Kamila Shamsie is a bestselling author of mystery, literary fiction, horror, and general fiction. She published “In the City by the Sea,” her debut novel in 1998, and has been penning popular novels ever since.
In addition to at least eight single-standing novels, she is also the author of several short stories, novellas, picture books, and constitutions of short stories top several collections.
Books in order of publication:
Standalone Novels
| In the City by the Sea | (1998) | |
| Salt and Saffron | (2000) | |
| Kartography | (2001) | |
| Broken Verses | (2005) | |
| Burnt Shadows | (2009) | |
| A God in Every Stone | (2014) | |
| Home Fire | (2017) | |
| Best of Friends | (2022) |
Short Stories/Novellas
| The Lover’s Tale | (2018) |
Picture Books
| Duckling: A Fairy Tale Revolution | (2020) |
Non-Fiction Books
| Offence: The Muslim Case | (2009) |
Anthologies
| The Pleasure of Reading | (1992) | |
| Shoe Fly Baby | (2004) | |
| Tell Tales | (2005) | |
| And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women | (2005) | |
| Lebanon, Lebanon | (2006) | |
| Ox-Tales | (2009) | |
| Road Stories | (2012) | |
| A London Address: The Artangel Essays | (2013) | |
| Exquisite Corpse | (2013) | |
| 1914 – Goodbye to All That | (2014) | |
| Freeman’s: Arrival | (2015) | |
| Lunatics, Lovers and Poets | (2016) | |
| The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories | (2017) | |
| The Things I Would Tell You | (2017) | |
| This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature | (2017) | |
| Refugee Tales | (2017) | |
| Eight Ghosts | (2018) | |
| Resist | (2019) | |
| Furies | (2023) |
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