Jan Morris bibliography

This is a list of the literary works by British writer and historian Jan Morris (1926–2020).

Non-fiction

Travel

• Coast to Coast (published in the US as As I Saw the USA; 1956: winner of the 1957 Cafe Royal Prize)
• Sultan in Oman (1957; new edition by Eland in 2008)
• The Market of Seleukia (1957)
• South African Winter (1958)
• The Hashemite Kings (1959)
• Venice (1960: winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award)
• The Presence of Spain (1964)
• Spain (1964)
• Oxford (1965)
• The Great Port: A Passage through New York (1969)
• The Venetian Empire (1980)
• A Venetian Bestiary (1982)
• The Matter of Wales (1984)
• Spain (1988)
• Hong Kong (1988)
• Sydney (1992)
• Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
• A Writer's World: Travels 1950–2000 (2003)
• Contact! A Book of Encounters (2010)

Essays

• The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (1963)
• The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (1963)
• Cities (1963)
• Places (1972)
• Travels (1976)
• Destinations (1980)
• Wales; The First Place (1982, reprinted 1998)
• Journeys (1984)
• Among the Cities (1985)
• Locations (1992)
• O Canada! (1992)
• Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)

History

• The Pax Britannica Trilogy
  • Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress (1973). Book 1. Covering the period 1837 to 1897
  • Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968). Book 2.
  • Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (1978). Book 3. Covering the period 1897 to 1965
• The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannica (1982)
• Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj (1983) (by Jan Morris with photographs by Simon Winchester)
• Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony (2018)

Biography

• Fisher's Face (1995)

Memoirs

• Conundrum, UK Faber and Faber, US: Harcourt Brace (1974) (personal narrative of Jan Morris's gender transition)
• Wales, The First Place (1982)
• Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989)
• "Herstory" (1999)
• Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
• A Writer's House in Wales (2002)
• In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary (2018)
• Thinking Again (2020)

Other

• Coronation Everest (1958)
• Ciao, Carpaccio! (2014)
• Allegorizings (2021) posthumously published

Fiction

Novels

• Last Letters from Hav (1985; shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction)
• Hav of the Myrmidons. Published together with Last Letters from Hav, as Hav (2006; shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award)

Short stories

• The Upstairs Donkey, and Other Stolen Stories (1961)

As editor

• The Oxford Book of Oxford (editor)
• Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice. Ed. Jan Morris. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1989.

Miscellaneous

• The World Bank. A Prospect (1963)
• Manhattan '45 (hardcover 1987, paperback 1998)
• Over Europe (Weldon Owen, 1991) – Jan Morris provided the text for this post-Cold War photographic project
• Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997) – published in 2006 as Europe – An Intimate Journey
• The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
• Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (2001)
• Our First Leader
• Thrilling Cities written by Ian Fleming. Jan Morris provided the introduction for the 2009 edition published by Ian Fleming Publications.