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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1989
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Doll

1 - A Man Named Doll (Apr-2021)
2 - The Wheel of Doll (Sep-2022)

Book List in Order: 12 titles




  • Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involvi...



  • My Less Than Secret Life is the companion volume to Jonathan Ames's first memoirish endeavor, "the mildly perverted and wildly amusing" (Vanity Fair) What's Not to Love? This collection of the cult author's fiction and essays includes Ames's public d...



  • From the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, a hilarious homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse.Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with...



  • Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problemsâ€"and the genesis of this hilarious bookâ€"can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year old’s...




  • In the proud tradition of drunken writers everywhere . . . comes the tale of Jonathan A., a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic-and of course, entirely fictional-novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-...



  • The basis for the HBO® Original Series starring Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), and Ted Danson, Bored to Death is a Raymond Chandleresque tale of a struggling Brooklyn writer -- curiously named Jonathan Ames -- who, i...



  • Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance. Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, hi...






  • From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles. Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private ...



  • The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second installment of a series “that's a tightly coiled double helix of offbeat humor and unflinching violence” (NYTBR) Although badly scarred and...



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    Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk. Sloane Crosley's conference call. Al...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Ames has published 12 books.

Jonathan Ames does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wheel of Doll, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Jonathan Ames, I Pass Like the Night, was published in July 1989.

Yes. Jonathan Ames has 1 series.