Paul West

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1972
  • Latest Book:
    February 2015
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Bela Lugosi's White Christmas

  • The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg

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  • Rat Man of Paris

    West's 1986 novel takes readers into the mind of Paris's famous Rat Man, who would shock passersby by exposing a live rat kept hidden beneath his coat. West delves into the Rat Man's fictional life, focusing on how the murder of his parents by the Na...

  • Place in Flowers

    Leaving the Hopi mesa of his people and his aging uncle, Oswald finds himself a porn movie actor in Hollywood and a soldier in Vietnam, and finally returns to his home, still in search of a meaningful place in society...

  • The Universe and Other Fictions

  • Lord Byron's Doctor

    The alternately bawdy and diabolical story of Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and their bizarre circle of friends is recounted by Polidori, Byron's brilliant yet demented personal physician....

  • The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper

    Called "one of the most original talents in American fiction" by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. ...

  • Love's Mansion

  • Tenement of Clay

    Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real setting for this prescient novel of homelessness, noble intentions, moral corruption, and social castoffs. Tenement of Clay tells of Papa Nick, a dwarf wrestler named Lazarus, and a de...



  • Tent of Orange Mist

    In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is forced to work as a prostitute. Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fi...

  • Sporting with Amaryllis

  • Sporting with Smaryllis

    When the young English poet John Milton meets Amaryllis, the shepherdess in Virgil, on a crowded London street, she takes him to her dwelling, an odd place that is hung with dripping animal skins and shared with a castrated expert on plague remedies....

  • Terrestrials

    Booth and Clegg are two U.S. Air Force spy-plane pilots, the elite of an elite, men confident in their skills, men who know each other as well as they know themselves. Or so they think. When their spy plane inexplicably plummets from the sky over Sah...

  • Life with Swan

    In this remarkable roman à clef, Paul West transcribes and transforms his own life and love with captivating eloquence. Recounting his now-quarter-century union with Swan (poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman) with wit and tenderness, the narrator ...

  • The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery

    The Dry Danube, Paul West's nineteenth novel, is a uniquely daring, dazzling, bravura performance by an acknowledged master. The Dry Danube, presents Hitler's "memoir" of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One...

  • OK: The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday

    John Henry "Doc" Holliday was Southern gentry by birth, a dentist by training, sharp shooter and lawman by design, and gambler by default, being by disposition and circumstance -- he contracted tuberculosis soon after graduating from dental school --...

  • Cheops

    Known for wrapping readers in his historical web, Paul West, in his marvelous novel Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun, turns his attention to the 4th Dynasty (approx. 2680 BC) of ancient Egypt. Here, we find the pharaoh Cheops, building the great pyram...

  • The Immensity of the Here and Now

    Fiction. In Paul West's 23rd book of fiction, The Immensity of the Here and Now, the aftereffects of [9.11] gradually come into view, then withdraw into a jungle of memory and hallucination...the tragedy perpetually accessible and elusive, too easy a...

  • Old Tides

    Simon Hardman is back in the sequel Old Tides. He finally feels like he has won lifes lottery. With his home on the western tip of the Choctawhatchee everyday is just another day in paradise. His daughters are now living with him and their mother has...



  • The Pearl and the Pumpkin

    Young Joe Miller of the Pringle Pumpkin Farm knows a secret: how to raise the best pumpkins in the world! Joe's expertise leads to a comic adventure among fairies, mermaids, and a crew of hungry pirates who crave pumpkin pie. Scores of vivid illustra...

  • Top Shelf, Third Book from the Left

    Who is the mysterious Dr. Hoot What is the curse of the Molewhirtes Who or what is the O. G. R. And where is the Cornwall Find the answers to these questions and marvel at the consequences as you read about the adventures of Ambrose and his famil...

  • First Cause

    The world is in chaos from a two-day battery of explosions in many of its major cities.A week after the explosions, journalist Adam Grey wakes up in the hospital. He pieces together the events leading to his injury, involving a woman named Angela.Sen...

  • The Invisible Riviera

    The author of 50 books, Paul West has received the Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985, a 1993 Lannan Prize for Fiction, and the Grand-Prix Halpèrine-Kaminsky Prize for the Best Foreign Book in 1993. ...

  • The Ice Lens

    Kije White, an American agent planted in the USSR of 1960 to snoop on Soviet airplane design, meets and has an intense affair with the wife of a commissar, a high official who eventually traps them and has her sent to the Gulag for twenty years, Whit...

  • Red in Tooth and Claw

    The author of more than 50 books, Paul West has received the Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985, a 1993 Lannan Prize for Fiction, and the Grand-Prix Halpèrine-Kaminsky Prize for the Best Foreign Book...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul West has published 25 books.

Paul West does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Red in Tooth and Claw, was published in February 2015.

The first book by Paul West, Bela Lugosi's White Christmas, was published in June 1972.

No. Paul West does not write books in series.
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