Richard Ford

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1979
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Frank Bascombe

1 - The Sportswriter (Jun-1996)
2 - Independence Day (Jun-1995)
3 - The Lay of the Land (Nov-2006)
4 - Let Me Be Frank with You (Nov-2014)

Steelhaven

1 - Herald of the Storm (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Dramatisations of Scott's Novels

  • Quest for the Faradawn

    Brought up by Brock the badger after being abandoned by his human parents, Nab undertakes the quest for the Faradawn, the three magical grains guarded by the Elflords of the Mountains, Forests, and Seas....

  • The Fall of Saigon

    Granta #15 collection of essays. Essays included: *On Harley-Davidson (Richard Ford); *Grandma Norman and the Queen (Philip Norman); *The Fall of Saigon (James Fenton); *Ten Years On; *Toothpaste (Frank Snepp); *Impotence (Norman Podhretz); *Dominoe...

  • A Piece of My Heart

    The “extraordinary” debut novel (Newsweek) from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day tells the story of two godless pilgrims who converge on an uncharted island in the Mississippi. • “One of those books that hit you...

  • Rock Springs

    Ten “beautifully imagined and crafted stories” of the American West by the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of Independence Day (Joyce Carol Oates).   In these ten exquisite stories, Richard Ford explores the wind-scrubbed landscape of the Am...

  • The Ultimate Good Luck

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter comes a novel of menace and eroticism set in Oaxaca, Mexico. • "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light...

  • Wildlife

    A novel of a fracturing family in 1960 Montana, “full of prose that makes the reader shiver,” by the New York Times-bestselling author of Rock Springs (Chicago Sun-Times).   When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great ...

  • The Granta Book of the American Short Story

    An anthology of short stories selected to represent the best works of fiction in the United States features stories by O'Connor, Welty, Updike, Beattie, Barthelme, Tan, Leavitt, Coraghessan Boyle, Bowles, Penn Warren, and others....

  • Independence Day

    Frank Bascombe - 2

    In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America. Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his div...



  • The Sportswriter

    Frank Bascombe - 1

    In this “powerful” blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves...

  • Women with Men

    The "Babe Ruth of novelists" (The Washington Post Book World) -- and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day -- reaffirms his mastery of the short story as he takes us from the plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs o...

  • Granta 72: Overreachers

    Why do we always want more? Why do we never give up? When do we stop? A fine story by Richard Ford in the perils of adultery; a remarkable piece of autobiography by Ved Mehta on his painful search for a woman's love. Plus: Nik Cohn, A. L. Kennedy, Al...

  • A Multitude of Sins

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/MALAMUD AWARD WINNER • A masterful collection of short stories that explores intimacy and love and their failures -- from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and “one of the country’s best writers...

  • The Granta Book of the American Long Story

    In this collection, Pulitzer prize-winning author Richard Ford brings together 11 of the finest examples of American long stories or novellas. Selecting at least one story from each decade since the 1940s, this anthology includes "June Recital” by...

  • Set Free

  • Vintage Ford

    An ideal introduction to the "Babe Ruth of novelists" (The Washington Post Book World) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter. • “One of the country’s best writers…. No one looks harder at contemporary ...

  • The Lay of the Land

    Frank Bascombe - 3

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter brings back the unforgettable Frank Bascombe in this astonishing meditation on modern-day America. ...

  • The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

    In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century -- an "exemplary choice” in the words o...

  • Davy Byrnes Stories

    The six prize-winning stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as selected by Richard Ford: `Foster ' by Claire Keegan, `Living in Unknown' by Mary Leland, `This Isn't Heaven' by Molly McCloskey, `The Road Wife' by Eoin McNamee, `Storm G...



  • White Collar, Blue Collar, No Collar

    This vital and compelling collection of stories about work, compiled by novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford, explores tales of how we Americans are employed; how we find work and leave it; how it excites, ennobles, occasionally debilitates, ...

  • Kultus

    A steam-powered burlesque of brutal demonic action! Thaddeus Blaklok--mercenary, demonist, bastard and thug-for-hire--is pressed into retrieving a mysterious key for his clandestine benefactors. Little does he know that other parties seek to secur...

  • Canada

    "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm dr...

  • Herald of the Storm

    Steelhaven - 1

    Welcome to Steelhaven... Under the reign of King Cael the Uniter, this vast cityport on the southern coast has for years been a symbol of strength, maintaining an uneasy peace throughout the Free States. But now a long shadow hangs over the city, ...

  • The Shattered Crown

    Heroes must rise ... The King is dead. His daughter, untested and alone, now wears the Steel Crown. And a vast horde is steadily carving a bloody road south, hell-bent on razing Steelhaven to the ground ... or the city will fall Before the ci...

  • Let Me Be Frank with You

    Frank Bascombe - 4

    A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner w...

  • Lord of Ashes

    The third novel in Richard Ford's magnificent fantasy series has enough thrills, valour, guts and glory to satisfy any die-hard fan of David Gemmell and Joe Abercrombie. FIGHT TO THE DEATH... The queen of Steelhaven has grown in strength. Taking...

  • Sorry for Your Trouble

    A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning m...

  • Between Them

  • A Girl Named Alabama

    Alabama Valens is a pretty, young woman who is secure in the belief that she is in charge of her life -- until a phone call from her brother brings her to the sudden realization that life can change abruptly and with frightening speed. When tragedy...



  • Stealing Orpheon

  • Be Mine

    From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literatureOver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has craf...

  • The Dust Flower by Basil King

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  • Gatherings from Spain

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    " ...] ADMIRATION OF SPAIN. M. THIERS IN SPAIN. To boast of Spain's strength, said the Duke of Wellington, is the national weakness. Every infinitesimal particle which constitutes nosotros, or ourselves, as Spaniards term themselves, will talk of his...

  • The Hidden Masterpiece by Balzac

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  • The Other Side of Suicide

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    The Other Side of Suicide is a virtual reality journey with those left behind; "The Survivors". Those affected by suicide experience a tsunami of emotions; "Soul Trauma" of devastation, destruction, shock, horror and brokenness; lives forever altere...

Award-Winning Books by Richard Ford

Canada
2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence -- Fiction
2013 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book
Independence Day
1996 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction
1996 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Ford has published 35 books.

Richard Ford does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Be Mine, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Richard Ford, Dramatisations of Scott's Novels, was published in December 1979.

Yes. Richard Ford has 2 series.
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