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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 22 titles



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    "A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New YorkerOne of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a p...



  • DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, w...



  • Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters...



  • A darkly funny satire of human nature and American college football, set against the backdrop of the Cold War, by the author of the National Book Awardâ€"winning novel White NoiseAt Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shou...



  • From the author of the National Book Awardâ€"winning White Noise comes a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)A thought-provoking exploration of the ...



  • In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their...



  • Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fe...



  • From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel White Noise comes an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. KennedyIn this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harve...



  • The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold -- in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour -- our sen...






  • “DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line.” -- Rolling StoneThe first novel by Don DeLillo, author of the National Book Awardâ€"winning White NoiseAt twenty-eight, David Bell ...



  • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Awardâ€"winning author of White Noise, “one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in ...



  • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Book...



  • A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Awardâ€"winning author of White Noise and Underworld.Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls wh...



  • "There's a long drive.It's gonna be.I believe.The Giants win the pennant.The Giants win the pennant.The Giants win the pennant.The Giants win the pennant."-- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World,"...



  • It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manag...



  • Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex...



  • There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks t...



  • DON DELILLO HAS BEEN WEIRDLY PROPHETIC about twenty-first-century America (The New York Times Book Review). In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind ...



  • Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled,...






  • The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time -- an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’...



  • From the National Book Awardâ€"winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.It is Super Bowl Sund...




Award-Winning Books by Don DeLillo

Mao II
1992 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction
Underworld
1998 Ambassador Book Award -- Fiction
White Noise
1985 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Don DeLillo has published 22 books.

Don DeLillo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Valparaiso, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Don DeLillo, Ratner's star, was published in January 1976.

No. Don DeLillo does not write books in series.