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William Trevor Books in Order

55 books are credited to William Trevor, published between 1958 and 2018; 1 of them appeared after William Trevor's death in 2016. The first book is A Standard of Behaviour (1958) and the newest is Last Stories (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
55
Published
1958–2018
Pages on record
9,831 in 45 of 55 books
Reading time
164–246 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,831 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 45 of 55 titles with a page count on record.

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William Trevor, born William Trevor Cox on 24 May 1928 and died 20 November 2016, was an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, widely rated among the finest short story writers in English. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, most recently for Love and Summer (2009), which also reached the International Dublin Literary Award shortlist in 2011. He took the International Nonino Prize in 2008 and was made a Saoi of Aosdana in 2014. His catalogue holds 55 titles, from A Standard of Behaviour (1958) to Last Stories (2018).

How many William Trevor books are there?

William Trevor has 55 books, released between 1958 and 2018. 1 of them were published after William Trevor's death in 2016.

William Trevor Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 55 William Trevor 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 The Old Boys by William Trevor (1964)
  2. Cover of The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories by William Trevor (1967)
  3. Cover of Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor (1969)
  4. Cover of Miss Gomez and the Brethren by William Trevor (1971)
  5. Cover of Going Home by William Trevor (1972)
  6. Cover of The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories by William Trevor (1972)
  7. Cover of A Night with Mrs. da Tanka by William Trevor (1972)
  8. Cover of Marriages by William Trevor (1973)
  9. Cover of Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor (1973)
  10. Cover of Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories by William Trevor (1978)
  11. Cover of The Distant Past and Other Stories by William Trevor (1979)
  12. Cover of Other People's Worlds by William Trevor (1980)
  13. Cover of Beyond the Pale by William Trevor (1981)
  14. Cover of Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (1983)
  15. Cover of The News from Ireland by William Trevor (1986)
  16. Cover of Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor (1987)
  17. Cover of The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor (1988)
  18. Cover of Family Sins by William Trevor (1989)
  19. Cover of My House in Umbria by William Trevor (1991)
  20. Cover of Reading Turgenev by William Trevor (1991)
  21. Cover of Juliet's Story by William Trevor (1991)
  22. Cover of The Collected Stories by William Trevor (1992)
  23. Cover of Outside Ireland by William Trevor (1992)
  24. Cover of Excursions in the Real World by William Trevor (1993)
  1. 1
    A Standard of Behaviour1958 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1958122
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  2. 2
    The Old Boys1964 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1964189
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  3. 3
    The Boarding-House1965 · confirmed 1/4
    1965–
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  4. 4
    The Love Department1966 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966263
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  5. 6
    The Girl1968 · 38 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196838
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  6. 7
    Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel1969 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969264
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  7. 8
    Miss Gomez and the Brethren1971 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1971248
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  8. 9
    Going Home1972 · 28 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197228
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  9. 11
    A Night with Mrs. da Tanka1972 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197224
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  10. 12
    Marriages1973 · 25 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197325
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  11. 13
    The Last Lunch of the Season1973 · 11 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197311
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  12. 14
    Elizabeth Alone1973 · 271 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973271
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  13. 15
    Angels at the Ritz1975 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975224
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  14. 16
    The Children of Dynmouth1976 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976189
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  15. 17
    Old School Ties1976 · 146 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976146
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  16. 20
    Other People's Worlds1980 · 219 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980219
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  17. 21
    Scenes from an Album1981 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198140
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  18. 22
    Beyond the Pale1981 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981255
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  19. 23
    The Stories of William Trevor1983 · 799 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983799
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  20. 24
    Fools of Fortune1983 · 207 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983207
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  21. 25
    A Writer's Ireland1984 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984192
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  22. 26
    The News from Ireland1986 · 284 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986284
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  23. 27
    Nights at the Alexandra1987 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198780
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  24. 28
    The Silence in the Garden1988 · confirmed 1/4
    1988–
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  25. 29
    Family Sins1989 · confirmed 1/4
    1989–
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  26. 30
    My House in Umbria1991 · 151 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991151
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William Trevor 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

55 books

55 William Trevor titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read William Trevor books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 55 William Trevor books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with William Trevor

Start with A Standard of Behaviour (1958), the earliest published title.

What is the newest William Trevor book?

Last Stories (2018) is the newest William Trevor book released so far.

Is there a new William Trevor book coming?

No next William Trevor 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 William Trevor has won

Wikidata records 4 awards and 5 nominations for William Trevor. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

William Trevor at a glance

Died
William Trevor died in 2016, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to William Trevor are still being published after William Trevor's death in 2016; the newest appeared in 2018.
Release pace
William Trevor books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
9,831 pages across the 45 of 55 books with a recorded length, a median of 212 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most William Trevor books, 13 of 55, were published in the 1990s.

What the William Trevor books are about

50 of the 55 William Trevor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 18 of 50. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.