Rikki Ducornet

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1989
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Cult of Seizure

    The Cult of Seizure starts from a wonderfully lush photograph of a Florentine cavern by Tony Urquhart, and proceeds visually through a bestiary of the small creatures that crawl -- lizards, snakes, crickets ... all rendered in the style of the 19t...

  • Phosphor in Dreamland

    Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbe...

  • The Stain

    In?"The Stain"?Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" ...

  • Fountains of Neptune

    "My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikk...

  • The Jade Cabinet

    Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernici...

  • The Word "Desire"

    A madman recalls his first erotic encounter, a priest loses sleep over a heretic, a scholar searches for the anomaly that inspired the Hindu divinities, a spinster hallucinates her own seductions, a pope suckles a wet nurse. Erotic and fiercely funny...

  • The Complete Butcher's Tales

    In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in cont...

  • The Fan-Maker's Inquisition

    "A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over...

  • Entering Fire

    This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle...



  • Gazelle

    As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her motherâ€"whose beauty and sexual prow...

  • The One Marvelous Thing

    Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the tradition of Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, and Angela C...

  • Netsuke

    Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare ...

  • Brightfellow

    This novel of a troubled life lived on the fringes of a college campus “casts a lingering spell” (The New York Times). A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause ...

  • Trafik

    From the singularly inventive mind of Rikki Ducornet, Trafik is a buoyant voyage through outer space and inner longing, transposing human experiences of passion, loss, and identity into a post-Earth universe. Quiver, a mostly-human astronaut, takes r...

  • The Plotinus

    Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power of imagination.Upon setting out for a morning walk ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rikki Ducornet has published 15 books.

Rikki Ducornet does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Plotinus, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Rikki Ducornet, The Cult of Seizure, was published in May 1989.

No. Rikki Ducornet does not write books in series.
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