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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2002
  • Latest Book:
    January 2026
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling novel.“Packer knows just ho...



  • With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in ...



  • Ann Packer's debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was a nationwide best seller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a li...



  • A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her fami...



  • From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five...



  • A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone -- well, nearly everyone -- is pregnant.  Can she be happy for them?  “Babies,...



  • Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book. What can we ask of one another? What can we give? What is love in the face of death? Profound and moving and real, Packer has written another stirring account of the heart. &#...




Award-Winning Books by Ann Packer

The Dive From Clausen's Pier
2002 Great Lakes Book Award -- Fiction
2003 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ann Packer has published 7 books.

The next book by Ann Packer, Some Bright Nowhere, will be published in January 2026.

The first book by Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, was published in April 2002.

No. Ann Packer does not write books in series.