Benjamin Markovits Books in Order

Historian Douglas Pitt hopes to prove that an obscure eighteenth-century thinker anticipated continental drift. Discovering another scientist's account of the man deepens his obsession, while his colleagues remain skeptical of the importance he places on the papers.

Across four seasons, teachers and students at a Manhattan private school find their lives unexpectedly intertwined. New relationships, an unanticipated fatherhood and a parent's declining health reveal the private uncertainties beneath the school's orderly routines.

Eliza Esmond believes she has begun an affair with Lord Byron, but her lover is his doctor, John Polidori. Their secret relationship develops around a mistaken identity that exposes the distance between romantic imagination and reality.

Annabella enters marriage with Lord Byron hoping to build a life together. His destructive behavior and attachment to his half sister Augusta draw her into a struggle between love, duty and the scandal surrounding their household.

A young American moves to a German town to play professional basketball in a lower division. His involvement with a teammate's estranged wife complicates a season in which sporting ambition gives way to questions about adulthood.

A fictional Benjamin Markovits inherits a dead colleague's manuscripts about Byron and hopes to revive his own career. Investigating their author draws him into questions of scandal, reputation and the uncertain boundary between biography and invention.

After leaving his teaching job, Marny joins a wealthy friend's scheme to revive a Detroit neighborhood. His search for community becomes entangled in racial tensions, competing visions of regeneration and a conflict with devastating personal consequences.

Tennis player Paul Essinger's parents arrive in New York before the US Open, joining his girlfriend and young son. Over a crowded family weekend, disagreements about careers, relationships and parenting threaten the fragile balance between them.

The adult Essinger siblings return to Austin for Christmas, bringing unsettled relationships and uncertain futures. When their parents invite Paul's estranged partner in hopes of reconciliation, old family expectations collide with the lives their children now lead.

After his parents separate, twelve-year-old Ben moves from New York to Austin with his mother. Basketball and a new friendship help him find his footing as he struggles to make his voice heard among troubled adults.

Sportswriter Brian Blum has spent twenty years following his schoolfriend Marcus Hayes's basketball career. As Marcus pursues a late comeback, Brian must reconsider the unequal friendship and the choices that have kept his own ambitions in the background.

Tom once promised himself he would leave his unfaithful wife when their children grew up. After dropping his daughter at university, he drives west, visiting people from his past while keeping troubling news about himself hidden.

Bookish Lisa falls in love at college with an ambitious student whose opportunities carry him toward New York and Oxford. Supporting his success forces her to weigh the future of their relationship against her own friendships and ambitions.