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Will Pass is the author of The Second-Smartest Dog That Ever Lived, a dark comedy about interspecies friendships and the wild contradictions of domesticated life. It was named among the 2025 Southwest Books of the Year.

His second novel, The Whirlpool of Lebanon, is a surreal and darkly comic novel about a miracle that appears in a tiny Kansas town and refuses to leave.

Will also hosts Who Reads Books Anymore?, a video series in which he asks strangers about their reading lives.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 244 ratings · 133 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Second-Smartest Dog That Ever Lived 3.87 avg rating — 196 ratings — 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
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Will Pass rated a book it was amazing Homewrecker by Becky Mandelbaum (Goodreads Author)	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 funniest ghost story I've ever read. Piper, a young illustrator, makes a pact with a messenger from the netherworld: she'll break up her ex's impending marriage in exchange for a visit from her dead brother. Her moral boundaries grow murkier as g ...more
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Will Pass rated a book it was amazing The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton	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
A madcap farce of farces wrapped in a gunpowder flavored paradox, with anarchists and elephant chases and mad religious dance parties and masks upon masks upon masks, until the final enormous face is revealed. One of the most imaginative and bizarre c ...more
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A dark, laugh-out-loud satire of the modern American suburban man. He's self-aware enough to avoid repeating his father's mistakes with his own son…but what happens when there's no babysitter and you MUST WIN the local tennis club's adult league cham ...more
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Wow, what a wonderful ride! Follow Lee Clarke, a charming benzedrine-fueled Vietnam draft dodger hightailing for the northern border in a borrowed Jaguar E-type. With deadpan dialogue and beautifully damaged characters, deWitt takes the reader on a h ...more
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Will Pass rated a book it was amazing Young Santa by Joe Deany-Braun (Goodreads Author)	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
From form, wilderness. Young Santa reminds me of those fractal animations that start out simple enough: it's just a leaf, right? But as the camera zooms in, the waxy green surface gives rise to a more complex pattern, and zooming in on that pattern gi ...more
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Wow, what a wonderful ride! Follow Lee Clarke, a charming benzedrine-fueled Vietnam draft dodger hightailing for the northern border in a borrowed Jaguar E-type. With deadpan dialogue and beautifully damaged characters, deWitt takes the reader on a h ...more
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