T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1979
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Descent of Man

    In these outrageous, hilarious stories by one of the most imaginative young writers of fiction today, Idi Amin presides over the Second International Dada Fair, the Yerkes chimp runs off with his female trainer, and a Norse poet tries to overcome bar...

  • Water music

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    Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Musicââ,¬â€ťa funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the l...

  • Budding Prospects

    An “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times), “riotous” (The Seattle Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain“Consistently, effortle...

  • Greasy Lake and Other Stories

    Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live” (The New York Times) -- from the awardâ€"winning author of The To...

  • World's End

    Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to s...

  • Post Mortem Effects

    Brooklyn supercop Francis DeSales and sidekick Tim Desmond cut through ethnic/religious tensions to investigate the assault of a young Jewish man, the kidnapping and murder of a Polish Catholic boy, and the brutal voodoo death of a black drug addict...

  • If the River Was Whiskey

    In sixteen stories­ -- “writing at its very, very best” (USA Today) -- the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. ...

  • East Is East

    A young Japanese seaman jumps ship and washes ashore on a barrier island in this “marvelous [and] razor-edged” (Cosmopolitan) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. “A hilarious black farce about racial stereo...

  • Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead

    This book examines the development of sensationalism and the reporting of crime in the popular press and literature of mid-Victorian Britain, and its nature and causes. The author looks at the origins of source material obtained by novelists like Cha...



  • The Road to Wellville

    In this “wildly funny” (People) novel, an eccentric cast of characters navigates a world obsessed with health and longevity -- from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. â€śBoyle’s send-up of dietary fanaticism cle...

  • Without a Hero: And Other Stories

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the awardâ€"winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes fifteen “gloriously comic . . . stories [that] are more than funny, better than wicked” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “Fifteen sterling tales ma...

  • She Wasn't Soft

  • Riven Rock

    This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine...

  • The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle

  • T.C. Boyle Stories

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The first volume of collected short fiction from the awardâ€"winning author of The Tortilla Curtain, featuring sixty-eight “varied, clever, and delightful” (The Chicago Tribune) short stories, including seve...

  • A Friend of the Earth

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the awardâ€"winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes an “entertaining and informative” (Chicago Tribune) novel about global warming and ecological collapse. “Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . wh...

  • After the Plague: and Other Stories

    Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks o...

  • Drop City

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the awardâ€"winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes a “gorgeously crafted epic” (People) about a band of hippies who attempt to establish themselves deep in the wi...

  • Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories

    Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, DOUBLETAKES: PAIRS OF CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES gives readers the opportunity to enjoy the works of today's literary lights through close reading and analysis....



  • The Tortilla Curtain

    T.C. Boyle’s “irresistible” (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream â€śA masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” -- The Wall Street JournalWI...

  • The Inner Circle

    The inimitable T.C. Boyle has found another superb topic for his hyperactive imagination. At heart a moving and compassionate look at sex, marriage, and infidelity, The Inner Circle makes use of Alfred Kinsey's controversial studies on human sexualit...

  • The Human Fly and Other Stories

    New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle speaks to a brand-new audience in this anthology of his classic, richly imagined short fiction about teenagers. 

    His many, varied novels are part of the American literary landscape -- but one of th...

  • Tooth and Claw: and Other Stories

    A “fierce [and] funny” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of fourteen stories exploring humanity’s wild side, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain “Whether Boyle is breaking your heart or making you laugh, you jus...

  • McSweeney's Issue

    McSweeney's Issue 19, our first issue of 2006, turns toward earlier and equally uncertain years, traveling back by way of pamphlets, info-cards, and letters addressing bygone conflicts and still-constant concerns. Expect, among other recovered works,...

  • Talk Talk

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain comes “a tense thriller” (San Francisco) about a woman in desperate pursuit of the man who has stolen her identity. â€śBoyle takes the reader on a wild ride. . . . No one wri...

  • The Women

    A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle...

  • The Secret History of Science Fiction

    The Secret Is OutExploring an alternate history of science fiction, this ingenious anthology showcases eighteen brilliant authors leading the way to a new literature of the future. These award-winning stories defy trends, cross genres, and prove that...

  • Wild Child: and Other Stories

    A superb new collection from a writer who can take you anywhere (The New York Times) In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured ru...

  • When the Killing's Done

    From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action-packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them. Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T. C. Boyle's powerfu...



  • San Miguel

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in th...

  • Rock and Roll Heaven

  • A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories

  • T.C. Boyle Stories II

    A second volume of short fiction -- featuring fourteen uncollected stories -- from the bestselling author and master of the form Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in h...

  • The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado

  • The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II

    A second volume of collected short fiction -- from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his...

  • The Harder They Come

    Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character. Set in contemporary Northern California, ...

  • The Terranauts

    A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award-winning WORLD'S END and THE HARDER ...

  • The Relive Box and Other Stories

    While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit...

  • Outside Looking In

    A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the ...



  • After the Plague

  • Talk to Me

    From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has t...

  • Tooth and Claw

  • I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories

    An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirt...

  • Blue Skies

    "Boyle’s satire has lost none of its edge over the course of a nearly half-century literary career . . . [Blue Skies is] an expert blend of suspense, terror and, occasionally, very black humor . . . this fiercely honest writer shows us what he sees...

Award-Winning Books by T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

If the River Was Whiskey
1990 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction
The Tortilla Curtain
2007 Audies -- Narration Author(s)
World's End
1988 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction


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T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle has published 44 books.

T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blue Skies, was published in May 2023.

The first book by T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle, Descent of Man, was published in February 1979.

No. T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle does not write books in series.
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