Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zone | 2008 | Mathias Énard | Buy |
| 2 | Street of Thieves | 2012 | Mathias Énard | Buy |
| 3 | Compass | 2015 | Mathias Énard | Buy |
| 4 | Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants | 2018 | Mathias Énard | Buy |
| 5 | The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild | 2020 | Mathias Énard | Buy |
| 6 | The Deserters | 2025 | Mathias Énard | Buy |
Mathias Enard’s six standalone novels span from Zone in 2008 to The Deserters in 2025. Zone is a formally audacious single-sentence novel following an intelligence agent across the Mediterranean. Street of Thieves (2012) engages with the Arab Spring, while Compass (2015) won the Prix Goncourt for its sweeping meditation on the artistic dialogue between Europe and the Islamic world.
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (2018) imagines Michelangelo accepting an invitation from the Ottoman sultan, and The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild (2020) turns to rural France. The Deserters (2025) is his most recent work. Each novel demonstrates Enard’s restless intellectual curiosity and his commitment to bridging cultural divides through fiction.