Annie Ernaux

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1992
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • A Woman's Story

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews)Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a da...

  • A Man's Place

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookAnnie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his ...

  • Simple Passion

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookIn her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, a...

  • Frozen Woman

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict ...

  • Cleaned Out

    Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such a...

  • Exteriors

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURETaking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive....

  • The Possession

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURESelf-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfillment possible when we examine ourselves in the aftermath...

  • Happening

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed -- and world ominously narrowed -- in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment."--The New York T...

  • The Years

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural...



  • I Remain in Darkness

    This extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother―and of both women’s strength and resiliency―recounts Annie’s attempt to first help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease and, then, when that proves futile,...

  • Shame

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memor...

  • Do What They Say or Else

    Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie Ernaux. Set in a small town in Normandy, France, the novel tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Annie Ernaux has published 12 books.

Annie Ernaux does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Do What They Say or Else, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story, was published in April 1992.

No. Annie Ernaux does not write books in series.
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