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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is an American writer known for his literary fiction and non-fiction works. He was born near Chicago and raised outside St. Louis, Missouri. After completing his studies at Swarthmore College in 1981, he attended the Freie Universität in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar and subsequently worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Franzen published his first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, in 1988. Below is a list of his books in the order of their original release:

Jonathan Franzen became a published novelist in 1988 with the novel The Twenty-Seventh City. Below is a list of Jonathan Franzen's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Twenty-Seventh City (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Strong Motion (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Corrections (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Corrections (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Freedom (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Purity (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
How to Be Alone (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Discomfort Zone (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Farther Away (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Kraus Project (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The End of the End of the Earth (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of A Key to All Mythologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Crossroads (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Future Dictionary of America (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Essays 2005 (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Essays 2016 (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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