Sheila Heti Books in Order

Sheila Heti’s debut collection brings together brief stories and fables that move between tenderness, cruelty, and absurd humor. Their compressed encounters and unsettling turns explore human behavior through situations that can feel warmly familiar and abruptly strange.

George Ticknor prepares to attend a dinner party at the home of his successful friend Prescott. Carrying a hastily baked pie, the aging bachelor becomes absorbed in memories, resentment, and doubts about his own wasted opportunities.

After her marriage fails, a young playwright named Sheila struggles to decide how to live and make art. Her friendship with painter Margaux and relationship with Israel become part of an inquiry combining conversations, emails, and fiction.

Sheila Heti transcribes Misha Glouberman's reflections on everyday urban life, from parties and friendships to games and negotiation. Their collaboration turns apparently minor questions about work, relationships, and public spaces into a collection of practical observations.

A horse wonders why he was created as a horse rather than another animal. Encounters with a tennis-playing sheep, an apple, singing grass, and a mysterious light prompt more questions about purpose and belonging in the world.

Collected from The Believer, these twenty-two conversations bring writers together to discuss craft and ordinary life. Edited by Sheila Heti, Ross Simonini, and Vendela Vida, the interviews range across friendship, consumption, ethics, and the habits of writing.

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton gather hundreds of women's responses to questions about clothing. Interviews, photographs, illustrations, and personal accounts explore how getting dressed expresses identity, relationships, confidence, and the ways women understand themselves.

Two couples travel to Paris with their children, but one child disappears soon after they meet, followed by a mother. This play turns their search into a strange exploration of happiness and desperation involving music and unexpected encounters.

A narrator in her late thirties weighs whether to have a child while friends around her become mothers. She consults philosophy, chance, her body, and family history as she considers responsibility, creativity, and the life she wants.

Two bunnies and a cat share a garden until the larger bunny dies. As the little bunny struggles with her absence, conversations with the cat open questions about death, grief, and the creatures they have loved.

In a world imagined as creation's first draft, Mira leaves home to study and meets Annie. Her father's death draws her into an unusual experience of grief that changes her relationship with the human world.