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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & A...



  • Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of time and lay it right beside the other time, the time of horror, Bad History co...



  • Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.

    “In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Comm...



  • A novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself.

    First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of cha...



  • Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was ...



  • The European bestseller, an epic of two brothers, brought together and divided by betrayal, secrecy and self-delusion, spanning seventy years of German history: from the Russian Revolution, to World War II, to 1975....



  • “Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel.” -- The New Yorker“The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable…I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with h...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chris Kraus has published 7 books.

Chris Kraus does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Four Spent the Day Together, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Chris Kraus, I Love Dick, was published in January 1998.

No. Chris Kraus does not write books in series.