Herman Koch Books in Order

Two couples meet for dinner at an Amsterdam restaurant while concealing a crisis involving their teenage sons. As polite conversation gives way to discussion of a horrific act, competing loyalties test how far parents will go for their children.

Doctor Marc Schlosser faces questions after his famous patient Ralph Meier dies following a medical procedure. The story returns to a shared Mediterranean holiday, where a violent incident exposed tensions beneath the families' apparently comfortable lives.

A fading novelist finds himself watched by a neighbor connected to the disappearance that inspired his most successful book. Their intertwined histories raise questions about what happened to a teacher and how fiction can reshape another person's life.

Amsterdam mayor Robert Walter suspects his wife is having an affair after seeing her laugh with an alderman. His efforts to watch for evidence turn ordinary family life into a source of mounting jealousy and paranoia.