Regina Porter Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Regina Porter is an American published author of fiction.

She has graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. There she served as an Iowa Arts Fellow and also received a 2017-2018 Rae Armour West Postgraduate Scholarship. Regina is a 2017 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar as well.

She has had her fiction released in such places as The Harvard Review. She has a background in playwriting and is an award-winning writer. She has collaborated with Playwrights Horizons, New York Stage and Film, the Joseph Papp Theater, the Women’s Project, Horizon Theatre Company, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She has also been anthologized in Broadway Play Services’ Plays from Woolly Mammoth and Scenes for Women by Women by Heinemann.

Regina has also been featured in profile in Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History and Criticism from the University of Alabama Press.

She resides in Brooklyn but was born in Savannah, Georgia. She has also written nine episodes for the television series City on a Hill.

Regina Porter’s debut fictional novel came out in 2019 and is titled The Travelers. She followed that up with the 2024 novel The Rich People Have Gone Away.

The Travelers was nominated for a 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award. It also made the shortlist for the 2019 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction.

The Travelers is the debut fictional book from Regina Porter. If you love a good contemporary fiction story, then check this book out!

James Samuel Vincent is doing fairly well in life. He’s an attorney in Manhattan and is making good money. He is Irish American in background but shies away from it, while also adhering to the meandering ways of his father.

James is also making his way through a strange relationship with Rufus, his son. The relationship becomes even more complicated when Rufus gets married to Claudia Christie.

Claudia’s mother is a gorgeous African American woman named Agnes Miller Christie. She goes through a random encounter on a road in Georgia that ends up leading her to have an entirely new life in the Bronx.

Not too long after, Eddie Christie is called to duty. Her husband has to go on an air craft carrier in Vietnam, and the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” becomes his focus as he deals with a variety of issues such as his loneliness for home and the racial tensions that are growing on the ship. He is counting down the days until he will be able to see his beloved Agnes once more.

These lives of the characters come together with those of friends and lovers. These include the black lesbian who finds a life for herself in Berlin in the seventies, a man stranded in New Hampshire during a storm, two brothers who meet in a factory as adults, and a waitress in Coney Island who might have a suitor who is good to be true.

Full of great dialogue and humor, this is a family portrait and an insight into what it is to be a modern American. Check out Regina Porter’s debut and see what you think!

The Rich People Have Gone Away is the second novel to come out from Regina Porter. If you love a good mystery thriller, then you will want to check out this book!

The year is 2020, and the place is Brooklyn. Theo Harper is contending with the beginning of the pandemic along with his wife Darla. She is pregnant and they are going to their summer cottage upstate to try and wait out the lockdown.

They have a privilege in this that many around them do not. Their apartment building neighbors do not necessarily have some cottage to hole up in while they wait to see what happens.

There’s Xavier, the teen who is constantly wearing a t-shirt featuring Cardi B. then there’s Darla’s best friend Ruby, a black woman who shares her life with her partner Katsumi and they work to save their restaurant.

While they are hiking upstate, Theo lets a secret slip out that he has been holding in for a long time. His ancestry is all mixed up and then he has an argument with Darla after. Then she goes missing and it goes from just disappearing after an argument to a potential real missing persons case.

Now Theo is finding that when it comes to the front page news of the missing woman and the police search, he is the main suspect. Will he be able to prove that he didn’t do it, or is this actually far worse than he could have anticipated? Will his wife ever show up, and can he clear his name? Find out in this unique pandemic thriller set in New York by picking up a copy– you won’t be able to put it down!