Stewart O'Nan

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Emily Maxwell

1 - Wish You Were Here (May-2002)
2 - Emily, Alone (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Snow Angels

    Now a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate BeckinsaleIn Stewart O'Nan's Snow Angels, Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shatter...

  • The Names of the Dead

    After his wife leaves him, Larry Markham, a thirty-four-year-old Wonder Bread delivery man, battles his inner demons and his recurring memories of being a young medic during the Vietnam War. Reprint. Tour....

  • The Speed Queen

    A death-row inmate gives her confession -- a hair-raising tale of sex, drugs and murder across Oklahoma -- in this “vividly realized” novel (The New York Times Book Review).   Marjorie Standiford has quite a story to tell. And on the eve of ...

  • A World Away

    The acclaimed author delivers an “affecting and nuanced examination of family alliances tested by infidelity, illness and the pervasive impact of WWII” (Publishers Weekly).Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the S...

  • A Prayer for the Dying

    A deadly epidemic threatens the lives and sanity of a Civil War veteran and his family in this “new masterpiece of American literature” (Dennis Lehane).Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horr...

  • In the Walled City

    An award-winning collection of short fiction from one of “the strongest American writers of his generation” (The Washington Post Book World).   Proclaimed “a master” by the New York Times and selected as one of Granta’s Best Young Amer...

  • Everyday People

    This novel of Pittsburgh, by the author of Last Night at the Lobster, “celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way” (San Francisco Chronicle).   Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris “Crest” Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to...

  • Wish You Were Here

    Emily Maxwell - 1

    A family gathers at their vacation cottage for the last time: “Riveting…the perfect summer-by-the-lake read.” -- Chicago TribuneA New York Times Notable BookA Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the YearA year after the death of her husband, Emily...

  • The Night Country

    A ghost story that begins in everyday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King)

    At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five tee...



  • The Good Wife

    From a writer who reveals 'the plainness of everyday life with straightforward lyricism' (The New York Times Book Review), the story of one remarkable, average woman.

    On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break in to a h...

  • Last Night at the Lobster

    Stewart O'Nan has been called "the bard of the working class" and has now crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction. Perched in the far corner of a run-down New E...

  • Songs for the Missing

    A heartfelt family drama of loss and reconciliation with the unthinkable, from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, HimselfReturning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspe...

  • Emily, Alone

    Emily Maxwell - 2

    A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved "Wish You Were Here," Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of vists by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her q...

  • The Odds

    In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lo...

  • Monsters

    They were going to be monsters, for the church; Creatures from the Black Lagoon. Mark and his best friend Derek would each get to wear a suit with a zipper up the back and a head that fit like a diving helmet. They could scare the little kids and gro...

  • West of Sunset

    In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By...

  • City of Secrets

    From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. Those ...

  • Henry, Himself

    A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected ...

  • Ocean State

    Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of O...



Award-Winning Books by Stewart O'Nan

The Night Country
2004 Connecticut Book Award -- Fiction
Wish You Were Here
2003 Connecticut Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stewart O'Nan has published 19 books.

Stewart O'Nan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ocean State, was published in March 2022.

The first book by Stewart O'Nan, Snow Angels, was published in October 1994.

Yes. Stewart O'Nan has 1 series.
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