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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2007
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Fiction. This brilliant first novel is a portrait of an artist at the end of an art form. The elderly Jewish-Hungarian composer Schneidermann, who survived a musical education, survived the war, survived Europe, survived the neglect of all his music,...



  • On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only o...



  • "Joshua Cohen has created a visionary novel that is terrifying and heartbreaking and humbling in its luminous brilliance. In my view, it firmly places the author on the same level as Kafka." -- Michael Disend, author of Stomping the Goyim

    "T...



  • A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** One of Flavorwire's "50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature"A spectacularly talent...



  • The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world’s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetratio...



  • One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with MOVING KINGS, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America’s poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the wor...



  • A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with MOVING KINGS, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimat...



  • This book isn't really about bunnies. (Although it certainly doesn't exclude them.) It's about fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, grandmas, grandpas, pets and everything else on the planet that eventually dies. Bunnies happen to be cute to look at ...



  • Author Joshua Cohen, a retired police detective, experienced amazing cases throughout his career. One such case involved Will Sparks. By the time he turned 31, Sparks was at the top: he promoted to fire chief, he enjoyed well-earned respect and a...






  • Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't mat...



  • "Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever."   -- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959â€"19...



  • When his rabbi calls him after Yom Kippur, private eye Benjamin Gold thinks it’s just to yell at him for skipping services -- but it’s even worse than that. It turns out that Benny missed more than some prayers and a sermon: While everyone else ...


Award-Winning Books by Joshua Cohen

The Netanyahus
2022 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joshua Cohen has published 12 books.

Joshua Cohen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Past Imperfect, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Joshua Cohen, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, was published in January 2007.

No. Joshua Cohen does not write books in series.