Bibliography of John le Carré

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John le Carré was a prolific writer. Here is a more complete bibliography of his works:

• George Smiley and related novels
  • Call for the Dead (1961)
  • A Murder of Quality (1962)
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
  • The Looking Glass War (1965)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
  • The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
  • Smiley's People (1979)
  • The Russia House (1989)
  • The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
  • A Legacy of Spies (2017)
• George Smiley collections
  • The Incongruous Spy (1964), containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality
  • The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (republished in 1995 as Smiley Versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.)
• Semi-autobiographical
  • The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971)
  • A Perfect Spy (1986)
• Standalone
  • A Small Town in Germany (1968)
  • The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
  • The Night Manager (1993)
  • Our Game (1995)
  • The Tailor of Panama (1996)
  • Single & Single (1999)
  • The Constant Gardener (2001)
  • Absolute Friends (2003)
  • The Mission Song (2006)
  • A Most Wanted Man (2008)
  • Our Kind of Traitor (2010)
  • A Delicate Truth (2013)
  • Agent Running in the Field (2019)
• Short stories
  • "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?" (1967), in Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1967
  • "What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight?" (1968), in Saturday Evening Post, 2 November 1968
  • "A Writer and A Gentleman" (1968), in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later in The Argosy and The Saturday Review under the same title
  • "The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in Ox-Tales: Fire, 2 July 2009
• Non-fiction
  • The Good Soldier (1991), collected in Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace
  • The United States Has Gone Mad (2003), collected in Not One More Death (2006)
  • Afterword (2014), an essay on Kim Philby, published in A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
  • The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016)
• Screenplays
  • End of the Line (1970)
  • A Murder of Quality (1991)
  • The Tailor of Panama (2001), with John Boorman and Andrew Davies

Acknowledgments

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