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Ottessa Moshfegh Books in Order

Ottessa Moshfegh has written 7 books, published between 2013 and 2022. The first book is Bettering Myself (2013) and the newest is Lapvona (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
2013–2022
Confirmed
7 of 7 titles
Pages on record
1,536 in 6 of 7 books
Reading time
26–38 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,536 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 7 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Ottessa Moshfegh, author

Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist and screenwriter, born in 1981, with seven catalogued books published between 2013 and 2022. Eileen (2015) won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), Death in Her Hands (2020) and Lapvona (2022) followed, with Bettering Myself (2013), McGlue (2014) and Homesick for Another World (2017) also in the list. Psychological fiction, crime, prisons, short stories and Salem, Massachusetts are the subject headings. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

How many Ottessa Moshfegh books are there?

Ottessa Moshfegh has 7 books, released between 2013 and 2022.

Ottessa Moshfegh Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Ottessa Moshfegh 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 McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (2014)
  2. Cover of Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)
  3. Cover of Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
  4. Cover of Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (2020)
  5. Cover of Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (2022)
  1. 1
    Bettering Myself2013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013–
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  2. 2
    McGlue2014 · 118 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014118
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  3. 3
    Eileen2015 · 260 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015260
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  4. 4
    Homesick for Another World2017 · 294 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017294
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  5. 5
    My Year of Rest and Relaxation2018 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018288
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  6. 6
    Death in Her Hands2020 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020272
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  7. 7
    Lapvona2022 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2022304
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Ottessa Moshfegh 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

7 books

7 Ottessa Moshfegh titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ottessa Moshfegh books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 7 Ottessa Moshfegh books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Ottessa Moshfegh

Start with Bettering Myself (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ottessa Moshfegh book?

Lapvona (2022) is the newest Ottessa Moshfegh book released so far.

Is there a new Ottessa Moshfegh book coming?

No next Ottessa Moshfegh 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 Ottessa Moshfegh has won

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

  • O. Henry Award2018Won
  • Booker Prize2016Shortlistedfor Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh at a glance

Paused
No new Ottessa Moshfegh title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Ottessa Moshfegh books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,536 pages across the 6 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ottessa Moshfegh books, 5 of 7, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ottessa Moshfegh books are about

6 of the 7 Ottessa Moshfegh 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.