Order of Robert Olen Butler Books
Robert Olen Butler is an American author who is one of the most decorated living authors today. He was recognized in 1993 for his book A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and that book won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Butler is a Vietnam war veteran and was given the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award given by the Vietnam Veterans of America for “outstanding contributions to American culture by a Vietnam veteran.” Butler currently lives with his wife, the poet Kelly Lee Butler, in Florida.
Publication Order of Christopher Marlowe Cobb Books
| The Hot Country | (2012) |    |
| The Star of Istanbul | (2013) | |
| The Empire of Night | (2014) | |
| Paris in the Dark | (2018) | |
Publication Order of 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) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | (1992) | |
| Tabloid Dreams | (1996) | |
| Had a Good Time | (2004) | |
| Severance | (2006) | |
| Intercourse | (2008) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction | (2005) | |
Publication Order of Best Small Fictions Books
| The Best Small Fictions 2015 | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
| The Book of Ghosts | (2011) | |
| Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | |
| The Book Thing | (2012) | |
| The Book of Virtue | (2012) | |
| The Book Case | (2012) | |
| An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | |
| Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | |
| The Final Testament | (2013) | |
| Rides a Stranger | (2013) | |
| The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | |
| What's in a Name? | (2014) | |
| Remaindered | (2014) | |
| The Sequel | (2014) | |
| The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | |
| The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | |
| The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | |
| Book Club | (2014) | |
| It's in the Book | (2014) | |
| The Scroll | (2014) | |
| The Book of the Lion | (2015) | |
| The Little Men | (2015) | |
| Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| Every Seven Years | (2015) | |
| From the Queen | (2015) | |
| The Travelling Companion | (2016) | |
| Citadel | (2016) | |
| Reconciliation Day | (2016) | |
| Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | |
| The Haze | (2016) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | |
| Seven Years | (2018) | |
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
| The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | |
| The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
| The Book of Virtue | (2012) | |
| The Scroll | (2014) | |
| Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | |
| An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | |
| Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | |
| Seven Years | (2018) | |
| The Book Thing | (2012) | |
| The Book of Ghosts | (2011) | |
| Book Club | (2014) | |
| The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | |
| The Final Testament | (2013) | |
| Rides a Stranger | (2013) | |
| What's in a Name? | (2014) | |
| It's in the Book | (2014) | |
| The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | |
| Remaindered | (2014) | |
| The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | |
| The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | |
| The Sequel | (2014) | |
| The Book of the Lion | (2015) | |
| The Little Men | (2015) | |
| From the Queen | (2015) | |
| Every Seven Years | (2015) | |
| Citadel | (2016) | |
| Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| The Travelling Companion | (2016) | |
| The Haze | (2016) | |
| Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | |
| Reconciliation Day | (2016) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | |
| The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | |
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
| The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | |
| The Book Case | (2012) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Future Dictionary of America | (2004) | |
| The 2004 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories | (2005) | |
| Verb, An Audioquarterly, Volume 1, No. 1 | (2005) | |
| The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories | (2006) | |
| The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories | (2007) | |
| Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives | (2007) | |
| The 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories | (2008) | |
| The 2009 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories | (2011) | |
| In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper | (2016) | |
If You Like Robert Olen Butler Books, You’ll Love…
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is arguably Butler’s most popular and best work. The book focuses on the stories of the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the impact that it had on the Vietnamese. This book focuses on the viewpoint of a group of Vietnamese who have been transplanted to Louisiana. The book blends the powerful stories of the Vietnamese with contemporary American realities. It’s easy to see why this book was such a phenomenon and was highly decorated.
Butler is also the author of the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and the first book in that series is called The Hot Country. The book introduces us to the title character in 1914 as the American newspaper journalist is headed to Mexico to cover the Civil War ongoing there. Cobb is working on a story about a priest whose attempted assassination was thwarted by a bullet bouncing off his cross, but his investigation leads him to a far bigger story: Germans coming into the city at the dawn of World War I.
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