Honor Jones Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Honor Jones is an American published author.

She is known for writing the novel Sleep. She is also a senior editor at The Atlantic and was previously an editor at The New York Times.

Today she resides in Brooklyn along with her three children.

Sleep is a 2025 book written by Honor Jones. If you have been on the lookout for a creative and original book but don’t know where to start, check out this debut from Honor Jones that serious and light readers alike will not want to miss out on.

Introduce yourself to a fresh new voice in fiction by getting your hands on a copy of this book. This is the story of a mother who has been newly divorced who has to deal with secrets from her own childhood when she decides to bring her daughters back to the house where she was raised.

Each parent exists inside of two different families at the same time. There is the family that she was born into and there is the family that she has made.

Margaret is 10 years old and is in the middle of hiding behind a blackberry bush in her family’s backyard as her brother looks for her. They are playing a game of flashlight tag. Her childhood is one where there were swimming pools lit up by sunlight, full of pancakes on Saturday morning, and having that one devoted best friend.

Outside of this, her family life requires a lot of maintenance. Her mother can be as exacting as she is brittle, as harsh as she is loving. Her brother and father take on regular models of masculinity. Then one summer, everything starts to change. After some transgressions, the innocence that comes along with being a girl slowly slips away.

It’s now been 25 years and Margaret is trapped hiding under the bed of her parents. She’s also waiting for her daughters to find her while playing hide and seek. She has just gotten divorced and is making her way through her life as a co-parent while also finding out about the pleasures of a new lover.

Despite all of this, there is still some part of her that is under that blackberry bush and has been punched out of time. She is supposed to be a mother to her daughters as well as a daughter to her mother. Now she has to deal with the echoes between the past and the present as well as contend with what it actually means to keep a child safe as well as how much of our lives are our lives alone.

Warm, generous, interesting, human and empowering, Sleep appeals to the human side of all of us. Focusing on the cycles of being a child and a mother, as well as what secrets end up costing us as well as the burden of love and what is on the other side of the world. Check out Sleep by Honor Jones to find out more and follow along with every word!