You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths is not a novel but a collaborative nonfiction collection shaped through Wally Lamb’s long-running writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, Connecticut’s prison for women. The book gathers…
The River Is Waiting follows Corby Ledbetter, a young father whose life is already under strain from job loss, new parenthood, and a secret dependence on alcohol and pills when he causes a tragedy that destroys his family’s fragile stability.…
I’ll Take You There returns to Felix Funicello, the same character introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’, but this time he is an adult looking back while also being pulled into an unusual collision between past and present. The novella centers…
We Are Water centers on Annie Oh, an artist in Connecticut whose family is thrown into upheaval when, after a long marriage to psychologist Orion Oh, she leaves him and prepares to marry Viveca, the woman who represents her work…
Wishin’ and Hopin’ is a lighter, more nostalgic novel than Wally Lamb’s larger family dramas, centering on ten-year-old Felix Funicello during the Christmas season of 1964 in a small Connecticut town. Felix is a fifth grader at a Catholic school,…
The Hour I First Believed follows Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, whose lives are shattered after Maureen survives the Columbine High School shooting. What begins as the story of a marriage already carrying strain becomes something much larger, as…
I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey, whose life is inseparable from that of his identical twin brother Thomas, a man living with paranoid schizophrenia. When Thomas commits a shocking public act, Dominick is pulled into a painful…
She’s Come Undone follows Dolores Price from childhood into adulthood as she tries to make sense of a life marked by family upheaval, isolation, and painful emotional setbacks. Told in Dolores’s own voice, the novel begins with her as a…
Below is the complete list of Wally Lamb books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series. Standalone Novels Books in Publication Order Collections Books in Publication Order About Wally Lamb Wally Lamb has never…