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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1999
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Horse and Ahab share the kind of contempt and love for one another that only true friends can. Months after graduating high school, Horse is getting married to his longtime girlfriend, Melissa...



  • Victor LaValle has already established himself as “one of the most eloquent voices of the approaching century” (Kirkus Reviews), a writer of darkly humorous tales full of haunting beauty, astonishing leaps of imagination, and language that “cra...



  • Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlis...



  • From one of the most acclaimed young writers of fiction in America today comes a fast-paced and fantastical novella about a young girl’s journey into a dark netherworld to find her missing best friend. Lucretia’s best friend and upstairs nei...



  • New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapp...



  • People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic...



  • When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word IMPROBABILIA. Now Apollo is a father himself -- and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as pa...



  • Four new Lovecraftian tales told by four amazing talents in this ebundle, Reimagining Lovecraft. Government agents, monstrous P.I.s, walkers of dreams and magical hustlers meet in the pages of this astonishing anthology of four novellas.The Ballad of...



  • Final issue! In the wreckage of the Lab, Frankenstein's Monster faces off against Akai with the fate of the world and the family lineage hanging in the balance....






  • From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and cu...




  • A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America -- from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more. In these tumultuous...



  • Even humanity's last hope needs a little help sometimes. The Vault is in sight and Eve's come farther than any before her, but the last leg of her journey will test her to her core. Thankfully, she isn't alone... with her newly discovered sister by ...



  • Will Eve finally fulfill her destiny as humanity’s last hope?Eve’s long journey is coming to a head as she finally arrives at the Vault, which is now sunk deep below the ocean surface off the coast of Washington State.But what, or who, she finds ...



  • WHAT WORLD HAVE WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN? When the ice caps melted, most of humanity was lost to the hidden disease that was released. Now, a mysterious girl named Eve has awoken in secret and must deal with a world that’s nothing like the virtual rea...



  • The long-awaited return of the best-selling sci-fi adventure is finally here! Eve seemingly saved the world once already, embarking on a perilous quest to protect what remained of humanity after a deadly virus outbreak… but the story doesn’t end...



  • Collects Sabretooth (2022) #1-5. The island nation of Krakoa has ushered in a bright new era for mutantkind - paradise after years of persecution. But even mutants must deal with monsters in their midst, and Victor Creed is perhaps the worst. One of ...



  • In the second thrilling issue of the follow-up to Eve, Selene divulges the details of her origins, and how she provided hope for the many children that have flocked to her rest stop. But most importantly, what will her resentment toward Eve, Eve’s...



  • While Eve courts the people with her determined and hopeful spirit, Selene loses herself in vengeful plotting. Meanwhile, a recently activated A.I., long since separated from humanity with terrifying actions divergent from its intended purpose, brin...






  • As Eve comes to horrific realizations about her sister, she feels more conflicted than ever as her sister’s changes along with her mysterious companion may be part of what it takes to save the Earth! On the surface, civil war brews to a boil, with...



  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land -- and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the ...



  • Eve saved the world once already, embarking on a perilous quest to protect what remained of humanity after a deadly virus outbreak… but the story continues! Selene, a source of hope for the many children that flocked to her rest stop, resents Eve, ...



  • Collects Sabretooth & The Exiles (2022) #1-5. Sabretooth takes his destiny into his own clawed hands! The powers that be condemned Victor Creed to the Pit for breaking the rules of Krakoa. But now he's free and ready to show the world that you ca...


Award-Winning Books by Victor Lavalle

The Changeling
2017 Dragon Award -- Horror Novel
2018 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
2018 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Slapboxing with Jesus
2002 PEN Literary Award -- Open Book
Up from Slavery
2019 Bram Stoker Award -- Long Fiction
Victor LaValle's Destroyer
2018 Bram Stoker Award -- Graphic Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Victor Lavalle has published 23 books.

Victor Lavalle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, SABRETOOTH & THE EXILES, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Victor Lavalle, Slapboxing with Jesus, was published in October 1999.

No. Victor Lavalle does not write books in series.