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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1991
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • Force Majeure was called a “smashing debut novel” by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the “business as usual” of Hollywood’s twisted class system that proved Bruce...



  • Each decade brings a great Hollywood novel, startling in its scope and originality, a story that captures the soul of its time. As the millennium approaches, that novel is Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing You. It is a land of H.I.V.I.P.s, porn stars in lov...



  •  Twelve-year-old Toulouse “Tull” Trotter lives with his grandfather on a vast Bel-Air parkland estate and spends most of his time with young cousins Lucy, “the girl detective,” and Edward, a prodigy who was born disfigured by the effects...



  • If there's an even darker side to Hollywood than the one America is familiar with, Bruce Wagner has found it. A twenty-first-century Nathanael West, he has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, i...



  • The Chrysanthemum Palace introduces Bertie Krohn, the only child of Perry Krohn, creator of TV's longest running space opera, Starwatch: The Navigators (which counts Jennifer Aniston and Donald Rumsfeld among its obsessed fans). Bertie recounts the s...



  • Joan Herlihy is a semi-successful architect grasping at the illustrious commission that will catapult her to international renown, glossy decor magazines, and the luxe condo designs of Meier, Koolhaas, and Hadid: the incestuous cult of contemporary S...



  • Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner’s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic. At a...



  • Composed of two companion novellas, "The Empty Chair" is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as "Dead Stars, I'm Losing You" and "Force Majeure." In "F...



  • A profound and heart-wrenching work of spiritual storytelling from the internationally acclaimed author of DEAD STARS Celebrated for his “up-to-the-nanosecond insider’s knowledge of the L.A. scene” (The Washington Post), Bruce Wagner takes ...






  • I Met Someone is the story of Academy Award-winning actress Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter, and the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamour of their lavish, carefully calibrated celebrity life. After Allegra suffers a mis...



  • A Dragon Story is a book about a young dragon named Theo. He and his friends find adventure and humor in the strangest of places. Through their adventure they learn about friendship, fun, and growing up. But when a new sinister figure is discovered, ...



  • A new novel by Hollywood’s "master of satire."The myth of an epic, public life -- its triumphs and tragedies -- is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and com...



  • The sacred and the profane come together with visceral force in two novellas by Bruce Wagner, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers.The Met Gala follows a prominent family of influencers and would-be philanthropic socialites in the...



  • "In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book." "David Cronenberg  Originally Published under the name Sarah Sparrow, Bruce Wagner's A ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bruce Wagner has published 14 books.

The next book by Bruce Wagner, A Guide for Murdered Children, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Bruce Wagner, Force Majeure, was published in August 1991.

No. Bruce Wagner does not write books in series.