Julia Phillips Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Julia Phillips is an American published author. She lives in Brooklyn along with her family and is a 2024 Guggenheim fellow. She also spent a year in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia as a Fulbright fellow, where she set her debut novel Disappearing Earth.

She has written fiction that has been Pushcart-nominated and has been featured in literary journals such as The Antioch Review and Glimmer Train. She has also written nonfiction, which has been featured in publications like Slate, BuzzFeed News, and The Atlantic. She was named ‘notable’ in Best American Travel Writing.

Disappearing Earth was first released for readers to enjoy in 2019. It made the National Book Award for Fiction shortlist and was nominated for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. It was also named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review.

Her work has done very well and has been translated into over two dozen languages. She teaches at the Randolph College MFA program. She has also written for The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and The New York Times.

Phillips serves on the Crime Victims Treatment Center board, which is a nonprofit dedicating to assisting people with healing from violence. She has participated, been featured, or appeared in or on Good Morning America, BOMB Magazine, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review Podcast, The New Yorker, the PBS NewsHour, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Disappearing Earth is the first book from author Julia Phillips. It was a nominee for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of best mystery and thriller in 2019. If you have been looking for an original fictional story to enjoy, check this book out for yourself!

Two sisters are kidnapped on an ordinary day in August in the afternoon. On the north-eastern edge of Russia on the shoreline, the siblings disappear without a clue. The weeks after are spent searching for them, and the weeks surely turn into months.

Even though the police investigate, they find nothing when they look into things. The disappearance has caused the close knit community to deeply feel the loss, and the women especially feel this loss as well as a sense of fear.

Set on Kamchatka, the Siberian peninsula, this is the story of one crime that takes the reader into a world with a variety of characters. The reader is taken to different beautiful vistas, from forests full of trees to tundra expanses, to tall volcanoes, to beautiful seas on the border of Alaska and Japan, further into a place that is complicated and beautiful, with longstanding ethnic and social tensions, where people from the outside are not trusted and likely to be accused more quickly of doing something wrong than a local.

This is the intensely written and suspenseful first novel from Julia Phillips, which will introduce the outsider to the bonds of community and family in a Russia that is completely unique. Find out what happens by picking up a copy of the book and seeing what happens along the way for yourself!

Bear is the second fictional book released from author Julia Phillips. If you have been looking for something new to read that is also interesting, check this novel out.

This is the story of two sisters who have their lives totally turned upside down when a visitor they weren’t expecting comes to see them. They live on an island in the Pacific Northwest, and this is the story of one family, various levels of obsession, a creature in the woods, and more.

Elena and Sam are sisters, and together they have dreams of getting away from their everyday existence and having another life. They were born on a small island located off of the Washington coast, a place that they grew up together. They live with their mother and do everything that they can to try and survive.

Sam works on a ferry for long hours, watching the mainlanders get shuttled to their vacation homes. Elena works at the golf club bar tending. Together they are earning what they can, but it still isn’t enough to pay for things. It’s frustrating, as the sisters feel that their lives have limits.

Sam is on the boat one night when she thinks that she sees a bear in the channel, swimming in the water. She has no idea what it wants or where it would even be going. Then it shows up by their home. Sam is scared and thinks it’s a good time to depart from the island.

Elena sees the bear and has a different response. She thinks it’s great and now their plan to get out of here and live a new life is threatened. Can the sisters figure out what they want to do and will they ever get off of the island? Read this fascinating book from Julia Phillips to find out!