Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other Colors | 1999 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 2 | Istanbul: Memories and the City | 2003 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 3 | My Father’s Suitcase | 2007 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 4 | The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist | 2010 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 5 | The Innocence of Objects | 2012 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 6 | Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022 | 2024 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
Orhan Pamuk’s non-fiction works span memoir, literary criticism, and art. Istanbul: Memories and the City, published in 2003, is his most celebrated non-fiction work, weaving his childhood memories with the history, architecture, and melancholy of Istanbul.
Other Colors is a collection of essays and writings that range across literature, art, and daily life. The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist offers Pamuk’s thoughts on the art of the novel. His most recent work, Memories of Distant Mountains, reproduces his illustrated notebooks from 2009 to 2022.