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Payback (Standalone) was the most recently released book by Mary Gordon, on September 15th, 2020.

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Mary Gordon Stats: The most read book by Mary Gordon on Book Notification is The Company of Women, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is Payback, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Mary Gordon 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 The Company of Women, The Love of My Youth, and There Your Heart Lies.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Final Payments
1978
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2
8
The Company of Women
1980
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3
Men and Angels
1985
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4
The Other Side
1989
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5
Spending
1998
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6
Pearl
2005
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7
The Love of My Youth
2008
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8
There Your Heart Lies
2017
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9
6
Payback
2020
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Salsa
2017
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List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short story collections are Temporary Shelter, The Liar's Wife, and The Rest of Life.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Temporary Shelter
1987
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2
The Rest of Life
1993
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3
The Stories of Mary Gordon
2006
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4
6
The Liar's Wife
2014
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Circling My Mother, The Shadow Man, and Home.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Good Boys and Dead Girls
1991
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2
The Shadow Man
1996
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3
Seeing Through Places
2000
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4
Circling My Mother
2007
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5
Reading Jesus
2009
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6
Home
2011
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7
On Thomas Merton
2020
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List of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books in Publication Order

Explores modern stories and their connection to faith, showing how both shape our lives today.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
1994
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2
Listening for God, Vol. 2 (By: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus)
1996
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3
Listening for God, Vol. 3 (With: Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
2000
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4
Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark)
2002
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List of Penguin Lives Books in Publication Order

Explores the lives of iconic figures throughout history.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally)
1960
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2
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)
1999
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3
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)
1999
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4
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White)
1999
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5
Crazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry)
1999
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6
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills)
1999
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7
James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien)
1999
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8
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley)
2000
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9
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)
2000
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10
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)
2000
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11
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)
2000
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12
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)
2000
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13
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)
2001
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14
8
Jane Austen (By: Carol Shields)
2001
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15
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong)
2001
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16
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)
2001
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17
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)
2001
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18
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)
2001
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19
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini)
2002
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20
Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan)
2002
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21
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill)
2002
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22
Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley)
2002
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23
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason)
2002
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24
8
Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison)
2003
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25
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)
2003
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26
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)
2004
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27
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker)
2004
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28
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson)
2006
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29
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro)
2007
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30
Joan of Arc
2008
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31
6
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)
2008
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32
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)
2011
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List of Literary Conversations Books in Publication Order

Conversations with famous literary figures, providing insight into their lives and work.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
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3
Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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4
Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
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5
Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
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6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
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7
Conversations with William Styron
1985
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8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
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10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
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12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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13
Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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15
Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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16
Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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18
Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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20
Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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21
Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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23
Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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24
Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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25
Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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26
Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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29
Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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31
Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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36
Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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38
More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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39
Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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40
Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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43
10
Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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44
Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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45
Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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46
Conversations With S.J. Perelman
1995
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47
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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48
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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49
Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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50
Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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51
Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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52
Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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53
More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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54
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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55
Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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56
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
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57
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
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58
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
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59
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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60
Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
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61
Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
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62
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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63
Conversations With John Fowles
1999
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64
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
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65
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
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66
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
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67
Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
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68
Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
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69
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
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70
Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
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71
Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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72
Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
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73
Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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74
Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
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75
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
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76
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
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77
Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
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78
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Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
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79
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
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80
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
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81
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
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82
Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
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83
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
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84
Conversations With John le Carré
2004
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85
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
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86
Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
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87
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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88
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
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89
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
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90
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
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91
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
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92
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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93
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
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94
Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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95
Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
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96
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
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97
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
2023
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List of Mary Gordon Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Writer on Her Work
1980
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2
The Best American Short Stories 1991
1991
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3
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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4
Deadly Sins
1994
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5
Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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6
Ploughshares Spring 1996
1996
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7
Ploughshares Fall 1997
1997
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8
The Good Parts
2000
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9
Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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10
Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards
2000
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11
Writers on Writing
2001
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12
Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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13
What My Mother Gave Me
2013
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Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon was born on December 8th, 1949 and is currently 76 years old.

Mary Gordon has written 9 standalone novels, starting with Final Payments in 1978. The most recently released novel was Payback, which was released in 2020. There are no upcoming standalone novels by Mary at this time.

Mary Gordon has also written 7 Non-Fiction Books, including Good Boys and Dead Girls and The Shadow Man.

Mary Gordon: Awards & Accolades

Gordon's book, The Company of Women was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction - Paperback, in 1983.

Mary Gordon: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Spending was a Jezebel: 75 Books Every Woman Should Read Selection in 2008.

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  4. Jo Nesbø, author of the Harry Hole Series .
  5. Deborah Crombie, author of the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Series.

Mary Gordon: F.A.Q

When was Mary Gordon Born? How old is Mary Gordon?

Mary Gordon was born on December 8th, 1949. Mary Gordon is currently 76 years old.

What was the first book Mary Gordon wrote?

The first book written by Mary Gordon was Final Payments, published in 1978.

What was the most recent book Mary Gordon wrote?

Their most recently released work was Payback on September 15th, 2020.

What is the most popular book by Mary Gordon?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Mary Gordon book is The Company of Women. Here are their most popular books:
  1. The Company of Women (8)
  2. Payback (6)
  3. The Liar's Wife (6)

Are there upcoming new books by Mary Gordon?

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

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How many books has Mary Gordon written?

Mary Gordon has written 23 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 9 Standalone Novels, 1 Short Story/Novella, 4 Short Story Collections, 7 Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Penguin Lives Series, 1 book in the Literary Conversations Series.

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