John le Carré audiobooks in order
Everything John le Carré has on this site: 1 series, 10 books published 1961–2024.
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Where to start
Publication order. The Karla trilogy — Tinker Tailor, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People — is the core and has to be heard in that order; the early detective novels are short and worth taking first for the character. Karla's Choice, written by Nick Harkaway after his father's death, is set in 1963 between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor, but is listed where it was published because it assumes you know how the story ends.
Series in order
Every book, in order
All 10 books across 1 series. Each links to its Audible listing.
- 1Call for the Dead (1961)
- 2A Murder of Quality (1962)
- 3The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
- 4The Looking Glass War (1965)
- 5Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
- 6The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
- 7Smiley's People (1979)
- 8The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
- 9A Legacy of Spies (2017)
- 10Karla's Choice (by Nick Harkaway) (2024)
Who reads John le Carré
Simon Russell Beale on most books; Prasanna Puwanarajah, Michael Jayston and Tom Hollander read one each.
Other authors
Agatha Christie2 series
Andrzej Sapkowski1 series
Ann Cleeves2 series- Anthony Horowitz1 series
Anthony Trollope2 series
Arthur Conan Doyle1 series
Portraits — Agatha Christie: Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo · CC0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Andrzej Sapkowski: Photo: Niccolò Caranti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Ann Cleeves: Photo: TimDuncan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Anthony Trollope: Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Arthur Conan Doyle: Photo: Walter Benington · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.