Short Story Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The New Valley | 2009 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Great Glass Sea | 2014 | Buy |
| The Age of Perpetual Light | 2017 | Buy |
| What Came West | 2026 | Buy |
Josh Weil is an American author whose fiction draws heavily on rural settings and the people who live in them. His debut, The New Valley, is a collection of three novellas set in Appalachian Virginia, and it won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award in 2009. The book announced a writer with a strong sense of place and a talent for getting inside the heads of quiet, isolated characters.
His novels have ranged widely in scope. The Great Glass Sea is set in Russia and imagines twin brothers whose bond is tested by a massive industrial project, while The Age of Perpetual Light looks at light pollution and its effects on a Virginia farming community. Weil writes slowly and carefully, and each of his books shows a deep interest in how ordinary people deal with forces much larger than themselves.