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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • Anne Lamott's poignant first novel, reissued in an attractive new edition.

    Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne L...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Mercies; and Stitches, a wise and witty novel about motherhood. Look out for Anne''s next book, Hallelujah Anyway, coming in 2017.

    In Anne Lamott’s wise and witt...



  • "If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb.""-The NationJoe Jones is Anne ...



  • A stunning novel from the author of Bird by Bird: When a divorcée returns to her small California hometown, she encounters vivid memories of her eccentric family and coming-of-age in the 1960s. “Anne Lamott is the two-way mirror of our hopes, in...



  • With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and ...



  • The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost EverythingMattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a ...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war h...



  • A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family--from the beloved bestselling author. Seventeen-year-old Rosie Ferguson is smart, athletic, and beautiful- everything her mother, Elizabeth, and stepfather, James, hoped she would be. But as the ...



  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book (People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary...






  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hil...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anne Lamott has published 10 books.

Anne Lamott does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bird by Bird, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Anne Lamott, Hard Laughter, was published in April 1979.

No. Anne Lamott does not write books in series.