The Lives of Animals

List of works

Novels

  • Dusklands (1974), ISBN 0-14-024177-9
  • In the Heart of the Country (1977), ISBN 0-14-006228-9
  • Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), ISBN 0-14-006110-X
  • Life & Times of Michael K (1983), ISBN 0-14-007448-1
  • Foe (1986), ISBN 0-14-009623-X
  • Age of Iron (1990), ISBN 0-14-027565-7
  • The Master of Petersburg (1994), ISBN 0-14-023810-7
  • Disgrace (1999), ISBN 978-0-14-311528-1
  • Elizabeth Costello (2003), ISBN 0-670-03130-5
  • Slow Man (2005), ISBN 0-670-03459-2
  • Diary of a Bad Year (2007), ISBN 1-84655-120-X
  • The Childhood of Jesus (2013), ISBN 978-1-84655-726-2
  • The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), ISBN 978-1-91121-535-6
  • The Death of Jesus (2019), ISBN 978-1-92226-828-0
  • El Polaco (novella)[29]
  • The Pole and Other Stories (2023), ISBN 9781787304055; note: published in the USA as The Pole (2023) ISBN 9781324093862

Autobiographical novels

  • Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997), ISBN 0-14-026566-X
  • Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002), ISBN 0-670-03102-X
  • Summertime (2009), ISBN 1-84655-318-0
  • Scenes from Provincial Life (2011), ISBN 1-84655-485-3; an edited single volume of Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II, and Summertime

Short fiction

  • The Lives of Animals (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) ISBN 0-691-07089-X
  • Three Stories (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2014) ISBN 9781922182562
  • Siete cuentos morales (Barcelona: El Hilo de Ariadna/Literatura Random House, 2018)

Articles and lectures

  • Coetzee, J.M. (26 September 2019). "Australia's shame". The New York Review of Books. - review of No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (and other commentary relating to the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers)
  • The Lives of Animals, delivered for The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Princeton, 1997
  • "A Word from J. M. Coetzee", address read by Hugo Weaving at the opening of the exhibition "Voiceless: I Feel Therefore I Am" by Voiceless: The Animal Protection Institute, 22 February 2007, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

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