Order of Anthony Marra Books

Anthony Marra is an American author of literary fiction novels. He writes deeply human stories set against the backdrop of conflict and political upheaval. He gained widespread acclaim with his debut novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, followed by The Tsar of Love and Techno, both of which explore love, loss, and resilience in Chechnya and Russia. Marra’s writing is full of emotional power, moral insight, and compassion for ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances.

Anthony Marra made his debut as a novelist in 2013 with A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. Below is a list of Anthony Marra’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Collections

Publication Order of Inheritance Collection Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Anthony Marra Synopses: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra is a standalone novel. In the final days of December 2004, in a remote Chechen village, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the forest as Russian soldiers abduct her father. With nowhere else to turn, she escapes alongside Akhmed, a disgraced former doctor, to a ruined hospital sheltering the wounded, the hunted, and the desperate. There, Sonja – the hospital’s last remaining physician – works tirelessly to save lives while grieving the disappearance of her sister.

Over five harrowing days, as violence closes in, Akhmed and Sonja are forced to confront their shared past. Long-buried connections surface, revealing a web of chance, betrayal, and remorse that binds their lives together. As danger mounts, the choices they make will determine not only their own survival, but Havaa’s future as well.

Mercury Pictures Presents is a standalone novel by Anthony Marra. Like so many before her, Maria Lagana comes to Hollywood to escape her past. Born in Rome, where her father took her to the movies instead of church, Maria immigrates to Los Angeles with her mother after a childhood incident leads to her father’s arrest.

Fifteen years later, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at struggling Mercury Pictures, barely holding her life together. Her mother has cut her off. Her boss is under investigation in Washington. Her lover, a gifted Chinese American actor, is trapped by the studio’s racist casting. And Mercury itself – Maria’s only real home – stands on the brink of collapse.

As war spreads and blackout drills darken Los Angeles, the studio fills with European émigrés: poets turned screenwriters, architects reduced to building miniatures, and refugees forced to play the villains they once fled. Navigating rivalries, politics, and ambition, Maria begins to rise – until the arrival of a stranger connected to her father threatens everything she’s built. To move forward, Maria must finally face the truth about her father’s fate, and her own.

In The Wolves of Bilaya Forest by Anthony Marra, the wolves have returned to the woods surrounding Vera Pavlova’s village. Vera knows what their howling means: hunger is coming, and with it desperation and moral collapse.

As the forest presses in, Vera is forced to confront the choices she has made to survive – first what she did to her own mother, and now what she has done to her daughter. Once a week, men arrive at her house to cut and package drugs, turning her home into a place of quiet menace. The past she has buried refuses to stay silent, and the future she is shaping for her child grows ever more uncertain.

With starvation looming and the wolves drawing closer, Vera must reckon with the cost of survival and the line between protection and betrayal.