Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Fall | 2000 | Jeffrey Lent | Buy |
| 2 | Lost Nation | 2002 | Jeffrey Lent | Buy |
| 3 | A Peculiar Grace | 2007 | Jeffrey Lent | Buy |
| 4 | After You’ve Gone | 2008 | Jeffrey Lent | Buy |
| 5 | A Slant of Light | 2015 | Jeffrey Lent | Buy |
| 6 | Before We Sleep | 2017 | Jeffrey Lent | Buy |
Jeffrey Lent’s six standalone novels span from In the Fall (2000) to Before We Sleep (2017), each telling an independent story grounded in American history and rural life. In the Fall covers a family’s journey from the Civil War to 1920s Vermont, while Lost Nation is set on the New Hampshire frontier in the early 1800s. A Peculiar Grace and After You’ve Gone are set closer to the present day but carry the same concern with how the past shapes people.
His later novels, A Slant of Light (2015) and Before We Sleep (2017), continue his interest in the moral and emotional consequences of decisions made under pressure. All six books are set in the American Northeast and share Lent’s distinctive prose style, though they can be read in any order.