Standalone

The Marriage of Sticks

"Carroll often startles with the deftness of his insights, both personal and metaphysical, and there are many lines that, for their poetry, one wants to cut out and frame."

Publishers Weekly

"[Carroll] evokes an eerie world of hidden meanings in this compelling tale of a woman's journey to the edge of reality. Carroll writes with a stark elegance that infuses the everyday world with a hint of surrealism and a taste of the unreal. Highly recommended for fantasy and general fiction collections."

Library Journal

"Carroll realizes characters and settings superbly and propels the story forward compellingly. "

Booklist

"THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS is classic Carroll: witty, wise, strange, elusive, immediate."

Charles de Lint

White Apples

"The story is a classic Carroll romp in which personified states of mind achieve independent life, characters interact with quirky incarnations of aspects of themselves, and bizarre metaphors ... are illuminatingly literalized. ... The novel boasts its share of the fresh perspectives on life and love that Carroll's fans have come to expect."

Publishers Weekly

"Carroll infuses the modern world with a sense of the supernatural, using coincidence and surrealism as his tools. The author's simple yet powerful prose and his talent for creating characters that seem both unique and familiar make this novel a good selection for most fantasy and general fiction collections."

Library Journal

The Wooden Sea

"Things get weird, and not just Carl Hiaasen weird; [the protagonist] finds himself teamed up with his seventeen-year-old self in a time-travel fantasy-thriller, set almost entirely in his home town but involving aliens, cold fusion, and a sinister twenty-first-century Dutch entrepreneur. The result is a quirky piece of intelligent pop that is also surprisingly moving."

The New Yorker

"THE WOODEN SEA is a treat, and I'm heading out to look for more Jonathan Carroll titles. Frannie, the worldly war-stung small town cop, hits classic status for me. His luminously hard-boiled American voice is smart, funny, and devastatingly decent. Kind of guy you're glad to follow anywhere--even into the strange zones of THE WOODEN SEA.”

Katherine Dunn

Outside the Dog Museum

"If you didn't know that Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym, you might wonder if this Carroll might be a relative. He, too, uses fanciful jests to point up common absurdities and makes fantasy seem altogether tangible."

Publishers Weekly

"I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats—with devilish tricks inside them."

Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Glass Soup

"An ambitious retelling of the cosmic struggle between good and evil… make Carroll’s latest a delicious dish… This is a marvelous comic feast."

Publishers Weekly

"Carroll's clever and spellbinding tale offers fans and newcomers alike startling perspectives on time and reality, an afterlife made of dreams, a glimmering vision of the divine, and a sweet tribute to love."

Booklist

Kissing the Beehive

"Carroll's book is strung like a piano wire whose surprising final note only sounds on the last page. Stephen King has aptly compared Carroll to Alfred Hitchcock. This novel is sure to find a wide audience and will be in demand by Carroll's rabid fans. Recommended."

Library Journal

"Carroll blends all these elements beautifully, and brings the novel to a smashing and surprising climax. If this be Carroll's attempt to enter the commercial mainstream, more power to him. With this terrifically entertaining tale, he has improved the quality of the water."

Kirkus

The Crow’s Dinner

“…an eccentric and fascinating assortment of observations, musings, anecdotes, and snatches of story…bears witness to the novelist’s attentive eye and ability to illuminate the mundane.”

Publishers Weekly

Teaching the Dog to Read

“…a fantastic tale of magical realism…Carroll writes relationships and change like no one else.”

Boing Boing

Bathing the Lion

“This lyrical and thematically rich novel is not to be underestimated.”

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review!)

“Carroll is known for his magical fiction, and his newest novel is sure to please fans who have been missing him since his last.”

Booklist

The Ghost in Love

“...literal, comical, and metaphysical all at once. Delightful reading.”

Booklist

“…an excellent and dizzying view of the everyday world.”

Reactor

Bones of the Moon

“A gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel. This grand book is a triumph.”

Stephen King

The Land of Laughs

"THE LAND OF LAUGHS is a book for anyone who has ever believed that a favorite book could be a safe place to go when things get hard."

Neil Gaiman

"I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats — with devilish tricks inside them."

Washington Post

"Smooth and fetchingly inventive."

Kirkus Reviews

"If you ever read another book in your life, it should be THE LAND OF LAUGHS."

SF Site

"For the uninitiated, THE LAND OF LAUGHS is the perfect place to begin the darkly fantastical journey through the fiction of Jonathan Carroll. Few will be disappointed."

Cemetery Dance