Madison Smartt Bell

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1983
  • Latest Book:
    May 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Haitian Revolution

1 - All Souls' Rising (Oct-1995)
2 - Master of the Crossroads (Oct-2000)
3 - The Stone That the Builder Refused (Nov-2004)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Washington Square Ensemble

    New York City's Washington Square is the cruising ground of small-town drug dealer Johnny B. Goode, his main man, Holy Mother, his Black Muslim enforcer, a Puerto Rican voodooist, and the storytelling Porco Miserio...

  • Waiting for the End of the World

    A photographer descends into New York City’s chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest It’s 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job off...

  • Zero Db and Other Stories

    From the National Book Award–finalist: This “brilliant” story collection exploring the lives of dispossessed Americans is “one of his best achievements” (The Washington Post).   Thematically focused on hard-luck cha...

  • The Year of Silence

    The National Book Award–finalist movingly examines the lives of a group of New Yorkers deeply affected by one woman’s troubled life—and death.   Marian is haunted by an unspoken past reflected in the choices she makes. Whether ...

  • Soldier's Joy

    A man returns home from Vietnam to his now abandoned family homestead outside of Nashville, suffering from a serious psychological wound incurred in combat. He meets up with a childhood friend who is black, and together they battle against a platoon ...

  • Doctor Sleep

    Sophisticated suspense from a National Book Award finalist, about a hypnotist tormented by insomnia and a hunt for a killer: “Excellent…revelatory writing.” -- The Washington Post Book WorldAdrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically...

  • Barking Man and Other Stories

    In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his masterly, inventive, and deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters. "Barking Man is a humane and mature book, the work of an important ...

  • Save Me, Joe Louis

    One fateful decision pushes a soldier from a life of stifling order to a life of freedom as doomed as it is thrillingMacrae, a nice kid from a small town in Tennessee, joins the army only because the boys he grew up with enlisted before him. But when...

  • All Souls' Rising

    Haitian Revolution - 1

    "A serious historical novel that reads like a dream." --The Washington Post Book World"One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom." --San Francisco ChronicleNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTPEN/F...



  • Ten Indians

    When child psychologist Mike Devlin opens a Tae Kwon Do school near the Baltimore housing projects, the brutality of the streets, a series of violent deaths, and deadly misunderstandings shock him into seeing how minimal his influence in life has bee...

  • Master of the Crossroads

    Haitian Revolution - 2

    Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture,  former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his stru...

  • Anything Goes

    The only taste of life Jesse has known in his twenty years is bitter: his mother disappeared before he could talk, his father never got over being left, and Jesse’s presence seems only to kindle his father’s anger. Jesse’s talent is for music, ...

  • The Stone That the Builder Refused

    Haitian Revolution - 3

    The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution"the first successful slave revolution in history"which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Boo...

  • Straight Cut

    Hard Case Crime - 21

    A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting for him--deadly surprises that will lead him on a desperate chase...

  • New Stories from the South: The Year's Best

    In the twenty-fourth volume of this distinguished anthology, Madison Smartt Bell chooses twenty-one distinctive pieces of short fiction to tell the story of the South as it is now. This is a South that is still recognizable but no longer predictable....

  • Devil's Dream

    With the same eloquence and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell turns his gaze to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most celebrated and reviled general of the American Civil War. H...

  • The Color of Night

    A stunning novel that burns to the touch. Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. ...

  • Zig Zag Wanderer

    A story collection spanning New York to Haiti and beyond from the National Book Award"finalist and author of Barking Man.   Spanning twenty years, Bell’s third collection of stories showcases his phenomenal literary range and his unwavering ...

  • Behind the Moon

    O Magazine’s Top 20 Books to Read - Summer 2017

    "Best known for his acclaimed Haitian trilogy -- All Souls' Rising, Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That the Builder Refused -- Bell draws on his own experiences with voodoo possession...



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Madison Smartt Bell has published 19 books.

Madison Smartt Bell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Behind the Moon, was published in May 2017.

The first book by Madison Smartt Bell, The Washington Square Ensemble, was published in March 1983.

Yes. Madison Smartt Bell has 1 series.
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