Order of Robert Olen Butler Books
Robert Olen Butler is an American author who is one of the most decorated living authors today. He was recognized in 1993 for his book A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and that book won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Butler is a Vietnam war veteran and was given the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award given by the Vietnam Veterans of America for “outstanding contributions to American culture by a Vietnam veteran.” Butler currently lives with his wife, the poet Kelly Lee Butler, in Florida.
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Publication Order of Christopher Marlowe Cobb Books
| The Hot Country | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Star of Istanbul | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Empire of Night | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Paris in the Dark | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Alleys of Eden | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sun Dogs | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Countrymen of Bones | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Distant Ground | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wabash | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Deuce | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| They Whisper | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Deep Green Sea | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mr. Spaceman | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fair Warning | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hell | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Small Hotel | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Perfume River | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Late City | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tabloid Dreams | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Had a Good Time | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Severance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Intercourse | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
| Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Listening for God, Vol. 3 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Listening For God, Vol. 4 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Publication Order of Best Small Fictions Books
| The Best Small Fictions 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of New Stories From The South Books
| New Stories from the South | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1992 | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1993 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1994 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1995 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1996 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1997 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1998 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 1999 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2000 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2001 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2003 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2004 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South, 2005 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2006 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2007 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2008 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2009 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Stories from the South 2010 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
If You Like Robert Olen Butler Books, You’ll Love…
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is arguably Butler’s most popular and best work. The book focuses on the stories of the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the impact that it had on the Vietnamese. This book focuses on the viewpoint of a group of Vietnamese who have been transplanted to Louisiana. The book blends the powerful stories of the Vietnamese with contemporary American realities. It’s easy to see why this book was such a phenomenon and was highly decorated.
Butler is also the author of the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and the first book in that series is called The Hot Country. The book introduces us to the title character in 1914 as the American newspaper journalist is headed to Mexico to cover the Civil War ongoing there. Cobb is working on a story about a priest whose attempted assassination was thwarted by a bullet bouncing off his cross, but his investigation leads him to a far bigger story: Germans coming into the city at the dawn of World War I.