Thomas Berger

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1958
  • Latest Book:
    April 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Carlo Reinhart

1 - Crazy in Berlin (Dec-1958)
2 - Reinhart in Love (Jan-1982)
3 - Vital Parts (Jun-1970)
4 - Reinhart's Women (Sep-1981)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Crazy in Berlin

    Carlo Reinhart - 1

    Crazy in Berlin is the first volume in the saga of Carlo Reinhart. As an army medic stationed in Allied-occupied Germany, Reinhart is a young man of large bulk (two hundred pounds, plus) -- good-hearted, intelligent, and something of a fool. He pursu...

  • Vital Parts

    Carlo Reinhart - 3

    A bitterly comic novel of middle-aged angst and middle-class American life in the 1960s, by the acclaimed author of Little Big Man It is the late sixties in suburbia, and Carlo Reinhart’s life is a mess. He’s fat, broke, middle aged, and unemploy...

  • Sneaky People

    The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fiftee...

  • Who is Teddy Villanova?

    Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Feud, Thomas Berger displays his genre bending prowess once more in this mystery turned comedy, featuring unforgettable dialogue and an extremely fun cast of characters. “Berger’s style, which is one of th...

  • Arthur Rex

    With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of King Arthur, the Round Table knights and their ladies, while introducing inspired new twists to the stories of old. Thomas Berger has previously written "Little Big Man", "Killing Time" and "Ch...

  • Reinhart's Women

    Carlo Reinhart - 4

    Thomas Berger's modern hero Carlo Reinhart is thrust into the strangest chapter of his life yet Carlo Reinhart's life has taken many turns. From his idealistic youth in Crazy in Berlin, to his entrance into adulthood in Reinhart in Love , throug...

  • Killing Time

    Thomas Berger breaks all the rules in this detective story that’s less who-done-it, and more why-done-it. “An original and powerful tale of a saintly murderer.” -- Arthur Koestler "Detweiler is one of the most complex characters in modern ficti...

  • Neighbors

    Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earl's painstakingly controlled world...

  • Reinhart in Love

    Carlo Reinhart - 2

    The Pulitzer Prize"nominated author of Little Big Man proves that sometimes war doesn’t change a person, but the world he lives in.   Carlo Reinhart returns home from his service in Germany expecting the Ohio he left not too long ago. What h...



  • Feud

    Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, The Feud chronicles a hilariously destructive rivalry between families from neighboring towns in 1930s America. "I marked my copy of THE FEUD with a star wherever its blend of irony, parody and slapstick made me laugh ...

  • Granted Wishes

  • Nowhere

    Russell Wren is shanghaied into service by an organization alternately called "the Bunch, the Troop, the Pack, the Gang," who bombed his office and sent him off to Saint Sebastian, a small country tucked among the borders of Austria, Germany and Czec...

  • The Houseguest

    Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (father Doug; wife Audrey; son Bobby; and daughter-in-law Lydia) have gotten used to his polite manners and gourmet breakfasts. But one morning at the Graveses' summer home, Chuck fails to appear...

  • Being Invisible

    Pushed around at work, deserted by his wife, and admonished by his sister, Fred Wagner is feeling practically invisible and wills himself physically invisible, with results both pathetic and hilarious...

  • Changing the Past

    A novel of alternate realities from the Pulitzer Prize"nominated author: “Those willing to spend a few hours in his Twilight Zone will come away the richer” (Library Journal).   With a loving wife and son, a successful job as chief copy-ed...

  • Little Big Man

    “The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serio...

  • Mouse and the Potato

  • Regiment of Women

    The Pulitzer Prize"nominated author of Little Big Man returns with perhaps one of his most imaginative alternate realities yet: a matriarchal society.   Women reign supreme in the not-so-distant future, where Georgie Cornell has no choice but ...

  • Orrie's Story

    Thomas Berger puts his signature spin on the Greek myth ORESTEIA in this brilliant story set in small-town America. “Gripping and funny, and, like the Greek tragedies, it leaves us thoughtful” -- San Francisco Chronicle When Augie leaves to join...



  • Meeting Evil

    The author of the Pulitzer Prize"finalist The Feud blurs reality in this breakneck thriller following one man’s encounter with pure evil in high tops.   John Felton is a creature of habit. His job in real estate comes with no surprises; it...

  • Stan Bolivan and the Dragon

  • Robert Crews

    From the author of Little Big Man comes a modern retelling of Robinson Crusoe that is an introspective look at the human condition only Thomas Berger could deliver. “Both a survival tale and a story of the redemptive power of love and nature, the ...

  • Suspects

    Little Big Man author Thomas Berger takes the murder mystery and runs with it in this trip around a quiet suburb with a dark secret. “A cutting, ironic wit and a precision of detail so deadly it hurts when you laugh.” -- Ms. Mary Jane Jones does...

  • The Return of Little Big Man

    Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides with Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Doc Holliday, and even travels with Buffalo Bill Cody to meet Qu...

  • Tree That Grew through the Roof

  • Best Friends

    Roy Courtright is good-looking, healthy, independent, well liked, and the owner of a successful classic car dealership. His best friend, Sam Grandy, is the near inverse: married, a spendthrift, overweight, needy, and near bankruptcy. Yet they've bee...

  • Adventures of the Artificial Woman

    Fed up with the sarcastic, opinionated, and disrespectful women he comes across, Ellery Pierce decides his only choice is to build the perfect woman. A technician at an animatronics firm, Ellery has the experience and tools ready at his fingertips. A...

  • Abnormal Occurrences

    A dozen remarkable short stories from the author of Little Big Man, offering an absurdist journey through the mind of one of America’s great storytellers Thomas Berger’s first short story collection in almost thirty years showcases the author...

  • Who is Teddy Villaneuva?

    In Who Is Teddy Villanova?, Mr. Berger turns for the first time to the private-eye thriller, as practiced by the masters Hammett and Chandler. The seedy office . . . the down-at-heel detective . . . and more.In Who Is Teddy Villanova?, the cast of ch...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas Berger has published 29 books.

Thomas Berger does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Who is Teddy Villaneuva?, was published in April 2015.

The first book by Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin, was published in December 1958.

Yes. Thomas Berger has 1 series.
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