David Ebershoff Books in Order

Loosely inspired by Lili Elbe's life, this novel follows a painter's transformation and its effects on a marriage. A seemingly simple request in the couple's studio opens a journey in which love, personal identity, loyalty, and competing ambitions require both partners to reconsider their future.

Seven stories follow young men and boys confronting the distance between the lives they imagine and the experiences they encounter. Questions of sexuality, identity, longing, and belonging shape characters living at the margins as they take uncertain steps toward acceptance and love.

Born on a coastal California farm in 1903, Linda Stamp grows into a life shaped by family, romance, and a changing landscape. Her jealous brother, a wartime orphan, and a Pasadena rancher become central to a story connecting personal transformation with the history of the Pacific Coast.

Ann Eliza Young's nineteenth-century campaign against polygamy intertwines with a modern Utah murder investigation. Expelled from his fundamentalist community, Jordan Scott returns to uncover the truth about his father's death, connecting two narratives that examine belief, marriage, family loyalty, and the cost of leaving a religious world.