Jonathan Franzen

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1988
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Key to All Mythologies

1 - Crossroads (Oct-2021)

Books in Order: 9 titles

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  • The Discomfort Zone

  • Crossroads

    A Key to All Mythologies - 1

    Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the ...

  • The End of the End of the Earth

  • Purity

    Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardo...

  • The Kraus Project

  • Freedom

    Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and ho...

  • The Corrections

    After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of th...

  • Strong Motion

    Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist w...

  • The Twenty-Seventh City

    25th Anniversary Edition Picador Modern Classics Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new ...



Award-Winning Books by Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections
2001 National Book Award -- Fiction
2002 Audies -- Fiction-Abridged


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Franzen has published 9 books.

Jonathan Franzen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Discomfort Zone, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City, was published in September 1988.

Yes. Jonathan Franzen has 1 series.
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