Nicholson Baker

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Paul Chowder

1 - The Anthologist (Sep-2009)
2 - Traveling Sprinkler (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Mezzanine

    A National Book Critics Circle Awardâ€"winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe).   In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York...

  • Room Temperature

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling and National Book Critics Awardâ€"winning author comes a “small masterpiece” of fatherhood, childhood, and bottle-feeding (Publishers Weekly).   In a novel Entertainment Weekly called “intensely funny an...

  • U and I

    Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike....

  • Vox

    Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex -- sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic, classic that places Nicholas Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers....

  • The Fermata

    Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"...

  • The Size of Thoughts

    The Size of Thoughts, a collection of essays that have appeared in the New Yorker and other publications, includes one never-before-published piece on the world of electronics. The essays celebrate the joy--and exquisite details--of everything from l...

  • The Everlasting Story of Nory

    Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling s...

  • A Box of Matches

    Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.What Emmett thinks about is the subje...

  • Checkpoint

    From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet....



  • Vintage Baker

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfi...

  • The Anthologist

    Paul Chowder - 1

    The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has re...

  • House of Holes

    Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselli...

  • Traveling Sprinkler

    Paul Chowder - 2

    Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song or a protest song. or both at once. Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nichols...

  • Travelling Sprinkler

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nicholson Baker has published 14 books.

Nicholson Baker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Travelling Sprinkler, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Nicholson Baker has 1 series.
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