Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Flaneur | 2001 | John Banville / Benjamin Black | Buy |
| 2 | Florence, a Delicate Case | 2002 | John Banville / Benjamin Black | Buy |
| 3 | Prague Pictures | 2003 | John Banville / Benjamin Black | Buy |
| 4 | Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now | 2005 | John Banville / Benjamin Black | Buy |
| 5 | Oxford Revisited: A City Revisited | 2008 | John Banville / Benjamin Black | Buy |
This page highlights a travel- and city-writing strand within John Banville’s bibliography, showing how his prose also operates in reflective nonfiction about specific places. That makes it a particularly interesting page for readers who like literary travel writing and urban essays.
The books are self-contained, so there is no mandatory reading order. Publication order still makes the most sense because it preserves the sequence in which these place-based works appeared.