Dan Jenkins Book List - FictionDB (2025)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

• Semi-Tough

  • Jun-1973
  • / General Fiction

  "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." -- Don Imus Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough ...

• Dead Solid Perfect

  • 1974
  • / General Fiction

  The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about ...

• Baja Oklahoma

  • Sep-1981
  • / General Fiction

  Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma, features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish Juan...

• Life Its Ownself

  • Oct-1984
  • / General Fiction

  From the author of Semi-Tough -- one of Sports Illustrated’s top 100 sports books of all time -- comes the hilarious continuing comic adventures of star NFL player Billy Clyde Puckett.Injured football player and TV sports commentator Billy Clyde Pu...

• Fast Copy

  • Oct-1988
  • / General Fiction

  In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton’s father lures her from a New York job with Time magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the editor of his Claybelle Standard-Times. Betsy brings along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and...

• You Gotta Play Hurt

  • Oct-1991
  • / General Fiction

  From the author of Semi-Tough comes a hilarious novel chronicling one year in the life of irreverent sports columnist Jim Tom Pinch. ​Jim Tom Pinch is a unabashed sportswriter who has followed around and reported on too many blonde-haired skiers, b...

• Rude Behavior

  • Sep-1998
  • / General Fiction

  The good-ole-boy heroes of Dan Jenkins'Semi-ToughandLife Its Ownselfare back in this exuberant tale of football and other excesses.Rude Behaviorfinds Billy Clyde Puckett, former New York Giant football god and late...

• I'll Tell You One Thing

  • Sep-1999
  • / General Fiction

• The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist

  • Aug-2001
  • / General Fiction

  The best golf writer on the planet returns with his funniest book ever.Dan Jenkins virtually invented the golf novel with Dead Solid Perfect, his rollicking account of the life and times of touring pro Kenny Lee Puckett. After thirty years of waitin...

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• Slim and None

  • May-2005
  • / General Fiction

  Introduced in Dan Jenkins’s previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Jo...

• The Franchise Babe

  • Jun-2008
  • / General Fiction

  The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another bawdy, over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links -- this time, the LPGA gets the treatmentJack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, cove...

• "You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There!"

  • Dec-2014
  • / General Fiction

  The bestselling author of Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Baja Oklahoma provides more than 75 classic stories, profiles, and columns of his career. ...

• Stick a Fork in Me

  • Jan-2017
  • / General Fiction

  A rollicking, no-holds-barred tour of the world of big-time college sports from “the best sportswriter in America” (Larry King).Pete Wallace, a good old boy from Texas, paid his dues coaching football on obscure campuses in the boondocks of Ameri...

• The Reunion at Herb's Cafe

  • Nov-2019
  • / General Fiction

  Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels -- starting with Semi-Tough. Billy Clyde Puckett, Shake Tiller, T. J. Lambert, Barbara Jane Bookman, Big Ed Bookman, Slick Henderson...

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