Order of V.S. Naipaul Books
Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British author of novels, travel literature and essays. He has written comic novels set in Trinidad and Tobago as well as bleaker novels and autobiographical works. Naipaul’s family originated in Nepal, moved to India, then to Trinidad (where he was born). He moved to London in 1954. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989.
V.S. Naipaul made his debut as a published author in 1957 with the novel The Mystic Masseur. Below is a list of V.S. Naipaul’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of India Trilogy Books
| An Area of Darkness | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Wounded Civilization | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Million Mutinies Now | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Willie Chandran Books
| Half a Life | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Magic Seeds | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Mimic Men | (1867) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystic Masseur | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Suffrage of Elvira | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Miguel Street | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A House for Mr Biswas | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mr Stone And The Knights Companion | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In a Free State | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guerrillas | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Bend in the River | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Finding the Center | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Overcrowded Barracoon | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Enigma of Arrival | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Way in the World | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| A Flag on the Island | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Short Fiction | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vintage Naipaul | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Middle Passage | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reading and Writing | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Loss of El Dorado | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Return of Eva Peron | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Congo Diary | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Among the Believers | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Turn In The South | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond Belief | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Between Father and Son | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Writer and the World | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Literary Occasions | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Writer's People | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Masque of Africa | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| India Essays | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Note: Sir Vidia’s Shadow was written with Paul Theroux.
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V.S. Naipaul Synopsis: Miguel Street is a standalone novel by V.S. Naipaul. To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner in the capital of Trinidad, their neighbourhood is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband.
