John Dufresne

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1991
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Wylie Coyote Novel

1 - No Regrets, Coyote (Jul-2013)
2 - I Don't Like Where This Is Going (Apr-2016)
3 - I Dont Like Where This Is Going (Apr-2017)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Way That Water Enters Stone

    Written with a truly original fictional voice, John Dufresne's powerful debut collection of stories is filled with quirky characters in hours of crisis and flashes of humor in moments of dark despair. A Louisiana farmer sees the image of Christ appea...

  • Louisiana Power & Light

    A favorite novel by “a generous and lyric storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) known for his tragicomic voice and unforgettable characters.

    Billy Wayne is the sole survivor of his oddball line of marginal folk. When he acquires a priestl...

  • Louisiana Power and Light

  • Love Warps the Mind a Little

    Lafayette Proulx is affectionately called Laf by his friends, and with good reason. As the likeable narrator of John Dufresne's terrific new book Love Warps the Mind a Little, Laf has an eye for the comic elements that can be found in the everyday ev...

  • Deep in the Shade of Paradise

    "A comic opera…tuneful, playful." -- New York Times Book ReviewIn Shiver-de-Freeze, Louisiana (population 375), friends and family have gathered for the impending nuptials of Grisham Loudermilk and Ariane Thevenot. This will be no ordinary wedding...

  • The Lie That Tells a Truth

    "This is the most practical, hard-nosed, generous, direct, and useful guide to writing fiction." ―Brad Watson

    Finally, a truly creative―and hilarious―guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice. Provocative and re...

  • Johnny Too Bad

    A collection by "a generous and lyric storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) known for his tragicomic voice and his unforgettable and lively characters.

    In John Dufresne's stories people are caught unawares by trouble and opportunity in the ac...

  • Requiem, Mass.

    John Dufresne takes us to Requiem, Mass., heart of the Commonwealth, where Johnny's mom, Frances, is driving in the breakdown lane once again. She thinks Johnny and his little sister Audrey have been replaced by aliens; she's sure of it, and she's pr...

  • The Cross-Eyed Bear

    in Best American Mystery Stories 2010

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....



  • The Cross-Eyed Bear

    Father Tom Mulcahy wakes up on the day of a fierce blizzard to learn he has been accused of sexual abuse by an ex-altar boy in the parish. His life as he knows it is over. The Cardinal has sent an emissary to make things right. When Father Tom decide...

  • Iffy

    He goes by the name Elvis Engdahl. He's lost his wife, his family, his job, and his future. He's wanted by the police. So what’s a desperate man to do? What Elvis figures, writes award-winning novelist John Dufresne, is that when a man loses everyt...

  • Blue Christmas: The Holidays for the Rest of Us

    17 stories about the varieties of the Christmas experience by 17 of our finest storytellers, and not one borrows feelings or seasonal stereotypes. They offer the gifts of honesty, suspense, and transport. They'll carry you away to a world more intrig...

  • No Regrets, Coyote

    A Wylie Coyote Novel - 1

    On Christmas Eve in Eden, Florida, Wylie “Coyote” Melville, therapist and forensic consultant, is summoned to a horrific crime scene. Five members of the Halliday family have been brutally killed. Wylie’s rare talent is an ability to read a cri...

  • Everything Is Broken

    The stories here document the way we live our days now, very often alone and in dire straits. The stories were chosen for their beguiling voices, their vivid sense of places, their compelling and intriguing characters, their tension, and their suspen...

  • Everything's Broken, Too

  • I Don't Like Where This Is Going

    A Wylie Coyote Novel - 2

    "I Don’t Like Where This Is Going" continues the misadventures of therapist-on-the-run Wylie “Coyote” Melville. Wylie has witnessed a woman falling to her death outside the Luxor Hotel. Troubled by the ensuing cover-up, he becomes a man on a mi...

  • I Dont Like Where This Is Going

    A Wylie Coyote Novel - 3

    "I Don’t Like Where This Is Going" continues the misadventures of therapist-on-the-run Wylie “Coyote” Melville. Wylie has witnessed a woman falling to her death outside the Luxor Hotel. Troubled by the ensuing cover-up, he becomes a man on a mi...

  • Liv & Di

    Diane and Livingston Moody have reached a critical moment in their childless marriage, and so have their friends, Vita and her philandering husband Finn, in theirs. The Moodys' marriage is trending toward disorder and dissolution. But Livingston thin...

  • Blue Christmas

    An Antidote to Yuletide Cheer

    Holiday Noir and Mystery. This collection of seventeen short stories from acclaimed literary authors takes a fresh approach to the tradition of Christmas chronicles. These aren’t your typical, saccharine ta...



  • My Darling Boy

    A brilliant and gut-wrenching novel about a father and son from a “generous and lyric storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle).Known for his tragicomic voice and unforgettable characters, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son, C...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Dufresne has published 20 books.

The next book by John Dufresne, My Darling Boy, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by John Dufresne, Way That Water Enters Stone, was published in April 1991.

Yes. John Dufresne has 1 series.
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