Iain Banks

Iain Banks was a Scottish author who wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks.

He was born in Dunfermline, Fife, on 16th February 1954 and died on 9th June 2013.

He was best known for his Culture series of science fiction novels, and for his mainstream novels such as The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road.

He was a very popular author and his books have been translated into many languages.

Below you'll see a list of his works. The key: If I own the book, it is in Italics. If I've read the book, it'll be blue and bold. If I'm reading the book, it'll be green.

  1. Read and owned
  2. Reading and owned
  3. Owned
  4. Neither read nor owned

Works

  1. The Wasp Factory (1984)
  2. Walking on Glass (1985)
  3. The Bridge (1986)
  4. Espedair Street (1987)
  5. Consider Phlebas (1987)
  6. Canal Dreams (1989)
  7. The Player of Games (1988)
  8. The State of the Art (1989)
  9. The Crow Road (1992)
  10. Complicity (1993)
  11. Against a Dark Background (1993)
  12. Feersum Endjinn (1994)
  13. Whit (1995)
  14. A Song of Stone (1996)
  15. Excession (1996)
  16. Inversions (1998)
  17. The Business (1999)
  18. Look to Windward (2000)
  19. Dead Air (2002)
  20. Raw Spirit (2003)
  21. The Algebraist (2004)
  22. The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007)
  23. Matter (2008)
  24. Transition (2009)
  25. The Spheres (2010)
  26. Stonemouth (2012)
  27. The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)
  28. The Quarry (2013)
  29. Poems (2015)
  30. The Culture: The Drawings (2023)

Culture Novels

  1. Consider Phlebas (1987)
  2. The Player of Games (1988)
  3. The State of the Art (1989)
  4. Excession (1996)
  5. Inversions (1998)
  6. Look to Windward (2000)
  7. Matter (2008)
  8. The Spheres (2010)
  9. The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)

Other Novels

  1. Against a Dark Background (1993)
  2. Feersum Endjinn (1994)
  3. The Algebraist (2004)
  4. Transition (2009)

Other

  1. The Culture: The Drawings (2023)

Mainstream Novels

  1. The Wasp Factory (1984)
  2. Walking on Glass (1985)
  3. The Bridge (1986)
  4. Espedair Street (1987)
  5. Canal Dreams (1989)
  6. The Crow Road (1992)
  7. Complicity (1993)
  8. Whit (1995)
  9. A Song of Stone (1996)
  10. The Business (1999)
  11. Dead Air (2002)
  12. The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007)
  13. Stonemouth (2012)
  14. The Quarry (2013)

Nonfiction

  1. Raw Spirit (2003)
  2. Poems (2015)