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T.C. Boyle Books in Order

Every T.C. Boyle book in publication order — 36 in total, spanning 1979–2019.

By series By year

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

#	Title	Year	Get it
1	Water Music	1981	Amazon US UK
2	Budding Prospects	1984	Amazon US UK
3	World's End	1987	Amazon US UK
4	East Is East	1990	Amazon US UK
5	The Road to Wellville	1993	Amazon US UK
6	The Tortilla Curtain	1995	Amazon US UK
7	Riven Rock	1998	Amazon US UK
8	A Friend of the Earth	2000	Amazon US UK
9	Drop City	2003	Amazon US UK
10	The Inner Circle	2003	Amazon US UK
11	Talk Talk	2006	Amazon US UK
12	The Women	2009	Amazon US UK
13	When the Killing's Done	2011	Amazon US UK
14	San Miguel	2012	Amazon US UK
15	The Harder They Come	2015	Amazon US UK
16	The Terranauts	2016	Amazon US UK
17	Outside Looking In	2019	Amazon US UK

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

#	Title	Year	Get it
1	Descent of Man	1979	Amazon US UK
2	Greasy Lake & Other Stories	1985	Amazon US UK
3	If the River Was Whiskey	1989	Amazon US UK
4	The Collected Stories of T.Coraghessan Boyle	1993	Amazon US UK
5	Stories	1993	Amazon US UK
6	Without a Hero	1994	Amazon US UK
7	The Human Fly and Other Stories	2001	Amazon US UK
8	Doubletakes	2003	Amazon US UK
9	Tooth and Claw	2005	Amazon US UK
10	Wild Child and Other Stories	2009	Amazon US UK
11	Wild Child	2009	Amazon US UK
12	After the Plague	2011	Amazon US UK
13	Stories II	2013	Amazon US UK
14	T.C. Boyle Stories II	2013	Amazon US UK
15	The Relive Box and Other Stories	2014	Amazon US UK

Publication Order of Chapbooks

#	Title	Year	Get it
1	She Wasn't Soft	1996	Amazon US UK

Publication Order of Anthologies

#	Title	Year	Get it
1	Ten	1996	Amazon US UK
2	I'm With the Bears	2011	Amazon US UK
3	Watchlist	2015	Amazon US UK

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