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Ian McEwan Books in Order
Ian McEwan is a celebrated English novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he earned a BA in English Literature in 1970, and later received his MA in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have garnered international critical acclaim, with notable awards including the Somerset Maugham Award for his short story collection First Love, Last Rites in 1976, the Whitbread Novel Award for The Child in Time in 1987, and the Prix Fémina Etranger for the same novel in 1993. He won Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999 and the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received multiple prestigious awards, including the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002, National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award in 2003, and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel in 2004, solidifying his position as a masterful storyteller.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Ian McEwan's book series? Ian McEwan has written 4 book series. The most notable is the Non-Fiction series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Ian McEwan
- #1
Conversations with Ian McEwan(2010) - #2
The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories(1981) - #3
Best of Young British Novelists(1983) - #4
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories(1987) - #5
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers(2005) - #6
Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change(2006) - #7
Berlin(2010) - #8
That Glimpse of Truth(2014) - #9
Thinking Ahead: Pirelli: 150 Years of Industry, Innovation and Culture(2022)
- #1
The Cement Garden(1978) - #2The Comfort of Strangers(1981)
- #3
The Child in Time(1987) - #4
The Innocent(1990) - #5
Black Dogs(1992) - #6
The Daydreamer(1994) - #7Enduring Love(1997)
- #8Amsterdam(1998)
- #9Atonement(2001)
- #10
Saturday(2005) - #11On Chesil Beach(2007)
- #12
For You(2008) - #13
Solar(2010) - #14
Sweet Tooth(2012) - #15
The Children Act(2014) - #16
Nutshell(2016) - #17
Machines Like Me(2019) - #18
Lessons(2022) - #19What We Can Know(2025)
- #20
My Purple Scented Novel(2016) - #21
The Cockroach(2019) - #22Science(2019)
- #23
First Love, Last Rites(1975) - #24
In Between the Sheets(1978) - #25The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television(1981)
- #26
Or Shall We Die?(1983) - #27
A Move Abroad(1989) - #28
The Short Stories(1995)
- #1
The Ploughman's Lunch(1985) - #2
Soursweet(1989)
- #1
The Compass of the Moon and Stars(2024)
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is a celebrated English novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he earned a BA in English Literature in 1970, and later received his MA in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have garnered international critical acclaim, with notable awards including the Somerset Maugham Award for his short story collection First Love, Last Rites in 1976, the Whitbread Novel Award for The Child in Time in 1987, and the Prix Fémina Etranger for the same novel in 1993. He won Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999 and the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received multiple prestigious awards, including the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002, National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award in 2003, and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel in 2004, solidifying his position as a masterful storyteller.
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