Sarah Hall Books in Order
Sarah Hall has written 13 books, published between 2002 and 2025. The first book is Haweswater (2002) and the newest is Helm (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 2002–2025
- Confirmed
- 2 of 13 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,098 in 8 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 35–52 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,098 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
Sarah Hall, born 1974, is an English novelist and short story writer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Hall's second novel, The Electric Michelangelo (2004), was nominated for that year's Man Booker Prize. Cumbria is where Hall lives. The catalogue holds 13 titles published between 2002 and 2025, from Haweswater (2002) to Helm (2025), taking in The Carhullan Army, The Wolf Border (2015) and the story collections The Beautiful Indifference (2011) and Madame Zero (2017). One listed entry, The BBC National Short Story Award 2018, carries five other contributors' credits.
How many Sarah Hall books are there?
Sarah Hall has 13 books, released between 2002 and 2025.
Sarah Hall Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Sarah Hall 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.
- 1Haweswater2002 · 267 pages · confirmed 1/420022671/4
- 2The Electric Michelangelo2004 · 364 pages · confirmed 1/420043641/4
- 3Daughters of the North2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 4How to Paint a Dead Man2009 · 289 pages · confirmed 1/420092891/4
- 5The Beautiful Indifference2011 · 187 pages · confirmed 1/420111871/4
- 6The Carhullan Army2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 72014–3/4
- 8The Wolf Border2015 · 431 pages · confirmed 1/420154311/4
- 9Madame Zero2017 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/420171921/4
- 102018–3/4
- 11Sudden Traveller2019 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420191441/4
- 12Burntcoat2021 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420212241/4
- 13Helm2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Sarah Hall 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.
BBC National Short Story Award
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Faber Stories in order
1 book- 11. Mrs Fox
Standalone books
11 books11 Sarah Hall titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sarah Hall books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 13 Sarah Hall books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Sarah Hall
Start with Haweswater (2002), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sarah Hall book?
Helm (2025) is the newest Sarah Hall book released so far.
Is there a new Sarah Hall book coming?
No next Sarah Hall 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 Sarah Hall has won
Wikidata records 1 award and 3 nominations for Sarah Hall. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Otherwise Award2007Wonfor The Carhullan Army
- Booker Prize2009Shortlistedfor How to Paint a Dead Man
- Arthur C. Clarke Award2008Shortlistedfor The Carhullan Army
- Booker Prize2004Shortlistedfor The Electric Michaelangelo
Sarah Hall at a glance
- Still publishing
- Sarah Hall published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Sarah Hall books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,098 pages across the 8 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 246 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sarah Hall books, 7 of 13, were published in the 2010s.
What the Sarah Hall books are about
8 of the 13 Sarah Hall books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 2 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- English literature 2 of 8 books
- Man-woman relationships 2 of 8 books
- Short stories 2 of 8 books