Patrick Modiano

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Night Rounds

  • Trace of Malice

  • Honeymoon

    WINNER OF THE 2014 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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    Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and car...

  • Out of the Dark

    Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of more than thirty books and one of France’s most admired contemporary novelists. Out of the Dark is a moody, expertly rendered tale of a love affair between two drifters...

  • Catherine Certitude

    This charming book will delight any child or adult who appreciates ballet, Paris, New York, childhood, and mystery (not necessarily in that order). The book's plot is deceptively simple: Catherine, the eponymous heroine, begins her story watching her...

  • Missing Person

    An amnesiac searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by the Nobel Prize"winning author of Dora Bruder.Guy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. For ten years, he has lived wi...

  • Dora Bruder

    2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish gir...

  • Suspended Sentences

    In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the vo...

  • The Night Watch

    When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. THE NIGHT WATCH is his second novel and tells the story of a young...



  • Ring Roads

    Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the wa...

  • Pedigree

  • So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

    In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary bu...

  • Paris Nocturne

    This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a d...

  • After the Circus

    One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed autho...

  • In the Cafe of Lost Youth

    NYRB Classics Original
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

    In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drink...

  • Young Once

    AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature   Young Once is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and f...

  • Little Jewel

    A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers For long standing admirers of Modiano’s luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel wil...

  • The Black Notebook

    A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a ...

  • The Occupation Trilogy

    'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant' Independent When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the O...



  • Such Fine Boys

    Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. I...

  • Sundays in August

    From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterly and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missin...

  • Sleep of Memory

    The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano’s first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author’s past to produce...

  • Family Record

    An enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of i...

  • Invisible Ink

    Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly)“Nobel Prize winner Modiano’s title smartly ties together the theme, plot, and ambience of his latest book . . . The past overlaps and ...

  • Scene of the Crime

    A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize"winning author Patrick Modiano   “Polizzotti’s crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader hooked.” -- Publishers Weekly   In his acclaimed semi-autobi...

  • Ballerina

    A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narrator’s love inter...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patrick Modiano has published 26 books.

The next book by Patrick Modiano, Ballerina, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Patrick Modiano, Night Rounds, was published in January 1971.

No. Patrick Modiano does not write books in series.
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