Zadie Smith Books in Order
Zadie Smith has written 19 books, published between 2000 and 2025. The first book is White Teeth (2000) and the newest is Dead and Alive (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 2000–2025
- Pages on record
- 3,044 in 11 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 51–76 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,044 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Zadie Smith is an English novelist and essayist. The debut novel White Teeth (2000) opens a catalogue of 19 books running to 2025, which takes in The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), NW (2012), Swing Time (2016) and the essay collections Changing My Mind (2009) and Feel Free (2018). Immigration, ethnic relations, male friendship and social isolation recur as subjects. Smith remains actively publishing.
How many Zadie Smith books are there?
Zadie Smith has 19 books, released between 2000 and 2025.
Zadie Smith Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Zadie Smith 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.
- 1White Teeth2000 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/420004642/4
- 2The Autograph Man2002 · 347 pages · confirmed 2/420023472/4
- 3Martha and Hanwell2003 · confirmed 2/42003–2/4
- 4On Beauty2005 · confirmed 2/42005–2/4
- 5Changing My Mind2009 · confirmed 2/42009–2/4
- 6Stop What You're Doing and Read This!2011 · confirmed 2/42011–2/4
- 7NW2012 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/420124162/4
- 8The Embassy of Cambodia2013 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/42013962/4
- 9Swing Time2016 · confirmed 2/42016–2/4
- 10Feel Free2018 · 452 pages · confirmed 2/420184522/4
- 11Grand Union2019 · 245 pages · confirmed 2/420192452/4
- 12Intimations2020 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/420201122/4
- 13Weirdo2021 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/42021322/4
- 14The Wife of Willesden2021 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/42021642/4
- 15The Surprise2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
- 16The Fraud2023 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/420234642/4
- 172024–2/4
- 18In the Wild2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
- 19Dead and Alive2025 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420253522/4
Zadie Smith 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.
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18 books18 Zadie Smith titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Zadie Smith books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 19 Zadie Smith books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Zadie Smith
Start with White Teeth (2000), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Zadie Smith book?
Dead and Alive (2025) is the newest Zadie Smith book released so far.
Is there a new Zadie Smith book coming?
No next Zadie Smith 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 Zadie Smith has won
Wikidata records 12 awards and 3 nominations for Zadie Smith. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Bodley Medal2022Won
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature2018Won
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism2018Wonfor Feel Free
- Langston Hughes Medal2017Won
- Women's Prize for Fiction2006Wonfor On Beauty
- Somerset Maugham Award2006Wonfor On Beauty
- Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize2006Won
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards2006Won
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize2000Wonfor White Teeth
- writer in residence2000Won
- Costa Book Awards2000Wonfor White Teeth
- Guardian First Book Award2000Wonfor White Teeth
Zadie Smith at a glance
- Still publishing
- Zadie Smith published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Zadie Smith books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,044 pages across the 11 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 347 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Zadie Smith books, 8 of 19, were published in the 2020s.
What the Zadie Smith books are about
14 of the 19 Zadie Smith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: englisch is tagged on 2 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Englisch 2 of 14 books
- English essays 2 of 14 books
- English fiction 2 of 14 books
- English literature 2 of 14 books
- Essays 2 of 14 books
- FICTION / Literary 2 of 14 books
- Social isolation 2 of 14 books