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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2007
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • In 2007 Ben Tanzer's first novel, Lucky Man was released by Manx Media. Now, in time for the book's fifth anniversary, ADP is pleased to bring one of our favorite writers' debut back to print. Told from the points of view of four friends, Lucky Man ...



  • Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine takes place in an early nineties New York City and follows the romance between Jen and Geoff the novel's two main characters. It is a story about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the value of frien...



  • Ben Tanzer's third novel is an adventure in being a grown up, in facing relationships and jobs, friendships and parenthood. A true exploration of what it means to live in our world, saturated with pop culture in the midst of real life struggles....





  • Jay McInerney meets Woody Allen - with enough pop culture to orbit Tarantino. Told in 2nd person, Tanzer brings us along as a love-struck everyman trying to convince both the world and this girl, at any cost, that he - and not her boss - is the...



  • Being a dad doesn't mean you have to be a square. No one proves that more than the writers in Daddy Cool. Edited by Ben Tanzer, this anthology features over twenty dads writing for and about kids. This book is unlike any other, a treasure to share wi...



  • What do Richard Simmons, Vanilla Ice, George H.W. Bush, Corey Feldman, Evel Knieval, and Darth Vader have in common? Isolation. Faded stardom. And Ben Tanzer. Tanzer, who Scott McClanahan dubbed the "High Priest of Pop," is back with an invigorating ...



  • With Orphans, Ben Tanzer continues his ongoing literary survey of the twenty-first-century male psyche, yet does so with a newfound twist, contemporary themes set in a world that is anything but. In this dystopian tale of a future Chicago, workers ar...



  • THE PUBLISHING EVENT NINE YEARS IN THE MAKING. In 2006, celebrated author Ben Tanzer began working on a series of short stories all set in the fictional upstate New York town of Two Rivers, most of them published in various literary journals over the...







  • Featuring dark character studies of childhood, middle age, and (lack of) grace under pressure, these stories are among the best work of Tanzer's career, and voracious fans of his writing will surely be pleased and satisfied to have these small master...



  • Gabriel and Hannah's daughter Christa is missing. Has she run away with her older boyfriend or has something worse happened to her? As Gabriel and Hannah wait for the police to find her, they're forced to confront the fissures in their marriage and w...


Award-Winning Books by Ben Tanzer

Orphans
2014 Midwest Book Award (MIPA) -- Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ben Tanzer has published 12 books.

Ben Tanzer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Missing, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Ben Tanzer, Lucky Man, was published in March 2007.

No. Ben Tanzer does not write books in series.