Richard Russo

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1988
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The North Bath Trilogy

1 - Nobody's Fool (Jun-1993)
2 - Everybody's Fool (May-2016)
3 - Somebody's Fool (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Risk Pool

    480 pp. "This second novel from the author of "Mohawk" offers a Dickensian plot concerning the introspective Ned and his attempt to win the favor of his father, whose total disregard for all rules of decorum, safety and common sense have landed him a...

  • Nobody's Fool

    The North Bath Trilogy - 1

    This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York -- and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years -- is a classic American story.

    Divorc...

  • Straight Man

    In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded colle...

  • Empire Falls

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    “Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy.”  -- The Washington Post

    Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens...

  • Mohawk

    Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Richard explores these lives with profound compassion and flint-hard wit. Out of derailed ambitions ...

  • The Whore's Child: and Other Stories

    Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls -- also named the year’s best novel by Time -- Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone th...

  • Bridge of Sighs

    Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's af...

  • That Old Cape Magic

    Following Bridge of Sighs--a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children...

  • Interventions

    In what many perceive as a coldly relentless digital age, Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Russo has teamed up with his daughter, artist Kate Russo, to present this tribute to the printed book. This handsome and inventive forma...



  • Elsewhere

  • On Helwig Street

  • Nate in Venice

    In this warm, bighearted novella, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo ("Nobody's Fool," "Straight Man," "Empire Falls") transports his characters from the working-class East Coast of his novels to one of Europe's most romantic cities. In classic Russ...

  • The Mysteries of Linwood Hart

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious if distracted fifth-grader starts to daydream about baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo ...

  • Everybody's Fool

    The North Bath Trilogy - 2

    In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in "Nobody’s Fool." Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife --...

  • Trajectory: Stories

    Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories...

  • It Occurs to Me That I Am America

    In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women’s March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors -- including Alice Walker, Richard Rus...

  • Trajectory

    Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bea...

  • Chances Are . . .

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship One beautiful September day, three sixty-seven-year old men conve...

  • Sh*tshow

    A Vintage Shorts Short Story original.   David and Ellie didn’t realize how much they have missed their friends, two other couples who had moved out of their modest neighborhood in a desert city for the comforts of the suburbs, until the day of D...



  • Somebody's Fool

    The North Bath Trilogy - 3

    The Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool....

Award-Winning Books by Richard Russo

Empire Falls
2002 Ambassador Book Award -- Fiction
2002 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Russo has published 20 books.

Richard Russo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Somebody's Fool, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Richard Russo, The Risk Pool, was published in September 1988.

Yes. Richard Russo has 1 series.
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