V. S. Naipaul - List of Works

List of Works

Fiction

• The Mystic Masseur – (1957) (film version: The Mystic Masseur (2001))
• The Suffrage of Elvira – (1958)
• Miguel Street – (1959)
• A House for Mr Biswas – (1961)
• Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion – (1963)
• The Mimic Men – (1967)
• A Flag on the Island – (1967)
• In a Free State – (1971): Booker prize
• Guerrillas – (1975)
• A Bend in the River – (1979)
• Finding the Centre – (1984)
• The Enigma of Arrival – (1987)
• A Way in the World – (1994)
• Half a Life – (2001)
• Magic Seeds – (2004)

Non-fiction

• The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962)
• An Area of Darkness (1964)
• The Loss of El Dorado – (1969)
• The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
• India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
• A Congo Diary (1980)
• The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980)
• Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981)
• A Turn in the South (1989)
• India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
• Homeless by Choice (1992, with R. Jhabvala and Salman Rushdie)
• Bombay (1994, with Raghubir Singh)
• Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
• Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999, edited by Gillon Aitken)
• Reading & Writing: A Personal Account (2000)
• The Writer and the World: Essays – (2002)
• Literary Occasions: Essays (2003, by Pankaj Mishra)
• A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007)
• The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010)