Michael Cunningham Books in Order

Twelve-year-old David Stark tries to protect his mother and sisters as his Southern California family becomes increasingly unstable. His anxious schemes, including a trip to rescue his stepsister, bring him toward a more complicated understanding of security and himself.

Childhood friends Jonathan and Bobby reunite in New York, where Bobby falls in love with Jonathan's roommate Clare. Their shifting attachments lead the three toward an unconventional shared household and a difficult attempt to create a family together.

Constantine and Mary Stassos build a family whose three children pursue sharply different lives. As marriages, desires, and ambitions change across generations, the family confronts loss and conflict while stretching its understanding of love and belonging.

Virginia Woolf begins writing Mrs. Dalloway, housewife Laura Brown reads it, and New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan prepares a party for a dying poet. Their interwoven days explore desire, despair, and the choices shaping intimate lives.

Cunningham walks through Provincetown's landscapes, streets, and history, exploring the Cape Cod town's appeal to artists and outsiders. Personal observations mingle with portraits of its residents and reflections on the freedom, beauty, and belonging he finds there.

Three linked stories revisit New York through an industrial-era ghost story, a contemporary terrorism investigation, and a distant future of aliens and machines. Recurring character patterns and Walt Whitman's poetry connect their searches for humanity and meaning.

Art dealer Peter Harris and his wife Rebecca live comfortably in Manhattan until her much younger brother comes to stay. Peter's fascination with the troubled visitor unsettles his marriage and prompts difficult questions about desire, beauty, and his choices.

Edited by Kate Bernheimer, this anthology gathers forty contemporary reinventions of fairy tales from around the world. Writers including Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, and Joyce Carol Oates transform familiar plots into new explorations of wonder, violence, and desire.

After seeing a mysterious light over Central Park, Barrett Meeks turns toward religion. His musician brother Tyler seeks inspiration through drugs while preparing to marry his seriously ill partner, linking their different searches for transcendence and consolation.

Familiar fairy tales become stories about the consequences their traditional endings leave unexplored. Partially broken curses, unexpected miracles, and magical bargains expose the loneliness, desires, and failures of characters whose lives continue after their supposed happy endings.

This volume pairs Cunningham's The Hours with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the novel that inspired it. A new introduction by Cunningham reflects on his first encounter with Woolf and the connections between their explorations of inner lives.

Across the same April day in three successive years, a Brooklyn family faces strained relationships, separation, and pandemic isolation. Dan, Isabel, and her brother Robbie struggle to understand what binds them together as loss reshapes their future.