Delia Ephron Books in Order

A comic guide revisits the habits and private logic of childhood, from eating favorite foods to navigating birthdays and sibling quarrels. Mock instructions invite adults to recognize the rituals they once practiced and the unruly children still beneath their grown-up manners.

More than one hundred craft projects combine instructions with drawings to support seasonal creativity. Fashion accessories, household decorations, handmade gifts and nature-based activities offer practical ways to make things throughout the year, including projects tied to holidays and traditional crafts.

Humorous observations and Edward Koren’s illustrations explore the awkward rituals of adolescence. The book considers youthful romance and the painful pleasures of growing up, finding recognition and comedy in experiences that often feel intensely personal to those passing through them.

Delia Ephron examines contemporary family life through her husband, former husband, his new wife and their children. Personal observations reveal the comic complications of blended households, where shifting relationships and competing expectations make ordinary domestic life unexpectedly tangled.

Waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve brings Alex an unusual adventure. Delia Ephron's children's story follows a young child's anticipation of the holiday and an unexpected experience during the wait for Santa's arrival.

Playful quizzes and illustrated scenarios ask children and adults how to handle everyday social situations. Table manners, school, playground behavior and family visits become opportunities to consider kindness, sharing and practical courtesy without assuming real people always behave perfectly.

Fed up with her older brother’s behavior, Violet Sparks organizes the neighborhood’s younger siblings into a determined group. Their campaign against the older children turns familiar family rivalries into a comic conflict as Violet attempts to change the balance of power.

Eve Mozell juggles anxieties about aging, a demanding alcoholic father and a sister absorbed in work. Telephone calls and family pressures complicate her marriage and personal choices as she struggles to find room for herself among the relationships consuming her attention.

Hoping to protect her teenage son, Lily moves from Manhattan to a quieter Long Island town and joins its newspaper. An unsettling encounter involving a married policeman draws her toward a possible murder, forcing her to question both appearances and her own judgment.

Appearance-conscious Sukie constantly checks her reflection until her mother gives her an old family mirror. Its promise to reveal uncomfortable truths challenges her pursuit of perfection, drawing her toward secrets about the people and relationships she thought she understood.

Women’s memories unfold through clothing in a sequence of monologues and ensemble scenes. Adapted for the stage by Nora and Delia Ephron, the play connects prom dresses, family expectations and everyday wardrobe choices with experiences of identity, loss and belonging.

Three women fleeing different problems become stranded on a North Carolina highway when their car breaks down. Taking shelter in an apparently abandoned nightclub introduces them to Marcel, a lion whose presence becomes part of an unexpected journey toward friendship and change.

Autobiographical essays examine sisterhood, marriage, friendship, films and the comforts of dogs. Alongside a remembrance of Nora Ephron, Delia reflects on their collaboration and rivalry, her complicated childhood and the relationships that continue to shape her daily life.

Two couples travel together to the Sicilian coastal town of Siracusa, bringing concealed tensions into unfamiliar surroundings. As secrets emerge, the holiday destabilizes marriages and friendships, exposing how much each traveler has misunderstood or withheld from the others.

After losing her sister and husband, Delia reconnects with a man she dated decades earlier and discovers unexpected love. A diagnosis of leukemia soon tests that new happiness, bringing treatment, friendship and the uncertainty of survival into her late-life second beginning.