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Percival Everett

Born

in Fort Gordon, Georgia, The United States

December 22, 1956

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Percival L. Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

There might not be a more fertile mind in American fiction today than Everett’s. In 22 years, he has written 19 books, including a farcical Western, a savage satire of the publishing industry, a children’s story spoofing counting books, retellings of the Greek myths of Medea and Dionysus, and a philosophical tract narrated by a four-year-old.

The Washington Post has called Everett “one of the most adventurously experimental of modern American novelists.” And according to The Boston Globe, “He’s literature’s NASCAR champion, going flat out, narrowly avoiding one seemingly inevitable crash only to steer straigh ...more

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Average rating: 4.36 · 588,698 ratings · 66,705 reviews · 70 distinct works • Similar authors

	James 4.44 avg rating — 464,188 ratings — published 2024 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trees 4.06 avg rating — 53,954 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erasure 4.17 avg rating — 30,963 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dr. No 3.69 avg rating — 7,816 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Not Sidney Poitier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,412 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telephone 3.97 avg rating — 6,020 ratings — published 2020 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Much Blue 4.02 avg rating — 3,943 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Assumption 3.67 avg rating — 1,830 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half an Inch of Water 4.03 avg rating — 1,506 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wounded 4.07 avg rating — 1,298 ratings — published 2005 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It's time once again, gentle readers, for our end-of-year status check on the annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, in which dedicated bookworms...

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What book would you like to read for our October 2024 Group Read? The theme is Orange.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Fantasy, LGBT, Dragons

18 votes 23.4%

The Martian by Andy Weir
Debut Novel, Science-Fiction, Space

13 votes 16.9%

James by Percival Everett
Historical Fiction, Re-imagining, Race

10 votes 13.0%

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult

8 votes 10.4%

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Debut Novel, Historical Fiction, Family Saga

8 votes 10.4%

There There by Tommy Orange
Debut Novel, Contemporary, Literary Fiction

6 votes 7.8%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Dystopia, Satire, Classics

6 votes 7.8%

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Contemporary, Coming-of-Age, Modern Classic

5 votes 6.5%

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Künstlerroman, Queer, Classics

2 votes 2.6%

The Orange Grove by Rosanna Ley
Contemporary, Romance, Holidays

1 vote 1.3%

77 total votes

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