Kevin Brockmeier

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2002
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Books in Order: 10 titles

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  • Ghosts and Speculation

    Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, rec...

  • The Ghost Variations

    Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, rec...

  • The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device

  • The Illumination

    From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we all bear and the light that radiates from us all. What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? In the afte...

  • The View from the Seventh Layer

    Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his storytelling. And t...

  • Grooves

    A quirky middleâ€"grade novel about an enterprising seventhâ€"grader who discovers an astonishing plea for help in the grooves of his blue jeans.

    Dwayne Ruggles is a regular kid living in a regular town until evil entrepreneur Howard Thigp...

  • The Brief History of the Dead

    From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by th...

  • The Truth About Celia

    While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal.Utterly shattered, Christopher,...

  • A City of Names

    When Howie Quackenbush mysteriously receives a book entitled The Secret Guide to North Mellwood, which shows him how to transport himself anywhere in the town by touching a secret portal, he soon discovers a secret world hidden deep within th...



  • Things That Fall from the Sky

    Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These H...

Award-Winning Books by Kevin Brockmeier

The Brief History of the Dead
2007 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kevin Brockmeier has published 10 books.

Kevin Brockmeier does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ghosts and Speculation, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Kevin Brockmeier, Things That Fall from the Sky, was published in March 2002.

No. Kevin Brockmeier does not write books in series.
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