Michael D. O'Brien

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1997
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Children of the Last Days

Strangers and Sojourners (Apr-2002)
Plague Journal (Mar-2003)
A Cry of Stone (Sep-2003)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Father Elijah: An Apocalypse

    Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his...

  • Eclipse of the Sun

    In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government. Set in the near future, the story de...

  • Strangers and Sojourners

    Children of the Last Days

    An epic novel set in the rugged interior of British Columbia, the first volume of a trilogy which traces the lives of four generations of a family of exiles. Beginning in 1900, and concluding with the climactic events leading up to the Millennium, th...

  • Plague Journal

    Children of the Last Days

    Plague Journal is Michael O'Brien's third novel in the Children of the Last Days series. The central character is Nathaniel Delaney, the editor of a small-town newspaper, who is about to face the greatest crisis of his life. As the novel begins...

  • A Cry of Stone

    Children of the Last Days

    In this long-awaited fifth novel in his series, Children of the Last Days, Michael O'Brien explores the true meaning of poverty of spirit. Loosely based on the real lives of a number of native North Americans, A Cry of Stone is the fictional account ...

  • Sophia House

    Sophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Schäfer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of the book shop. Throughout the winter of 1942-43,...

  • Theophilos

    St. Luke addressed his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles to a man named Theophilos.


    Who was Theophilos? Scripture scholars do not know, making him a fit subject for Michael O'Brien's vivid imagination. In this fictional narrative, Theophilos...

  • The Island of the World

    Island of the World is the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and tracing his life into the third millennium. The central character is Josip Lasta, the son of an impoverished school teacher in a remote villag...

  • The Father's Tale

    Canadian bookseller Alex Graham is a middle-age widower whose quiet life is turned upside down when his college-age son disappears from school in England. Leaving his safe and orderly world for the first time in his life, Graham travels to Oxford, Ru...



  • Voyage to Alpha Centauri

    Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil ...

  • Elijah in Jerusalem

    Elijah in Jerusalem,the long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed, best-selling novel Father Elijah: An Apocalypse,is the continuing story of the Catholic priest called to confront a powerful politician who could be the Antichrist foretold in the B...

  • The Fool of New York City

    Set in present day Manhattan, The Fool of New York City is the tale of two souls who are considered to be "fools" and "idiots" in the eyes of most people they encounter.

    One is a literal giant, the other an amnesiac who believes he is the 17...

  • A Pillow-Book

    Drawn from the notebooks he kept over the course of forty years, A Pillow-Book provides a welcome opportunity to listen in on the conversation poet Michael O'Brien maintained with the world in all its ravishing and rebarbative complexity. That wor...

  • The Lighthouse

    Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent vigilant, performing his duties courageously year afte...

  • The Sabbatical

    Dr. Owen Whitfield is the elderly Oxford professor of history who first appeared in Michael O''Brien''s novel The Father''s Tale. In the events of The Sabbatical, which occur sometime later, Dr. Whitfield is looking forward to a sabbatical year of pe...

  • Welcome Home

    Peter Mayer is no stranger to adversity.After enduring the loss of his mother, the disappearance of his older brother during military service, and the ransacking of his beloved hometown in Germany during the Allied occupation, he is determined to pre...

  • Salvation's Edge

    Gussalen, a young woman condemned to death in medieval England, is ripped away from all she knows, first by injustice, then by time travelers. This so-called rescue thrusts her into a new, unimaginable universe-one she cannot distinguish from Hell. H...

  • Sad Sad Boy

    Maybe you're Sad Boy. Maybe you're not. Eat acorns to kill your soul. Catch moths. Break horses. Live with a heart the size of Danny Devito.Your father has died. There is nothing in the bag of carrots. Blending poignant and strange haiku-like imagery...

  • By the Rivers of Babylon

    By the Rivers of Babylon presents the early life of the prophet Ezekiel, from his childhood to his service in the Temple to the Babylonian Captivity, where he was enslaved among the exiles along the River Chebar.Ezekiel, a bricklayer, is simple and t...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael D. O'Brien has published 19 books.

Michael D. O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, By the Rivers of Babylon, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Michael D. O'Brien, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, was published in November 1997.

Yes. Michael D. O'Brien has 1 series.
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