  3. 3
    Midnight's Children1981 · 560 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981560
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  4. 4
    Shame1983 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983320
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  5. 5
    The Jaguar Smile1987 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987160
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  6. 6
    The Satanic Verses1988 · 576 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988576
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  7. 7
    Haroun and the Sea of StoriesKhalifa Brothers #11990 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990224
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  8. 8
    Imaginary Homelands1991 · 439 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991439
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  9. 9
    East, West1994 · 211 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994211
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  10. 10
    The Moor's Last Sigh1995 · 435 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995435
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  11. 11
    The Firebird's Nest (The New Yorker June 23, 1997)1997 · confirmed 1/4
    1997–
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  12. 12
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet1999 · 575 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999575
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  13. 13
    Fury2001 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001259
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  14. 14
    Step Across This Line2002 · 402 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002402
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  15. 15
    Shalimar the Clown2005 · 398 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005398
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  16. 16
    The Enchantress of Florence2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  17. 17
    Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children2009 · 126 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009126
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  18. 18
    Luka and the Fire of LifeKhalifa Brothers #22010 · 218 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010218
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  19. 19
    Joseph Anton: A Memoir2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  20. 20
    Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights2015 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015304
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  21. 21
    Home2017 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201796
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  22. 22
    The Golden House2017 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017400
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  23. 23
    Quichotte2019 · 396 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019396
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  24. 24
    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-20202021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  25. 25
    Victory City2023 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023336
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  26. 26
    Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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  27. 27
    The Eleventh Hour2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Salman Rushdie 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.

Khalifa Brothers in order

2 books
  1. 1. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  2. 2. Luka and the Fire of Life

Standalone books

25 books

25 Salman Rushdie titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Salman Rushdie Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Salman Rushdie books run from Grimus (1975) to The Eleventh Hour (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Salman Rushdie in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Salman Rushdie books in order?

You only need to read Salman Rushdie books in order within the Khalifa Brothers series, which holds 2 of the 27 Salman Rushdie books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Salman Rushdie

Start with Grimus (1975), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Salman Rushdie book?

The Eleventh Hour (2025) is the newest Salman Rushdie book released so far.

Is there a new Salman Rushdie book coming?

No next Salman Rushdie book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Salman Rushdie at a glance

Still publishing
Salman Rushdie published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Salman Rushdie books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
6,753 pages across the 20 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 328 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Salman Rushdie books, 6 of 27, were published in the 2010s.

What the Salman Rushdie books are about

24 of the 27 Salman Rushdie books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: censorship is tagged on 2 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.