Brian Doyle

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1996
  • Latest Book:
    December 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Martin O'Boy

1 - Boy O'Boy (Mar-2004)
2 - Pure Spring (Mar-2007)

Spud

1 - Spud in Winter (Aug-1996)
2 - Spud Sweetgrass (Mar-1996)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Spud Sweetgrass

    Spud - 2

    Spud gets angry when he sees Dumper Stubbs, a creepy delivery man, dumping oil into a storm drain and causing terrible pollution in the river. When Spud blows the whistle, he loses his job. Enlisting the help of his buddy, Dink the Thinker, and Conni...

  • Spud in Winter

    Spud - 1

    Spud Sweetgrass and his friends Connie Pan and Dink the Thinker are back. And this time Spud is in some frigid trouble. One morning Spud sees a terrible crime. And he can't get it out of his mind. Detective Kennedy wants him to tell her what he saw, ...

  • Covered Bridge

    Winner of the Governor General's Award and the Mr. Christie's Book AwardIn this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt and uncle. When th...

  • The Low Life

  • Mary Ann Alice

    Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and a Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selectionIn this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald.Mary Ann Alice McCra...

  • Boy O'Boy

    Martin O'Boy - 1

    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, and an ALA Notable Books List selectionMartin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father ...

  • Easy Avenue

    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year AwardIn his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids.In this novel based on Great Expectations, Brian Doyle does a b...

  • Angel Square

    A Phoenix Honor Award BookYoung Tommy is seeing Angel Square through new eyes since his best friend's father was beaten up just because he's Jewish. Brian Doyle brings his award-winning blend of humor and wisdom to bear in this mystery that confronts...

  • Uncle Ronald

    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, and a Horn Book Fanfare SelectionOld Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can't remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one h...



  • Up to Low

    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year AwardYoung Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help o...

  • Hey, Dad!

    A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be....

  • You Can Pick Me up at Peggy's Cove

    When Ryan's dad runs away from home because of the change of life, Ryan is sent to spend the summer with his aunt in Peggy's Cove.He goes fishing, almost gets into big trouble and learns a lot about tourist behavior, but most of all he misses his dad...

  • Pure Spring

    Martin O'Boy - 2

    In the sequel to the award-winning Boy O'Boy, it's spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Martin O'Boy has finally found a true home with Grampa Rip. Martin's also found a job, working for the Pure Spring soft drink company. Best of all, he's in love...

  • Mink River

    Like Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people.

    In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there...

  • Bin Laden's Bald Spot: And Other Stories

    Welcome to the peculiar and headlong world of Brian Doyle's fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of story, laughter and rage, ferocious attention to detail ...

  • Cat's Foot

    What if a man who lost his foot in a war decides, many years later, to find it? "It was a good foot, and we parted so hurriedly I never had a chance to really think about it as a foot, so off I went..." So begins this lean little novel a quest, a wan...

  • The Plover

    Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. No man is ...

  • Martin Marten

    Dave is fourteen years old, eager and headlong. He is about to start high school, which is scary and alluring. Martin is a pine marten, a small, muscled hunter of the deep woods. He is about to leave home for the first time, which is scary and thrill...

  • Chicago

    On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets...



  • The Mighty Currawongs

    A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle―exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant, tailors who specialize in holes, how to report stigmata to your attending physician, the intense hilarity of basketball,...

  • The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World

    The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband but he nev...

  • Reading In Bed

    If you love to read, or write, or both, you’ll appreciate Brain Doyle -- passionate observer of and commentator on all things written. In this ultimate collection of his thoughts on writers and writing and readers and reading, he covered everythin...

Award-Winning Books by Brian Doyle

Mink River
2010 IndieFab Award -- Editor's Choice Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brian Doyle has published 22 books.

Brian Doyle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Reading In Bed, was published in December 2017.

The first book by Brian Doyle, Spud Sweetgrass, was published in March 1996.

Yes. Brian Doyle has 2 series.
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