Alice LaPlante Standalone Novels books in order

Reading order

Alice LaPlante’s standalone novels share a literary approach to suspense, using unreliable or unconventional narration to explore how we understand ourselves and others. Turn of Mind fragments its narrator’s perspective through Alzheimer’s disease. A Circle of Wives uses multiple viewpoints to dissect a dead man’s secret lives. Half Moon Bay builds dread through a grief-stricken woman’s encounters with vanishing children.

Each novel takes a different angle on the question of what we can know about other people and ourselves. LaPlante writes with the precision of an experienced writing teacher, and her novels reward close reading while still delivering the tension that keeps pages turning.