William Kotzwinkle

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1969
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Felonious Monk Mystery

1 - Felonious Monk (Sep-2021)
2 - Bloody Martini (Feb-2023)

Walter the Farting Dog

1 - Walter the Farting Dog (Nov-2001)
2 - Trouble at the Yard Sale (Apr-2004)
3 - Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (May-2005)
4 - Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise (May-2006)
5 - Banned from the Beach (Jul-2007)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • The Firemen

  • Elephant Boy

  • Doctor Rat

    As the grant-supported, knowledgeable survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, Doctor Rat, Ph.D., dedicates himself to defending mankind against the worldwide rebellions, uprisings, and insurgencies of his fellow animals...

  • Fata Morgana

    Paris Police Inspector Paul Picard pursues the captivating Ric Lazare and his uncanny fortune-telling machine across the Europe of the 1860s, through deceits and violent deaths, and back to Paris and a necessary confrontation...

  • Dream of Dark Harbor

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  • The Fan Man

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    The indestructible cult classic starring Horse Badorties, legendary founder of Dorky Day, begins...
     
    I am all alone in my pad, man, my piled-up-to-the-ceiling-with-junk pad. Piled with sheet music, with piles...

  • Elephant Bangs Train

  • Swimmer in the Secret Sea

  • E.T. Extraterestrial Story



  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

    What do you do when you're lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures? You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend... Filmmaker STEVEN SPIELBERG and novelist WIL...

  • Christmas at Fontaine's

  • Leopard's Tooth

  • Great World Circus

    It is night in Singapore. Down dark twisting alleyways, past the opium dens and oracles' shops, drifting through ebony bars a,d along solken breezes, moves a mysterious female figure. Utterly irresistible, utterly evanescent, she appears to a man, ...

  • Superman III

  • Queen of Swords

  • E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet

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  • Seduction in Berlin

  • E.T.: The Storybook of the Green Planet

  • E.T. Storybook Green

    Stripped of his powers for displaying signs of earthly corruption, E.T. must elude the elite guards of the Starcruiser fleet, escape to Earth, and guide Elliott through his awkward transition into manhood...



  • Jewel of the Moon

    Fifteen short stories, ranging from the Italian Renaissance and czarist Russia to a double amputee singing on the streets of New York. The much-anthologized title story has been called the most erotic ever told....

  • Nightbook

  • The Exile

    "THE EXILE is a psychological mind bender. Kotzwinkle allows the novel to build slowly until, in the last hundred pages, the book becomes glued to the reader's hands as the devastating climactic scenes pile one on another. This reviewer suffered nigh...

  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Storybook

  • The Hot Jazz Trio

  • The Dream Master

  • The Game of Thirty

  • Hearts of Wood

  • Tales from the Empty Notebook

  • The Bear Went over the Mountain

    Once upon a time in rural Maine, a big black bear found a briefcase under a tree. Hoping for food, he dragged it into the woods, only to find that all it held was the manuscript of a novel. He couldn’t eat it, but he did read it, and decided it was...



  • The World Is Big and I'm So Small

    From morning to bedtime, this delightful poem follows a day in the life of a child. The world of adults seems very big but his imagination brings the everyday objects around him playfully to life. Joe Servello's illustrations perfectly depict the won...

  • The Midnight Examiner

    Fantasist William Kotzwinkle takes readers on a wild ride in this thriller set in the sleazy world of the tabloids

    Howard Halliday, the editor of the Midnight Examiner and the unlikely protagonist in William Kotzwinkle's latest novel, becomes embro...

  • Walter the Farting Dog

    Walter the Farting Dog - 1

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Join flatulent dog Walter on a windy adventure in this laugh-out-loud children’s classic where every toot tells a funny tale! Over 1 million copies sold -- and over 1 million giggles shared! Meet Walter, a fine ...

  • Trouble at the Yard Sale

    Walter the Farting Dog - 2

    Walter's family is holding a yard sale, but there are few customers.  Walter, farting contentedly near Father, wonders why.  When a man offers ten dollars for Walter, Father readily agrees.  Walter wonders why.  Walter is sad to leave his family ...

  • Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog

    Walter the Farting Dog - 3

    Book #3 takes the beloved mutt to new heights!
    Professor Kompressor's anti-gas formula causes Walter to blow up like a balloon and float away. Just when it looks as though Walter's paws may never touch ground again, he encounters a flock of butter...

  • The Amphora Project

    The World Fantasy Award"winning author of Doctor Rat offers “an entertaining trip through an exotic future” as the rich and powerful pursue immortality (Booklist).   Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet Immortal...

  • Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise

    Walter the Farting Dog - 4

    Walter the Farting Dog is now a hero of the high seas!

    Everybody is having a great time on a cruise . . . until a terrible odor permeates the ship. All signs point to Walter, and so he is first banished down below, with the stinky cheeses, and then...

  • The Game of 30

    "A suspense novel to rank with the classics." Stephen King

    Streetwise PI Jimmy McShane has seen plenty, but he's never seen anything like the murder of Tommy Rennseler. A wealthy antiques dealer with a passion for Egyptian artifa...

  • Banned from the Beach

    Walter the Farting Dog - 5

    Mr. and Mrs. Crabbe are enjoying their seaside vacation . . . until a certain dog blows away their umbrella with an enormous fart. Before long, Walter is banned from the beach. While Walter is stuck in the beach house, Betty and Billy hunt for treasu...

  • Trouble in Bugland



  • Double Trouble in Bugland

    ”“Fantastically entertaining….An homage to Sherlock that ably stands on is own two―or six―feet.”―Booklist

    A collection of four detective stories for young readers, in the style of Sherlock Holmes mysteries but with an all-inse...

  • Felonious Monk

    A Felonious Monk Mystery - 1

    It is a strange fact that when a man seeks to practice virtue, he will summon its opposite, as if the seven deadly sins were lying in wait to trip him up. Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem. Since killing somebody with ...

  • Bloody Martini

    A Felonious Monk Mystery - 2

    Award-winning and bestselling author William Kotzwinkle is back with the second in the darkly comedic Felonious Monk series featuring Tommy Martini, a Benedictine monk with an anger management problem. Felonious Monk was praised as “amiably sat...

  • Book of Love

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    The tale of a boy growing up in the American comic-book culture of the 1940s and 1950s.

    The book was originally released as Jack in the Box, then re-released as Book of Love to coincide with the motion picture....

Award-Winning Books by William Kotzwinkle

Doctor Rat
1977 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Kotzwinkle has published 43 books.

William Kotzwinkle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bloody Martini, was published in February 2023.

The first book by William Kotzwinkle, The Firemen, was published in April 1969.

Yes. William Kotzwinkle has 2 series.
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