Anne Tyler

7 Series

Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short story writer known for her works in Southern and modern American fiction. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has won numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Several of her novels, such as "The Accidental Tourist" and "Breathing Lessons," have been adapted into films.

"Tumble Tower," a 32-page picture book by Anne Tyler, illustrated by Mitra Modarressi, follows Princess Molly, whose messy room is deemed a disgrace by her father. Despite the chaos, Molly's cluttered space ultimately saves the royal family. This charming tale highlights the unexpected benefits of messiness, even among royalty.

Standalone Novels

If Morning Ever Comes

(1964)

The Tin Can Tree

(1965)

A Slipping-Down Life

(1969)

The Clock Winder

(1972)

Celestial Navigation

(1974)

Searching for Caleb

(1975)

Earthly Possessions

(1977)

Morgan's Passing

(1980)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

(1982)

The Accidental Tourist

(1985)

Breathing Lessons

(1988)

Saint Maybe

(1991)

Ladder of Years

(1995)

A Patchwork Planet

(1998)

Back When We Were Grownups

(2001)

The Amateur Marriage

(2004)

Digging to America

(2006)

Noah's Compass

(2009)

The Beginner's Goodbye

(2012)

A Spool of Blue Thread

(2015)

Clock Dance

(2018)

Redhead by the Side of the Road

(2020)

French Braid

(2022)

Three Days in June

(2025)

Short Stories/Novellas

Half-truths and Semi-miracles

(2018)

Teenage Wasteland

(2020)

Picture

Tumble Tower

(1993)

Timothy Tugbottom Says No!

(2005)

Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith

Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1

(1994)(By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodríguez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins)

Listening for God, Vol. 2

(1996)(With: John Updike,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus)

Listening for God, Vol. 3

(2000)(By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins)

Listening For God, Vol. 4

(2002)(By: Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark)