Ken Follett

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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About the Author

Ken Follet was born in Wales in 1949.He also writes under the names of, Martin Martinsen, Simon Myles, Bernard L Ross, and Zachary Stone. He was only 27 when he wrote 'Eye Of The Needle' published 1978 the award winning novel which became an international bestseller and a distinguished film. Before that, he had been a newspaper reporter and a publishing executive after studying philosophy at University college, London. He has writenten equally successful novels and the non-fiction bestseller 'On Wings Of Eagles'. Ken Follet lives in London and Stevenage.

Full Series List in Order

The Century Trilogy

1 - Fall of Giants (Oct-2010)
2 - Winter of the World (Sep-2012)
3 - Edge of Eternity (Sep-2014)

Kingsbridge

0.5 - The Evening and the Morning (Sep-2020)
1 - The Pillars of the Earth (Aug-1989)
2 - World Without End (Oct-2007)
3 - A Column of Fire (Sep-2017)
4 - The Armor of Light (Oct-2023)

Piers Roper

1 - The Shakeout (1975)
2 - The Bear Raid (1976)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • The Big Needle

  • The Shakeout

    Piers Roper - 1

    Ruthless industrial spy Piers Roper joins Holmes Motor Corporation to help another company engineer a takeover, but a beautiful Holmes' executive gets under his skin and weakens his formidable powers of manipulation...

  • The Bear Raid

    Piers Roper - 2

    When Piers Roper--a top executive for one of England's largest automakers, but actually a spy for MAC, its rival--learns of a plan to sabotage MAC, he travels to Detroit in an attempt to track down the spy...

  • The Modigliani Scandal

    THE PRIZE A fabulous "lost masterpiece".. and the instant fame and fortune that came with it. THE PLAYERS A beautiful art historian who would do anything to anyone to get there first. An angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art est...

  • Paper Money

    PAPER MONEY It was worth a night of sex that a high government official would never forget. PAPER MONEY It was worth setting the stock market spinning in a ruthless grab for a giant corporation. PAPER MONEY It was worth any gamble for a corporate r...

  • The Eye of the Needle

    It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be scuppered if an enemy agent found out... and then, Hitler's prize agent, “The Needle”, does just that....

  • Triple

    "It was never determined what had actually happened to the 200 tons of uranium", but three countries know the truth. Three young men met decades ago and now world events have cast them as adversaries. Nat, Israel's hero, known as 'The Pirate', stages...

  • The Key to Rebecca

    He is known to the Germans as 'Sphinx', to others as Alex Wolff, a European businessman. He arrives suddenly in Cairo from out of the desert, armed with a radio set, a lethal blade and a copy of Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA - a ruthless man with a bu...

  • The Man from St. Petersburg

    In 1914, Germany arms for war and the allies are preparing their defences. Both sides need Russia. The Earl of Walden and Winston Churchill plan a secret Russian alliance, but a man steals into England, intent on leaving his mark on history. Fate cat...



  • On Wings of Eagles

    This is the real-life story of a Green Beret colonel, who came out of retirement to lead a secret raid, the computer executives, shaped into a crack commando team and the Texas industrialist, who would not abandon two Americans in an Iranian jail. Af...

  • Lie Down With Lions

    In the Afghan mountains lies the Valley of Five Lions, a place of ancient legend. To it come two young aid workers and an American who has a message for the legendary guerrilla leader, Masud, who is wanted dead or alive by the Russians. Below, in the...

  • The Pillars of the Earth

    Kingsbridge - 1

    In a time of civil war, famine and religious strife, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge. Against this backdrop, lives entwine: Tom, the master builder, Aliena, the noblewoman, Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack, the artist in ston...

  • The Mystery Hideout

  • The Power Twins

    Fritz and Helen are amazed when they awaken one morning with supernatural powers. Meanwhile, in another galaxy, two sinister empires are in a power struggle over an innocent planet. Can Fritz and Helen use their powers to settle the dispute and save ...

  • Night over Water

    In 1939, with war just declared, a group of privileged people board the most luxurious airliner ever built the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, a German scientist, a murderer under escort, a young wife escaping her hus...

  • Pillars of the Almighty

    In an unusual presentation of a popular novel, photographs of cathedrals and the art of the stonemason are combined with excerpts from "Pillars of the Earth," Follett's tale of twelfth-century England...

  • A Dangerous Fortune

    In 1866, a schoolboy drowns in a mysterious accident. Present are Hugh Pilaster and his older cousin Edward, the dissolute heir to a banking fortune and Micky Miranda, son of a brutal South American landowner. Caught in the ensuing maelstrom are sly ...

  • A Place Called Freedom

    Hidden by a Scottish river bank in the winter of 1767, Lizzie Hallim watches a naked figure emerging from the icy water. Mack McAsh is a slave and Lizzie is helping him escape. Mack challenges the mighty Jamisson family, which enslaves whole families...

  • The Third Twin

    Young scientist Jeannie Ferrami discovers a baffling mystery. Two young men, law student Steve and convicted murderer Dan, appear to be identical twins. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers. Jeannie investigates, but shadowy for...



  • The Hammer of Eden

    The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: An extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For Califo...

  • Code to Zero

    January, 1958--the darkest hour of the cold war and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America's best hope to catch up with the Russians--the Explorer I satellite. But at the last moment, the launch is delayed ...

  • Jackdaws

    Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sab...

  • Hornet Flight

    It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcu...

  • Whiteout

    A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Twelve missing samples of a deadly virus. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. As a Christmas Eve bliz...

  • World Without End

    Kingsbridge - 2

    World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the cente...

  • Fall of Giants

    The Century Trilogy - 1

    A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits....An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career, in Woodrow Wilson's White House....A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step a...

  • Winter of the World

    The Century Trilogy - 2

    Ken Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age. Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in his extraor...

  • World Without End Deluxe Edition

    Experience the blockbuster novel with multiple multimedia enhancements…  This enhanced e-book includes the full text of World Without End -- Ken Follett’s #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to The Pillars of the Earth and the basis for the eig...

  • Edge of Eternity

    The Century Trilogy - 3

    The sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy. In "Fall of Giants" and "Winter of the World," Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families -- American, German, Russian...



  • A Column of Fire

    Kingsbridge - 3

    International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett’s magn...

  • The Evening and the Morning

    Kingsbridge - 0.5

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks f...

  • Never

    The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. “Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.” So says Pauline...

  • The Armor of Light

    Kingsbridge - 4

    The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and b...

  • Circle of Days

    From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.  A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witne...

Award-Winning Books by Ken Follett

The Eye of the Needle
1979 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
Fall of Giants
2010 Goodreads Choice Award -- Historical Fiction
Jackdaws
2003 Audies -- Fiction-Abridged


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ken Follett has published 34 books.

The next book by Ken Follett, Circle of Days, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Ken Follett, The Big Needle, was published in January 1974.

Yes. Ken Follett has 3 series.
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