Bibliography
Wood is the author of four books of criticism:
- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief (Modern Library, 2000) (Bulgarian edition, Kralitza Mab, 2010, ISBN 978-954-533-104-6)
- The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
- How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
- The Fun Stuff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
He has also produced an autobiographical novel:
- The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003)
Wood has written introductions to:
- Selected Stories of D. H. Lawrence (Modern Library, 1999)
- Collected Stories of Saul Bellow (Penguin, 2002)
- The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov (2001)
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (Penguin, 2004)
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Modern Library, 2001)
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (Modern Library, 2002)
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
- La Nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
- Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (Library of America, 2003)
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Penguin, 2011)
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