Douglas Kennedy

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1997
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Big Picture

    On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He w...

  • The Job

    THE PAY WAS GOOD Several years into his career as an ad salesman for a successful computer magazine, Ned Allen seems to have it all: an ambitious, beautiful wife, a fabulous Manhattan apartment, a clear view of the top of the corporate ladder. Until...

  • The Woman In the Fifth

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World and The Moment comes the riveting story of a luckless college professor for whom Paris becomes a city of mortal danger.A runaway bestseller in the UK and France that has been made into a...

  • Leaving the World

    #1 International Bestseller“In this surging epic, a veritable decathlon of the spirit, Kennedy incisively dramatizes the enigma of chance, petty cruelty, and catastrophic evil, ‘unalloyed grief,’ and the tensile strength concealed beneath our o...

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    Manhattan, Thanksgiving Eve, 1945. The war was over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara -- an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the bi...

  • A Special Relationship

    About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into d...

  • State of the Union

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes the compelling story of a woman whose one choice, made decades ago, comes back to haunt her. America in the 1960s was an era of radical upheaval -- of civil rights protests and ...

  • Temptation

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes the brilliant, breathtaking story about a Hollywood screenwriter whose "overnight success" brings about his biggest downfall. Like all screenwriters in Tinsel Town, David Armita...

  • The Moment

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes a tragic love story set in Cold War Berlin. Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his ...



  • The Christmas Ring

    Erica, a Manhattan corporate lawyer, seemingly has it all -- a gorgeous Tribeca loft, a hefty paycheck, a svelte physique, and an engagement ring worth a healthy six-figure sum. The problem is that the ring was given to her by her now ex-husband, who...

  • The Mistake

    A direct to digital short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment which also features the opening chapter from Douglas Kennedy's new novel, Five Days. Sometimes things are not always what t...

  • The Douglas Kennedy Reader's Companion

    A glorious sampling of eight amazing novels by the #1 internationally bestselling author Douglas Kennedy -- Five Days, The Moment, Leaving the World, The Woman in the Fifth, Temptation, State of the Union, A Special Relationship, and The Pursuit of H...

  • Five Days

    From the critically lauded, internationally bestselling author of The Moment comes a profoundly moving novel that explores how a single brief encounter can change one’s life. Laura spends her days looking at other people’s potential calamities...

  • The Blue Hour

    Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. She is a meticulous accountant, almost forty. He is an artist and university professor, twenty years older. When Paul suggests...

  • The Heat of Betrayal

  • The Great Wide Open

    'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent' New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she h...

  • Isabelle in the Afternoon

    Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and,...

  • Afraid of the Light

  • The Dead Heart



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Kennedy has published 19 books.

Douglas Kennedy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dead Heart, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Douglas Kennedy, The Big Picture, was published in April 1997.

No. Douglas Kennedy does not write books in series.
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