Order of Richard Powers Books
Richard Powers is an American novelist who is best known for writing about the effects of modern science and technology. One of his most well-known novels is The Echo Maker which was the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. He is also the author of The Overstory which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019.
Powers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where he earned his BA and later his MA in Literature. He graduated in 1980 and decided to forgo pursuing his PhD as he felt that many graduate students and professors didn’t find pleasure in reading or writing which is something that he didn’t want for himself. He made his debut in writing with Three Framers on Their Way to a Dance which was published in 1985.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance | (1985) | |
Prisoner’s Dilemma | (1988) | |
The Gold Bug Variations | (1991) | |
Operation Wandering Soul | (1993) | |
Galatea 2.2 | (1995) | |
Gain | (1998) | |
Plowing the Dark | (2000) | |
The Time of Our Singing | (2002) | |
The Echo Maker | (2006) | |
Generosity | (2009) | |
Orfeo | (2014) | |
The Overstory | (2018) | |
Bewilderment | (2021) | |
Playground | (2024) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | (1954) | |
The Future Dictionary of America | (2004) | |
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers | (2005) | |
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces | (2021) |