Dan Chaon Books in Order

Dan Chaon has written 11 books, published between 1995 and 2025. The first book is Fitting Ends (1995) and the newest is One of Us (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1995–2025
Confirmed
1 of 11 titles
Pages on record
1,708 in 5 of 11 books
Photo of Dan Chaon, author

Dan Chaon, born in 1964, is an American writer and a former creative writing professor. Three short story collections and five novels stand to his name. The catalogue holds 11 books from Fitting Ends (1995) to One of Us (2025), taking in Among the Missing (2001), You Remind Me of Me (2004), Await Your Reply (2009), Stay Awake (2012), Ill Will (2017) and Sleepwalk (2022). Recorded subjects include American short stories, domestic fiction, identity, fate and fatalism, and city and town life.

How many Dan Chaon books are there?

Dan Chaon has 11 books, released between 1995 and 2025.

Dan Chaon Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Dan Chaon 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
    Fitting Ends1995 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995272
  2. 2
    Among the Missing2001 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001288
  3. 3
    You Remind Me of Me2004 · confirmed 2/4
    2004
  4. 4
    Await Your Reply2009 · 348 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009348
  5. 5
    Stay Awake2012 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012304
  6. 6
    How We Escaped Our Certain Fate2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  7. 7
    Little America2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  8. 8
    Ill Will2017 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017496
  9. 9
    The Beckoning Fair OneDisorder Collection #22019 · confirmed 3/4
    2019
  10. 10
    Sleepwalk2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022
  11. 11
    One of Us2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025

Dan Chaon 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.

Disorder Collection

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

10 books

10 Dan Chaon titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Dan Chaon books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Dan Chaon books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Dan Chaon

Start with Fitting Ends (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dan Chaon book?

One of Us (2025) is the newest Dan Chaon book released so far.

Is there a new Dan Chaon book coming?

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

Award nominations for Dan Chaon

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

  • Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2018Shortlistedfor Ill Will

Dan Chaon at a glance

Still publishing
Dan Chaon published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Dan Chaon books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,708 pages across the 5 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dan Chaon books, 5 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Dan Chaon books are about

6 of the 11 Dan Chaon books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychological fiction is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.