Richard Ford Books in Order

Two restless men, Robard Hewes and Sam Newel, arrive on a remote Mississippi River island for very different reasons. Obsession, loneliness, and violence gather around Ford's brooding debut novel.

Harry Quinn follows his girlfriend Rae to Oaxaca to help free her brother from jail. What starts as a rescue mission pulls them into danger, drugs, and a murky expatriate underworld.

Frank Bascombe is a former novelist turned sportswriter, living through divorce and grief after his son's death. Over one Easter weekend, his careful detachment begins to crack.

These ten stories follow drifters, families, and uneasy lovers across the American West, especially Montana. Ford writes about people at the edge of bad luck, bad choices, and brief hope.

This annual anthology gathers standout fiction, essays, and poetry from small presses and literary magazines. It offers a broad snapshot of independent writing from its period rather than a single-author collection.

In 1960 Great Falls, Montana, teenager Joe Brinson watches his parents' marriage come apart. As his father joins a wildfire crew, his mother begins an affair that changes Joe's view of adulthood.

This Selected Shorts audio anthology gathers stories about marriage, partnership, and complicated love. Performed by actors, the pieces move through tenderness, frustration, loyalty, and the bargains couples make.

Frank Bascombe, now a real estate agent, takes his troubled teenage son on a Fourth of July road trip. Their uneasy weekend becomes a test of fatherhood, freedom, and emotional risk.

Three long stories move from Montana to Paris and Chicago, tracing uneasy bonds between men and women. Ford follows desire, misreading, and the gap between intimacy and actual understanding.

This Selected Shorts collection brings together comic stories performed for audio, ranging from sly irony to broad absurdity. It is built for listeners who like literary fiction with a laugh.

Ford's stories circle marriage, adultery, secrecy, and regret. The characters often know they are doing damage, but not quite how to stop or what their choices will cost.

This compact selection samples Ford's fiction, including Frank Bascombe material and stories from major collections. It is a useful starting place for readers who want a quick taste of his range.

In 2000, Frank Bascombe is a New Jersey real estate agent facing Thanksgiving, prostate cancer, family complications, and a changed shoreline. The novel finds him older, sharper, and still arguing with himself.

This Selected Shorts anthology presents classic short fiction by writers such as Edith Wharton, James Thurber, Shirley Jackson, and Raymond Carver, read aloud by performers who give each story a fresh charge.

Selected Shorts presents four Edith Wharton stories in live performance, highlighting her sharp eye for manners, class, secrets, and social traps. It is a concise audio introduction to her short fiction.

This Selected Shorts audio collection gathers stories about attraction, first sparks, longing, and romantic confusion. The readings turn familiar feelings into compact dramas full of humor and ache.

Families misbehave, misunderstand, and occasionally come through in this Selected Shorts anthology. Many stories use a child's-eye view to catch the comedy and pain of life at home.

Food becomes memory, temptation, comfort, and trouble in this Selected Shorts anthology. Recorded live, the stories serve up literary meals with humor, sensual detail, and human messiness.

Animals take center stage in this Selected Shorts anthology, though the real subject is often human behavior. The stories range from comic pet chaos to stranger, more surprising creaturely bonds.

This Selected Shorts collection explores betrayal in families, friendships, faith, and private life. The stories ask what makes people break trust, and what remains after the damage is done.

This Selected Shorts collection follows characters in motion, on trips, flights, roads, and emotional detours. The journeys matter, but so do the awkward discoveries made along the way.

Planes, trains, cars, and restless travelers shape this Selected Shorts collection. The stories treat travel as both movement through the world and a way into loneliness, hope, and surprise.

This Selected Shorts anthology gathers stories brushed with fantasy, horror, wonder, and surreal twists. Familiar authors and strong performers turn wishes, strange rooms, and impossible events into lively audio.

William Hurt performs stories by Richard Ford, Ron Carlson, Tobias Wolff, and Aleksandar Hemon in this Selected Shorts collection. Ford's “Communist” anchors the set with a stark Montana coming-of-age tale.

Mystery drives this Selected Shorts collection, with stories of suspicion, crime, hidden motives, and clever reveals. It is made for listeners who enjoy literary tales with a puzzle at the center.

This Selected Shorts anthology pairs major American stories with stage and screen performers. The lineup includes writers such as Poe, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, John Cheever, Amy Tan, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Four contemporary stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon explore immigration, identity, alienation, and belonging in America, each performed before a live audience.

Fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is left adrift after his parents rob a bank in Montana. Separated from his twin sister, he is sent across the border to Saskatchewan, where safety proves uncertain.

This Selected Shorts collection spotlights Edgar Allan Poe in performance, leaning into suspense, dread, and psychological unease. It is a compact audio choice for classic mystery and horror moods.

Frank Bascombe returns in four linked stories set after Hurricane Sandy. At sixty-eight, he meets damage both literal and personal as old houses, old marriages, and old betrayals resurface.

This brief poetry collection presents a first-person view of prison life in Georgia. The poems focus on confinement, feeling, and the pressure of writing from inside the system.

Ford turns from fiction to memory in this compact memoir of his parents, Parker and Edna. Written with restraint and affection, it asks what a child can truly know about the lives that made him.

The second volume continues Ford's expansive guide to Spain, moving through regions, roads, cities, customs, and practical advice for travelers. It remains valuable for readers interested in travel writing and Spanish history.

This first volume of the classic Spain travel handbook mixes route guidance, history, art, manners, and sharp observation. It is less a quick guide than a richly detailed portrait of 19th-century Spain.

This collection gathers the correspondence of the 19th-century travel writer Richard Ford. The letters open a window onto his family life, friendships, travels, opinions, and work on Spain.

These later stories dwell on loss, divorce, aging, memory, and the people who stay with us after they leave. Ford's characters face grief in quiet rooms, dinners, and chance meetings.

Frank Bascombe, now in old age, cares for his son Paul, who has ALS. Their winter road trip toward Mount Rushmore becomes a hard, funny reckoning with love and mortality.