Andrew Sean Greer Books in Order

Boys suspect their piano teachers of witchcraft, a young man escorts a troubled child around prep schools, and an older man revisits a marriage built around concealed longing. These stories explore the compromises people make while searching for connection.

An expedition to observe a comet brings astronomers together in the South Pacific in 1965. A boy's death changes their lives, while Denise struggles for professional recognition and Eli confronts his attraction to her.

Born with an elderly appearance, Max Tivoli grows younger as he ages. In San Francisco around the turn of the twentieth century, his changing face gives him repeated chances to approach the woman he loves.

In 1953 San Francisco, Pearlie Cook cares for her husband and their son, who has polio. A stranger's arrival and an extraordinary financial offer force her to reconsider what she knows about her marriage.

After losing her brother and her longtime partner, Greta Wells undergoes psychiatric treatment in 1985. She begins inhabiting alternative lives in 1918 and 1941, where familiar people occupy startlingly different places in her life.

Approaching fifty, struggling novelist Arthur Less receives an invitation to his former boyfriend's wedding. To avoid attending, he accepts literary engagements around the world, embarking on a journey complicated by mishaps, memories and lingering heartbreak.

A death leaves Arthur Less facing financial trouble and uncertainty with his partner, Freddy Pelu. Accepting literary jobs across America, he sets out in a camper van with a pug, confronting questions about home and belonging.

An immortal exile on a distant planet finally gains companionship when a traveller’s ship crashes nearby. Their growing bond offers the love he has long desired, but his visitor’s longing to leave forces a difficult choice.

After a Kansas writing residency, Andrew Sean Greer drives home with his mother Sandra. His carefully planned detours through odd attractions and unusual lodgings become a chance for them to face fears and discover how much they share.

An aspiring archivist takes a job at an elderly baronessa’s crumbling Tuscan villa, where valuable objects keep disappearing. An affair complicates his plans as he becomes involved in Coco’s quest to reunite with the love of her life.