David Lodge published 28 novels, 1 novella, 1 short story collection and 5 non-fiction books, beginning with The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965). The best-known is Small World: An Academic Romance (1984).
Updated September 2026
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Small World: An Academic Romance
David Lodge's most-read book.
Standalone novels in order
Ginger, You're Barmy (1962)
The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965)
Language of Fiction (1966)
Tess, Nature and the Voices of Hardy (1966)
Jane Austen: Emma (1968)
Out of the Shelter (1970)
The Uses and Abuses of Omniscience (1970)
Changing Places (1975)
The Modes of Modern Writing (1977)
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism a Reader (1977)
How Far Can You Go? (1980)
Souls and Bodies (1980)
Working with Structuralism (1981)
Small World: An Academic Romance (1984)
Small World (1986)
Nice Work (1988)
Paradise News (1991)
The Picturegoers (1991)
The Art of Fiction (Oct 1992)
Therapy (1995)
The Practice of Writing (1996)
Thinks (2001)
"Author, Author" (Oct 2004)
The Year of Henry James (2006)
Deaf Sentence (2008)
A Man of Parts (Jan 2012)
Quite a Good Time to Be Born (2015)
Writer's Luck (2018)
Novellas in order
Home Truths (1999)
Short story collections in order
The Novelist at the Crossroads (1971)
Non-fiction in order
20th Century Literary Criticism (1972)
Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism (1977)
Write on (1986)
Modern Criticism and Theory (1988)
Lives in Writing (2015)
About David Lodge
David John Lodge was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
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David Lodge FAQ
- How many books has David Lodge written?
- David Lodge published 28 novels, 1 novella, 1 short story collection and 5 non-fiction books that we list, as of September 2026.
- What order should I read David Lodge's books in?
- Publication order is a safe choice; the full list is above. Most readers start with Small World: An Academic Romance.
- What is David Lodge's last book?
- Writer's Luck (2018).
- What is David Lodge's most famous book?
- Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) is David Lodge's most widely read book.
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