John Crowley

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Full Series List in Order

An Aegypt Novel

1 - The Solitudes (Sep-2007)
2 - Love & Sleep (Aug-1994)
3 - Endless Things (Apr-2007)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Beasts

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    FIRST EDITION hardcover published by Doubleday in 1976. This is a rather scarce book in nice condition, not to be mistaken for the common book club edition issued the following year. This is Crowley's second novel, describing a world in which genetic...

  • Engine Summer

    RUSH THAT SPEAKS Born into the community of Truthful Speakers one thousand years after the Storm, he was raised on stories of the old days -- a world filled with saints, a world in which all things were possible, a world which finally destroyed it...

  • Little, Big

    John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood -- not found on any map -- to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the st...

  • The Deep

    Bantam, 1984, paperback. Crowley's well-received 1975 first novel. A visitor arrives from elsewhere on a strange medieval world where the two factions, the "Reds" and the "Blacks", struggle for supremacy through battle, murder and treachery....

  • Aegypt

    There is more than one history of the world.

    Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monument...

  • Novelty

  • The Great Work of Time

  • Great Work of the Time

  • Love & Sleep

    An Aegypt Novel - 2

    An occult historian’s journey of discovery continues in the second volume of this renowned literary fantasy series by “a deliciously elegant writer” (Kirkus).In The Solitudes, John Crowley introduced readers to Pierce Moffett, a scholar whose a...



  • Daemonomania

    As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series.The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to...

  • The Translator

    A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerfu...

  • Novelties & Souvenirs

    A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the fi...

  • Girlhood

  • Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land

    One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manu...

  • Endless Things

    An Aegypt Novel - 3

    This is the fourth novel -- and much-anticipated conclusion -- of John Crowley’s astonishing and lauded Ægypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Rena...

  • The Solitudes

    An Aegypt Novel - 1

    World Fantasy Award-Winning Author: “Affecting, cerebral, surprising and delightful . . . [An] extraordinary philosophical romance.” -- Publishers WeeklyJohn Crowley’s Ægypt series is a landmark in contemporary fiction. The ser...

  • Conversation Hearts

  • Four Freedoms

    In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to war, the call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. To this purpose, a city has sprung up seemingly overnight in the windswept fields of Oklahoma: ...

  • And Go Like This

    in Naked City

    In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill, and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's "Curses" Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a cu...



  • The Chemical Wedding

    Often described as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is “the first science fiction novel.” After all “it’s fiction; it’s about the possibilities of a science; and it’s a novel.” No matter what else it might be, i...

  • Totalitopia

    John Crowley's all-new essay “Totalitopia” is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. “This Is Our Town,” written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story about...

  • Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

    From award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths in the land of Ka. A Crow alone is no Crow. Dar Oakley -- the first Crow in a...

  • Flint and Mirror

    "Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust." -- Peter StraubFrom award-winning author John Crowley comes a novel that masterfully blends history and magic in F...

Award-Winning Books by John Crowley

Little, Big
1982 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Crowley has published 23 books.

John Crowley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flint and Mirror, was published in April 2022.

The first book by John Crowley, Beasts, was published in January 1976.

Yes. John Crowley has 1 series.
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