Author guide
Victor LaValle Books in Order
Victor LaValle is an American writer whose work includes novels, novellas, short fiction, and graphic novels. His fiction frequently explores madness, monsters, race, family, faith, and American history. He is the author of Slapboxing with Jesus, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Changeling, Lone Women, and several graphic works. His honors include the Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award.
Victor LaValle's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
Slapboxing with Jesus
LaValle's debut and foundational short-story collection.
Big Machine
The first novel in The LaValle Quartet.
The Ballad of Black Tom
A concise, acclaimed standalone novella.
Read in order
Books by series
novels · complete
The LaValle Quartet
A quartet of interconnected standalone novels spanning literary fiction, horror, and speculative fiction.
graphic novels · complete
Victor LaValle's Destroyer
A completed graphic series reimagining the Frankenstein legacy through contemporary American violence and injustice.
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Victor LaValle's DestroyerAmazon ↗Book 1 · graphic-novel · 2018
graphic novels · complete
Eve
A two-volume dystopian graphic novel saga about a girl awakening after ecological and societal collapse.
graphic novels · complete
Sabretooth
Victor LaValle's two-volume Marvel graphic-novel sequence featuring Victor Creed and the mutant nation of Krakoa.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (4)
Short fiction (1)
- Slapboxing with JesusAmazon ↗
short-story-collection · 1999