Jon McGregor

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2003
  • Latest Book:
    March 2022
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

    Risky in conception, hip and yet soulful, this is a prose poem of a novel -- intense, lyrical, and highly evocative -- with a mystery at its center, which keeps the reader in suspense until the final page. In a tour de force that could be described a...

  • So Many Ways to Begin

    In this potent examination of family and memory, Jon McGregor charts one man's voyage of self-discovery. Like Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, So Many Ways to Begin is rich in the intimate details that shape a life, the subtle strain ...

  • Even the Dogs

    On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of hero...

  • This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You

    The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor. From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail...

  • Which reminded her, later

    Each story in this series offers a poignant glimpse of family life? the ties we cling to; the ties we try to sever; and the ties that make us who we are. Told from a myriad of perspectives, from a dazzling array of some of the finest short story writ...

  • Reservoir 13

    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A “fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving” about an English village haunted by one family’s loss -- for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Sm...

  • The Reservoir Tapes

    “A companion piece to his Man Booker"longlisted Reservoir 13, McGregor’s latest works perfectly well as a standalone, offering an alternately sweet and suspenseful depiction of a community as it reacts, person by person, to the disappearance of...

  • Lean Fall Stand

    A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel).Rememb...

  • Reverse Engineering



Award-Winning Books by Jon McGregor

Even the Dogs
2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jon McGregor has published 9 books.

Jon McGregor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Reverse Engineering, was published in March 2022.

The first book by Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, was published in May 2003.

No. Jon McGregor does not write books in series.
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