Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| New Women and New Fiction: Short Stories Since the Sixties |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Best American Short Stories 1991 |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Literary Traveller |
1994 |
Buy |
| Granta 54 |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood |
1998 |
Buy |
| Ploughshares Fall, 1998 |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction |
1999 |
Buy |
| Wonderful Town |
2000 |
Buy |
| 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology |
2000 |
Buy |
| A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology |
2002 |
Buy |
| PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Best American Short Stories 2004 |
2004 |
Buy |
| Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules |
2005 |
Buy |
| The New Granta Book of the American Short Story |
2007 |
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| Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts |
2012 |
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Children’s#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Forgotten Helper |
1988 |
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Collections#
| Title |
Published |
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| I Know Some Things |
1992 |
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| See What Can Be Done |
2018 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
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| How To Become A Writer |
2015 |
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Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
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| Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? |
1994 |
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| Vissi d’Arte |
2014 |
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| Real Estate |
2016 |
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Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
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| Self-Help |
1985 |
Buy |
| Like Life |
1990 |
Buy |
| Birds of America: Stories |
1998 |
Buy |
| Collected Stories |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Collected Stories |
2008 |
Buy |
| Bark |
2014 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
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| Anagrams |
1986 |
Buy |
| A Gate at the Stairs |
2009 |
Buy |
| I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home |
2023 |
Buy |
Lorrie Moore published her first collection, Self-Help, in 1985 and introduced a voice that felt immediately distinctive. The second-person instructions of those early stories — “You are in the airport. You are waiting.” — had a wry, sorrowful quality that influenced a generation of American writers. She followed it with Like Life (1990) and then Birds of America (1998), which became her most commercially successful collection.
Her three novels, Anagrams (1986), A Gate at the Stairs (2009), and I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (2023), are spaced far enough apart that each one arrives as an event. A Gate at the Stairs, set in a Midwestern university town in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, is widely considered her best long-form work. Moore’s fiction is marked by wordplay, grief, and a particular understanding of how funny and devastating ordinary American life can be at the same time.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Lorrie Moore written?
Lorrie Moore has written 32 books across seven series.
What was Lorrie Moore's first book?
Lorrie Moore’s first book is Self-Help, published in 1985.
What is Lorrie Moore best known for?
She is best known for her short story collections, particularly Self-Help (1985), which pioneered the use of the second-person voice in fiction, and Birds of America (1998), which was a New York Times bestseller — rare for a story collection — and won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.