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Jason Mott Books in Order

Jason Mott has written 16 books, published between 2009 and 2025. The first book is We Call This Thing Between Us Love (2009) and the newest is People Like Us (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
2009–2025
Confirmed
1 of 16 titles
Pages on record
1,382 in 5 of 16 books
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Photo of Jason Mott, author of the Returned series

Jason Mott is an American novelist and poet. Hell of a Book, Mott's fourth novel, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2021. The catalogue holds 16 books published between 2009 and 2025, opening with We Call This Thing Between Us Love (2009) and reaching People Like Us (2025). Returned is Mott's catalogued series. Recorded subjects include loss, bereavement, reunions, immortality and the paranormal.

How many Jason Mott books are there?

Jason Mott has 16 books, released between 2009 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Returned series.

Jason Mott Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Jason Mott 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 The Returned by Jason Mott, book 4 of the Returned series (2013)
  2. Cover of The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott (2014)
  3. Cover of Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (2021)
  1. 1
    We Call This Thing Between Us Love2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  2. 2
    Hide Behind Me...2011 · 62 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201162
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  3. 3
    The ChoiceReturned #12013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  4. 4
    The FirstReturned #22013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  5. 5
    Dark Musings, Volume 12013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  6. 6
    The SparrowReturned #32013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  7. 7
    Dark Musings, Volume 22013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  8. 8
    The ReturnedReturned #42013 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013352
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  9. 9
    Dark Musings, Special Edition2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  10. 10
    The Random Drabblings of a Madman2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  11. 11
    Here A Drabble, There A Drabble...2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  12. 12
    The Wonder of All Things2014 · 303 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014303
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  13. 13
    The Crossing2018 · 329 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018329
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  14. 14
    Hell of a Book2021 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021336
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  15. 15
    Best of LuckCreature Feature Collection #42023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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  16. 16
    People Like Us2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Jason Mott 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.

Returned in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Choice
  2. 2. The First
  3. 3. The Sparrow
  4. 4. The Returned

Creature Feature Collection

1 book

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

Standalone books

11 books

11 Jason Mott titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jason Mott books in order?

You only need to read Jason Mott books in order within the Returned series, which holds 4 of the 16 Jason Mott books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Jason Mott

Start with We Call This Thing Between Us Love (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jason Mott book?

People Like Us (2025) is the newest Jason Mott book released so far.

Is there a new Jason Mott book coming?

No next Jason Mott 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 Jason Mott has won

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

  • National Book Award for Fiction2021Won

Jason Mott at a glance

Still publishing
Jason Mott published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Jason Mott books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,382 pages across the 5 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 329 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jason Mott books, 12 of 16, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jason Mott books are about

5 of the 16 Jason Mott 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 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.