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Jonathan Lethem Books in Order

Jonathan Lethem has written 33 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is Gun, With Occasional Music (1994) and the newest is A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Jonathan Lethem also publishes as Harry Conklin.

Books
33
Published
1994–2025
Confirmed
1 of 33 titles
Pages on record
5,383 in 20 of 33 books
Reading time
90–135 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,383 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 33 titles with a page count on record.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer, born 19 February 1964. Lethem's first novel, Gun, With Occasional Music (1994), combined science fiction with detective fiction. Motherless Brooklyn (1999) won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Fortress of Solitude (2003) became a New York Times Best Seller. Lethem received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005 and has taught creative writing at Pomona College since 2011. The catalogue lists 33 books, running to A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories (2025).

How many Jonathan Lethem books are there?

Jonathan Lethem has 33 books, released between 1994 and 2025.

Jonathan Lethem Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 33 Jonathan Lethem 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 Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1994)
  2. Cover of Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem (1995)
  3. Cover of As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
  4. Cover of Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem (1998)
  5. Cover of Kafka Americana by Jonathan Lethem (1999)
  6. Cover of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (1999)
  7. Cover of This Shape We're In by Jonathan Lethem (2001)
  8. Cover of Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002 by Jonathan Lethem (2002)
  9. Cover of The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (2003)
  10. Cover of The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem (2005)
  11. Cover of How We Got Insipid by Jonathan Lethem (2006)
  12. Cover of You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem (2007)
  13. Cover of Omega by Jonathan Lethem (2008)
  14. Cover of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem (2009)
  15. Cover of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem by Jonathan Lethem (2011)
  16. Cover of The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem (2011)
  17. Cover of Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem (2013)
  18. Cover of A Gambler's Anatomy / The Blot by Jonathan Lethem (2016)
  19. Cover of The Blot: A Supplement by Jonathan Lethem (2017)
  20. Cover of The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem (2018)
  21. Cover of The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem (2020)
  22. Cover of Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem (2023)
  1. 1
    Gun, With Occasional Music1994 · 271 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994271
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  2. 2
    The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  3. 3
    Amnesia Moon1995 · 247 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995247
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  4. 4
    As She Climbed Across the Table1997 · 212 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997212
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  5. 5
    Girl in Landscape1998 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998280
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  6. 6
    Kafka Americana1999 · 100 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999100
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  7. 7
    Motherless Brooklyn1999 · 311 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999311
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  8. 8
    Ninety Percent of EverythingJames Patrick Kelly Short Stories/Novellas #62001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  9. 9
    This Shape We're In2001 · 55 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200155
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  10. 10
    Da Capo Best Music Writing 20022002 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002384
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  11. 11
    The Fortress of Solitude2003 · 509 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003509
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  12. 12
    Men and Cartoons2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
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  13. 13
    The Disappointment Artist2005 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005160
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  14. 14
    How We Got Insipid2006 · 107 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006107
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  15. 15
    You Don't Love Me Yet2007 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007240
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  16. 16
    Omega2008 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008240
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  17. 17
    Procedure in Plain Air2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  18. 18
    Chronic City2009 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009480
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  19. 19
    They LiveDeep Focus #12010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  20. 20
    Conversations with Jonathan Lethem2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  21. 21
    The Ecstasy of Influence2011 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011464
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  22. 22
    Talking Heads' Fear of Music33⅓ #822011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  23. 23
    Dissident Gardens2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  24. 24
    The Vision2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  25. 25
    A Gambler's Anatomy / The Blot2016 · 289 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016289
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  26. 26
    The Blot: A Supplement2017 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201788
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  27. 27
    More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers2017 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017300
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  28. 28
    The Feral Detective2018 · 326 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018326
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  29. 29
    The Arrest2020 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020320
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  30. 30
    Brooklyn Crime Novel2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  31. 31
    Cellophane BricksZE #42024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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  32. 32
    The Collapsing FrontierOutspoken Authors #302024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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  33. 33
    A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Jonathan Lethem 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.

Deep Focus in order

1 book
  1. 1. They Live

ZE in order

1 book
  1. 4. Cellophane Bricks

James Patrick Kelly Short Stories/Novellas

1 book

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

Outspoken Authors in order

1 book
  1. 30. The Collapsing Frontier

33⅓ in order

1 book
  1. 82. Talking Heads' Fear of Music

Standalone books

28 books

28 Jonathan Lethem titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jonathan Lethem books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 33 Jonathan Lethem books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jonathan Lethem

Start with Gun, With Occasional Music (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jonathan Lethem book?

A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories (2025) is the newest Jonathan Lethem book released so far.

Is there a new Jonathan Lethem book coming?

No next Jonathan Lethem 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 Jonathan Lethem has won

Wikidata records 5 awards and 20 nominations for Jonathan Lethem. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Jonathan Lethem at a glance

Still publishing
Jonathan Lethem published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Jonathan Lethem books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,383 pages across the 20 of 33 books with a recorded length, a median of 276 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jonathan Lethem books, 11 of 33, were published in the 2000s.

What the Jonathan Lethem books are about

21 of the 33 Jonathan Lethem books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 3 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.