Leslie Stein Books in Order

Stein looks at the gap between economic theory and life in low-income nations, focusing on development as it is actually lived. It is a concise study of poverty, growth, and the structural pressures shaping poorer economies.

A study of planning and redevelopment law in Australia, this book examines how cities are shaped by legal rules around land use, housing, and government power. It is aimed at readers interested in the legal side of urban growth.

Stein studies how export growth affected East African development, asking whether rising trade translated into broader economic gains. The book focuses on the structure of export economies and the limits of growth driven by a narrow range of commodities.

Drawing on the Delaware Family Study, this book examines how adopted teenagers build a sense of self. It looks at family relationships, adoption knowledge, and the particular questions that can surface during adolescence.

This economics study explores how tariffs, import controls, and changing trade patterns reshaped economies after the oil shocks of the 1970s. Stein focuses on protection, adjustment, and the pressures trade places on jobs and industrial structure.

Set in India around the start of World War II, this novel follows two troubled seekers, a Polish Jew and a wandering Hindu monk, on a spiritual quest. Their search for enlightenment becomes tangled with guilt, fear, and self-deception.

Stein traces the Zionist movement from the late nineteenth century to the founding of Israel in 1948. The book combines political and military history with the social challenges faced by the pioneers building a future state.

This early comic follows an adolescent outsider trying to make sense of friends, scenes, and shifting loyalties after losing her best buddy to suburbia. Stein tells it with collage-like pages, awkward humor, and a sharp eye for misfit energy.

Covering 1948 to 1967, this history follows Israel's turbulent early decades as the new state absorbed immigrants, fought wars, and built institutions. Stein focuses on how those first nineteen years shaped the country's political and social foundations.

Larrybear, a semi-autobiographical wanderer with a talking guitar named Marshmallow, drifts between the countryside, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. These stories mix awkward family ties, lonely city adventures, and strange humor in a loose, dreamy comic world.

Stein takes up Carl Jung's difficult late work Aion and uses it to explore selfhood, mysticism, and the search for the divine. It is both a study of Jungian thought and a guide to reflecting on identity and inner life.

Using found pennies as a running metaphor, Stein turns small everyday moments into lessons about goals, gratitude, and perspective. It is a light, practical self-help book about turning big hopes into small actions.

Larrybear moves to the city, works as a shopgirl, and stumbles through odd jobs, childhood memories, and surreal side trips with her anthropomorphic friends. Stein balances dry jokes and detailed black-and-white art with a quietly tender coming-of-age mood.

This volume follows Israel after 1967, covering wars, politics, economic change, immigration, and the growing weight of religion and settlement. Stein also looks at the PLO, Israeli Arabs, and the pressures shaping contemporary Israeli society.

Built from a page-a-night experiment during 2014, this collection turns insomnia into a vivid visual diary. Stein moves through childhood memories, dreams, travel, bar work, music, and lonely late-night thoughts with loose watercolor energy.

In this third Larrybear book, restaurant shifts, a looming hurricane, and a worsening drinking problem push everyday stress into something stranger. It is a funny, uneasy, and intimate look at work, friendship, and trying to keep yourself together in Brooklyn.

These diary comics wander through New York nights, old jobs, family memory, and the small shocks of ordinary life. Stein's loose lines and watercolor pages make the book feel intimate, reflective, and quietly funny.

Based on interviews with twenty-nine mystics, Stein asks how psychoanalysis can make room for experiences that resist ordinary explanation. The book explores their emotional phases, meaning, and how an analyst might work with the numinous.

Opening in an abortion clinic, this memoir follows Stein through a year of conversations, doubt, grief, relief, and changing ideas about parenthood. It is candid, philosophical, and unusually generous about a subject often flattened into certainty.

A celebrated transplant surgeon's confidence begins to crack after a confrontation with a patient's criminal father and a terrifying dream. As Dr. Enoch Seele enters psychoanalysis, the novel turns into a dark search for compassion, purpose, and sanity.