Percival Everett

About Percival Everett

Percival Leonard Everett II is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as "pathologically ironic" and has explored numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction. His books are often satirical, aimed at exploring race and identity issues in the United States.

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Upcoming Titles

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  Serious Music March 23, 2027

  In 1918, Arthur Champion is one of a handful of Black students attending the Oberlin Conservatory of Music when he runs afoul of a vindictive professor and finds himself unceremoniously enlisted in the United States Army. What ensues is one man’s sweeping voyage through the decade, a kaleidoscopic view of America during seismic social shifts from the author hailed by The Chicago Tribune as “our current Great American Novelist.”

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Earlier Books

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  James (Pulitzer Prize Winner) April 21, 2026

  PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view • In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, and more.

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  Walk Me to the Distance October 21, 2025

  Haunting, provocative and bleakly funny, Walk Me to the Distance is Percival Everett’s brilliant reexamination of the Western, and a laconic tragicomedy about what it takes to survive in the last days of a bygone big-sky country. In self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the town’s hardscrabble locals, David grudgingly adopts a young Vietnamese girl abandoned along the highway.

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  Suder October 21, 2025

  It's the middle of the season and the third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, Craig Suder, is in the midst of an inescapable slump. On top of that, his wife has been keeping her distance and Suder can’t shake the creeping fear that he might have inherited his mother’s insanity. That’s’ when his team suggests he might enjoy a little break. What’s a man to do pack up the essentials—his record player, Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology,” and a saxophone—and hit the road? What ensues is the adventure of a lifetime.

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  Dr. No November 1, 2022 View on Amazon: Dr. No
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  Telephone May 5, 2020 View on Amazon: Telephone
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  Glyph February 18, 2014 View on Amazon: Glyph
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  Percival Everett by Virgil Russell February 5, 2013 View on Amazon: Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
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  Erasure October 25, 2011 View on Amazon: Erasure
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  I Am Not Sidney Poitier August 2, 2011 View on Amazon: I Am Not Sidney Poitier

More New Books Coming Up

• Brute by Eric LaRocca · Mar 23, 2027
• Crave the Villain by Rina Kent · Mar 23, 2027
• Elodie and the Dark Lord by Ashley Poston · Mar 23, 2027
• Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson · Mar 23, 2027
• Night Hunter by Stacey Marie Brown · Mar 23, 2027
• Smog by Stephanie Danler · Mar 23, 2027
• The Sleepwalker by Freida McFadden · Mar 23, 2027
• When Life Gives You Corpses by Lene D. Buttner · Mar 23, 2027
• Zero Margin: From the World of Reacher by Lee Child & Yasmin Angoe · Mar 23, 2027
• The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 7 by Beth Brower · Mar 25, 2027

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