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Jesse Ball Books in Order

Jesse Ball has written 13 books, published between 2007 and 2024. The first book is Samedi the Deafness (2007) and the newest is The Repeat Room (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2007–2024
Pages on record
1,917 in 9 of 13 books
Reading time
32–48 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,917 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Jesse Ball, author

Jesse Ball is an American novelist and poet, born June 7, 1978. Ball has published novels, poetry collections, short stories and drawings, written in a spare style that critics have compared with Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. The catalogue lists 13 books from 2007 to 2024, beginning with Samedi the Deafness (2007). The Curfew (2011), Silence Once Begun (2014) and Census (2018) are among the titles, and The Repeat Room (2024) is the latest.

How many Jesse Ball books are there?

Jesse Ball has 13 books, released between 2007 and 2024.

Jesse Ball Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Jesse Ball 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 Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball (2007)
  2. Cover of The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball (2009)
  3. Cover of The Curfew by Jesse Ball (2011)
  4. Cover of Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball (2014)
  5. Cover of A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball (2015)
  6. Cover of How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball (2016)
  7. Cover of The Deaths of Henry King by Jesse Ball (2016)
  8. Cover of Census by Jesse Ball (2018)
  9. Cover of The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball (2019)
  1. 1
    Samedi the Deafness2007 · 291 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007291
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  2. 2
    The Way Through Doors2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  3. 3
    The Curfew2011 · 194 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011194
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Silence Once Begun2014 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014232
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Lesson2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    A Cure for Suicide2015 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    How to Set a Fire and Why2016 · 283 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016283
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Deaths of Henry King2016 · 89 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201689
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Sleep, Death's Brother2017 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201788
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  10. 10
    Census2018 · 241 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018241
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    The Divers' Game2019 · 227 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019227
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Autoportrait2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  13. 13
    The Repeat Room2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Jesse Ball 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

13 books

13 Jesse Ball titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jesse Ball books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 13 Jesse Ball books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jesse Ball

Start with Samedi the Deafness (2007), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jesse Ball book?

The Repeat Room (2024) is the newest Jesse Ball book released so far.

Is there a new Jesse Ball book coming?

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

Jesse Ball at a glance

Still publishing
Jesse Ball published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Jesse Ball books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,917 pages across the 9 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 232 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jesse Ball books, 9 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jesse Ball books are about

10 of the 13 Jesse Ball books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: man-woman relationships is tagged on 2 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.