Books

Genre-Defying Reads

I am the author of the novels: “Teach Me How to Die” and “The Last of the Mentally Ill.”

My Experience

In-Between Worlds

People in the book world have described my first two novels as “literary + [insert name of genre].” My theory is that agents and editors say a book is literary when they believe the writing quality is high, but the book does not fall neatly into a genre (thriller, mystery, romance, etc.).

You’ll likely enjoy at least one of my books if you’re interested in any of these themes:

Shop for “The Last of the Mentally Ill”

Literary Fiction, Speculative, YA

Chester Owens’ life has been strictly controlled and meticulously observed—but he’s about to find out what’s really going on at the corporation that raised him.

What People are Saying

Never Let Me Go” and “Brave New World” meet “Turtles All the Way Down” in a near future where a teen with mental illness becomes the center of seismic change.

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Literary Fiction, High Fantasy

This imaginative modernization of The Inferno follows a widower from San Diego’s journey through the afterlife, and the moral dilemmas he encounters there.

Kirkus Reviews Says

Rauch imaginatively conjures an entire underworld…A richly creative meditation on love, mortality, and the possibility of what lies beyond.

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