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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1977
  • Latest Book:
    June 2020
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Bestselling author Lisa Alther’s classic coming-of-age novel set amidst the changing times of the 1960s American South Growing up in Tennessee in a family of privilege, Ginny Babcock’s world is seemingly idyllic. Her father, the Majo...



  • Five childhood friends with big plans face the changing realities of life in Tennessee in the 1960s in this novel from bestselling author Lisa Alther As Sally and Emily Prince and Jed, Raymond, and Donny Tatro sit under their beloved Castle Tree i...



  • Caroline is a giver—as an ER nurse, as devoted lover to her partner, Diane, as a divorced mother of two boys, and as the daughter of world-class do-gooders—but can she accept help from others and still be herself? When trauma cases i...



  • A humorous journey from '80s Manhattan to the wild side of small-town living, from bestselling author Lisa Alther Clea Shawn is exhausted by her life: her globe-trotting career as a travel photographer, her successful husband's numerous liaisons, ...



  • The author of Kinflicks narrates the story of a Tennessee woman who comes of age in the fifties and sixties, suffers the early death of her mother, and has relationships with a gay man and a married woman. 35,000 first printing. Tour....



  • This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans , other Europeans, and Africans who were there f...



  • Stormy Weather & Other Stories is probably as close as Lisa Alther will ever come to writing an autobiography. These stories, written over the course of her career, are set in the three places that have meant the most to her. The first five stories r...



  • A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write ("she had me laughing at 4 in the morning" --Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, a doctor in charge of the ship's clinic, recovering from the loss of her longtime ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lisa Alther has published 8 books.

Lisa Alther does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Swan Song, was published in June 2020.

The first book by Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, was published in March 1977.

No. Lisa Alther does not write books in series.