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V.S. Naipaul Books in Order
V.S. Naipaul is a celebrated Trinidadian writer, born of Indian indentured servants who emigrated to the island. His works traverse the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all penned in his characteristic, widely admired prose. At 17, he secured a Trinidad Government scholarship to study abroad, which he utilized to pursue a degree in English at Oxford, a choice that allowed him to finally dedicate himself to writing. The scholarship marked the beginning of his illustrious career, which spanned decades and continents. Ultimately, Naipaul's literary prowess earned him the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature for his masterful fusion of perceptive narrative and incisive scrutiny.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of V.S. Naipaul's book series? V.S. Naipaul has written 6 book series. The most notable is the Akashic Noir series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by V.S. Naipaul
- #1
San Francisco Noir(2002) - #2
Seattle Noir(2003) - #3
Bronx Noir(2003) - #4
Brooklyn Noir(2004) - #5
Brooklyn Noir 2(2005) - #6
Chicago Noir(2005) - #7
Dublin Noir(2005) - #8
Manhattan Noir(2006) - #9
Miami Noir(2006) - #10
D.C. Noir(2006) - #11
Baltimore Noir(2006) - #12
Twin Cities Noir(2006) - #13
London Noir(2006) - #14
New Orleans Noir(2007) - #15
Los Angeles Noir(2007) - #16
Wall Street Noir(2007) - #17
Havana Noir(2007) - #18
Detroit Noir(2007) - #19
Queens Noir(2008) - #20
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth(2008) - #21
Toronto Noir(2008) - #22
Las Vegas Noir(2008) - #23
Trinidad Noir(2008) - #24
D.C. Noir 2(2008) - #25
Manhattan Noir 2(2008) - #26
Paris Noir(2008) - #27
Istanbul Noir(2008) - #28
Boston Noir(2009) - #29
Rome Noir(2009) - #30
San Francisco Noir 2(2009) - #31
Portland Noir(2009) - #32
Delhi Noir(2009) - #33
Phoenix Noir(2009) - #34
Los Angeles Noir 2(2010) - #35
Mexico City Noir(2010) - #36
Richmond Noir(2010) - #37
Orange County Noir(2010) - #38
Indian Country Noir(2010) - #39
Moscow Noir(2010) - #40
Lone Star Noir(2010) - #41
Philadelphia Noir(2010) - #42
Haiti Noir(2010) - #43
Copenhagen Noir(2010) - #44
Pittsburgh Noir(2011) - #45
San Diego Noir(2011) - #46
Barcelona Noir(2011) - #47
Cape Cod Noir(2011) - #48
New Jersey Noir(2011) - #49
Staten Island Noir(2012) - #50When They Are Done With Us(2012)
- #51
Mumbai Noir(2012) - #52
Long Island Noir(2012) - #53
Venice Noir(2012) - #54
Kingston Noir(2012) - #55
St. Petersburg Noir(2012) - #56
Kansas City Noir(2012) - #57
Boston Noir 2(2012) - #58
USA Noir(2013) - #59
Manila Noir(2013) - #60
Buffalo Noir(2013) - #61
Dallas Noir(2013) - #62
Haiti Noir 2(2013) - #63
Singapore Noir(2014) - #64
Prison Noir(2014) - #65
Tel Aviv Noir(2014) - #66
Tehran Noir(2014) - #67
Belfast Noir(2014) - #68
Helsinki Noir(2014) - #69
Rio Noir(2014) - #70
Providence Noir(2015) - #71
Chicago Noir: The Classics(2015) - #72
Memphis Noir(2015) - #73
Zagreb Noir(2015) - #74
Marseille Noir(2015) - #75
Beirut Noir(2015) - #76
New Orleans Noir: The Classics(2016) - #77
Stockholm Noir(2016) - #78
Brussels Noir(2016) - #79
Mississippi Noir(2016) - #80
St. Louis Noir(2016) - #81
Prague Noir(2016) - #82
San Juan Noir(2016) - #83
Oakland Noir(2017) - #84
Trinidad Noir: The Classics(2017) - #85
Atlanta Noir(2017) - #86
New Haven Noir(2017) - #87
Montana Noir(2017) - #88
Buenos Aires Noir(2017) - #89
Montreal Noir(2017) - #90
Berlin Noir(2018) - #91
São Paulo Noir(2018) - #92
Santa Cruz Noir(2018) - #93
Lagos Noir(2018) - #94
Marrakech Noir(2018) - #95
Baghdad Noir(2018) - #96
Vancouver Noir(2018) - #97
Sydney Noir(2018) - #98
Hong Kong Noir(2018) - #99
Amsterdam Noir(2019) - #100
Milwaukee Noir(2019) - #101
Houston Noir(2019) - #102
Nairobi Noir(2020) - #103
Columbus Noir(2020) - #104
Santa Fe Noir(2020) - #105
Alabama Noir(2020) - #106
Berkeley Noir(2020) - #107
Addis Ababa Noir(2020) - #108
Tampa Bay Noir(2020) - #109
Miami Noir: The Classics(2020) - #110
Accra Noir(2020) - #111
Belgrade Noir(2020) - #112
Palm Springs Noir(2021) - #113
Paris Noir: The Suburbs(2022) - #114
Denver Noir(2022) - #115
South Central Noir(2022) - #116
Cleveland Noir(2023) - #117
East Jerusalem Noir(2023) - #118
West Jerusalem Noir(2023) - #119
Honolulu Noir(2024) - #120
Sacramento Noir(2025) - #121
Hamburg Noir(2025)
- #1
An Area of Darkness(1964) - #2
A Wounded Civilization(1976) - #3
A Million Mutinies Now(1990)
- #1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969) - #2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981) - #3
Conversations with Graham Greene(1983) - #4
Conversations with Eudora Welty(1985) - #5
Conversations with Walker Percy(1985) - #6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985) - #7
Conversations with William Styron(1985) - #8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986) - #9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman(1986) - #10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams(1986) - #11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986) - #12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987) - #13
Truman Capote: Conversations(1987) - #14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987) - #15
Conversations with Peter Taylor(1987) - #16
Conversations with Arthur Miller(1987) - #17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988) - #18
Conversations with Edward Albee(1988) - #19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988) - #20
Conversations with Norman Mailer(1988) - #21
Conversations with Robert Graves(1989) - #22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989) - #23
Conversations with Shelby Foote(1989) - #24
Conversations with Robertson Davies(1989) - #25
Conversations with James Baldwin(1989) - #26
Conversations with John Gardner(1990) - #27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur(1990) - #28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe(1990) - #29
Conversations with Raymond Carver(1990) - #30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990) - #31
Conversations with Reynolds Price(1991) - #32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud(1991) - #33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991) - #34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992) - #35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder(1992) - #36
Conversations with Robert Coles(1992) - #37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992) - #38
More Conversations with Walker Percy(1993) - #39
Conversations with Richard Wright(1993) - #40
Conversations with Paul Bowles(1993) - #41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994) - #42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka(1994) - #43
Conversations with Toni Morrison(1994) - #44
Conversations with Saul Bellow(1994) - #45
Conversations with Henry Miller(1994) - #46
Conversations with Ernest Gaines(1995) - #47
Conversations with Ralph Ellison(1995) - #48
Conversations with Chester Himes(1995) - #49
Conversations with Susan Sontag(1995) - #50
Conversations with Ishmael Reed(1995) - #51
Conversations with Derek Walcott(1996) - #52
More Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996) - #53
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996) - #54
Conversations with Pauline Kael(1996) - #55Conversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997)
- #56
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997) - #57
Conversations with Chinua Achebe(1997) - #58
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998) - #59
Conversations with Denise Levertov(1998) - #60
Conversations With William Faulkner(1999) - #61
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999) - #62
Conversations With John Fowles(1999) - #63
Conversations with Salman Rushdie(2000) - #64
Conversations with William S. Burroughs(2000) - #65
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000) - #66
Conversations with Chaim Potok(2001) - #67
Conversations with Richard Ford(2001) - #68
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001) - #69
Conversations with Mary Gordon(2002) - #70
Conversations with Jim Harrison(2002) - #71
Conversations with Clarence Major(2002) - #72
Conversations with Margaret Walker(2002) - #73
Conversations with Erica Jong(2002) - #74
Elie Wiesel: Conversations(2002) - #75
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003) - #76
Conversations with Rita Dove(2003) - #77
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003) - #78
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003) - #79
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003) - #80
Conversations with Gloria Naylor(2004) - #81
Conversations with Audre Lorde(2004) - #82
Conversations with Ray Bradbury(2004) - #83
Conversations With John le Carré(2004) - #84
Conversations with Isaac Asimov(2005) - #85
Conversations with Don DeLillo(2005) - #86
Conversations with Gore Vidal(2005) - #87
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005) - #88
Conversations with Jack Kerouac(2005) - #89
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005) - #90
Conversations with Thomas McGuane(2006) - #91
Conversations with Larry Brown(2007) - #92
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007) - #93
Conversations with Wendell Berry(2007) - #94
Conversations with Leon Forrest(2007) - #95
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
- #1The Middle Passage(1962)
- #2
Reading and Writing(1968) - #3
The Loss of El Dorado(1969) - #4
The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners(1977) - #5The Return of Eva Peron(1980)
- #6
A Congo Diary(1980) - #7Among the Believers(1981)
- #8
A Turn In The South(1989) - #9Beyond Belief(1998)
- #10
Between Father and Son(1999) - #11
The Writer and the World(2002) - #12
Literary Occasions(2003) - #13
A Writer's People(2007) - #14
The Masque of Africa(2010) - #15
India Essays(2018)
- #1The Mimic Men(1867)
- #2
The Mystic Masseur(1957) - #3The Suffrage of Elvira(1958)
- #4Miguel Street(1959)
- #5
A House for Mr Biswas(1961) - #6
Mr Stone And The Knights Companion(1963) - #7In a Free State(1971)
- #8
Guerrillas(1975) - #9A Bend in the River(1979)
- #10
Finding the Center(1984) - #11
Overcrowded Barracoon(1984) - #12
The Enigma of Arrival(1987) - #13
A Way in the World(1994) - #14
A Flag on the Island(1967) - #15
Collected Short Fiction(1971) - #16
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book(2002) - #17
Vintage Naipaul(2004)
- #1Half a Life(2001)
- #2Magic Seeds(2004)
About V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul is a celebrated Trinidadian writer, born of Indian indentured servants who emigrated to the island. His works traverse the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all penned in his characteristic, widely admired prose. At 17, he secured a Trinidad Government scholarship to study abroad, which he utilized to pursue a degree in English at Oxford, a choice that allowed him to finally dedicate himself to writing. The scholarship marked the beginning of his illustrious career, which spanned decades and continents. Ultimately, Naipaul's literary prowess earned him the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature for his masterful fusion of perceptive narrative and incisive scrutiny.
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