Books by Jane Smiley

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
The author celebrates the art of fiction as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the ...

Some Luck (2014)
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel sto...

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (2006)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author celebrates the art of fiction and the pleasures of reading as she ...

Private Life (2010)
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret May...

Early Warning (2015)
Follows the Langdon family from the author's best-selling novel Some Luck as they navigate the ups a...

Good Faith (2003)
Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to...

Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
A group of friends and family gathers in the Hollywood hills for ten days of memories and gossip, in...

A Thousand Acres (2003)
On a prosperous Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to div...