Books by Nicholson Baker

The Anthologist (2009)
While writing an introduction to a new poetry anthology, Paul Chowder struggles with the end of a re...

The Fermata (1995)
Arno Strine, a thirty-five-year-old office temp and aspiring writer at work on his autobiography, us...

Traveling Sprinkler (2013)
A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowde...

The Mezzanine (1990)
Records one man's minute observations of the familiar objects and surroundings of everyday life, rec...

A Box of Matches (2004)
During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett--married wit...