J. Robert Lennon

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1997
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Jane and Lila Pool

1 - Hard Girls (Feb-2024)
2 - Buzz Kill (Mar-2025)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Light of Falling Stars

    Extravagantly praised by reviewers, a moving and graceful debut novel about the nature of grief and love explores the taut connections that join the survivors of an airplane crash, a group of vulnerable people from around the globe. Reprint....

  • The Funnies

    The Mix family, a motley crew of troubled souls who have been forever immortalized in their father's popular comic strip, must learn to inhabit the real world when their father dies and the division of his estate becomes an issue. Reprint....

  • On the Night Plain


    At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family’s ranch on the Great Plains for a fishing boat on the Atlantic, only to be drawn back by his mother’s death. His father has mysteriously disappeared, and Grant’s brother, Max, a l...

  • Mailman

    "'Masterpiece' would be an exaggeration, but only a small one."―Andrew Ervin, Washington Post Book World

    "A phantasmagoria of American paranoia and self-loathing in the person of a deranged but somehow good-hearted middle-aged mail carrier i...

  • Castle

    Castle by J. Robert Lennon"Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing." -- Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New York, where he purch...

  • Pieces for the Left Hand: Stories

    Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared "unsettlingly brilliant"Astudent's suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd -- and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have...

  • Familiar

    A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance -- and isn't sure whether she really wants it * A Publishers Weekly "Indie Sleeper" * A Powell's Indiespensable Pick * The Nervous Breakdown's October Book Club Pick *Elisa Brown ...

  • Happyland

  • See You in Paradise: Stories

    “I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal,” observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of ...



  • Broken River

    A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people -- a couple and their child -- hurry out the door, but it's too late for them. As the virtuosic and terrifying opening scene of BROKEN RIVER unfolds, a spectral presence seems to be...

  • Mistranslations and Meeting Notes

  • Subdivision

    A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting traumaAn unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse’s owners, Clara and the Judge,...

  • Let Me Think: Stories

    A new collection of short fiction by the author of the cult classic Pieces for the Left HandLet Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon’s mordant yet ...

  • Hard Girls

    Jane and Lila Pool - 1

    In this "racing, twisty crime novel," two estranged twin sisters hunt down their elusive mother -- and face down the darkness they tried to escape. (Chelsea Bieker) Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a ...

  • Buzz Kill

    Jane and Lila Pool - 2

    When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement.  The Pool sisters have gone into business togeth...

Award-Winning Books by J. Robert Lennon

The Light of Falling Stars
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J. Robert Lennon has published 15 books.

The next book by J. Robert Lennon, Buzz Kill, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by J. Robert Lennon, The Light of Falling Stars, was published in August 1997.

Yes. J. Robert Lennon has 1 series.
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