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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1979
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Book List in Order: 44 titles



  • In these outrageous, hilarious stories by one of the most imaginative young writers of fiction today, Idi Amin presides over the Second International Dada Fair, the Yerkes chimp runs off with his female trainer, and a Norse poet tries to overcome bar...



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    Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Musicâ,”a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the l...



  • An “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern CaliforniaAll Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis Sativa and half a million tax-free dollars will be t...



  • Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover ever...



  • Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to s...



  • Brooklyn supercop Francis DeSales and sidekick Tim Desmond cut through ethnic/religious tensions to investigate the assault of a young Jewish man, the kidnapping and murder of a Polish Catholic boy, and the brutal voodoo death of a black drug addict...



  • In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Pete...



  • Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the den...



  • This book examines the development of sensationalism and the reporting of crime in the popular press and literature of mid-Victorian Britain, and its nature and causes. The author looks at the origins of source material obtained by novelists like Cha...






  • Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the veg...



  • T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America to...





  • This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine...




  • Gathered into one volume, the first four short story collections of T.C. Boyle, winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short StoryT. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-f...



  • One of LitHub’s "365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library"“Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic.” "Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction   Or...



  • Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks o...



  • It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual...



  • Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, DOUBLETAKES: PAIRS OF CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES gives readers the opportunity to enjoy the works of today's literary lights through close reading and analysis....






  • T.C. Boyle’s tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream   “A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” -- The Wall Street JournalTopanga Canyon is home to two couples on a colli...



  • The inimitable T.C. Boyle has found another superb topic for his hyperactive imagination. At heart a moving and compassionate look at sex, marriage, and infidelity, The Inner Circle makes use of Alfred Kinsey's controversial studies on human sexualit...



  • New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle speaks to a brand-new audience in this anthology of his classic, richly imagined short fiction about teenagers. 

    His many, varied novels are part of the American literary landscape -- but one of th...



  • For fans of outrageous and fascinating animal narratives such as Netflix’s “Tiger King,” a collection of tales by the renowned T.C. Boyle that explore humanity’s wild sideSince his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979...



  • McSweeney's Issue 19, our first issue of 2006, turns toward earlier and equally uncertain years, traveling back by way of pamphlets, info-cards, and letters addressing bygone conflicts and still-constant concerns. Expect, among other recovered works,...



  • Over the past twenty-five years, T.C. Boyle has earned wide acclaim and an enthusiastic following with such adventurous, inimitable novels as The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, and The Road to Wellville. For his riveting eleventh novel, Boyle offers re...



  • A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle...



  • The Secret Is OutExploring an alternate history of science fiction, this ingenious anthology showcases eighteen brilliant authors leading the way to a new literature of the future. These award-winning stories defy trends, cross genres, and prove that...



  • A superb new collection from a writer who can take you anywhere (The New York Times) In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured ru...



  • From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action-packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them. Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T. C. Boyle's powerfu...






  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in th...






  • A second volume of short fiction -- featuring fourteen uncollected stories -- from the bestselling author and master of the form Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in h...




  • A second volume of collected short fiction -- from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his...



  • Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character. Set in contemporary Northern California, ...



  • A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award-winning WORLD'S END and THE HARDER ...



  • While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit...



  • A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the ...








  • From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has t...





  • An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirt...



  • "Boyle’s satire has lost none of its edge over the course of a nearly half-century literary career . . . [Blue Skies is] an expert blend of suspense, terror and, occasionally, very black humor . . . this fiercely honest writer shows us what he sees...


Award-Winning Books by T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

If the River Was Whiskey
1990 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction
The Tortilla Curtain
2007 Audies -- Narration Author(s)
World's End
1988 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle has published 44 books.

T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blue Skies, was published in May 2023.

The first book by T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle, Descent of Man, was published in February 1979.

No. T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle does not write books in series.