Ian McEwan best books, ranked

Ian McEwan — 3 titles in the rankings, first published between 2001 and 2025. They average 7.7, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.

Editor’s note English novelist, winner of the Booker Prize for Amsterdam, known for precise prose and moments where a single act changes lives. Atonement, by far his most read book here, follows Briony Tallis, who at thirteen misreads what she sees on a hot summer day in 1935 and accuses an innocent young man of a crime, with consequences that run through Dunkirk and the London of the Blitz; it was filmed in 2007. Solar, a satire about a vain Nobel-winning physicist and climate change, rates clearly lower.

Ranked titles

3 books

Average score

7.7

Total ratings

741

First published

2001–2025

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