Julie Schumacher

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1997
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Dear Committee Trilogy

1 - Dear Committee Members (Aug-2014)
2 - The Shakespeare Requirement (Aug-2018)
3 - The English Experience (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • The Body Is Water

    "Four generations of us had occupied this space, argued in it and inexplicably blighted each other's days in it, all while looking out at the ocean, crashing and advancing every year."

    Three months pregnant after a two-night stand, Jane Haus resign...

  • Explanation for Chaos

    : A mother's imminent death bizarrely reorders a family's dynamics...A cruel prank perpetrated by two little girls on a classmate alters their three lives in unexpected ways...A daughter struggles to explain a troubled relationship with her father, a...

  • Flights of Fantasy

  • Grass Angel

    Frances Cressen has the perfect summer planned. She’s going to Camp Whitman with her best friend, Agnes. But Frances’s mother has something else in mind for the family: Mountain Ash, a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere. Frances can’t t...

  • The Chain Letter

    Livvie isn't superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, who thinks everything is bad luck. So Livvie isn't worried about tearing up the chain letter and throwing it away--until she's humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs, and gets invit...

  • The Book of One Hundred Truths

    I should probably mention something right now, before this story goes any further: my name is Theodora Grumman, and I am a liar. It's hard for Thea to write four truths a day in the notebook her mother gave her for the summer. Especially when her ...

  • Black Box

    WHEN DORA, ELENA'S older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena can't seem to make sense of their lives anymore. At school, the only people who acknowledge Elena are Dora's friends and Jimmy Zenk--who faile...

  • The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

    I'm Adrienne Haus, survivor of a mother-daughter book club. Most of us didn't want to join. My mother signed me up because I was stuck at home all summer, with my knee in a brace. CeeCee's parents forced her to join after cancelling her Paris trip be...

  • Dear Committee Members

    The Dear Committee Trilogy - 1

    Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department i...



  • The Shakespeare Requirement

    The Dear Committee Trilogy - 2

    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee...

  • The English Experience

    The Dear Committee Trilogy - 3

    A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow • The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members an...

Award-Winning Books by Julie Schumacher

The Book of One Hundred Truths
2007 Minnesota Book Award -- Young Adult
Dear Committee Members
2015 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award -- Fiction
2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor -- Humor


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Julie Schumacher has published 11 books.

Julie Schumacher does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The English Experience, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Julie Schumacher, The Body Is Water, was published in April 1997.

Yes. Julie Schumacher has 1 series.
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