David Plante

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1974
  • Latest Book:
    November 2025
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Books in Order: 14 titles

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  • Fantasies of the Body

    In this short, masterful gem of a novel, David Plante’s seasoned narrator contemplates the connection between physical beauty and love, drawing on literary references and personal experiences to explore these themes.The unnamed narrator of this...

  • Eternity

    In London, Ted, a lapsed American Catholic married to a British woman encounters a friend’s child who is studying for his first communion. The boy, Jonathan, is terminally ill and believes the ritual of his first communion might miraculously heal h...

  • American Stranger

    A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Awardâ€"nominated author of Difficult Women.   Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Nancy Green know...

  • ABC

    In ABC's unforgettable opening scene, Gerard, Peggy, and their 6-year-old son Harry are canoeing in a New Hampshire cove and come upon an abandoned wreck of a house they have observed for years but never entered. When Harry presses his parents to let...

  • The Age of Terror

    Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration...

  • The Accident

  • The Native

    In rebellion against his traditional heritage, Philip Francoeur marries Jenny, a Protestant who personifies the modern emancipated woman, and must confront their restless daughter, Antoinette, who is torn between two powerful traditions...

  • The Catholic

    Daniel, the young child of Plante's well-received Francoeur Trilogy (The Family, The Woods, The Country appears as the first-person narrator of this brief but powerful meditation on sexual obsession. The intensely self-conscious Daniel is drawn to He...

  • The Foreigner

    In 1959, a young American journeys to Europe to discover how the people live and finds himself forever transformed by two people, Angela and Vincent, who introduce him to a dangerous but passionate new world...



  • The Woods

    As Daniel Francoeur completes his freshman year at college and begins his sophomore year, he recalls his last summer before going to college, an almost mystical idyll spent at the Francoeur's summer home...

  • Country

    A son's coming to terms with his father and his father's death is the focal point of this novel recalling the legacy of a patriarch who was a descendant of a French fur trader and a Blackfoot Indian woman...

  • The Family

    Reena and Jim Francoeur and their seven sons live in a small French-Canadian parish in New England and experience frustrations and events that have a devastating impact on their efforts to stay together as a family...

  • Relatives

  • Annunciation

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    A search throughout Europe for an unknown Renaissance painting of the Annunciation provides the focus for the intertwining destinies of Claire, an artist; her daughter Rachel, who has been raped; and Claude, an editor of art books....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Plante has published 14 books.

David Plante does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fantasies of the Body, was published in November 2025.

The first book by David Plante, Relatives, was published in June 1974.

No. David Plante does not write books in series.
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