Richard Powers

• Sep-2024

New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • One of the Ten Best Books of 2024, according to the Washington Post...

• Sep-2021

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION An Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A heartrending n...

• Apr-2018

A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most “prodigiously talented” novelists (New York Times Book Review). THE OVERSTORY unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum N...

• Jan-2014

The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus. "If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century…he'd probably be the Herman Melville of M...

• Nov-2012

National Book Award winner Richard Powers ("The Echo Maker," "Galatea 2.2," "Generosity") has been hailed as the smartest novelist of our time. Few writers have bridged the gap between art and science so compellingly, so passionately, and with such i...

• Oct-2009

When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. Ho...

• Oct-2006

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from...

• Feb-2003

“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent,...

• Jun-2000

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground. "Plowing the Dark is virtual reality composed in a language that will never go obsolete." -- Kevin Berger, The San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewIn a digital laboratory on the shores o...

• Aug-1998

• Jun-1998

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground braids together two very different stories in a novel on "the Promethean messianism of corporate America" (Greil Marcus, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle). In one story, Laura Body, divorc...

• Apr-1996

The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and Playground.“Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.” -- New RepublicSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of f...

• Jun-1995

"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea ...

• May-1993

This novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of Bewilderment examines life in a hospital children's ward, innocence, and the power of storytelling. In the pediatric ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, a group of sick chil...

• Aug-1991

National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. "The most lavish...

• Aug-1985

Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory. In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three youn...