Jay Mcinerney

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1985
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Ransom

    Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the ...

  • The Story of My Life

    A “brilliant” novel of a party girl in 1980s Manhattan, by the author of Bright Lights, Big City (The Sunday Times).   Twenty-something aspiring actress Alison Poole is well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of...

  • Bright Lights, Big City

    With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editor...

  • Brightness Falls

    Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. As he maps the fault lines spreading through t...

  • The Last of the Savages

    From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school a...

  • Queen and I

  • Model Behavior

    "A Great Gatsby for the end of the century."--The Baltimore Sun"Swift and amusing. . . .  An astute social observer of the cruelties of modern New York, [McInerney] is also capable of great tenderness." --The Boston Globe Jay McInerney retu...

  • How It Ended

    From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades....

  • The Good Life

    In this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russ...



  • Smoke

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection That summer in New York, everyone was wearing yellow ties; the stock market was coming into a long bull run; and Corrine and Russell Calloway quit smoking.    From the writer whos...

  • In the North-West Frontier Province

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   In the northern hills of Pakistan, by the border with Afghanistan, a drug deal goes horribly wrong. Trey’s friend has been captured. His girlfriend, Michelle, succumbs to her heroin addictio...

  • Bright, Precious Days

    From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order. Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if ...

  • The Last Bachelor

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jay Mcinerney has published 13 books.

Jay Mcinerney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Last Bachelor, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Jay Mcinerney, Ransom, was published in September 1985.

No. Jay Mcinerney does not write books in series.
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