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T.C. Boyle Books in Order

T.C. Boyle has written 37 books, published between 1979 and 2026. The first book is Descent of Man (1979) and the newest is No Way Home (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
37
Published
1979–2026
Pages on record
12,635 in 32 of 37 books
Reading time
211–316 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 12,635 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 37 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of T.C. Boyle, author

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer with thirty-one novels and more than 150 short stories behind him. Descent of Man (1979) opens a run of 37 catalogued titles that takes in Water Music (1981), World's End (1987) and The Road to Wellville (1993) and reaches No Way Home in 2026. World's End, covering 300 years of upstate New York, took the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988. Boyle held a Distinguished Professorship in English at the University of Southern California, and the 2000s were his busiest decade.

How many T.C. Boyle books are there?

T.C. Boyle has 37 books, released between 1979 and 2026.

T.C. Boyle Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 37 T.C. Boyle 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 Descent of Man by T.C. Boyle (1979)
  2. Cover of Water Music by T.C. Boyle (1981)
  3. Cover of Budding Prospects by T.C. Boyle (1984)
  4. Cover of Greasy Lake & Other Stories by T.C. Boyle (1985)
  5. Cover of World's End by T.C. Boyle (1987)
  6. Cover of If the River Was Whiskey by T.C. Boyle (1989)
  7. Cover of East Is East by T.C. Boyle (1990)
  8. Cover of The Collected Stories of T.Coraghessan Boyle by T.C. Boyle (1993)
  9. Cover of The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle (1993)
  10. Cover of Without a Hero by T.C. Boyle (1994)
  11. Cover of The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle (1995)
  12. Cover of She Wasn't Soft by T.C. Boyle, book 1 of the Chap series (1996)
  13. Cover of Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle (1998)
  14. Cover of A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle (2000)
  15. Cover of The Human Fly and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle (2001)
  16. Cover of Doubletakes by T.C. Boyle (2003)
  17. Cover of Drop City by T.C. Boyle (2003)
  18. Cover of The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle (2003)
  19. Cover of Tooth and Claw by T.C. Boyle (2005)
  20. Cover of Wild Child and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle (2009)
  21. Cover of Wild Child by T.C. Boyle (2009)
  22. Cover of The Women by T.C. Boyle (2009)
  23. Cover of When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle (2011)
  24. Cover of San Miguel by T.C. Boyle (2012)
  1. 1
    Descent of Man1979 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1979240
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  2. 2
    Water Music1981 · 437 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1981437
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  3. 3
    Budding Prospects1984 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984336
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  4. 5
    World's End1987 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987480
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  5. 6
    If the River Was Whiskey1989 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989224
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  6. 7
    East Is East1990 · 364 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990364
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  7. 8
    The Collected Stories of T.Coraghessan Boyle1993 · 621 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993621
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  8. 9
    Stories1993 · 691 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993691
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  9. 10
    The Road to Wellville1993 · 476 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993476
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  10. 11
    Without a Hero1994 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994256
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  11. 12
    The Tortilla Curtain1995 · 366 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995366
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  12. 13
    She Wasn't SoftChap #11996 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199664
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  13. 14
    Riven Rock1998 · 466 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998466
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  14. 15
    A Friend of the Earth2000 · 349 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000349
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  15. 17
    Doubletakes2003 · 660 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003660
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  16. 18
    Drop City2003 · 497 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003497
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  17. 19
    The Inner Circle2003 · 418 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003418
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  18. 20
    Tooth and Claw2005 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005304
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  19. 21
    Talk Talk2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006–
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  20. 23
    Wild Child2009 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009304
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  21. 24
    The Women2009 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009464
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  22. 25
    Scorpion Ranch2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  23. 26
    After the Plague2011 · 303 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011303
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  24. 27
    When the Killing's Done2011 · 369 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011369
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  25. 28
    San Miguel2012 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012384
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  26. 29
    Stories II2013 · 918 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013918
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  27. 31
    The Harder They Come2015 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015400
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  28. 32
    The Terranauts2016 · 508 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016508
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  29. 33
    Outside Looking In2019 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019400
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  30. 34
    Talk to Me2021 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021352
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  31. 35
    I Walk Between the Raindrops2022 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2022272
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  32. 36
    Blue Skies2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  33. 37
    No Way Home2026 · confirmed 2/4
    2026–
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T.C. Boyle 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.

Chap in order

1 book
  1. 1. She Wasn't Soft

Standalone books

36 books

36 T.C. Boyle titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read T.C. Boyle books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 37 T.C. Boyle books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with T.C. Boyle

Start with Descent of Man (1979), the earliest published title.

What is the newest T.C. Boyle book?

No Way Home (2026) is the newest T.C. Boyle book released so far.

Is there a new T.C. Boyle book coming?

No next T.C. Boyle 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 T.C. Boyle has won

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

  • Jonathan Swift Award2017Won
  • PEN/Malamud Award1999Won
  • Prix Médicis étranger1997Won
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction1988Won

T.C. Boyle at a glance

Still publishing
T.C. Boyle published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
T.C. Boyle books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
12,635 pages across the 32 of 37 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most T.C. Boyle books, 10 of 37, were published in the 2000s.

What the T.C. Boyle books are about

33 of the 37 T.C. Boyle books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 11 of 33. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.