James Kelman Books in Order
James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working-class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival."
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by James Kelman
- #1AmazonSome Recent Attacks(1992)
- #2AmazonAnd the Judges Said...(2002)
- #3AmazonWhy Ideas Matter (With: Noam Chomsky)(2021)
- #4AmazonThe State Is Your Enemy(2022)
- #5AmazonThe State is the Enemy(2023)
- #6AmazonAll We Have Is the Story(2024)
- #7AmazonAn Old Pub Near the Angel(1973)
- #8AmazonNot, Not While the Giro(1983)
- #9AmazonThe Bus Conductor Hines(1984)
- #10AmazonThe Burn(1991)
- #11AmazonHardie and Baird & Other Plays(1991)
- #12AmazonEssays and Stories(1995)
- #13AmazonSeven Stories(1997)
- #14AmazonSelected Stories(2001)
- #15AmazonIf it is Your Life(2010)
- #16AmazonA Lean Third(2015)
- #17AmazonThat Was a Shiver(2017)
- #18AmazonKeep Moving and No Questions(2022)
- #1AmazonA Chancer(1985)
- #2AmazonGreyhound for Breakfast(1988)
- #3AmazonA Disaffection(1989)
- #4AmazonHow Late It Was, How Late(1994)
- #5AmazonThe Good Times(1998)
- #6AmazonTranslated Accounts(2001)
- #7AmazonYou Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free(2004)
- #8AmazonKieron Smith, Boy(2008)
- #9AmazonMo Said She Was Quirky(2012)
- #10AmazonDirt Road(2016)
- #11AmazonGod's Teeth and Other Phenomena(2020)
About James Kelman
James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working-class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival."
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