Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silent House | 1983 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 2 | The White Castle | 1985 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 3 | The Black Book | 1990 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 4 | The New Life | 1994 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 5 | My Name Is Red | 1998 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 6 | Snow | 2002 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 7 | The Museum of Innocence | 2008 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 8 | A Strangeness in My Mind | 2014 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 9 | Rebel with a Cause | 2015 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 10 | The Red-Haired Woman | 2016 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
| 11 | Nights of Plague | 2021 | Orhan Pamuk | Buy |
Orhan Pamuk has published eleven novels across four decades, beginning with Silent House in 1983. His work moves between historical settings, like the 16th-century Ottoman court in My Name Is Red, and contemporary Turkey, as in Snow, which follows a poet visiting a remote city during a blizzard and political crisis.
Pamuk’s novels are known for their intellectual depth, narrative complexity, and preoccupation with the city of Istanbul. The Museum of Innocence is a love story told through objects, which Pamuk brought to life by opening an actual museum in Istanbul. His most recent novel, Nights of Plague, is set on a fictional Ottoman island during a pandemic. Each novel stands alone, and together they form one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary world literature.