Books in Order: A Comprehensive Guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's Publications

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki and moved to the UK at the age of five, and that early uprooting echoes through his work: memory, time, and self-deception are his lifelong subjects, usually handled by quiet first-person narrators the reader learns not to trust completely. The results — among them The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun — brought him the Nobel Prize in Literature, plus national honors from both France and Japan; The Remains of the Day also became an acclaimed film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

All eight of his novels are ordered here, from A Pale View of Hills in 1982 to Klara and the Sun in 2021 — thirty-nine years, eight books, and not a hurried one among them.