How many books has Anna Burns written?

Anna Burns has written 32 books across 2 series. Their published works span from 1955 to 2021.

What is the first book in each Anna Burns series?

Here are the first books in Anna Burns's series: Faber Stories: A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor).

What order should I read Anna Burns's books?

We recommend reading Anna Burns's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.

Are Anna Burns's series complete?

Anna Burns has 1 completed series.

Anna Burns Reading Order

2 series · 32 books · Born 1962

Literary Fiction

Anna Burns is a Northern Irish literary fiction writer whose experimental narratives often challenge conventional storytelling forms. Her most acclaimed work, Milkman, earned major international recognition including the 2018 Booker Prize and the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction, establishing her as a significant voice in contemporary literature. Burns has published extensively across standalone novels and short fiction collections, bringing psychological depth and linguistic innovation to explorations of identity and social constraint.

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Faber Stories Series

Complete

28 books (1955–2019)

Faber Stories is a complete literary fiction anthology series comprising 28 standalone stories published between 1955 and 2019. Each book in the series features a single short story by a different acclaimed author, including works by Flannery O'Connor, Alan Bennett, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, and Barbara Kingsolver. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." These are independent entries that can be enjoyed in any sequence, making the series ideal for readers seeking curated literary short fiction from a range of contemporary and classic authors.

Start with A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor), the first of 28 books in the Faber Stories series.

Start this series with A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor)

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1	A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor) 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Inner Room(By: Robert Aickman) 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Daughters of Passion(By: Julia O'Faolain) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Giacomo Joyce(By: Richard Ellmann) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Homeland(By: Barbara Kingsolver) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Shanti(By: Vikram Chandra) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine(By: Thom Jones) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	An Elegy for Easterly(By: Petina Gappah) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Shielding of Mrs Forbes(By: Alan Bennett) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Cheater's Guide to Love(By: Junot Díaz) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Mostly Hero 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Mrs Fox(By: Sarah Hall) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Mr Salary(By: Sally Rooney) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	A River in Egypt(By: David Means) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Come Rain or Come Shine(By: Kazuo Ishiguro) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Cosmopolitan(By: Akhil Sharma) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Dante and the Lobster(By: Samuel Beckett) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Fairy Tales(By: Marianne Moore) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Ghostly Stories(By: Celia Fremlin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Intruders(By: Adrian Tomine) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom(By: Sylvia Plath) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Paradise(By: Edna O'Brien) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Terrific Mother(By: Lorrie Moore) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Country Funeral(By: John McGahern) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Forester's Daughter(By: Claire Keegan) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Lydia Steptoe Stories(By: Djuna Barnes) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Victim(By: P.D. James) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Three Types of Solitude(By: Brian W. Aldiss) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Novels Series

Likely Complete

4 books (2001–2021)

Anna Burns has written four literary fiction novels published between 2001 and 2021 that should be read in publication order: No Bones, Little Constructions, Milkman, and Love at Cafe Lompar. While each novel stands alone as a complete story, readers interested in exploring Burns's evolving body of work will benefit from experiencing them in the order they were released. The series appears to be complete as of 2021.

Start with No Bones, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.

Start this series with No Bones