Andre Dubus Books in Order

16 books are credited to Andre Dubus, published between 1975 and 2018; 3 of them appeared after Andre Dubus's death in 1999. The first book is Separate Flights (1975) and the newest is The Cross Country Runner (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
1975–2018
Pages on record
2,132 in 9 of 16 books
Reading time
36–53 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,132 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Andre Dubus, author

Andre Jules Dubus II was an American writer of short stories, novels and essays, who lived from August 11, 1936 to February 24, 1999. Separate Flights (1975) is the first of 16 catalogued books. Adultery & Other Choices (1977), Finding a Girl in America (1980), The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), Voices From The Moon (1984) and Broken Vessels (1992) follow. Subject tags include man-woman relationships, fathers and sons, and American essays. The catalogue carries editions dated as late as 2018.

How many Andre Dubus books are there?

Andre Dubus has 16 books, released between 1975 and 2018. 3 of them were published after Andre Dubus's death in 1999.

Andre Dubus Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Andre Dubus 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. 1
    Separate Flights1975 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975193
  2. 2
    Adultery & Other Choices1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977
  3. 3
    Finding a Girl in America1980 · confirmed 1/4
    1980
  4. 4
    The Times Are Never So Bad1983 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983192
  5. 5
    Land Where My Fathers Died1984 · 50 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198450
  6. 6
    Voices From The Moon1984 · 126 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984126
  7. 7
    We Don't Live Here Anymore1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984
  8. 8
    The Last Worthless Evening1986 · confirmed 1/4
    1986
  9. 9
    Selected Stories1988 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988496
  10. 10
    Broken Vessels1992 · 195 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992195
  11. 11
    The Colonel's Wife1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996
  12. 12
    Dancing After Hours1996 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996256
  13. 13
    Meditations from a Movable Chair1998 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998224
  14. 14
    In the Bedroom2002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002
  15. 15
    The Winter Father2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  16. 16
    The Cross Country Runner2018 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018400

Andre Dubus 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

16 books

16 Andre Dubus titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Andre Dubus books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 16 Andre Dubus books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Andre Dubus

Start with Separate Flights (1975), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Andre Dubus book?

The Cross Country Runner (2018) is the newest Andre Dubus book released so far.

Is there a new Andre Dubus book coming?

No next Andre Dubus 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 Andre Dubus has won

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

  • PEN/Malamud Award1991Won

Andre Dubus at a glance

Died
Andre Dubus died in 1999, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Andre Dubus are still being published after Andre Dubus's death in 1999; the newest appeared in 2018.
Release pace
Andre Dubus books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,132 pages across the 9 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 195 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Andre Dubus books, 7 of 16, were published in the 1980s.

What the Andre Dubus books are about

8 of the 16 Andre Dubus books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.