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Sigrid Nunez Books in Order

Sigrid Nunez has written 11 books, published between 1995 and 2026. The first book is A Feather on the Breath of God (1995) and the newest is It Will Come Back to You (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1995–2026
Pages on record
1,712 in 8 of 11 books
Reading time
29–43 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,712 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Sigrid Nunez, author

Sigrid Nunez, born in 1951, is an American writer known above all for her novels. The Friend, Nunez's seventh novel, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, and in 2025 Nunez was named a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in fiction. Eleven catalogued titles run from A Feather on the Breath of God (1995) to a further novel in 2026, taking in Naked Sleeper (1996), For Rouenna (2001), The Last of Her Kind (2005), Salvation City (2010) and Sempre Susan (2011). Female friendship, human-animal relationships and German and Chinese American lives supply the subject matter.

How many Sigrid Nunez books are there?

Sigrid Nunez has 11 books, released between 1995 and 2026.

Sigrid Nunez Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Sigrid Nunez 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 A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez (1995)
  2. Cover of Naked Sleeper by Sigrid Nunez (1996)
  3. Cover of Mitz: The Marmoset Of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez (1998)
  4. Cover of For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez (2001)
  5. Cover of The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez (2005)
  6. Cover of Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez (2010)
  7. Cover of Sempre Susan by Sigrid Nunez (2011)
  8. Cover of The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2018)
  9. Cover of What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez (2020)
  1. 1
    A Feather on the Breath of God1995 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995180
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  2. 2
    Naked Sleeper1996 · 235 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996235
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  3. 3
    Mitz: The Marmoset Of Bloomsbury1998 · 116 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998116
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  4. 4
    For Rouenna2001 · 230 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001230
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  5. 5
    The Last of Her Kind2005 · 375 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005375
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  6. 6
    Salvation City2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  7. 7
    Sempre Susan2011 · 140 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011140
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  8. 8
    The Friend2018 · 212 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018212
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  9. 9
    What Are You Going Through2020 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020224
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  10. 10
    The Vulnerables2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  11. 11
    It Will Come Back to You2026 · confirmed 2/4
    2026–
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Sigrid Nunez 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

11 books

11 Sigrid Nunez titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sigrid Nunez books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Sigrid Nunez books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Sigrid Nunez

Start with A Feather on the Breath of God (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sigrid Nunez book?

It Will Come Back to You (2026) is the newest Sigrid Nunez book released so far.

Is there a new Sigrid Nunez book coming?

No next Sigrid Nunez 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 Sigrid Nunez has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Sigrid Nunez. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Sigrid Nunez at a glance

Still publishing
Sigrid Nunez published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Sigrid Nunez books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,712 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 218 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sigrid Nunez books, 3 of 11, were published in the 2020s.

What the Sigrid Nunez books are about

9 of the 11 Sigrid Nunez books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: female friendship is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.