Jose Saramago

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

    A disgruntled portrait artist in 1970s Portugal turn to writing in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s debut novel, now available in English translation.Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before ...

  • Baltasar and Blimunda

    “A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” -- The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church ...

  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author: “A capacious, funny, threatening novel” of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (The New York Times Book Review). The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establis...

  • The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

    A fictional account of the life of Christ “illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry” -- from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Skylight (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the s...

  • The Stone Raft

    A “marvelously amusing” political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   A Nobel Prize winner who has been called “the García Márquez of Portugal” (New...

  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon

    A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a “brilliantly original” novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a respectabl...

  • Blindness

    A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller  • "This is a shattering work by a literary master.” -- B...

  • The Tale of the Unknown Island

    A dreamer petitions his king for a boat -- and gets more than he bargained for -- in “this richly enigmatic short story” by the Nobel Prize-winning author (Kirkus).“A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's hou...

  • All the Names

    Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are ...



  • The Cave

    An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune).  A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book   Ci...

  • The Double

    A “wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality” from a Nobel Prize"winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits (The Boston Globe).   As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano M...

  • Seeing

    A strange protest triggers a descent into paranoia and chaos in this “illuminating parable” -- a sequel to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Blindness (Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian, UK).On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard th...

  • Death With Interruptions

    On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration--flags are hung out on balco...

  • Little Memories

    José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illite...

  • The Elephant's Journey

    Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given tw...

  • The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago

    This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Ba...

  • Blindness // Seeing

    A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness t...

  • Cain

    In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice o...

  • Raised from the Ground

    A multigenerational family saga that paints a sweeping portrait of twentieth-century Portugal First published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize-winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family -- poor landless ...



  • The Lives of Things

    The Lives of Things collects José Saramago’s early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist’s imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageo...

  • Skylight

    Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lídia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Hum...

  • Death at Intervals

  • The Lizard

    A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists.When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the...

  • The Silence of Water

    A story of quiet contemplation and steely resolve by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, illustrated for readers of all ages.“I returned to the spot, even though the sun had already set, I cast my hook into the water and waited. I don't t...

  • An Unexpected Light

    Nobel Prize winner José Saramago tells a quiet and poetic story, an excerpt from his book Small Memories, of a lasting childhood experience of simple, soulful joy.The narrator's memories of a lost childhood paradise focus on two glorious days w...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jose Saramago has published 25 books.

Jose Saramago does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Unexpected Light, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Jose Saramago, The Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, was published in January 1979.

No. Jose Saramago does not write books in series.
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