Book Series Guide

Author guide

Wally Lamb Books in Order

Wally Lamb is an American novelist whose work often explores family, trauma, identity, memory, faith, and resilience. He is the author of seven novels, including She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, We Are Water, I'll Take You There, Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story, and The River Is Waiting. He also edited two nonfiction anthologies featuring autobiographical writing by women incarcerated at Connecticut's York Correctional Institution: Couldn't Keep It to Myself and I'll Fly Away.

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Catalog record updated .

Wally Lamb's Newest Book

The River Is Waiting

novel · First published 2025

Not sure where to begin?

Start with one of these

She's Come Undone

Lamb's debut novel and the clearest chronological starting point for his fiction.

I Know This Much Is True

A major standalone novel and one of Lamb's best-known works.

Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (7)
  1. She's Come Undone

    novel · 1992

  2. I Know This Much Is True

    novel · 1998

  3. The Hour I First Believed

    novel · 2008

  4. Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story

    novel · 2009

  5. We Are Water

    novel · 2013

  6. I'll Take You There

    novel · 2016

  7. The River Is Waiting

    novel · 2025

Edited works (2)
  1. Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters

    edited nonfiction anthology · 2003

  2. I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

    edited nonfiction anthology · 2007