George Smiley audiobooks in order
The quiet, unglamorous spymaster of the Circus, and the long hunt for a Soviet mole that made le Carré's name. Smiley is a minor figure in some of these books and the whole subject of others.
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Which order should you listen in?
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.
George Smiley in publication order
- 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)