Charles Baxter

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1985
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Through the Safety Net

    Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen trag...

  • First Light

    As two grown siblings explore their complicated history over one hot Fourth of July weekend, they come to terms with the experiences that put such distance between them and discover the imperfect love that ties them -- from the winner of the PEN...

  • A Relative Stranger

    "In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ

    Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our fine...

  • Shadow Play

    "In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ

    Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our fine...

  • American Fiction, Volume Eight: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers

  • Believers

    With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant new collection confirms Baxter's ability to revel in th...

  • Harmony of the World

    In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only ...

  • The Feast of Love

    National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/...

  • Best New American Voices 2001

    A marvelous collection of fiction by America's best new writers.

    Upon its launch in 2000, Best New American Voices received acclaim for the range and originality of its selections, which represented the best writing from new American writers w...



  • Saul and Patsy

    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune), Saul and Patsy is "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (The Los Angeles Times).Fi...

  • The Soul Thief

    During Nathaniel Mason's first few months as a graduate student in upstate New York, he is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if no...

  • Gryphon

    EVER SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America's finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection -- Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers -- ...

  • The Would-be Father

    From the collection Gryphon, Charles Baxter’s luminous story of caretaking under any circumstance.    Burrage never thought he’d be the responsible one. When his brother and sister-in-law die in a car accident, he becomes care...

  • There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories

    “There’s something I want you to do.” This request -- sometimes simple, sometimes not -- forms the basis for the ten interrelated stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from an author who has been repeatedly pra...

  • Loss of Face

    Dickens and Hardy knew it, and Chaucer knew it before them: the face can be a powerful expression of personality. So why, in the last hundred years, has literature increasingly put its characters behind masks? ...

  • The Sun Collective

    *A NEW YORK TIMES 2021 NOTABLE BOOK*A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears -- from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers...

  • Blood Test

    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.In this fr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Baxter has published 17 books.

Charles Baxter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Test, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Charles Baxter, Through the Safety Net, was published in August 1985.

No. Charles Baxter does not write books in series.
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