Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Reader | 1995 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 2 | Homecoming | 2006 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 3 | Guilt About the Past | 2007 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 4 | The Gordian Knot | 2009 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 5 | The Weekend | 2010 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 6 | The Woman on the Stairs | 2014 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 7 | Olga | 2020 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
| 8 | The Granddaughter | 2021 | Bernhard Schlink | Buy |
Bernhard Schlink’s standalone novels can be read in any order, with each title telling a self-contained story. The collection opens with The Reader in 1995 and spans more than two decades of fiction, taking in titles like Homecoming (2006), Guilt About the Past (2007), and The Gordian Knot (2009) along the way.
The second half of the catalog picks up again with The Weekend (2010) and The Woman on the Stairs (2014), before the series closes out with Olga (2020) and The Granddaughter (2021). The eight novels together represent a long and varied body of work in fiction, written by the same author across a stretch of nearly thirty years.