A.M. Homes Books in Order

Teenager Jack wants an ordinary adolescence despite his parents' divorce and an eccentric best friend. When his father comes out as gay, Jack must reconsider his assumptions about normality, family, and the people closest to him.

These stories expose unsettling impulses beneath ordinary domestic lives, moving between absurdity, loneliness, and cruelty. Parents abandon restraint, a dissatisfied employee seeks petty revenge, and familiar possessions become disturbing outlets for desires their owners struggle to understand.

Psychotherapist Claire becomes increasingly fascinated by Jody, a young filmmaker seeking her help. As professional boundaries dissolve and one woman sees a possible family connection, their relationship turns into a dangerous struggle involving identity, obsession, and emotional dependence.

A companion artwork to The End of Alice assembles photographs, paintings, and imagined objects connected to its narrator. The collection explores how a fictional character takes shape and how apparent evidence blurs the distinction between invention and reality.

An imprisoned child sex offender begins corresponding with a nineteen-year-old college student. Their exchange exposes disturbing obsessions and manipulative accounts of desire, drawing the reader into an examination of predation and the dangers of trusting a narrator's self-justification.

Paul and Elaine's strained suburban marriage gives way to escalating disorder as frustrations spill into encounters with neighbors, lovers, and strangers. Their attempts to escape domestic stagnation propel the family toward increasingly unpredictable and dangerous situations.

Using the Chateau Marmont as her vantage point, Homes explores Los Angeles through its famous residents, shifting culture, and accumulated mythology. The hotel becomes a way to examine the city's uneasy mixture of history, ambition, fantasy, and everyday life.

Isolated Richard Novak is pushed back into contact with the world by a health scare and a sinkhole outside his home. Encounters with strangers disrupt his withdrawn routine and open possibilities for connection he had stopped seeking.

Eleven stories trace the distance between relatives, lovers, and friends through ordinary situations made unsettling. Dreams, grief, desire, and private disappointments reveal the emotional conflicts beneath domestic routines, balancing dark humor with attention to vulnerable lives.

An eruption of violence overturns historian Harry Silver's life and leaves him caring for his brother's children. Amid fractured relationships and unexpected responsibilities, he begins assembling a new family and confronting the possibility of forgiveness and personal change.

An uneasy America emerges through stories of thwarted hopes, unlikely political ambition, and fragile connection. From a supermarket presidential nomination to old friends reuniting at a conference, private anxieties mingle with public absurdity and the search for comfort.