Alexander McCall Smith Body of Works – Oeuvre
List of books by Alexander McCall Smith
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List of Books Alexander McCall Smith with Publication Dates
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Alexander McCall Smith List of Books to Read
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Books
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (1999)
Tears of the Giraffe (2000)
Morality for Beautiful Girls (2001)
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (2002)
The Full Cupboard of Life (2003)
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (2004)
Blue Shoes and Happiness (2006)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (2007)
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (2008)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (2009)
The Double Comfort Safari Club (2010)
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (2011)
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (2012)
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013)
Handsome Man’s Deluxe Cafe (2014)
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (2015)
Precious and Grace (2016)
The House of Unexpected Sisters (2017)
The Colors of All The Cattle (2018)
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Collections
The Cleverness of Ladies (2012)
Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld Entertainment Books
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (2003)
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (2003)
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (2003)
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil (2011)
Isabel Dalhousie Books
The Sunday Philosophy Club (2004)
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (2005)
The Right Attitude to Rain (2006)
The Careful Use of Compliments (2007)
The Comfort of Saturdays (2008)
The Lost Art of Gratitude (2009)
The Charming Quirks of Others (2010)
The Forgotten Affairs of Youth (2011)
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (2012)
The Novel Habits of Happiness (2015)
A Distant View of Everything (2017)
The Quiet Side of Passion (2018)
Isabel Dalhousie Short Stories
The Perils of Morning Coffee (2011)
At the Reunion Buffet (2015)
Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine (2016)
44 Scotland Street Books
44 Scotland Street (2005)
Espresso Tales (2005)
Love Over Scotland (2006)
The World According to Bertie (2007)
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (2008)
The Importance of Being Seven (2010)
Bertie Plays the Blues (2011)
Sunshine on Scotland Street (2012)
Bertie’s Guide to Life and Mothers (2012)
The Revolving Door of Life (2015)
The Bertie Project (2016)
A Time of Love and Tartan (2017)
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (2019)
Myths Books
Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams (2006)
Corduroy Mansions Books
Cordurory Mansions (2009)
The Dog Who Came in From the Cold (2009)
A Conspiracy of Friends (2011)
School Ship Tobermory Books
School Ship Tobermory (2015)
The Sands of Shark Island (2016)
The Race to Kangaroo Cliff (2019)
Paul Stuart Books
My Italian Bulldozer (2016)
The Second Worst Restaurant in France (2019)
Detective Varg Books
The Department of Sensitive Crimes (2019)
Detective Varg Short Stories/Novellas
The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (2019)
Standalone Novels
La’s Orchestra Saves the World (2008)
No Rest for the Dead (2011)
The Forever Girl (2014)
Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party (2014)
Hari and His Electric Feet (2017)
The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse (2017)
Akimbo Children’s Books
Akimbo and the Lions (1992)
Akimbo and the Crocodile Man (1993)
Akimbo and the Elephants (2005)
Akimbo and the Snakes (2006)
Akimbo and the Baboons (2008)
Harriet Bean Children’s Books
The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean (1990)
Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats (1991)
The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean (2006)
Max & Maddy Children’s Books
Bursting Balloons Mystery (1997)
Chocolate Money Mystery (1999)
Precious Ramotswe Children’s Books
Precious and the Monkeys (2010)
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill (2012)
The Great Cake Mystery (2012)
Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion (2013)
Precious and the Zebra Necklace (2015)
Precious Ramotswe Children’s Books
The Great Cake Mystery tells the story of Precious Ramotswe’s first case.
Standalone Children’s Books
The White Hippo (1980)
The Perfect Hamburger (1984)
Alix and the Tigers (1988)
The Tin Dog (1990)
Calculator Annie (1991)
The Popcorn Pirates (1991)
The Doughnut Ring (1992)
Paddy and the Ratcatcher (1994)
The Muscle Machine (1995)
The Bubblegum Tree (1996)
Teacher Trouble (2000)
Short Story Collections
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations (1995)
Trouble at the North Pole and Other Stories (1996)
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa (2004)
One City (2006)
Ox-Tales: Air (2009)
The Book That Changed My Life (2010)
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011)
Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People (2011)
Trains and Lovers (2012)
Anthologies
Children of Wax: African Folk Tales (1989)
Non-Fiction Books
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers (2012)
What W.H. Auden Can Do For You (2013)
Who Built Scotland (2017)
List of books by Alexander McCall Smith
So there you have a list of books and date of publication from the Author Alexander McCall Smith.
