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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1989
  • Latest Book:
    January 2022
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • A piercing collection of short stories set in the Pacific Northwest from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning writer of Snow Falling on Cedars

    Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally sharp short stories are set largely in the Pacific...



  • San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murd...



  • The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the "Bloomsbury Classics". Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors' items. This title is...



  • IN MID-OCTOBER, in the rich pear- and apple-growing region of Washington state's Columbia Basin, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal colon cancer. Determined to avoid his suffering, Ben sets out with his two hunting dogs thro...



  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From  the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes an emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old pill-popping runaway receives a visitation from the Vi...



  • Snow Falling on Cedars In 1954 a fisherman is found dead and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that more is at stake than one man's guilt. For San Piedro is haunted by memories: of ...



  • A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophocles's Oedipus Rex for our own era. In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mil...



  • These ten wise, extraordinary tales explore the mysteries of love and our complex desire for connection. Spanning wide and diverse geographies -- America, Nepal, South Africa, Germany -- they showcase Guterson’s gifts for psychological nuance, emot...



  • From the award-winning, best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars -- a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. A girl dies one late, rainy night...






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    From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a coming-of-age novel about two different visions of what it means to live a good life and the compromises that come with the search for fulfillment.  • “Gorgeou...


Award-Winning Books by David Guterson

East of the Mountains
2000 Audies -- Fiction-Abridged
Snow Falling on Cedars
1994 Discover Great New Writers -- Fiction
1995 Book Sense Book of the Year Award -- ABBY Adult Trade Winner
1995 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -- Regional Book
1995 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Guterson has published 10 books.

David Guterson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Final Case, was published in January 2022.

The first book by David Guterson, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, was published in August 1989.

No. David Guterson does not write books in series.