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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "V.S. Naipaul" (1972) and follow publication order through all 33 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
V.S. Naipaul
1972
The Great Railway Bazaar
1975
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
1979
To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels
1980
The Kingdom by the Sea
1983
Sailing Through China
1984
The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
1985
Patagonia Revisited (With: Bruce Chatwin)
1985
Sunrise with Seamonsters
1985
Nowhere Is a Place (With: Bruce Chatwin)
1986
Riding the Iron Rooster
1988
Travelling the World
1990
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
1992
The Pillars of Hercules
1995
Slow Trains to Simla
1996
Sir Vidia's Shadow
1998
Nurse Wolf and Dr. Sacks
2001
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
2002
2 Stars
2005
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
2008
The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
2011
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
2013
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
2015
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
2018
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
2019
The 23rd Pan Book of Horror Stories
1982
Travel Writing
1984
City Sleuths and Tough Guys
1989
The Literary Traveller
1994
A Tangled Web
2005
Cape Town Calling
2010
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
2012
The Best American Travel Writing 2014
2014
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