2014 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, A Hologram for the King 2015 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, The Circle 2015 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2018 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Bibliography Novels You Shall Know Our Velocity, or You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002) Sacrament (2003), revised and expanded version of You Shall Know Our Velocity The Unforbidden is Compulsory; or, Optimism (2004), novella What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006) The Wild Things (2009), novelization of the film Where the Wild Things Are A Hologram for the King (2012) The Circle (2013) Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014) Heroes of the Frontier (2016) The Parade (2019) The Captain and the Glory (2019) The Museum of Rain (2021), novella The Every (2021) Short stories Collections: Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies (2003), as Lucy Thomas, collection How We Are Hungry (2004), collection of 15 short stories: "Another", "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust", "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water", "On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home", "Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance", "She Waits, Seething, Blooming", "Quiet", "Your Mother and I", "Naveed", "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone", "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her", "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly", "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself", "When They Learned to Yelp", "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned" Short Short Stories (2005), part of the Pocket Penguins series, collection of 24 short stories: "You Know How to Spell Elijah", "This Certain Song", "What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes", "The Weird Wife", "This Flight Attendant (Gary, Is It?) Is On Fire!", "True Story - 1986 - Midwest - USA - Tuesday", "It is Finally Time to Tell the Story", "A Circle Like Some Circles", "On Making Someone a Good Man By Calling Him a Good Man", "The Definition of Reg", "How Long It Took", "She Needed More Nuance", "The Heat and Eduardo, Part I", "Of Gretchen and de Gaulle", "The Heat and Eduardo, Part