Most Recommended Books

Track reading, wishlists & new-book alerts

Get
Skip to content
Share:

Bradford Morrow Books in Order

See Bradford Morrow's books in order, with quick summaries, linked series pages, and simple where-to-start advice for his literary mysteries and novels.

Last updated: July 13, 2026

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases (at no extra cost to you).

View

Publication Order

Sort:

19 books

Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis

by Bradford Morrow

1978

Co-written with Bernard Lafourcade, this scholarly bibliography maps Wyndham Lewis's books and other writings across his career. It is a practical reference for collectors and researchers following Lewis's work in print.

A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press 1966-1978

by Bradford Morrow

1981

Co-written with Seamus Cooney, this reference volume tracks the early publications of Black Sparrow Press in careful detail. It is a useful guide for collectors, booksellers, and readers interested in the press's first years and its small-press history.

Danae's Progress

by Bradford Morrow

1982

An early poetry collection that shows Morrow working in an image-rich mode before his novels took center stage. It offers a compact look at the concerns with memory, place, and myth that would echo through his later work.

Posthumes

by Bradford Morrow

1982

One of Morrow's earliest poetry books, Posthumes presents brief, carefully shaped poems from the start of his literary career. It is a small-volume introduction to his work as a poet before he became better known for fiction and editing.

World Outside the Window

by Bradford Morrow

1987

Edited and introduced by Morrow, this volume gathers twenty-seven essays by Kenneth Rexroth written across more than forty years. It offers a smart entrance into Rexroth's wide-ranging thinking on poetry, art, politics, and culture.

Come Sunday

by Bradford Morrow

1988

Mercenary Peter Krieger travels to Nicaragua to kidnap a man who may be a centuries-old former conquistador. The mission spirals into a wild search through history, myth, and American ambition, with immortality itself hanging in the balance.

The Almanac Branch

by Bradford Morrow

1991

Grace Brush grows up inside a wealthy, domineering family while crippling migraines blur the line between pain and vision. As old secrets surface and the Brush empire starts to crack, her search for self becomes dark, strange, and dangerously intimate.

Trinity Fields

by Bradford Morrow

1995

Born the same day in Los Alamos, Kip Calder and Brice McCarthy grow up in the shadow of the Manhattan Project. Their friendship fractures across Vietnam, political anger, and shared love, then faces a reckoning when a presumed-dead soldier returns.

Giovanni's Gift

by Bradford Morrow

1997

Called home to help relatives terrorized by mysterious night visitors at their ranch, Grant inherits a cigar box of letters and keepsakes after a family friend is found dead. Solving the puzzle draws him into old violence, hidden loyalties, and a dangerous love.

Ariel's Crossing

by Bradford Morrow

2002

When Ariel Rankin learns the man who raised her is not her birth father, she heads west to find Kip Calder, a vanished Vietnam veteran tied to New Mexico's haunted landscapes. Her search becomes a reckoning with family history, identity, and the future she is about to choose.

Didn't Didn't Do It

by Bradford Morrow

2007

Didn't and his friends mean well, but nothing goes smoothly as they try to build a tree house. Bradford Morrow and illustrator Gahan Wilson turn one long, comic chain of mistakes into a gleefully chaotic picture book.

The Diviner's Tale

by Bradford Morrow

2010

Cassandra Brooks, a schoolteacher and water diviner, discovers the vision of a hanged girl in the woods, only for the body to vanish. As the mystery deepens, her uncanny gift drags her toward old trauma and a very real killer.

Fall of the Birds

by Bradford Morrow

2011

After birds begin dropping dead across the Northeast, an insurance adjuster and his grieving stepdaughter follow the mystery from site to site. Their search for a cause slowly becomes a story about loss, fragile trust, and the bond they might still rebuild.

The Uninnocent

by Bradford Morrow

2011

This story collection gathers Bradford Morrow's darker, more gothic fiction, where obsession, grief, and bad choices keep tipping ordinary lives into menace. Several pieces turn on family tension, buried violence, and the uneasy line between pity and dread.

The Forgers

by Bradford Morrow

2014

Rare book collector Adam Diehl is found murdered, his treasured manuscripts ruined beyond repair. As Adam's sister Meghan and her lover Will, a former literary forger, chase the truth, threatening letters from dead authors turn the case into a trap.

The Nature of My Inheritance

by Bradford Morrow

2014

After Reverend Everett dies in a fall at his church, his son Liam refuses to believe it was an accident. The only clues are sixty antique Bibles and a growing crowd of shady visitors who know more than they should.

The Prague Sonata

by Bradford Morrow

2017

When injured former pianist Meta Taverner receives pages of an anonymous eighteenth-century sonata from a dying Czech immigrant, she goes hunting for its missing movements and true owner. Her search leads from New York to Prague and deep into a century of war, exile, and buried loyalties.

The Forger's Daughter

by Bradford Morrow

2020

A scream outside Will and Meghan's Hudson Valley home sends them racing to their bloodied daughter, who carries a rare literary prize and impossible instructions. To protect his family, reformed forger Will must fake Poe's Tamerlane and face an old enemy.

The Forger's Requiem

by Bradford Morrow

2025

Presumed dead after an attack, Henry Slader claws his way back and sets out to ruin his old rival Will. As Nicole is blackmailed into forging priceless letters, the trilogy builds toward revenge, betrayal, and a final showdown shaped by Mary Shelley.

Where should I start?

If you want bookish literary suspense: The ForgersThe Forger's DaughterThe Forger's Requiem
If you want a big historical mystery: The Prague Sonata
If you want New Mexico, war, and family history: Trinity FieldsAriel's Crossing
If you want uncanny, gothic suspense: The Diviner's TaleThe Almanac Branch

Author bio

Bradford Morrow was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 8, 1951, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. That mix of East Coast birth and mountain-west upbringing matters because place matters all through his work. His novels keep returning to landscapes that shape the people inside them, from New Mexico deserts to old neighborhoods in New York and the quieter edges of upstate life.

He got out into the world early.

As a teenager he traveled through rural Honduras as a medical volunteer with Amigos de las Americas, then spent his last year of high school in Cuneo, Italy, on an American Field Service scholarship. He studied at the University of Colorado and later did graduate work at Yale on a Danforth Fellowship. After that came a turn that fits his later fiction perfectly: he worked as a rare bookseller in Santa Barbara, learning the habits of collectors, the value of paper and ink, and the strange lives books can have once they leave the printer.

In 1981 he moved to New York City, founded the literary journal Conjunctions, and began building two careers at once, as an editor who championed other writers and as a novelist finding his own lane. Before the novels, he published poetry, including Posthumes and Danae's Progress. His first novel, Come Sunday, arrived in 1988 and announced a writer willing to mix history, myth, politics, and dark comedy without worrying much about tidy genre boxes.

Books matter in Morrow's fiction, but so do haunted families, old secrets, and the places people cannot quite leave behind.

Readers who start with Trinity Fields and Ariel's Crossing get a strong sense of his range. Those linked New Mexico novels follow lives shaped by Los Alamos, the Manhattan Project, Vietnam, faith, and the long aftershock of American wars. Giovanni's Gift, set around a ranch under siege by mysterious night visitors, brings the same interest in family inheritance and hidden violence into a more intimate mystery.

Later books show how comfortably he moves between literary fiction and suspense. In The Diviner's Tale, a schoolteacher and water diviner stumbles into a frightening mystery touched by visions and old trauma. The Forgers, The Forger's Daughter, and The Forger's Requiem turn his rare-book knowledge into tense, bookish thrillers about fraud, obsession, and revenge, while The Prague Sonata sends an injured pianist and musicologist through Prague and into a lost manuscript's wartime history. What readers tend to like most is that even when the premise sounds unusual, a forged Poe booklet, a vanished body, an anonymous sonata, the emotional stakes stay close to home.

Alongside the fiction, Morrow has taught at Bard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and the Naropa Institute, and he has long served as Kenneth Rexroth's literary executor. His work as a writer and editor has brought him a Guggenheim Fellowship, O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and major recognition for The Almanac Branch, Trinity Fields, and The Forger's Daughter. He divides his time between New York City and upstate New York, still close to books, still close to the kind of stories where art, memory, and danger keep brushing up against each other.

Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

Comments

Did we miss something? Have feedback?

Help us improve this page by sharing your thoughts

We only use your email to notify you about replies.

All comments are moderated.

Discover and track your reading on the go

Track your reading, manage wishlists, and get notified when new books are added.