Author
John Le Carré
October 19, 1931 – December 12, 2020 · United Kingdom
Novelist, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor, Spy, Writer
Titles on list
25
Total weeks
362
Peak rank
#1
Weeks at #1
78
Biography
- Born
- October 19, 1931 · Poole
- Died
- December 12, 2020 · Royal Cornwall Hospital
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English, German, French
- Education
- Lincoln College, Sherborne School, University of Bern, St Andrew's School, Pangbourne
Awards & Honours
- 1964Somerset Maugham Award
- 1965Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel
- 1977James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- 1984The Grand Master
- 1986Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation
- 1988Cartier Diamond Dagger
- 1990Helmerich Award
- 2005Dagger of Daggers
- 2008Honorary doctor at the University of Bern
- 2011Goethe Medal
- 2018German Crime Fiction Award
- 2019Olof Palme Prize
On the Bestseller Lists
25 titles
SILVERVIEW
#6 · 3 wks
AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD
#5 · 1 wk
A LEGACY OF SPIES
#1 · 6 wks
THE PIGEON TUNNEL
#10 · 1 wk
A DELICATE TRUTH
#6 · 4 wks
OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
#7 · 3 wks
A MOST WANTED MAN
#4 · 4 wks
THE MISSION SONG
#3 · 3 wks
ABSOLUTE FRIENDS
#3 · 5 wks
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
#4 · 6 wks
SINGLE & SINGLE
#3 · 7 wks
THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
#7 · 7 wks
OUR GAME
#2 · 9 wks
THE NIGHT MANAGER
#3 · 13 wks
THE SECRET PILGRIM
#1 · 12 wks
THE RUSSIA HOUSE
#1 · 21 wks
A PERFECT SPY
#1 · 24 wks
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
#1 · 34 wks
SMILEY'S PEOPLE
#1 · 28 wks
THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY
#3 · 21 wks
THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY
#3 · 12 wks
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
#1 · 40 wks
A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY
#2 · 28 wks
THE LOOKING GLASS WAR
#5 · 14 wks
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
#1 · 56 wks
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review. Biographical data from Wikipedia/Wikidata (CC0).