Percival Everett Reading Order

3 books (2001–2022)

Percival Everett's anthology series consists of three collections published between 2001 and 2022, presenting experimental and conceptual fiction across different volumes. The series includes Fiction International 34: Madness II, Fiction's Present, and Conceptualisms, and should be read in publication order. Though the series appears to be complete, these anthologies function as independent collections rather than interconnected narratives, allowing readers to approach them individually if preferred.

Start with Fiction International 34: Madness II and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fiction International 34: Madness II 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Fiction's Present 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Conceptualisms 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2015–2015)

#	Title
1	Parts of Brain 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1992–1992)

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1	The One that Got Away 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

10 books (1987–2024)

Percival Everett's Short Story Collections series spans ten volumes of short fiction published between 1987 and 2024, with the series remaining ongoing. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair and continuing through the most recent entry, Sonnets for a Missing Key. This collection includes notable entries such as Big Picture, Damned if I Do, Swimming Swimmers Swimming, and Trout's Lie, offering readers access to Everett's evolving work across nearly four decades of short form writing.

Start with The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Big Picture 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Damned if I Do 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	re: f -gesture- 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Swimming Swimmers Swimming 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Half an Inch of Water 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Trout's Lie 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Two Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Sonnets for a Missing Key 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1984–1994)

25 books (1983–2027)

Percival Everett has published 24 standalone novels since 1983, with his most recent work appearing in 2024. These books should be read in publication order beginning with Suder, though each novel functions as an independent work. The series remains ongoing, with titles including Erasure, Grand Canyon Inc., American Desert, Wounded, and The Water Cure among others spanning four decades of the author's fiction output.

Start with Suder, the first of 24 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Suder 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Walk Me to the Distance 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Cutting Lisa 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	For Her Dark Skin 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Zulus 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	God's Country 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Frenzy 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Watershed 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Glyph 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Erasure 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Grand Canyon, Inc. 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	A History of the African-American People 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	American Desert 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Wounded 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Water Cure 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	I Am Not Sidney Poitier 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Assumption 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Percival Everett by Virgil Russell 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Body of Martin Aguilera 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	So Much Blue 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Telephone 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Trees 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Dr. No 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	James 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Serious Music 2027Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible