Order of Elizabeth McCracken Books
Elizabeth McCracken is an author best known for her books Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, and Bowlaway, among others. Her books have been extremely well reviewed and she has received numerous grants and fellowships.
In addition to her writing, she has also taught creative writing at Western Michigan University, the University of Oregon, the University of Houston, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is also the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Giant's House | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Niagara Falls All Over Again | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bowlaway | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hero of This Book | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Thunderstruck & Other Stories | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Souvenir Museum | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Art of the Story Books
| A Sportsman's Notebook | (1852) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The General Zapped an Angel | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Essential Tales of Chekhov | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Garden Party and Other Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Continent | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tunneling to the Center of the Earth | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Monstress | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mr. and Mrs. Baby Deluxe Edition | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Vanishing Princess | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Are Taking Only What We Need | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Catastrophe and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hue and Cry | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hurly Burly and Other Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Granta 54: The Best of Young American Novelists | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret Society of Demolition Writers | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| xo Orpheus | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Elizabeth McCracken Books, You’ll Like…
Bowlaway: A Novel is one of McCracken’s best reviewed novels. Nobody knows much about Bertha Truitt. She was discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery with nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her. The townspeople have a lot of questions about her, but she’s not telling and the whispers only increase when she marries the doctor who saved her life. Bertha opens a bowling alley in the town that becomes the center of the happenings, but when Bertha passes away in a freak accident the story of Bertha gets even weirder when a son no one knew about shows up to claim ownership of the bowling alley.
Another good book by McCracken is The Giant’s House: A Romance. Peggy Cort is 26 in 1950 and feels like her chance at love is over. She’s working as a librarian and ready to resign herself to never finding love until James Carlson Sweatt comes into her library. He is not what she was expecting though as he is an 11-year old boy with the size of a giant. They are an odd couple for friendship, but soon realize that they are the only ones who can really understand each other.