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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2010
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Books in Order: 11 titles

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  • There is a town that has two types of people, those that only have green hair and those that only have red hair. Why the Greenheads only have green hair and why the Redheads only have red hair is no mystery. It's no mystery why their hair keeps chang...



  • A breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into...



  • On a distant planet, there are two types of cats, the Thinkers and the Jumpers. Conflict arises due to their differences, which send them all, eventually, on an interplanetary journey. This journey will forever affect the future of all cats and chang...



  • The Rounders and the Tallers is a tale of a town where its people have lost their way and separated themselves and the journey to come back together. While the adult leaders of two groups of people struggle to get along, it’s a little boy, in his i...



  • The Jellies and the Crunchers is a tale of a town sharply divided by their own personal choice, in this case, what to eat and how to eat it! The two groups of town folk become more and more critical and angry with each other, which leads to a very cr...



  • Here we have Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and stunning visions of the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world. A 19th-century mi...



  • For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven, Scrapper traces one man’s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit. Detroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a p...



  • In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the...



  • Beset with environmental disaster, animal-like children, and the failure of traditional roles, the twenty-six fathers of Cataclysm Baby raise their desperate voices to reveal the strange stations of frustrated parenthood, to proclaim familial thrashi...






  • "Reminiscent of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Winter War in Tibet in its calm examination and unsettling embodiment of mental and physical extremes, How They Were Found is a dreamer’s chronicle of the loss and partial recovery of a world given ove...



  • 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)....


Award-Winning Books by Matt Bell

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
2014 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book
Scrapper
2016 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matt Bell has published 11 books.

Matt Bell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Greenheads and the Redheads, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Matt Bell, Dredge, was published in October 2010.

No. Matt Bell does not write books in series.