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Abraham Verghese Books in Order

Abraham Verghese has written 7 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (1994) and the newest is Abscond (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
1994–2025
Pages on record
1,806 in 4 of 7 books
Reading time
30–45 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,806 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 7 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Abraham Verghese, author

Physician and author Abraham Verghese was born on May 30, 1955. At Stanford Medical School, Verghese holds the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professorship of Medicine and directs the internal medicine clerkship. The best-selling books are two memoirs and two novels; the catalogue includes My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (1994), The Tennis Partner (1998), Cutting for Stone (2009) and The Covenant of Water (2023). Subjects include physicians, AIDS and internal medicine. Verghese co-hosts the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine with Eric Topol, joined the Institute of Medicine in 2011, won the Heinz Award in 2014 and received the National Humanities Medal in 2015.

Cutting for Stone follows twin brothers raised in Ethiopia who become doctors.

How many Abraham Verghese books are there?

Abraham Verghese has 7 books, released between 1994 and 2025.

Abraham Verghese Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Abraham Verghese books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese (1994)
  2. Cover of The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (1998)
  3. Cover of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2009)
  4. Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (2023)
  1. 1
    My Own Country: A Doctor's Story1994 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994432
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  2. 2
    Soundings: Doctors Life Age Aids1994 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994352
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  3. 3
    The Tennis Partner1998 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Short Stories2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Cutting for Stone2009 · 670 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009670
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Covenant of Water2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Abscond2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Abraham Verghese books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

7 books

7 Abraham Verghese titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Abraham Verghese books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 7 Abraham Verghese books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Abraham Verghese

Start with My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Abraham Verghese book?

Abscond (2025) is the newest Abraham Verghese book released so far.

Is there a new Abraham Verghese book coming?

No next Abraham Verghese book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Abraham Verghese has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Abraham Verghese. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Lambda Literary Award1995Wonfor My Own Country

Abraham Verghese at a glance

Still publishing
Abraham Verghese published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Abraham Verghese books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
1,806 pages across the 4 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 392 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Abraham Verghese books, 3 of 7, were published in the 1990s.

What the Abraham Verghese books are about

5 of the 7 Abraham Verghese books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: physicians is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.