Iain Banks books in order

23 books in the catalogue, about 167 hours of reading in all; the shortest takes 4 hours and the longest 12 hours.

1 series and 14 standalone books in the catalogue.

Culture series

10 books

1 Consider Phlebas 1987 8.6 h 2 The Player of Games 1988 5.9 h 3 Use of Weapons 1990 7.3 h 4 The State of the Art 1989 3.8 h 5 Excession 1996 8.4 h 6 Inversions 1998 7.3 h 7 Look to Windward 2000 6.8 h 8 Matter 2008 10.9 h 9 Surface Detail 2010 11.6 h

10 The Hydrogen Sonata 2012 length not known

Standalone books

The Wasp Factory 1984 3.6 h Walking on Glass 1985 4.6 h The Bridge 1986 5.3 h The Crow Road 1992 9.2 h Against a Dark Background 1993 9.4 h Complicity 1993 5.7 h Feersum Endjinn 1994 5.2 h A Song of Stone 1997 5.1 h The Business 1999 7.2 h Dead Air 2001 7.8 h Transition 2001 7.4 h The Algebraist 2004 9.2 h The Steep Approach to Garbadale 2007 7.3 h The Hydrogen Sonata 2012 9.5 h