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Robert Olen Butler Books in Order
Robert Olen Butler is widely regarded as one of America's most accomplished writers. He has published sixteen novels, including The Alleys of Eden, Sun Dogs, Countrymen of Bones, On Distant Ground, Wabash, The Deuce, They Whisper, The Deep Green Sea, Mr. Spaceman, Fair Warning, Hell, A Small Hotel, The Hot Country, The Star of Istanbul, The Empire of Night, and Perfume River. His six volumes of short fiction showcase his mastery of the genre, with notable collections such as Tabloid Dreams, Had a Good Time, Severance, Intercourse, Weegee Stories, and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A celebrated lecturer on the creative process, Butler's work has been widely recognized with prestigious awards, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, and two National Magazine Awards in Fiction. His stories have appeared in esteemed publications like The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and The Atlantic Monthly.
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Quick Answer
What are all of Robert Olen Butler's book series? Robert Olen Butler has written 6 book series. The most notable is the Best Small Fictions series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Robert Olen Butler
- #1
The Best Small Fictions 2015(2015)
- #1
The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen)(2012) - #2
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box)(2012) - #3
The Book Thing (By: Laura Lippman)(2012) - #4
The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille)(2012) - #5
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By: Jeffery Deaver)(2012) - #6
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link)(2012) - #7
The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner)(2013) - #8
Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell)(2013) - #9
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor)(2013) - #10
The Book of Ghosts (By: Reed Farrel Coleman)(2013) - #11
The Compendium of Srem (By: F. Paul Wilson)(2014) - #12
What's in a Name? (By: Thomas H. Cook)(2014) - #13
Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey)(2014) - #14
The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine)(2014) - #15
The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye)(2014) - #16
Book Club (By: Loren D. Estleman)(2014) - #17
The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow)(2014) - #18
It's in the Book (By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)(2014) - #19
The Scroll (By: Anne Perry)(2014) - #20
The Book of the Lion (By: Thomas Perry)(2015) - #21
The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott)(2015) - #22
Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady)(2015) - #23
Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates)(2015) - #24
Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina)(2015) - #25
From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart)(2015) - #26
The Travelling Companion (By: Ian Rankin)(2016) - #27
Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter)(2016) - #28
Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler)(2016) - #29
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By: John Harvey)(2016) - #30
The Haze (By: James W. Hall)(2016) - #31
Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale)(2017) - #32
The Pretty Little Box (By: Charles Todd)(2018) - #33
Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson)(2018) - #34
The Hemingway Valise(2018) - #35
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta)(2018) - #36
The Girl Who Did Say No (By: David Handler)(2020) - #37
The Traitor (By: Martin Edwards)(2022) - #38
The Dark Door (By: Lisa Unger)(2022) - #39
The Honeymoon Trap (By: Peter Swanson)(2022)
- #1
The Hot Country(2012) - #2The Star of Istanbul(2013)
- #3
The Empire of Night(2014) - #4
Paris in the Dark(2018)
- #1
New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)(1988) - #2
New Stories from the South 1992 (By: Shannon Ravenel)(1992) - #3
New Stories from the South 1993 (By: Shannon Ravenel)(1993) - #4
New Stories from the South 1994 (By: Shannon Ravenel)(1994) - #5
New Stories from the South 1995 (By: Shannon Ravenel)(1995) - #6
New Stories from the South 1996 (By: Shannon Ravenel)(1996) - #7
New Stories from the South 1997(1997) - #8
New Stories from the South 1998 (By: Padgett Powell)(1998) - #9
New Stories from the South 1999 (By: Tony Earley)(1999) - #10
New Stories from the South 2000 (By: Ellen Douglas)(2000) - #11
New Stories from the South 2001 (By: Lee Smith)(2001) - #12
New Stories from the South 2003 (By: Shannon Ravenel)(2003) - #13
New Stories from the South 2004 (By: Allan Gurganus)(2004) - #14
New Stories from the South, 2005 (By: Jill McCorkle)(2005) - #15
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)(2005) - #16
New Stories from the South 2006 (By: Allan Gurganus,Kathy Pories)(2006) - #17
New Stories from the South 2007 (By: Allan Gurganus)(2007) - #18
New Stories from the South 2008 (By: Z.Z. Packer)(2008) - #19
New Stories from the South 2009 (By: Madison Smartt Bell)(2009) - #20
New Stories from the South 2010 (By: Amy Hempel)(2010) - #21The Best American Short Stories 1991(1991)
- #22
The Best American Short Stories 1994(1994) - #23
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection(1996) - #24
The Best American Erotica 1996(1996) - #25
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction(1999) - #26
The Good Parts(2000) - #27Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com(2000)
- #28
Listening For God, Vol. 4(2002) - #29A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers(2003)
- #30The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles(2004)
- #31
The Future Dictionary of America(2004) - #32
The 2004 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories(2005) - #33
Verb, An Audioquarterly, Volume 1, No. 1(2005) - #34
The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories(2006) - #35
The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories(2007) - #36
Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives(2007) - #37
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story(2007) - #38
The 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories(2008) - #39
The 2009 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories(2011) - #40
Astoria to Zion(2013) - #41
In Sunlight or In Shadow(2016) - #42
The Best Peace Fiction(2021)
- #1From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction(2005)
- #1The Alleys of Eden(1981)
- #2
Sun Dogs(1982) - #3
Countrymen of Bones(1983) - #4
On Distant Ground(1985) - #5Wabash(1987)
- #6The Deuce(1989)
- #7They Whisper(1994)
- #8
The Deep Green Sea(1998) - #9
Mr. Spaceman(2000) - #10Fair Warning(2002)
- #11
Hell(2009) - #12
A Small Hotel(2011) - #13Perfume River(2016)
- #14
Late City(2021) - #15Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot(1996)
- #16The Hemingway Valise(2018)
- #17A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain(1992)
- #18Tabloid Dreams(1996)
- #19
Had a Good Time(2004) - #20Severance(2006)
- #21Intercourse(2008)
About Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler is widely regarded as one of America's most accomplished writers. He has published sixteen novels, including The Alleys of Eden, Sun Dogs, Countrymen of Bones, On Distant Ground, Wabash, The Deuce, They Whisper, The Deep Green Sea, Mr. Spaceman, Fair Warning, Hell, A Small Hotel, The Hot Country, The Star of Istanbul, The Empire of Night, and Perfume River. His six volumes of short fiction showcase his mastery of the genre, with notable collections such as Tabloid Dreams, Had a Good Time, Severance, Intercourse, Weegee Stories, and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A celebrated lecturer on the creative process, Butler's work has been widely recognized with prestigious awards, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, and two National Magazine Awards in Fiction. His stories have appeared in esteemed publications like The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and The Atlantic Monthly.
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