Jeanette Winterson Books in Order

Jeanette is adopted and raised in a strict Pentecostal home, where she seems destined for missionary life until she falls for another girl. Winterson turns that break with family and church into a funny, sharp coming-of-age novel.

An early non-fiction guide, this book offers practical advice for women who want to build healthier habits into busy everyday life. It sits apart from Winterson's novels, but it shows her interest in self-invention and change.

Henri serves Napoleon with devotion until war strips the glory from empire. In Venice he meets Villanelle, a magnetic woman with webbed feet, and together they move through a dreamlike story of obsession, chance, and transformation.

A baby found floating on the Thames is raised by the huge, fierce Dog-Woman, and from there the book spins through centuries and fairy tales. It is bawdy, strange, and alive with questions about love, truth, and time.

In a quiet English suburb, a nameless narrator falls into a consuming affair with Louise, a married woman who changes everything. When illness and Louise's husband force a reckoning, love becomes both intimate and unbearable.

In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso, and Handel board the same train and find their stories knotted together by a mysterious book. This is one of Winterson's most experimental novels, obsessed with art, pain, and the healing force of language.

Ali, or Alix, is an online writer who will invent any story a client wants, if they are willing to step inside it. The result is a slippery novel about desire, freedom, reinvention, and the identities we build online.

In these essays, Winterson argues that art is not remote or ornamental but alive in ordinary life. She writes about fiction, painting, modernism, Virginia Woolf, and the books that shaped her, with plenty of heat and opinion.

Alice, a brilliant English physicist, begins an affair with the married American scientist Jove, then falls for his wife, Stella. Winterson turns the love triangle into a heady mix of desire, physics, comedy, and danger.

Winterson's first story collection moves through worlds that feel familiar and oddly tilted at the same time. These pieces are brief, imaginative, and unsettling, testing the line between the everyday and the uncanny.

A greedy king loses his clothes, possessions, and swagger when a great wind blows them across the bay to Naples. This playful picture book turns an Italian folktale into a lesson about hunger, humility, and sharing.

Orphaned Silver is taken in by Pew, a blind lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, who teaches through stories. As his tale of Babel Dark unfolds, Silver begins to understand love, history, and how people make meaning from darkness.

Atlas has been condemned to bear the world forever, until Heracles arrives and changes the terms of the myth. Winterson uses that meeting to ask hard questions about freedom, fate, burden, and whether anyone can lay a past down.

Silver lives in a strange house with her guardian, Mrs Rokabye, unaware that a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper could reshape everything. When time begins to go wrong, she is pulled into a clever, fast fantasy adventure.

Humanity is preparing to leave a ruined world for Planet Blue, a new home that looks alarmingly familiar. At the same time, Billie and Spike fall in love, turning this futuristic story into a warning about desire, repetition, and survival.

In seventeenth-century London, Jack is marked as the Radiant Boy an evil Magus needs for his alchemy. Instead of obeying, he fights back in a fast-moving adventure with dragons, danger, and a city that may be turned to gold.

Told from the donkey's point of view, this retelling of the Nativity follows the least glamorous animal in the stable as he is chosen for a holy task. It is tender, funny, and built for Christmas reading.

This essay collection brings together writers, critics, and researchers, including Winterson, to argue for the value of reading. The pieces explore pleasure, attention, access to books, and the way stories can change a life.

Winterson returns to the life behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, writing directly about adoption, Pentecostal childhood, first love, breakdown, and survival. It is a memoir about searching for her birth mother and learning how to live.

Set around the 1612 Pendle witch trials, this dark historical novel follows Alice Nutter as fear, superstition, and power close in. It is a lean, gothic story about persecution, secrecy, and what people name as magic.

Winterson reworks The Winter's Tale as a modern story of jealousy, exile, and repair. An abandoned baby grows up as Perdita in New Bohemia, while the damage done by her parents waits years to be faced.

Twelve Christmas stories sit alongside twelve festive recipes in this warm, odd, and ghost-touched holiday collection. Winterson mixes family memory, winter magic, love, and food, making the book part storybook and part seasonal ritual.

This small Vintage Minis volume gathers passages from Winterson's work about romance, heartbreak, work, longing, and the many shapes love takes. It is brief, reflective, and a good sampler of one of her central themes.

Written a century after women first won the vote in Britain, this short book argues that equality is unfinished work. Winterson looks at politics, law, technology, and protest, then calls for courage from women and men alike.

As Brexit-era Britain wrestles with AI, sex robots, and cryonics, Ry, a young trans doctor, becomes entangled with visionary scientist Victor Stein. Winterson threads that story through Mary Shelley's world to ask what being human means now.

Winterson's retelling turns Hansel and Greta into young forest defenders with an aunt named GreedyGuts on their trail. Funny, dark, and brisk, it keeps the fairy tale bones while giving the story an eco-minded twist.

Across twelve lively essays, Winterson asks how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live, think, and love. She pulls in myth, history, politics, and computer science to make a fast, curious introduction to a huge subject.

This collection mixes ghost stories with Winterson's own brushes with the supernatural, moving from haunted houses to seances and uncanny tech. It is both old-fashioned and sharply modern, with grief and the afterlife always close by.

Blending memoir, essay, and a feminist reworking of One Thousand and One Nights, Winterson returns to the idea that stories can keep us alive. It is a book about reading, imagination, and changing the script you inherit.