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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2002
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • The debut novel from the National Book Award-nominated author of American Salvage and The Waters -- A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick! Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban...



  • The stories in this prizewinning debut collection encompass train wrecks, circus acts, river journeys, transspecies transmogrification, and growing up and growing old around the small towns of Michigan. Without glamorizing poverty, Bonnie Jo Campbell...



  • New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and h...



  • Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is compli...



  • Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed...



  • A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Selection • One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of the Chicago Review of Books's 12 Must-Read Books of January 2024 • Featured in Roxane Gay’s newsletter The Audacity • One of the ...




Award-Winning Books by Bonnie Jo Campbell

American Salvage
2010 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
2016 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book
Once upon a River
2012 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bonnie Jo Campbell has published 6 books.

Bonnie Jo Campbell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Waters, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Q Road, was published in September 2002.

No. Bonnie Jo Campbell does not write books in series.