Andre Dubus

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1984
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Separate Flights

    "Dubus is the sort of writer who instructs the heart, and he ought to be discovered by any number of readers."―The Atlantic Monthly

    Andre Dubus was one of the finest short-story writers in the United States, and this, his first book (now i...

  • Voices from the Moon P

  • Last Worthless Evening

    Yet another tour de force from an American master of fiction In his fifth collection of short fiction, Andre Dubus exhibits his remarkable storytelling range. In Deaths at Sea, two naval officers, one black and one white, must come to terms with ...

  • Into the Silence

  • The Cage Keeper: and Other Stories

    Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the best...

  • The Times Are Never So Bad

    The Pretty Girl . . . may be the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written."―Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

    Stories of men and women attempting to live together, to tell the truth as they see i...

  • Broken Vessels

    Written between 1977 and 1990, universally acclaimed when they appeared in Godine hardcover, and exploring subjects close to home and close to the bone, these twenty-two diverse essays reveal the spiritual strength and shrewdly lyrical prose for whic...

  • Bluesman

    Bluesman is a stunning early novel from the critically acclaimed writer Andre Dubus III, whose House of Sand and Fog became the basis for the major motion picture.It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is the summer t...

  • Adultery and Other Choices

    "The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book."―The New York Times Book Review

    This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus (now included in his three-volume Collected Short Stories & Novellas) establ...



  • Finding a Girl in America

    Andre Dubus's third book of stories (now included in his Collected Short Stories & Novellas) includes the novella, Finding a Girl in America which continues the life of Hank Allison, a man haunted by his failures as a husband, his concern for his ...

  • Selected Stories

    A breaved father stalks his son's killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new...

  • Dancing After Hours

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen...

  • Meditations from a Movable Chair

    For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things....

  • House of Sand and Fog

    The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion pictureA recent immigrant from the Middle East -- a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force -- yearns to restore his fam...

  • In the Bedroom

    The seven stories collected here"including “Killings,” the basis for Todd Field’s award-winning film In the Bedroom"showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus’s sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power.

    A ...

  • The Garden of Last Days

    From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog--a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual bab...

  • The Lieutenant

    Andre Dubus's controversial debut: A revealing novel of men at warwith themselves At sea aboard a Navy aircraft carrier, Lieutenant Daniel Tierney finds himself in direct command of his Marine Corps detachment for the first time.Soon, a minor inf...

  • Voices from the Moon

    In the aftermath of two failed marriages, a Catholic family seeks salvation from within Voices from the Moon opens amidst the fallout of Stowe family patriarch Greg's divorce from his wife, Joan; and shortly after, that of their eldest son, Lar...

  • Townie



  • Dirty Love

    In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and lo...

  • The Colonel's Wife

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   The colonel had served in two wars with the Marines, without being injured. Then, at home, he breaks both legs falling off a horse, and learns that his knees will never fully recover. Together...

  • We Don't Live Here Anymore

    In the early 1970s, literary journals that contained Andre Dubus short stories were passed around amongst admiring readers. When his debut collection Separate Flights arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated. "Dubus is the sort of writer who in...

  • The Winter Father

    While the title novella of Dubus's Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection's opening story strikes a much darker tone: "Killings"-the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In t...

  • Gone So Long

    Andre Dubus III’s first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy. Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new n...

  • The Cross Country Runner: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 3

    "Andre Dubus, one of the 20th century’s most gifted short story writers."―The New York Times

    The Cross Country Runner brings together Andre Dubus's collection of short stories and novellas, The Last Worthless Evening, and Voices from th...

  • Reaching Inside

    A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. “A writer,” Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, “is a reader who is moved to emulation.” New York Times bestsell...

  • Such Kindness

    A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mort...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andre Dubus has published 27 books.

Andre Dubus does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Such Kindness, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Andre Dubus, Separate Flights, was published in September 1984.

No. Andre Dubus does not write books in series.
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