Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Killing Time | 1967 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 2 | Regiment of Women | 1973 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 3 | Sneaky People | 1975 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 4 | Who is Teddy Villanova? | 1977 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 5 | Arthur Rex | 1978 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 6 | Neighbors | 1980 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 7 | The Feud | 1983 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 8 | Nowhere | 1985 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 9 | Being Invisible | 1987 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 10 | The Houseguest | 1988 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 11 | Changing the Past | 1989 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 12 | Orrie’s Story | 1990 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 13 | Meeting Evil | 1992 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 14 | Robert Crews | 1994 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 15 | Suspects | 1996 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 16 | Best Friends | 2003 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
| 17 | Adventures of the Artificial Woman | 2004 | Thomas Berger | Buy |
Thomas Berger’s standalone novels cover an unusually broad range of genres and subjects. Killing Time is a crime novel. Regiment of Women is a gender-role satire. Who is Teddy Villanova? is a send-up of hardboiled detective fiction. Arthur Rex retells the King Arthur legends in mock-archaic prose. Being Invisible and Changing the Past play with speculative premises. Berger treated genre conventions as raw material to be shaped by his satirical intelligence.
Several of these books attracted significant attention. Neighbors, a dark comedy about a man terrorized by new arrivals on his street, was adapted into a 1981 film. Meeting Evil, about a homeowner who opens his door to a stranger and ends up on a crime spree, was filmed in 2012. The Feud, set in a small town torn apart by a petty conflict, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Across the 17 standalones, Berger maintained a remarkably consistent quality while refusing to repeat himself.