Francine Prose

Francine Prose

Upcoming Francine Prose Books

No Upcoming Books. Click the '+ Follow' button to register an account, and we will notify you when they have new books coming out.

Five Weeks in the Country (Standalone) was the most recently released book by Francine Prose, on May 5th, 2026.

Book Notification is an Amazon Associate and eBay Partner. If you click on a book title it will take you to Amazon or your default book store where you can read more about the book or purchase it. We earn money from qualifying purchases.
Click to get new book alerts by Francine Prose sent straight to your email.

Francine Prose Stats: The most read book by Francine Prose on Book Notification is Reading Like a Writer, a Non-Fiction book. The second most read book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Francine Prose books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Blue Angel, and After.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Judah the Pious
1973
Go
2
The Glorious Ones
1974
Go
3
Marie Laveau
1977
Go
4
Animal Magnetism
1978
Go
5
Household Saints
1981
Go
6
Hungry Hearts
1983
Go
7
Bigfoot Dreams
1986
Go
8
Hunters and Gatherers
1995
Go
9
7.7
Blue Angel
2000
Go
10
Primitive People
2001
Go
11
8.7
After
2003
Go
12
6.7
A Changed Man
2005
Go
13
Bullyville
2007
Go
14
Goldengrove
2008
Go
15
4
Touch
2009
Go
16
My New American Life
2011
Go
17
The Turning
2012
Go
18
7.3
Lovers at the Chameleon Club
2014
Go
19
Mister Monkey
2016
Go
20
8
The Vixen
2021
Go
21
Five Weeks in the Country
2026
Go

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Guided Tours of Hell
1997
Go

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short story collections are Women and Children First, The Angel's Mistake, and The Mirror.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
Women and Children First
1974
Go
2
The Peaceable Kingdom
1993
Go
3
The Angel's Mistake
1997
Go
4
The Mirror
2016
Go

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Reading Like a Writer, The Lives Of The Muses, and Stories from Our Living Past.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Stories from Our Living Past
1974
Go
2
Master Breasts (With: Charles Simic, Karen Finley)
1998
Go
3
Scent of a Woman's Ink
2000
Go
4
The Lives Of The Muses
2002
Go
5
Sicilian Odyssey
2003
Go
6
8
Reading Like a Writer
2006
Go
7
Anne Frank
2009
Go
8
What to Read and Why
2018
Go
9
1974: A Personal History
2024
Go

List of Children's Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top children's books are You Never Know, Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig, and Dybbuk.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Dybbuk
1996
Go
2
You Never Know
1998
Go
3
The Demons' Mistake
2000
Go
4
Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig
2005
Go
5
Rhino, Rhino, Sweet Potato
2009
Go

List of Ancient Lives Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Ancient Lives books are Cleopatra, Ramesses the Great, and Demetrius.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Cleopatra (With: James S. Romm)
2022
Go
2
Crassus (By: Peter Stothard)
2022
Go
3
Demetrius (By: James S. Romm)
2022
Go
4
Ramesses the Great (By: Toby A.H. Wilkinson)
2023
Go
5
Vergil (By: Sarah Ruden)
2023
Go
6
Julian (By: Philip Freeman)
2023
Go
7
Marcus Aurelius (By: Donald J. Robertson)
2024
Go
8
Phocion (By: Thomas R. Martin)
2024
Go
9
Horace (By: Peter Stothard)
2025
Go
10
Perpetua (By: Sarah Ruden)
2025
Go
11
Demosthenes (By: James S. Romm)
2025
Go
12
Themistocles (By: Michael Scott)
2026
Go
13
Livia (By: Caitlin C. Gillespie)
2026
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of Arts & Photography in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Loretta Lux
2005
Go
2
Cecily Brown (With: Courtney J. Martin, Jason Rosenfeld, Jacqueline Sather)
2020
Go
3
Titian's Pietro Aretino (With: Xavier F. Salomon)
2020
Go

List of Eminent Lives Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Eminent Lives books are Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and Beethoven.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time (By: Karen Armstrong)
1991
Go
2
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (By: Michael Korda)
2004
Go
3
George Balanchine (By: Robert Gottlieb)
2004
Go
4
Beethoven (By: Edmund Morris)
2005
Go
5
6
Thomas Jefferson ( By: Christopher Hitchens)
2005
Go
6
Caravaggio
2005
Go
7
Alexander the Great (By: Norman F. Cantor)
2005
Go
8
Freud (By: Peter D. Kramer)
2006
Go
9
Francis Crick (By: Matt Ridley)
2006
Go
10
Alexis de Tocqueville (By: Joseph Epstein)
2006
Go
11
Shakespeare (By: Bill Bryson)
2007
Go
12
Machiavelli (By: Ross King)
2007
Go
13
George Washington (By: Paul Johnson)
2009
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of Jewish Lives Books in Publication Order

Prizewinning interpretative biographies exploring Jewish identity.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Medallions (By: Diana Kuprel, Zofia Nalkowska)
1946
Go
2
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (By: Robert Gottlieb)
2010
Go
3
Moses Mendelssohn (By: Shmuel Feiner)
2010
Go
4
Emma Goldman (By: Vivian Gornick)
2011
Go
5
Hank Greenberg ( By: Mark Kurlansky)
2011
Go
6
Solomon (By: Steven Weitzman)
2011
Go
7
Leon Trotsky (By: Joshua Rubenstein)
2011
Go
8
8
Franz Kafka (By: Saul Friedländer)
2012
Go
9
Walther Rathenau (By: Shulamit Volkov)
2012
Go
10
Moshe Dayan (By: Mordechai Bar-On)
2012
Go
11
Jacob (By: Yair Zakovitch)
2012
Go
12
Bernard Berenson (By: Rachel Lara Cohen)
2013
Go
13
Primo Levi (By: Berel Lang)
2013
Go
14
10
Becoming Freud (By: Adam Phillips)
2014
Go
15
Lillian Hellman (By: Dorothy Gallagher)
2014
Go
16
Rav Kook (By: Yehudah Mirsky)
2014
Go
17
Jabotinsky (By: Hillel Halkin)
2014
Go
18
David (By: David J. Wolpe)
2014
Go
19
Leonard Bernstein (By: Allen Shawn)
2014
Go
20
Ben-Gurion (By: Anita Shapira)
2014
Go
21
Mark Rothko (By: Annie Cohen-Solal)
2015
Go
22
Einstein (By: Steven Gimbel)
2015
Go
23
Léon Blum (By: Pierre Birnbaum)
2015
Go
24
6
Peggy Guggenheim
2015
Go
25
Proust (By: Benjamin Taylor)
2015
Go
26
Groucho Marx (By: Lee Siegel)
2016
Go
27
Disraeli (By: David Cesarani)
2016
Go
28
Barbra Streisand (By: Neal Gabler)
2016
Go
29
Louis D. Brandeis (By: Jeffrey Rosen)
2016
Go
30
Moses (By: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg)
2016
Go
31
Warner Bros (By: David Thomson)
2017
Go
32
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (By: Molly Haskell)
2017
Go
33
Hayim Nahman Bialik (By: Avner Holtzman)
2017
Go
34
Yitzhak Rabin (By: Itamar Rabinovich)
2017
Go
35
Rabbi Akiva (By: Barry W. Holtz)
2017
Go
36
Julius Rosenwald (By: Hasia R. Diner)
2017
Go
37
Harvey Milk (By: Lillian Faderman)
2018
Go
38
Gershom Scholem (By: David Biale)
2018
Go
39
Menasseh ben Israel (By: Steven Nadler)
2018
Go
40
Jerome Robbins (By: Wendy Lesser)
2018
Go
41
Ben Hecht (By: Adina Hoffman)
2019
Go
42
Martin Buber (By: Paul Mendes-Flohr)
2019
Go
43
Alfred Stieglitz (By: Phyllis Rose)
2019
Go
44
Karl Marx (By: Shlomo Avineri)
2019
Go
45
Irving Berlin (By: James Kaplan)
2019
Go
46
Theodor Herzl (By: Derek J. Penslar)
2020
Go
47
8
Houdini (By: Adam Begley)
2020
Go
48
Stan Lee (By: Liel Leibovitz)
2020
Go
49
Stanley Kubrick (By: David Mikics)
2020
Go
50
Heinrich Heine (By: George Prochnik)
2020
Go
51
Bugsy Siegel (By: Michael Shnayerson)
2021
Go
52
Man Ray (By: Arthur Lubow)
2021
Go
53
Judah Benjamin (By: James Traub)
2021
Go
54
Abraham Joshua Heschel (By: Julian E. Zelizer)
2021
Go
55
Admiral Hyman Rickover (By: Marc Wortman)
2022
Go
56
Becoming Elijah (By: Daniel C. Matt)
2022
Go
57
Ruth (By: Ilana Pardes)
2022
Go
58
Sidney Reilly (By: Benny Morris)
2022
Go
59
Arthur Miller (By: John Lahr)
2022
Go
60
Mel Brooks (By: Jeremy Dauber)
2023
Go
61
Maimonides (By: Alberto Manguel)
2023
Go
62
Elie Wiesel (By: Joseph Berger)
2023
Go
63
Amos Oz (By: Robert Alter)
2023
Go
64
8
Henrietta Szold (By: Francine Klagsbrun)
2024
Go
65
Fiorello La Guardia (By: Brenda Wineapple)
2027
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities books are Gluttony, Pride, and Envy.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Doing Documentary Work (By: Robert Coles)
1997
Go
2
The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (By: Freeman Dyson)
1999
Go
3
The Look of Architecture (By: Witold Rybczynski)
2001
Go
4
Visions of Utopia (By: Martin E. Marty, Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp)
2002
Go
5
Envy (By: Joseph Epstein)
2003
Go
6
Gluttony
2003
Go
7
Lust (By: Simon Blackburn)
2003
Go
8
Greed (By: Phyllis A. Tickle)
2004
Go
9
Sloth (By: Wendy Wasserstein)
2004
Go
10
Pride (By: Michael Dyson)
2006
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of Art of the Story Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Art of the Story books are Wild Nights!, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and Monstress.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Sportsman's Notebook (By: Ivan Turgenev)
1852
Go
2
The General Zapped an Angel (By: Howard Fast)
1970
Go
3
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (By: Tobias Wolff)
1981
Go
4
The Essential Tales of Chekhov (By: Anton Chekhov)
1998
Go
5
The Garden Party and Other Stories (By: Katherine Mansfield)
2004
Go
6
9
Wild Nights! (By: Joyce Carol Oates)
2008
Go
7
Continent (By: Jim Crace)
2008
Go
8
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (By: Kevin Wilson)
2009
Go
9
8
Monstress (By: Lysley Tenorio)
2012
Go
10
Mr. and Mrs. Baby (By: Mark Strand)
2015
Go
11
The Vanishing Princess (By: Jenny Diski)
2017
Go
12
8
We Are Taking Only What We Need (By: Stephanie Powell Watts)
2018
Go
13
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (By: Alissa Nutting)
2018
Go
14
Catastrophe and Other Stories (By: Dino Buzzati)
2018
Go
15
10
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry (By: Elizabeth McCracken)
2019
Go
16
Hue and Cry (By: Edward P. Jones, James McPherson)
2019
Go
17
The Hurly Burly and Other Stories (By: Russell Banks, A.E. Coppard)
2021
Go
18
Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary (With: Johanna Kaplan)
2022
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books in Publication Order

Crime thriller shorts set in and around the world of Rockstar's video-game franchise LA Noire.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
2010
Go
2
8
Black Dahlia White Rose ( By: Joyce Carol Oates)
2011
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of Francine Prose Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Best American Short Stories 1991
1991
Go
2
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
1998
Go
3
Body
2000
Go
4
Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories
2006
Go
5
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006
2006
Go
6
Food and Booze
2006
Go
7
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
2010
Go
8
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
2010
Go
9
Granta 115
2011
Go
10
Central Park: An Anthology
2012
Go
11
The Way We Cook
2012
Go
12
The New Diaspora
2014
Go
13
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology
2016
Go
14
Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981
2017
Go
Show All Anthologies
Click to get new book alerts by Francine Prose sent straight to your email.

Francine Prose

Francine Prose was born on April 1st, 1947 and is currently 79 years old. Francine Prose was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Francine Prose has written 21 standalone novels, starting with Judah the Pious in 1973. The most recently released novel was Five Weeks in the Country, which was released in 2026. There are no upcoming standalone novels by Francine at this time.

Francine Prose has also written 9 Non-Fiction Books, including Stories from Our Living Past and Master Breasts.

Francine Prose: Awards & Accolades

Prose's books have won multiple awards, A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Fiction, in 2006. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 2011.

Francine Prose books have also been nominated for multiple awards, Blue Angel was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction, in 2000. After was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Best Young Adult Literature, in 2003.

Francine Prose: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Mister Monkey: Best Books of the Decade (2010s) Selection in 2019.

Related Authors

Fans of Francine Prose also enjoy these authors:

  1. James Patterson, author of the Alex Cross Series.
  2. Matt Haig, author of The Midnight World Series.
  3. Tana French, author of the Dublin Murder Squad Series.
  4. Kristin Hannah, author of: The Nightingale.
  5. Fredrik Backman, author of: A Man Called Ove.

Francine Prose: F.A.Q

When was Francine Prose Born? How old is Francine Prose?

Francine Prose was born on April 1st, 1947. Francine Prose is currently 79 years old.

Where was Francine Prose Born?

Francine Prose was born in Brooklyn, New York, .

What book awards has Francine Prose won?

A Changed Man: Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Fiction (2006).
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: World Fantasy Award: Anthology (2011).

What was the first book Francine Prose wrote?

The first book written by Francine Prose was Judah the Pious, published in 1973.

What was the most recent book Francine Prose wrote?

Their most recently released work was Five Weeks in the Country on May 5th, 2026.

What is the most popular book by Francine Prose?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Francine Prose book is Reading Like a Writer. Here are their most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. Reading Like a Writer (8.00)
  2. Lovers at the Chameleon Club (7.33)
  3. Blue Angel (7.67)
  4. After (8.67)
  5. A Changed Man (6.67)

Are there upcoming new books by Francine Prose?

Francine Prose does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

Click and we will notify you via e-mail when Francine Prose next book gets announced.

How many books has Francine Prose written?

Francine Prose has written 48 books across 16 series and categories, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 21 Standalone Novels
  • 1 Short Stories/Novella
  • 4 Short Story Collections
  • 9 Non-Fiction Books
  • 5 Children's Books
  • 1 book in the Ancient Lives Series
  • 3 Arts & Photography
  • 1 book in the Eminent Lives Series
  • 1 book in the Jewish Lives Series
  • 1 book in the New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities Series
  • 1 book in the Art of the Story Series

Have a Question?

Author Discussion

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

0 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Book Notification is an Amazon Associate. Book links to Amazon, eBay and other book stores are affiliate links, and we earn money from any qualifying purchases.

Welcome to Book Notification!

Are we missing any books or looking for an author that isn't on the site? Have any feedback or ideas that will enhance your experience? Contact us below.

To see what we are currently working on as well as some of our future plans, see our roadmap.
Quick Follow

Quickly follow any authors by searching their name in this box then clicking the +Follow button.

Monthly Contest
affiliate disclaimer

We are giving away 10 $25 USD gift cards. Every time you comment on an author page in the Author Discussion section at the bottom, you are entered into the sweepstakes. So get commenting! Winners announced in the next newsletter. Note: you must be a registered user of Book Notification. Click here to login or register.


Upcoming Books
Jun 15
Loud Pictures

Written by Marc Spitz

Jun 15
How I Built a Magic Empire Book 6

Written by Konstantin Zubov

Jun 15
Shadow Bound

Written by Trish McCallan

Jun 15
Blood Moon Rising

Written by Brenda Trim

Jun 15
Bells

Written by Sybil Knight

Popular Authors:
Todays Most Followed Authors:
Navigation
All Authors
Awards
Book Clubs
Book News
Book Release Calendar
Reader’s Roulette
User Guide
About Us
Blog & Lists
Weekly Picks
Playlists
Quotes
Podcast
Care's Book Loot
Site Roadmap
Contact Us