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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1980
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • A National Book Award finalist, this novel relates the events of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, "lying low" and harboring secrets not meant to be shared. Theo Wait, a middle-aged former ballet dancer...



  • On the eve of the revolution in Iran, Chloe Fowler, alone after the unexpected departure of her doctor husband, finds herself in a country undergoing violent change where everyone suspects everyone of something...



  • Ivy Tarro comes to San Francisco's great Alta Buena Hospital with a minor medical problem, but suddenly her life is endangered while around her swirl the exploding, and sometimes scandalous, dramas of hospital life...



  • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

    "If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson." -- San Francisco Chronicle

    The national bestseller and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and...




  • "Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage... she is a philosopher as much as a novelist." -- The New YorkerFrom the author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist Le Divorc...



  • "Johnson is more droll than Henry James, to whom she's been compared, and she's as witty as a modern-day Voltaire. Vraiment, L'Affaire, c'est irresistible!” -- Publishers WeeklyAmy Hawkins, a Palo Alto girl who made herself a dot-com fort...



  • Lulu Sawyer, the heroine of Diane Johnson's captivating new novel, arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It's the perfect cover for her assignment with the American CIA: tracing the flow o...



  • Why did Cora Lee's mother disappear?A quirky private investigator attempts to help a homeless 8-year-old find her missing mother. What could possibly go wrong?β€œIt’s okay to be silly,” eight-year-old Cora Lee says as she watches Jack fumble his ...






  • When it's dark and it's raining, you never know what might happen! A single raindrop could be the beginning of something scary, fun, and way out of control, all at the same time. The kids are getting ready for bed when-what do they see? A very sma...



  • From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, ret...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Diane Johnson has published 11 books.

Diane Johnson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lorna Mott Comes Home, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Diane Johnson, Lying Low, was published in April 1980.

No. Diane Johnson does not write books in series.