Raymond Carver

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1981
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

    The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books) -- a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-refe...

  • Cathedral

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of “one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books).“A writer of astonishing compassion and honesty … His eye is so clear, it almost breaks ...

  • Ultramarine

    "Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry" (Los Angeles Times) in this collection that moves from the beauty of the world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. One of Raymond Carver’s final collections of poetry, this co...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1986

  • American Short Story Masterpieces

    This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades.

    Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”"and tells it with a mas...

  • Fires

    More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories -- later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -- are particularly notable in t...

  • No Heroics, Please

    This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpubl...

  • Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

    The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people."[Ca...

  • Short Cuts

    The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of Ame...



  • Where I'm Calling From

    By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of reader...

  • All of Us

    A rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets.Like Raymond Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All...

  • Elephant and Other Stories

    These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the...

  • Raymond Carver

    Raymond Carver?s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ?80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About...

  • Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

    The complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time -- from “one of the great short story writers of our time -- of any time” (The Philadel...

  • Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

    More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories -- later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -- are particularly notable in t...

  • Short Cuts: Selected Stories

    From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) -- nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss -- and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert A...

  • Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

    By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. ...

  • Beginners

    Here is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature -- his style is both instantly recognizable and...

  • Elephant



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Raymond Carver has published 19 books.

Raymond Carver does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Elephant, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, was published in March 1981.

No. Raymond Carver does not write books in series.
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