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Nathan Englander Books in Order

Nathan Englander has written 8 books, published between 1999 and 2019. The first book is For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999) and the newest is Kaddish.com (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
1999–2019
Pages on record
1,200 in 5 of 8 books
Reading time
20–30 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,200 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Nathan Englander, author

Nathan Englander is an American short story writer and novelist, born in 1970. The debut collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges reached print through Alfred A. Knopf in 1999. A second collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012), took the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award that year and reached the Pulitzer Prize shortlist. Eight catalogued books also include The Ministry of Special Cases (2005), The Gilgul of Park Avenue (2007), The Twenty-Seventh Man (2014), Dinner at the Center of the Earth (2017) and Kaddish.com (2019). Subjects record Jews, Orthodox Judaism, persecutions and the Holocaust.

How many Nathan Englander books are there?

Nathan Englander has 8 books, released between 1999 and 2019.

Nathan Englander Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Nathan Englander 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 For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander (1999)
  2. Cover of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander (2012)
  3. Cover of The Twenty-Seventh Man by Nathan Englander (2014)
  4. Cover of Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander (2019)
  1. 1
    For the Relief of Unbearable Urges1999 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999224
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  2. 2
    The Ministry of Special Cases2005 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Gilgul of Park Avenue2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Twenty-Seventh Man2014 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201448
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Peep Show2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Dinner at the Center of the Earth2017 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Kaddish.com2019 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019224
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Nathan Englander 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

8 books

8 Nathan Englander titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Nathan Englander books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 8 Nathan Englander books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Nathan Englander

Start with For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Nathan Englander book?

Kaddish.com (2019) is the newest Nathan Englander book released so far.

Is there a new Nathan Englander book coming?

No next Nathan Englander 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 Nathan Englander has won

Wikidata records 4 awards for Nathan Englander. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Sophie Brody Medal2008Won
  • PEN/Malamud Award2000Won
  • PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award2000Won
  • Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction2000Wonfor For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Nathan Englander at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Nathan Englander title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Nathan Englander books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,200 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nathan Englander books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.

What the Nathan Englander books are about

5 of the 8 Nathan Englander books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: jewish is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.