Order of John Darnielle Books
John Darnielle is an American author of horror novels. He is also a musician and primary member of the band The Mountain Goats. In addition to these endeavours, John is also a podcaster and activist. John currently resides in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, Lalitree, and their two sons.
John Darnielle made his debut as an author in 2008 with the non-fiction title Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality. In 2013, he made his debut as a novelist with Wolf in White Van. Below is a list of John Darnielle’s books in order of when they were first published:
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Wolf in White Van | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Universal Harvester | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Devil House | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of 33⅓ Books
| The Smiths' Meat is Murder | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Neil Young's Harvest | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love's Forever Changes | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Abba's Abba Gold | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prince's Sign 'O' the Times | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unknown Pleasures | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Let It Be | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| James Brown's Live at the Apollo | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jethro Tull's Aqualung | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Let It Be | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Radiohead's OK Computer | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pet Sounds | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ramones' Ramones | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Led Zeppelin IV | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grace | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Armed Forces | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murmur | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Low | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Endtroducing | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kick Out the Jams | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Band's Music From Big Pink | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doolittle | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nirvana's In Utero | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Highway 61 Revisited | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Who's The Who Sell Out | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Bloody Valentine's Loveless | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Brian Eno's Another Green World | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Steely Dan's Aja | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rid of Me | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pink Moon | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swordfishtrombones | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Master of Reality | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Patti Smith's Horses | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slayer's Reign in Blood | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wire's Pink Flag | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Big Star's Radio City | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elliott Smith's XO | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Illmatic | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Madness' One Step Beyond... | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flaming Lips' Zaireeka | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fleetwood Mac's Tusk | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| AC DC's Highway To Hell | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pavement's Wowee Zowee | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slint's Spiderland | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Radiohead's Kid A | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Johnny Cash's American Recordings | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ween's Chocolate and Cheese | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rolling Stones' Some Girls | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Talking Heads' Fear of Music | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Television's Marquee Moon | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Portishead's Dummy | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flood | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sigur Rós's | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Entertainment! | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Smile | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blank Generation | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| J Dilla's Donuts | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Oasis' Definitely Maybe | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Exile in Guyville | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Grey Album | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beat Happening | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freedom of Choice | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Workingman's Dead | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Live One | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Metallica | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bitches Brew | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Parallel Lines | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Geto Boys | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Psychocandy | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hangin' Tough | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dig Me Out | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Donny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Uptown Saturday Night | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Suburbs | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bob Mould's Workbook | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Homogenic | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Raincoats | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tori Amos's Boys for Pele | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| dc Talk’s Jesus Freak | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Odetta’s One Grain of Sand | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Petty’s Southern Accents | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Massive Attack’s Blue Lines | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder Ballads | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| D’Angelo’s Voodoo | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| David Bowie's Diamond Dogs | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elton John's Blue Moves | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Suicide's Suicide | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Carole King's Tapestry | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pearl Jam's Vs. | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Duran Duran's Rio | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roxy Music's Avalon | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lyric and Coloratura Arias | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Britney Spears's Blackout | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Earth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Madvillain's Madvillainy | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Topograph: New Writing from the Carolinas and the Landscape Beyond | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like John Darnielle Books, You’ll Love…
- Jonathan Franzen
- Catherynne M. Valente
- Christopher Golden
John Darnielle Synopsis: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle is a standalone novel. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since he was 17, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to play in. From his small apartment in southern California, he orchestrates fantastic adventures where possibilities, both dark and bright, open in the boundaries between the real and the imagined. As the creator of Trace Italian – a text-based, role-playing game by-mail – Sean guides players from around the world through his intricately imagined terrain, which they navigate and explore, turn by turn, seeking sanctuary in a ravaged, savage future America.
Lance and Carrie are high school students from Florida, explorers of the Trace. But when they take their play into the real world, disaster strikes, and Sean is called to account for it. In the process, he is pulled back through time, tunneling toward the moment of his own self-inflicted departure from the world in which most people live.