Alexander McCall Smith bibliography

1. 1998: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2. 2000: Tears of the Giraffe
3. 2001: Morality for Beautiful Girls
4. 2002: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
5. 2003: The Full Cupboard of Life
6. 2004: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as: The Night-Time Dancer)
7. 2006: Blue Shoes and Happiness
8. 2007: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
9. 2008: The Miracle at Speedy Motors
10. 2009: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
11. 2010: The Double Comfort Safari Club
12. 2011: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
13. 2012: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
14. 2013: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
15. 2014: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café
16. 2015: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
17. 2016: Precious and Grace
18. 2017: The House of Unexpected Sisters
19. 2018: The Colors of All the Cattle
20. 2019: To the Land of Long Lost Friends
21. 2020: How to Raise an Elephant
22. 2021: The Joy and Light Bus Company
23. 2022: A Song of Comfortable Chairs

Extra: 2013: The Slice of No. 1 Celebration Storybook (ebook only)

• See also: Bertie Pollock, 44 Scotland Street

1. 2005: 44 Scotland Street
2. 2005: Espresso Tales
3. 2006: Love Over Scotland
4. 2007: The World According to Bertie
5. 2008: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
6. 2010: The Importance of Being Seven
7. 2011: Bertie Plays The Blues
8. 2012: Sunshine on Scotland Street
9. 2013: Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
10. 2015: The Revolving Door of Life
11. 2016: The Bertie Project
12. 2017: A Time of Love and Tartan
13. 2019: The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
14. 2020: A Promise of Ankles
15. 2022: Love in the Time of Bertie
16. 2023: The Enigma of Garlic

also known as Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries

1. 2004: The Sunday Philosophy Club
2. 2005: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
3. 2006: The Right Attitude to Rain
4. 2007: The Careful Use of Compliments
5. 2008: The Comfort of Saturdays (UK title) or: The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (American title)
6. 2009: The Lost Art of Gratitude
7. 2010: The Charming Quirks of Others
8. 2011: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
9. 2011: The Perils of Morning Coffee (ebook only)
10. 2012: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
11. 2015: The Novel Habits of Happiness
12. 2015: At the Reunion Buffet (ebook only)
13. 2016: Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine (ebook only)
14. 2017: A Distant View of Everything
15. 2018: The Quiet Side of Passion
16. 2020: The Geometry of Holding Hands
17. 2022: The Sweet Remnants of Summer

1. 2009: Corduroy Mansions
2. 2009: The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (published online daily in serial form; also published as a hardcover book on 1 May 2010)
3. 2011: A Conspiracy of Friends

1. 1997: Portuguese Irregular Verbs [2]
2. 2003: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
3. 2003: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
4. 2011: Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
5. 2021: Your Inner Hedgehog

• 2004: The 21⁄2 Pillars of Wisdom – An omnibus edition of the first three von Igelfeld titles

1. 2019: The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (ebook only)
2. 2019: The Department of Sensitive Crimes (his given name is stylised as Älexander on the cover)
3. 2019: Varg in Love (ebook only)
4. 2020: The Talented Mr. Varg
5. 2021: The Man with the Silver Saab
6. 2023: The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

1. 2019: The Case of the Vanishing Granny
2. 2019: The Great Clown Conundrum

1. 2016: My Italian Bulldozer
2. 2019: The Second Worst Restaurant in France

1. 2008: La's Orchestra Saves the World
2. 2012: Trains and Lovers
3. 2014: The Forever Girl
4. 2014: Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party
5. 2015: Emma: A Modern Retelling
6. 2017: The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse
7. 2022: The Pavilion in the Clouds

• 2011: "The Strange Story of Bobby Box" (published in the young adult anthology What You Wish For)

• 1991: Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
• 1995: Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
• 2004: The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
• 2006: Baboons Who Went This Way and That (Tales from Africa)
• 2015: Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories
• 2016: Marvellous Mix-ups
• 2019: Pianos and Flowers
• 2020: Tiny Tales

• 1980: The White Hippo
• 1984: The Perfect Hamburger
• 1988: Alix and the Tigers
• 1990: The Tin Dog
• 1991: Calculator Annie
• 1991: Marzipan Max
• 1991: The Popcorn Pirates
• 1992: The Doughnut Ring
• 1993: Who Invented Peanut Butter?
• 1994: Paddy and the Ratcatcher
• 1995: The Muscle Machine
• 1996: The Bubblegum Tree
• 1997: The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
• 2000: Teacher Trouble
• 2005 The Spaghetti Tangle
• 2006: Dream Angus
• 2016: Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer
• 2018: Hari and his Electric Feet
• 2018: Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery

• 2013: What Auden Can Do for You

• 2020: In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems

• 1978: Power and Manoeuvrability (with Tony Carty)
• 1983: Law and Medical Ethics (with J. Kenyon Mason) (this text has gone through several editions: an eighth, by Mason and Graeme Laurie, was published in 2010; McCall Smith contributed to the first six editions)
• 1987: Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia (with J. Kenyon Mason)
• 1990: Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advances (with Elaine Sutherland)
• 1991: All About Drink and Drug Abuse (educational text)
• 1992: The Criminal Law of Botswana (with Kwame Frimpong)
• 1993: The Duty to Rescue (with Michael Menlowe, 1993)
• 1992: Scots Criminal Law (with David H Sheldon, second edition published 1997)
• 1997: Forensic Aspects of Sleep (with Colin Shapiro)
• 2000: Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes (with Daniel W. Shuman)
• 2001: Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alan Merry)
• 2003: A Draft Criminal Code for Scotland (with Eric Clive, Pamela Ferguson and Christopher Gane)
• 2004: Creating Humans: Ethical Questions where Reproduction and Science Collide (collected lectures, audio recordings)