Christopher Buckley Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The White House Mess (1986)
  2. Wet Work (1991)
  3. Thank You for Smoking (1994)
  4. God Is My Broker (1998)
  5. Little Green Men (1999)
  6. No Way to Treat a First Lady (2002)
  7. Florence of Arabia (2004)
  8. Boomsday (2007)
  9. Supreme Courtship (2008)
  10. They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? (2012)
  11. The Relic Master (2015)
  12. The Judge Hunter (2018)
  13. Make Russia Great Again (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Wry Martinis (1997)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Cynara (2009)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Steaming to Bamboola (1982)
  2. Washington Schlepped Here (2003)
  3. Sleepwalk (2006)
  4. Losing Mum and Pup (2009)
  5. But Enough About You (2014)
  6. The Long Embrace (2020)
  7. Naming the Lost (2020)

Poetry Books In Publication Order

  1. The Far Republics (2017)
  2. Chaos Theory (2018)
  3. Cloud Memoir (2019)
  4. Agnostic (2019)

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Christopher Buckley Books Overview

The White House Mess

An uproarious comedy about a presidential administration totally off the rails. This fictional political memoir by the Personal Assistant to President Tucker, Herbert Wadlough, offers a unique, utterly self serving inside view of the ill fated Tucker administration, 1989 1993. ‘A brilliant satire…
A witty, very funny, intricate spoof.’ Bob Woodward.

Wet Work

Previously known for his works of humor, Christopher Buckley now gives listeners a full scale thriller. High suspense, international intrigue and humor characterize this story of drug dealing between North and South America. 7 cassettes.

Thank You for Smoking

Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he s become a target for both anti tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of the original Puff Daddy?From the Trade Paperback edition.

God Is My Broker

This is an incredible story. The author, a failed, alcoholic Wall Street trader, had retreated to a monastery. It, too, was failing. Then, one fateful day, Brother Ty decided to let God be his broker and not only saved the monastery but discovered the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. Brother Ty’s remarkable success has been studied at the nation’s leading business schools and scrutinized by Wall Street’s greatest minds, but until now the secret to his 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth have been available only to a select few: 87 percent of America’s billionaires 28 recent Academy Award winners Over half the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize No members of the U.S. Congress Now, for the first time, Brother Ty reveals the secrets he has gleaned from the ancient texts of the monks, and tells how you can get God to be your broker. God Is My Broker is the first truly great self help business novel. Open this book and open your heart. It will change your life.

Little Green Men

In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits…
and how much they have in common. The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk show host, whose privileged life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his exclusive country club golf course. But were his gray skinned captors aliens…
or something far more sinister? After Banion is abducted again this time in Palm Springs he believes he has been chosen by the extraterrestrials to champion the most important cause of the millennium, and he embarks on a crusade, appearing before a convention of UFO believers and demanding that Congress and the White House seriously investigate UFOs. His friends and family suspect that Banion is having some kind of manic depressive midlife crisis and urge him to seek therapy before his credibility as a pillar of the punditocracy is ruined. So John Oliver Banion must choose: keep his establishment status or become the leader of millions of impassioned and somewhat scruffy new friends who want to expose the government’s secret alien agenda. Little Green Men proves once and for all that the truth is out there. Way out there. And it reaffirms Christopher Buckley’s status as the funniest humanoid writer in the universe.

No Way to Treat a First Lady

Christopher Buckley, the bestselling author of the comic classics The White House Mess and Thank You for Smoking, returns to the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the First Lady of the United States, has been charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States. In the midst of a bedroom spat, she allegedly hurled a historic Paul Revere spittoon at him, with tragic results. The attorney general has no choice but to put the First Lady on trial for assassination. The media has never warmed to Beth MacMann her nickname in the tabloids is Lady Bethmac , and as America girds for a scandalous, sensational trial, Beth reaches out to the only defense attorney she trusts, Boyce Shameless Baylor, who charges $1,000 an hour and has represented a Who’s Who of scoundrels: murderous running backs, society wife killers, Los Alamos spies, and national security sellouts. Why Boyce Baylor? Because Beth loved him once, when they were law students. Boyce wanted to marry her, but Beth chose the future President instead. Now, after all these years, Boyce has a second chance. To what lengths will a shameless lawyer go to win the Trial of the Millennium and regain the love of his life?Buckley has been described by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the best and surest political humorists in America and by Entertainment Weekly as a superb writer of politically incorrect satire. No Way to Treat a First Lady is flat out hilarious. And furthermore, it s a love story for our time. From the Hardcover edition.

Florence of Arabia

The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world Arab American relations in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn t delight. Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far reaching, wide ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world. The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, she’s enlisted in a top secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar pronounced Mutter , the Switzerland of the Persian Gulf. Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows. The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as Friends from Hell. The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the station s entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And that s only the beginning.A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckley s funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan. From the Hardcover edition.

Boomsday

Boomsday‘S hero*ine is Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29 year old blogger who incites massive political turmoil when, outraged over mounting Social Security debt, she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of her outraged peers ‘Generation Whatever’ and an ambitious Senator seeking to gain the youth vote in his presidential campaign. With the help of Washington’s greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers they call it ‘Transitioning’ all the way to the White House, over the forceful objections of the Religious Right and, of course, Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts. Read by Janeane Garofalo!

Supreme Courtship

President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won’t have the guts to reject her Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation’s most popular reality show, Courtroom Six.

Will Pepper, a straight talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman.

Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. 2008

They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?

In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist ‘Bird’ McIntyre and sexy Neo Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series of crises involving the White House, the CIA, and a strangely sympathetic and vulnerable Chinese president, with both countries veering perilously towards war. Buckley has drawn his most convincing and outrageous characters to date: Bird, failed novelist of amusingly awful Clancy esque thrillers; Angel, combination Anne Coulter and Ayn Rand; Bird’s demanding, equestrian wife, Myndi; Bewks, his feckless but endearing Civil War re enactor brother; the mild mannered Chinese President Fa and his devoted aide Gang, maneuvering desperately against sinister Politburo hard liners Minister Lo and General Han. Blending the skewering genius of Thank You For Smoking with Dr. Strangelove’s dark comedy, THEY EAT PUPPIES DON’T THEY? has something to offend and amuse everyone.

Wry Martinis

‘Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today, they’re named Thompson, O’Rourke and Christopher Buckley. Read this book and you’ll die laughing. But as Wrong Way Kennedy said, ‘What a way to go.” Tom Wolfe ‘Funny and devastating.’ Entertainment Weekly ‘Clever, erudite, sophisticated, funny and flip. Buckley shows that his antennae are ever alert to the absurdities in our world.’ Cleveland Plain Dealer ‘Buckley’s comic muse and as Wry Martinis attests, he is one of the rarest specimens in his generation of that endangered species, the authentically inventive comic writer adorns the Benchley Thurber line of social observation. He is probably the most versatile practitioner of that tradition today…
. Wry Martinis has an astonishing range, all the way from the history of the miniskirt to the language of the New American Bible.’ Boston Globe

Washington Schlepped Here

The father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man’s footsteps comes humorist and twenty year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city s founding. Well, not really. We re just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there s never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is con tagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious. In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his other Washington. They include Dante s Paradiso Union Station; the Zero Milestone of American democracy the U.S. Capitol; the Almost Pink House the White House; and many other historical and often hysterical journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone like clich s that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media ready image might let on. From the Hardcover edition.

Sleepwalk

The West means more than just a direction to Christopher Buckley; it stands for dreams and possibilities that are supple, filled with color, and tinged with memories both comic and dark. This is a book about California life from the viewpoint of an adult who weaves loosely connected stories about Catholic school, fashion, cars, and music with smooth flowing personal reflections on the particular qualities of the western ethos and experience. These reflections show how childhood follows us into adulthood, how the culture into which we are born sustains and directs us, and sometimes blinds us. This is a beautifully written collection, vastly entertaining, and, for anyone who does not know the West, terrifically informative.

Losing Mum and Pup

I had more or less resolved not to write a book about my parents. But I m a writer, and when the universe hands you material like this, not writing about it amounts either to waste or a conscious act of evasion. So begins award winning satirist Christopher Buckley in the most personal and transcendent work of his life, the tragicomic true story of the year in which both of his parents died. In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York’s most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: They were not with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world your typical mom and dad. As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a fifty five year old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness. Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.

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