Order of Percival Everett Books
Percival Everett is an American author of literary fiction novels and poetry. He wrote his first novel when was working on his AM degree at Brown University. He has been called “one of the most adventurously experimental of modern American novelists” by The Washington Post. Percival is also a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He describes himself as a demanding teacher, but also says the learning between student and teacher goes both ways.
Percival Everett made his debut as a published novelist in 1983 with the novel Suder. Below is a list of Percival Everett’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Big Picture | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Damned if I Do | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| re: f -gesture- | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swimming Swimmers Swimming | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Half an Inch of Water | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trout's Lie | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sonnets for a Missing Key | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| The One that Got Away | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Parts of Brain | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Note: A History of the African-American People was co-authored by James Kincaid.
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Percival Everett Synopses: God’s Country is a standalone novel by Percival Everett. Curt Marder is a gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It’s 1871, and he’s lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba.
Watershed by Percival Everett is a standalone title. Somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets.