J.M. Coetzee

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1982
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Jesus

1 - The Childhood of Jesus (Sep-2013)
2 - The Schooldays of Jesus (Feb-2017)
3 - The Death of Jesus (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Waiting for the Barbarians

    A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal serv...

  • Life and Times of Michael K

    From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a So...

  • Dusklands

    "J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being." -- Nadine GordimerThe revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. CoetzeeA shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links b...

  • Foe

    With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe -- and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itsel...

  • Age of Iron

    Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron....

  • The Master of Petersburg

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summon...

  • Disgrace

    After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing ...

  • The Lives of Animals

    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying mag...

  • Stranger Shores

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-p...



  • Elizabeth Costello

    In his new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale told through an ingenious series of formal addresses. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's l...

  • Youth

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to...

  • The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003

    In his acceptance speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, J. M. Coetzee delivered an intriguing and enigmatic short story, "He and His Man." The story features Robinson Crusoe, long after his return from the island, reflecting on death and spe...

  • Slow Man

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. J. M. Coetzee, one of the greatest living writers in the English language, has crafted a de...

  • Bookclub-in-A-Box Discusses Disgrace

  • Diary of a Bad Year

    In this brilliant new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee once again breaks new literary ground with a book that is, in the words of its main character, ?a response to the present in which I find myself.? Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics...

  • The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals

    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnit...

  • New Writing From Africa 2009

    What's on the minds of African writers? The South African Chapter of PEN International asked the question, and this volume of collected works holds the answer. More than 800 pieces of new writing from across the continent flowed in once the call for ...

  • Summertime

    A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.

    A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies...

  • Life & Times of Michael K



  • The Childhood of Jesus

    Jesus - 1

    Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a ne...

  • Three Stories

  • Boyhood

  • The Schooldays of Jesus

    Jesus - 2

    “When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are...

  • In the Heart of the Country

    A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 ...

  • Late Essays

    A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prizeâ€"winning author. J. M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the...

  • The Death of Jesus

    Jesus - 3

    After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, an...

  • The Pole

    One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall" From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships.Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. ...

  • The Pole and Other Stories

Award-Winning Books by J.M. Coetzee

Disgrace
1999 Man Booker Prize -- Novel
Life and Times of Michael K
1983 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.M. Coetzee has published 28 books.

J.M. Coetzee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Pole and Other Stories, was published in October 2023.

The first book by J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, was published in May 1982.

Yes. J.M. Coetzee has 1 series.
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