Editing Charles Baxter (author) (section)

== Works ==

=== Novels ===
* ''First Light'' (1987). An eminent astrophysicist and her brother, a small-town Buick salesman, discover how they grew so far apart and the bonds of love that still keep them together.
* ''Shadow Play'' (1993). As his wife does gymnastics and magic tricks, his crazy mother invents her own vocabulary, and his aunt writes her own version of the Bible, Five Oaks Assistant City Manager Wyatt Palmer tries to live a normal life and nearly succeeds, but...
* ''[[The Feast of Love (novel)|The Feast of Love]]'' (2000) ([[Pantheon Books]]), a reimagined ''Midsummer Night's Dream'', a story told through the eyes of several different people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bluerectangle.com/book_reviews/view_one_review/2183 |title=''The Feast Of Love'' (review) |access-date=2010-06-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509024017/http://bluerectangle.com/book_reviews/view_one_review/2183 |archive-date=May 9, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref> Nominated for the [[National Book Award]].  A [[Feast of Love|film version]] of the book, starring [[Morgan Freeman]], [[Fred Ward]] and [[Greg Kinnear]] and directed by [[Robert Benton]], was released in 2007.
* ''Saul and Patsy'' (2003). A teacher's marriage and identity are threatened by a dangerously obsessed teenage boy at his school.
* ''The Soul Thief'' (2008). A graduate student's complicated relationships lead to a disturbing case of identity theft, which ultimately leads the man to wonder if he really is who he thinks he is.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://josephpeschel.com/pdf/The%20Soul%20Thief%20from%20The%20Star.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214090241/http://josephpeschel.com/pdf/The%20Soul%20Thief%20from%20The%20Star.pdf |archive-date=2014-12-14 |url-status=live |first=Joseph |last=Peschel |title=Review: The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter |publisher=The Kansas City Star |date=April 20, 2008}}</ref>
* ''The Sun Collective'' (2020, Pantheon Books). The lives of two very different couples—one retired, one in their twenties—intersect in Minneapolis around an anti-capitalist collective arguing for revolution, as an underground group of extremists wage war on the homeless.<ref>Briefly reviewed in the [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-kidnapping-club-dark-salt-clear-ordesa-and-the-sun-collective January 4&11, 2021 issue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408111014/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-kidnapping-club-dark-salt-clear-ordesa-and-the-sun-collective |date=April 8, 2024 }} of ''[[The New Yorker]]'', p.75.</ref>
* ''Blood Test'' (2024) (Pantheon), Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-16 |title=Blood Test |url=https://penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9780593700860 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=Penguin Random House Higher Education |language=en}}</ref>

=== Short story collections ===
* ''Harmony of the World'' (1984). Winner of the [[Associated Writing Programs]] Award.
* ''Through the Safety Net'' (1985)
* ''A Relative Stranger'' (1990)
* ''Believers'' (1997)
* ''Gryphon: New and Selected Stories'' (2011)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://josephpeschel.com/pdf/web_gryphon.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214091736/http://josephpeschel.com/pdf/web_gryphon.pdf |archive-date=2014-12-14 |url-status=live  |first=Joseph |last=Peschel |title=Review: Gryphon by Charles Baxter |publisher=The Kansas City Star |date=January 16, 2011}}</ref>
* ''There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories'' (February 2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-101-87001-3 |title=Fiction Book Review: There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter. Pantheon, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-101-87001-3 |publisher=Publishersweekly.com |date=2014-11-17 |accessdate=2021-05-12 |archive-date=December 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214012231/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-101-87001-3 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Non-fiction ===
* ''Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction'' (1997)
* ''The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot'' (2007).  Winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for General Non-fiction.
* ''Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature'' (2022)

=== Poetry collections ===
* ''Chameleon'' (1970)
* ''The South Dakota Guidebook'' (1974)
* ''Imaginary Paintings'' (1989)

=== Edited works ===
* ''The Business of  Memory'' (1999)
* ''Best New American Voices 2001'' (2001)
* ''Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life'' (2001)
* ''A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations'' (2004)