Robert Olen Butler

11 Series

Robert Olen Butler is a distinguished American author, notably recognized for winning the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his book "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain." He has also received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Robert Olen Butler's "The Hot Country" introduces Christopher Marlowe Cobb, an American newspaper journalist, in 1914. Sent to Mexico to cover the Civil War, Cobb initially investigates a priest's thwarted assassination by a bullet that bounced off his cross. His inquiry soon uncovers a larger story: the presence of Germans in the city at the onset of World War I. This discovery propels Cobb into a deeper and more dangerous investigation.

Best Small Fictions

The Best Small Fictions 2015

(2015)

Bibliomysteries

The Book of Virtue

(2012)(By: Ken Bruen)

Pronghorns of the Third Reich

(2012)(By: C.J. Box)

The Book Thing

(2012)(By: Laura Lippman)

The Book Case

(2012)(By: Nelson DeMille)

An Acceptable Sacrifice

(2012)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Death Leaves a Bookmark

(2012)(By: William Link)

The Final Testament

(2013)(By: Peter Blauner)

Rides a Stranger

(2013)(By: David Bell)

The Long Sonata of the Dead

(2013)(By: Andrew Taylor)

The Book of Ghosts

(2013)(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)

The Compendium of Srem

(2014)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

What's in a Name?

(2014)(By: Thomas H. Cook)

Remaindered

(2014)(By: Peter Lovesey)

The Sequel

(2014)(By: R.L. Stine)

The Gospel of Sheba

(2014)(By: Lyndsay Faye)

Book Club

(2014)(By: Loren D. Estleman)

The Nature of My Inheritance

(2014)(By: Bradford Morrow)

It's in the Book

(2014)(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)

The Scroll

(2014)(By: Anne Perry)

The Book of the Lion

(2015)(By: Thomas Perry)

The Little Men

(2015)(By: Megan Abbott)

Condor in the Stacks

(2015)(By: James Grady)

Mystery, Inc.

(2015)(By: Joyce Carol Oates)

Every Seven Years

(2015)(By: Denise Mina)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

The Travelling Companion

(2016)(By: Ian Rankin)

Citadel

(2016)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Reconciliation Day

(2016)(By: Christopher Fowler)

Dead Dames Don't Sing

(2016)(By: John Harvey)

The Haze

(2016)(By: James W. Hall)

Hoodoo Harry

(2017)(By: Joe R. Lansdale)

The Pretty Little Box

(2018)(By: Charles Todd)

Seven Years

(2018)(By: Peter Robinson)

The Hemingway Valise

(2018)

The Last Honest Horse Thief

(2018)(By: Michael Koryta)

The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository

(2018)(By: John Connolly)

The Girl Who Did Say No

(2020)(By: David Handler)

The Traitor

(2022)(By: Martin Edwards)

The Dark Door

(2022)(By: Lisa Unger)

The Honeymoon Trap

(2022)(By: Peter Swanson)

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries

The Book of Virtue

(2012)(By: Ken Bruen)

The Scroll

(2014)(By: Anne Perry)

Pronghorns of the Third Reich

(2012)(By: C.J. Box)

An Acceptable Sacrifice

(2012)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Death Leaves a Bookmark

(2012)(By: William Link)

Seven Years

(2018)(By: Peter Robinson)

The Book Thing

(2012)(By: Laura Lippman)

The Book of Ghosts

(2013)(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)

Book Club

(2014)(By: Loren D. Estleman)

The Long Sonata of the Dead

(2013)(By: Andrew Taylor)

The Final Testament

(2013)(By: Peter Blauner)

Rides a Stranger

(2013)(By: David Bell)

What's in a Name?

(2014)(By: Thomas H. Cook)

It's in the Book

(2014)(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)

The Nature of My Inheritance

(2014)(By: Bradford Morrow)

Remaindered

(2014)(By: Peter Lovesey)

The Compendium of Srem

(2014)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

The Gospel of Sheba

(2014)(By: Lyndsay Faye)

The Sequel

(2014)(By: R.L. Stine)

The Book of the Lion

(2015)(By: Thomas Perry)

The Little Men

(2015)(By: Megan Abbott)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

Every Seven Years

(2015)(By: Denise Mina)

Citadel

(2016)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Condor in the Stacks

(2015)(By: James Grady)

Mystery, Inc.

(2015)(By: Joyce Carol Oates)

The Travelling Companion

(2016)(By: Ian Rankin)

The Haze

(2016)(By: James W. Hall)

Dead Dames Don't Sing

(2016)(By: John Harvey)

Reconciliation Day

(2016)(By: Christopher Fowler)

Hoodoo Harry

(2017)(By: Joe R. Lansdale)

The Pretty Little Box

(2018)(By: Charles Todd)

The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository

(2018)(By: John Connolly)

The Hemingway Valise

(2018)

The Last Honest Horse Thief

(2018)(By: Michael Koryta)

The Book Case

(2012)(By: Nelson DeMille)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

The Girl Who Did Say No

(2020)(By: David Handler)

The Traitor

(2022)(By: Martin Edwards)

The Dark Door

(2022)(By: Lisa Unger)

The Honeymoon Trap

(2022)(By: Peter Swanson)

Christopher Marlowe Cobb

The Hot Country

(2012)

The Star of Istanbul

(2013)

The Empire of Night

(2014)

Paris in the Dark

(2018)

New Stories From The South

New Stories from the South

(1988)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 1992

(1992)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 1993

(1993)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 1994

(1994)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 1995

(1995)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 1996

(1996)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 1997

(1997)

New Stories from the South 1998

(1998)(By: Padgett Powell)

New Stories from the South 1999

(1999)(By: Tony Earley)

New Stories from the South 2000

(2000)(By: Ellen Douglas)

New Stories from the South 2001

(2001)(By: Lee Smith)

New Stories from the South 2003

(2003)(By: Roy Blount Jr.)

New Stories from the South 2004

(2004)(By: Allan Gurganus)

New Stories from the South, 2005

(2005)(By: Jill McCorkle)

Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South

(2005)(By: Shannon Ravenel)

New Stories from the South 2006

(2006)(By: Allan Gurganus,Kathy Pories)

New Stories from the South 2007

(2007)(By: Allan Gurganus)

New Stories from the South 2008

(2008)(By: Z.Z. Packer)

New Stories from the South 2009

(2009)(By: Madison Smartt Bell)

New Stories from the South 2010

(2010)(By: )

Standalone Novels

The Alleys of Eden

(1981)

Sun Dogs

(1982)

Countrymen of Bones

(1983)

On Distant Ground

(1985)

Wabash

(1987)

The Deuce

(1989)

They Whisper

(1994)

The Deep Green Sea

(1998)

Mr. Spaceman

(2000)

Fair Warning

(2002)

Hell

(2009)

A Small Hotel

(2011)

Perfume River

(2016)

Late City

(2021)

Short Stories/Novellas

The Hemingway Valise

(2018)

Short Story Collections

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

(1992)

Tabloid Dreams

(1996)

Had a Good Time

(2004)

Severance

(2006)

Intercourse

(2008)

Non-Fiction

From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction

(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)(By: Anne Tyler,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)