J.P. Donleavy

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Singular Man

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    WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO GEORGE SMITH? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money; his dipsomaniacal housekeeper is trying to arouse ...

  • Ginger Man

    “A picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex.” (Dorothy Parker, Esquire)   First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States and ...

  • Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B

    Set in the years before and after World War II, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B is about the world's last shy, elegant young man. Born to riches in Paris to a quiet father and a cool mother and raised by his governess, the beautiful Miss Horten...

  • A Fairy Tale of New York

    A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in New York is with a funeral director, with whom he re...

  • The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman

    Semi-orphaned, semi-legitimate heir to crumbling Andromeda Park in the lush beauty of the Irish country-side, Darcy Dancer is raised by aging servants, tutored in basic skills by lovelorn Mr. Arlan, in hell-raising by incorrigible Foxy Slattery, and ...

  • Schultz

    'J.P. Donleavy at his wildest, wackiest, sexiest best!' - Chicago Sun Times Schultz - Sigmund Franz "Isadorable" Schultz - descended from a long line of Prague Rabbis, born in the New England boondocks, fleeing an obscure furture in ladi...

  • Leila

    Where Darcy departing Dublin descends on his darkly decrepit desmesne, skint as a boiled bone. There to ponder his leaking, bat-ridden birthright, devilishly diverted by sexy Miss von B and readily rolled up by Ronald Rashers. And sees Leila. Lovely,...

  • Are You Listening, Rabbi Low?

    Shortly after his play becomes a hit in London, Franz Schultz learns that his partners are trying to cheat him, his wife, Priscilla, is suing for divorce, and his mistress' gangster husband is out for revenge despite a deblitating coronary...

  • The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar

    The New York Times Book Review called The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J. P. Donleavy's hilarious, bittersweet tale of a lost young man's existential odyssey, a triumphant piece of writing, achieved with that total authority, total mastery whic...



  • Are You Listening Rabbi Low?

    Shortly after his play becomes a hit in London, Franz Schultz learns that his partners are trying to cheat him, his wife, Priscilla, is suing for divorce, and his mistress' gangster husband is out for revenge despite a deblitating coronary...

  • That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman

    In the third part of the series, Darcy is heartbroken over his lost love, Leila, and to compensate, entertains a string of unsuitable partners and throws a grand ball, through which all the Darcy characters parade...

  • The History of the Ginger Man

    It is literally history combined with Donleavy’s autobiography " from his childhood in the Bronx, education at Catholic schools, service in the U.S. Navy, and travels, to his current life as proprietor of a landed estate in the midlands of Irelan...

  • The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

    Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, sometime resident of Scarsdale, educated at Bryn Mawr, has been brought up always to behave like a lady. But what with chiselling divorce lawyers, fraudulent financial advisors and importunate and oversezed suito...

  • Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton

    Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed compuser, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender heart, h...

  • Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule

    ‘In this book of short pieces Donleavy has given us the lyric poems to go with his epics. They are almost all elegies " sad songs of decayed hope, bitter little jitterbuggings of an exasperated soul, with barracuda bites of lacerating humour he b...

  • The Saddest Summer of Samuel S

    A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy countess who wants him comfortable and secure " and her very own. Master of his domain " his sealed, darkened, disheveled apartment on a dank Vienna sidestreet. Abigail w...

  • A Singular Country

  • The Onion Eaters

    On a cold day Clayton Claw Cleaver Clementine sets off westwards to take up residence in the vast haunted edifice of Charnel Castle. Clementine, a polite unkown unsung product of the new world and recently recovered by a miraculous cure from a long d...

  • The Unexpurgated Code

    With the world a harsh and cruel place and an enemy out to get you if he can, courtesy will not make you rich overnight but by degrees it makes others feel good and this in turn will make you feel even etter … With more and more folk from the wrong...



  • A Letter Marked Personal

    A Letter Marked Personal is J.P. Donleavy’s last novel, completed in 2007. Set in New York, it relates the interior monologue of forty-nine-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson, the founder of a successful lingerie company. Nathan began his career as ...

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J.P. Donleavy has published 20 books.

J.P. Donleavy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Letter Marked Personal, was published in April 2021.

The first book by J.P. Donleavy, Singular Man, was published in January 1963.

No. J.P. Donleavy does not write books in series.
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