Author guide
Marilynne Robinson Books in Order
Born in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1943, Marilynne Robinson is the author of five novels and a substantial body of essays and nonfiction concerned with faith, conscience, history, literature, and human dignity. Her debut novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award; Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Robinson received the National Humanities Medal in 2012 and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016.
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Housekeeping
Robinson's acclaimed debut novel and a standalone entry point to her fiction.
Gilead
The first novel in The Gilead Novels and the central entry point to that interconnected series.
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Books by series
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The Gilead Novels
Four interrelated novels set primarily in Gilead, Iowa, exploring faith, race, family, memory, and American history.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (2)
Essays and speeches (6)
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern ThoughtAmazon ↗essay-collection · 1998
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the SelfAmazon ↗essay-collection · 2010
- When I Was a Child I Read Books: EssaysAmazon ↗
essay-collection · 2012
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The Givenness of Things: EssaysAmazon ↗essay-collection · 2015
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What Are We Doing Here?Amazon ↗essay-collection · 2018
- On Faith and Freedom of ThoughtAmazon ↗
lecture-essay · 2026
Other (1)
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Reading GenesisAmazon ↗biblical-commentary · 2024