Percival Everett

Percival Everett

6 Series • 42 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Start with: Suder (1983)
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Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Start with: The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair (1987)
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Publication Order of Picture Books
Start with: The One that Got Away (1992)

ⓘ About Percival Everett

Percival Everett is a well known author from America, who likes to write literature & fiction novels and poetry. He has written a few successful standalone novels in his career. In addition to being a popular author he is also a Distinguished English Professor at the Southern California University. Author Everett was born in the year 1956 in Fort Gordon, Georgia, US. He earned his AM degree from the Brown University. Author Everett penned his first book in 1983 under the title of Suder. This book was based on the life of Craig Suder, a third baseman from the Seattle Mariners. This was followed by another novel titled Walk Me to the Distance in 1985.

All Book Series by Percival Everett

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Suder

Series opener · book 1 of 25 · published 1983

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1983
2
Walk Me to the Distance book cover

Walk Me to the Distance

Book 2 of 25 · published 1985

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1985
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Cutting Lisa

Book 3 of 25 · published 1986

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1986
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Zulus

Book 4 of 25 · published 1990

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1990
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For Her Dark Skin book cover

For Her Dark Skin

Book 5 of 25 · published 1990

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1990
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God's Country

Book 6 of 25 · published 1994

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1994
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Watershed

Book 7 of 25 · published 1996

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1996
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Frenzy

Book 8 of 25 · published 1996

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1996
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Glyph

Book 9 of 25 · published 1999

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1999
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Erasure

Book 10 of 25 · published 2001

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2001
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Grand Canyon, Inc.

Book 11 of 25 · published 2001

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2001
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American Desert

Book 12 of 25 · published 2004

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2004
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A History of the African-American People

Book 13 of 25 · published 2004

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2004
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Wounded

Book 14 of 25 · published 2005

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2005
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The Water Cure

Book 15 of 25 · published 2007

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2007
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier book cover

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

Book 16 of 25 · published 2009

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2009
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Assumption

Book 17 of 25 · published 2011

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2011
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The Body of Martin Aguilera

Book 18 of 25 · published 2013

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2013
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Book 19 of 25 · published 2013

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2013
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So Much Blue

Book 20 of 25 · published 2017

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2017
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Telephone

Book 21 of 25 · published 2020

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2020
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The Trees

Book 22 of 25 · published 2021

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2021
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Dr. No

Book 23 of 25 · published 2022

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2022
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James

Book 24 of 25 · published 2024

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2024
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Serious Music

Latest in the series · book 25 of 25 · published 2027

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2027
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The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair book cover

The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair

Series opener · book 1 of 10 · published 1987

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1987
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Big Picture

Book 2 of 10 · published 1996

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1996
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Damned if I Do book cover

Damned if I Do

Book 3 of 10 · published 2004

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2004
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re: f -gesture-

Book 4 of 10 · published 2005

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2005
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Swimming Swimmers Swimming

Book 5 of 10 · published 2011

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2011
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Half an Inch of Water

Book 6 of 10 · published 2015

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2015
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Trout's Lie

Book 7 of 10 · published 2015

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2015
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Two Stories

Book 8 of 10 · published 2018

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2018
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The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843 book cover

The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843

Book 9 of 10 · published 2019

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2019
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Sonnets for a Missing Key

Latest in the series · book 10 of 10 · published 2024

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2024
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The One that Got Away

Single-title series · published 1992

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1992
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Parts of Brain

Single-title series · published 2015

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2015
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Familiar Ground

Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 1984 Anthology · Elizabeth Cox

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1984
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Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 1994 Anthology · John Gregory Brown

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1994
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Fiction International 34: Madness II book cover

Fiction International 34: Madness II

Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2001

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2001
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Fiction's Present

Book 2 of 3 · published 2007

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2007
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Conceptualisms

Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2022

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2022

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Percival Everett?

Percival Everett is a well known author from America, who likes to write literature & fiction novels and poetry. He has written a few successful standalone novels in his career. In addition to being a popular author he is also a Distinguished English Professor at the Southern California University.

Which Percival Everett series should I start with?

The best place to start is the Southern Revivals series, the earliest of Percival Everett's multi-book series: it opens with Familiar Ground (1984) and runs to 2 books across 1984–1994, ending with Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery (1994).

How many books has Percival Everett written?

Percival Everett has 42 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1983 and 2027. 2 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Southern Revivals series with 2 books — and 40 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

In what order should Percival Everett's series be read?

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Percival Everett's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Southern Revivals (1984–1994, 2 books).

How are Percival Everett's books organised into series?

This guide splits Percival Everett's 42 books into 1 named series and 40 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Southern Revivals (2 books, 1984–1994).