David Duchovny Books in Order

After learning what humans do to farm animals, cow Elsie Bovary sets out to escape her fate. Joined by a pig and a turkey, she undertakes an international journey involving disguises and stolen passports, searching for places where each animal might be safe.

Aspiring novelist Ted Fullilove reconnects with his dying father, Marty, during the 1978 baseball season. Discovering that Red Sox victories seem to improve Marty's condition, Ted tries to sustain his hope through invented results while confronting their troubled relationship and his own uncertain future.

New Yorker Emer's ordinary routines with her boyfriend Con give way to supernatural complications and questions about love and destiny. Reworking the Irish tale of Emer and Cuchulain, the novel brings myth into contemporary city life and its parallel possibilities.

Isolated during the coronavirus pandemic, former financier Ridley notices flashing lights across Central Park Reservoir and imagines a woman signaling him. His search takes him beyond his apartment into increasingly surreal dangers, blurring the boundary between obsession and a heroic calling.

Former stuntman Bronson Powers raises ten children with three wives in an isolated desert household. A developer threatens their way of life, proposing a wager involving public schooling for three children that could cost the family its land and force it into modern society.

When powerful space gods return to Kepler, a world where other human species survived but Homo sapiens vanished, their arrival threatens disaster. Sixteen-year-old Neanderthal West uses her mixed ancestry to challenge the conflict and uncover the visitors' true ambitions.

David Duchovny's poems reflect on intimate relationships, especially the enduring presence of his father. Wordplay and personal observation explore mortality, memory, and the difficulty of expressing human experience, asking what poetry can offer beyond practical answers or certainty.