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Yoko Ogawa Books in Order

Yoko Ogawa has written 9 books, published between 1989 and 2011. The first book is Color In Fashion (1989) and the newest is Les Lectures des otages (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
1989–2011
Pages on record
1,271 in 6 of 9 books
Reading time
21–32 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,271 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

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Yoko Ogawa, born on 30 March 1962, is a Japanese writer. The Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize are among the Japanese awards recorded against the name, and the Shirley Jackson Award and American Book Award among those from abroad. The Memory Police reached the International Booker Prize shortlist in 2020. Eight novels and story collections are catalogued in English translation, among them The Diving Pool, Hotel Iris, Revenge, The Housekeeper and the Professor and Mina's Matchbox. A 1989 title on colour in clothing also carries the name.

How many Yoko Ogawa books are there?

Yoko Ogawa has 9 books, released between 1989 and 2011. 2 of them belong to the Yōko Ogawa series.

Yoko Ogawa Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Yoko Ogawa 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 Color In Fashion by Yoko Ogawa, book 1 of the Yōko Ogawa Non-Fiction series (1989)
  2. Cover of The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (1990)
  3. Cover of Dormitory by Yoko Ogawa, book 2 of the Yōko Ogawa series (1990)
  4. Cover of The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, book 1 of the Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels series (1994)
  5. Cover of Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa, book 2 of the Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels series (1996)
  6. Cover of Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, book 2 of the Yōko Ogawa series (1998)
  7. Cover of The Gift of Numbers / The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2003)
  8. Cover of Les Lectures des otages by Yoko Ogawa, book 5 of the Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels series (2011)
  1. 1
    Color In FashionYōko Ogawa Non-Fiction #11989 · confirmed 1/4
    1989–
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  2. 2
    The Diving Pool1990 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990176
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  3. 3
    DormitoryYōko Ogawa #21990 · 164 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990164
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  4. 4
    The Memory PoliceYōko Ogawa Standalone Novels #11994 · 274 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994274
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  5. 5
    Hotel IrisYōko Ogawa Standalone Novels #21996 · 164 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996164
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  6. 6
    RevengeYōko Ogawa #21998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  7. 7
    The Gift of Numbers / The Housekeeper and the ProfessorYōko Ogawa Standalone Novels #32003 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003304
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  8. 8
    Mina's MatchboxYōko Ogawa Standalone Novels #42006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  9. 9
    Les Lectures des otagesYōko Ogawa Standalone Novels #52011 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011189
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Yoko Ogawa 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.

Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels

5 books

5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Yōko Ogawa in order

2 books
  1. 2. Dormitory
  2. 2. Revenge

Yōko Ogawa Non-Fiction

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

1 book

1 Yoko Ogawa title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Yoko Ogawa books in order?

You only need to read Yoko Ogawa books in order within the Yōko Ogawa series, which holds 2 of the 9 Yoko Ogawa books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Yoko Ogawa

Start with Color In Fashion (1989), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Yoko Ogawa book?

Les Lectures des otages (2011) is the newest Yoko Ogawa book released so far.

Is there a new Yoko Ogawa book coming?

No next Yoko Ogawa 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 Yoko Ogawa has won

Wikidata records 8 awards and 3 nominations for Yoko Ogawa. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Kikuchi Kan Prize2021Won
  • Noma Literary Prize2020Won
  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection2008Wonfor The Diving Pool
  • Tanizaki Prize2006Won
  • Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature2004Won
  • Yomiuri Prize2004Won
  • Akutagawa Prize1990Won
  • Kaien Shinjin Bungakusho1988Won
  • International Booker Prize2020Shortlistedfor The Memory Police
  • Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2020Shortlistedfor The Memory Police
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Novel2020Shortlistedfor The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Yoko Ogawa title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Yoko Ogawa books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,271 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 182 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Yoko Ogawa books, 5 of 9, were published in the 1990s.

What the Yoko Ogawa books are about

7 of the 9 Yoko Ogawa 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 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.