Alice Adams

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Families and Survivors

    “A you-can’t-put-it-down book. . . . Alice Adams has found a new way to tell the great American dynasty stories we all love.”  --The Washington Post   Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews...

  • Listening to Billie

    “She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction -- her plot -- is no stranger than our lives.”  --Ms. Magazine   Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisive...

  • Rich Rewards

    Daphne has fled to San Francisco after a particularly disastrous love affair. But she is also there to redecorate her friend Agatha's house. It doesn't take long for Daphne to learn, however, that the house isn't the only thing in the beautiful, conf...

  • Beautiful Girl

    “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams. . . . How can one person know so much?” --The New York Times Book Review   With appearances in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Redbook, as well as in the  O. Henry ...

  • To See You Again

    Explores various affairs of the heart, revealing the passion, affectation, and sometimes the wisdom that lie at the center of each. A divorced father awkwardly devises a reconciliation with his teenage daughter; a middle-aged professor is enchanted b...

  • Superior Women

    A brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the e...

  • Return Trips

    Alice Adams has been widely hailed for her beautiful writing and for her ability to bring alive every human emotion. In this new collection of short stories -- her first since the dazzling novel Superior Women -- one of today's most important and adm...

  • Second Chances

    In a moving and richly evocative novel about the remarkable capacity of the human spirit, Alice Adams brings readers into the beautiful community of San Sebastian, California, where a group of dear old friends have shared their lives for many wonderf...

  • Roses, Rhodedendron



  • Careless Love

    Blonde, beautiful, divorced at thirty-one, Daisy Duke thrives on the San Francisco High life of parties, flirtations and light romance. But then she falls in love with the one man she should have avoided, the man who would break her heart and cha...

  • After You've Gone

    Adams's new collection of 14 short stories exhibits many of the strengths and weaknesses of earlier efforts. That she is a fine wordsmith capable of insightful comment on the joys and sorrows of human relationships, there is no doubt. She is also ade...

  • Caroline's Daughters

    Caroline has been married three times and has five daughters--all very different from her. Now that they are grown, she feels distant from them and the woman she once thought herself to be. Caroline's daughters love their mother but live as if she we...

  • Almost Perfect

    At the time Stella Blake meets Richard Fallon, she is nearly broke. Her semi-famous father, who has always neglected her, is dying. Her job at a San Francisco newspaper is only tentative. Richard, on the other hand, is wildly successful as a commerci...

  • A Southern Exposure

    “What a terrific book. I loved its rich, recognizable characters, the intricacies and excitement of the plot, the beauty of the writing.”  --Anne Lamott   Reaching back to the Great Depression, and with all the insight, tenderness, and ...

  • Medicine Men

    “A painful and hilarious send-up of grandiose doctors and their barbaric medical miracles. . . . A postmodern Jane Austen romp.” " The Boston Globe   In a novel that brilliantly conjures up the resilience of the human spirit, Alice Adams d...

  • The Last Lovely City

    “Sophisticated, charming, often nostalgic, and so artfully written that half the time you don’t know that you are reading on of the best writers around.”  ­--The Boston Globe   In her final collection, Alice Adams ranges from San Fra...

  • After the War

    “As always, Adams' strength is her fine, elegant language and the attention she pays to the minutiae of every day living. Like Jane Austen, she stays close to her characters and weaves intrigue out of their interrelated and complex life stories.”...

  • The Stories of Alice Adams

    “Alice Adams has an inimitable ‘voice’"quick, deft, brilliantly evocative and specific. There is always something special about a story of hers, like a watercolor perfectly executed.”  --Joyce Carol Oates     Award-winning wr...

  • Split



  • Invincible Summer

    Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Inseparable throughout college, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of a new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and eager t...

  • Roses, Rhododendron

    Famous for illuminating the hidden workings of human relationships, Alice Adams’s short stories appeared dozens of times in The New Yorker and were a mainstay of the O. Henry Award collections. From her capstone collection The Stories of Alice Adam...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alice Adams has published 21 books.

Alice Adams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Roses, Rhododendron, was published in May 2019.

The first book by Alice Adams, Families and Survivors, was published in January 1976.

No. Alice Adams does not write books in series.
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