Jan Morris bibliography

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

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 Bedside Guardian 11: A Selection from the Guardian 1961-1962 (foreword/editor, 1962)
 * 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

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)
 * Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable (2000) - a satirical alternate history set during the second world war.

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.