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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2004
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price. It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine s...



  • The resonant sequel to Meritocracy: A Love Story.It is the late '70s in Manhattan and God is dead. A group of people come together to explore the void left behind. New York mongrels of the spiritual, as brash and defiant as their chaotic, bank...



  • A deeply felt homage to classic television from the author of Meritocracy and The Conference of the Birds.

    One of the most beloved programs in the history of television, the cop show Northie, has fallen into a ratings slump. Will it be canniba...



  • The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement's Cove, Maineâ€"a town in which the mansion-like "cottages" of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. Adam, a s...



  • A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis’s remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and t...





  • Set in Mexico City in 1649, when the Spanish Inquisition holds sway, TheInquisitor’s Diary takes the form of the diary of Fray Alonso, the most zealous advocate of their mission, as he struggles to win promotion in the church. Outmaneuvered by his ...



  • Acclaimed writer Jeffrey Lewis is known for his deft portrayals of relatable figures from all walks of life. In The Meritocracy Quartet, his four interlinking novels -- Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, Theme Song for an Old Sho...



  • Arlen Seira is to become an experimental project for a group of 12 Spirit Beings based on the Pleiades star cluster. During the project, the Pleiadian Spirit Being gets to experience physical feelings and emotions. The physical experience enables the...






  • Bealport, Maine is one of the forgotten towns of America, a place that all too often seems to have its best days behind it. And perhaps nothing symbolizes that more than the old shoe factory -- “NORUMBEGA Makers of Fine Footwear Since 1903” -- th...



  • A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty.In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as ...



  • A man who shares his name with a famous singer must grapple with his identity, purpose, and love.   The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be trag...


Award-Winning Books by Jeffrey Lewis

Meritocracy: A Love Story
2005 Independent Publisher Book Award -- General Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeffrey Lewis has published 12 books.

The next book by Jeffrey Lewis, Leonard Cohen, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Jeffrey Lewis, Meritocracy: A Love Story, was published in June 2004.

No. Jeffrey Lewis does not write books in series.