Luke Rhinehart Books in Order

Psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart abandons ordinary decision-making and lets dice determine his actions. As his experiment spreads into a movement, escalating risks unsettle his family, professional life, and assumptions about identity, responsibility, and personal freedom.

In eighteenth-century Japan, Matari flees a samurai lord who believes she has betrayed him. Two very different poets help her escape, bringing their own love and principles into a pursuit where conflicting codes of honor endanger everyone.

This dramatized account follows the intense four-day experience of Erhard Seminars Training. Through confrontations, confessions, and exercises, it recreates the training-room atmosphere and explores the ideas about perception and personal transformation presented to participants.

A family and other survivors escape nuclear war aboard a sailing vessel. Their search for safety becomes an arduous journey through fallout, scarcity, and collapsing societies, testing both their endurance and their ability to remain united.

Declared his people's savior, a Montauk boy embarks on a search for ultimate truth. His comic spiritual adventures unfold through invented biographies and other accounts, exposing the absurdities of modern society and conventional ideas about enlightenment.

Essays, poems, parables, cartoons, and playful instructions explore chance as a way to disrupt fixed habits. This companion to dice-living considers identity and control through a deliberately unruly mixture of philosophical reflection and humor.

Wall Street analyst Larry Rhinehart has rejected his father's devotion to chance in favor of a carefully ordered life. Searching for the missing Dice Man brings him into unpredictable communities and experiences that challenge everything he has built.

In a Mallorcan mountain village during the late 1960s, sheltered art student Katya encounters rebellious artist Franz. Their developing romance unfolds amid clashes between hippies and conventional society, testing her inherited beliefs about desire and independence.

In this alternative-history satire, George Bush becomes possessed by Jesus and proposes withdrawing American forces from the Middle East. His allies scramble to stop the transformed president as his new convictions disrupt politics, diplomacy, and his marriage.

Fisherman Billy Morton brings home a playful alien whose computer skills soon disrupt banks and government networks. As officials brand the visitors terrorists, Billy's family becomes entangled in the conflict between alien games and human power.

A psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart begins handing his choices over to dice. What starts as an escape from routine grows into increasingly dangerous experiments and a wider movement, challenging the boundaries of freedom and accountability.