Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie or officially Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian author of literary fiction best known for the Fatwa issued against him for writing the novel “The Satanic Verses.” Rushdie was born in in Mumbai, India then Bombay, just before the independence of India in 1947. He was born to a schoolteacher mother and a very wealthy merchant father. Given his family’s wealth, he went to a prestigious private school in Bombay after which he was sent to The Rugby School, a boarding school in Warwickshire, England.

The best place to start is the Khalifa Brothers series, the earliest of Salman Rushdie's multi-book series: it opens with Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) and runs to 2 books across 1990–2010, ending with Luka and the Fire of Life (2010).

Salman Rushdie has 138 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1969 and 2026. 99 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Khalifa Brothers series with 2 books — and 39 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Salman Rushdie's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Khalifa Brothers (1990–2010, 2 books).

This guide splits Salman Rushdie's 138 books into 2 named series and 39 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Khalifa Brothers (2 books, 1990–2010); Literary Conversations (97 books, 1969–2023).