Eiren Caffall Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Eiren Caffall is a published author and musician. Based out of the Windy City, she has written on all types of topics from oceans to extinction to nature and loss.

She has been featured in a variety of exalted publications, from Guernica to Literary Hub to The Los Angeles Review of Books to Al Jazeera, the anthology Elementals: Volume IV, and The Rumpus.

Caffall received a 2023 Whiting Award in creative nonfiction and has also had residencies at various places including Banff Centre, MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Millay Colony, and Ragdale.

Eiren Caffall has also received a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship. Her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary came out in 2024 from Row House Publishing. Her fiction novel All The Water in the World came out in 2025 from St. Martin’s Press.

The Mourner’s Bestiary is a memoir by Eiren Caffall. If you are fascinated by environmental research or chronic illness, this is likely a book you will devour.

This book weaves together true stories about Eiren’s life and brings together elements like environmental research, grief, generational healing, and chronic illness and blends them together seamlessly.

It is the real story of Eiren Caffall, who inherited a family legacy of over two centuries of genetic kidney disease and is now a mother, to a child who may inherit these same traits and continue this genetic adventure.

This is not only the author’s story but those of the animals in two marine ecosystems that are collapsing in the Gulf of Maine and in the Long Island Sound. These animals need help, but so do the family on the shore that is contending with their own life-threatening illness.

In the end, you’ll take away that these are fragile ecosystems and that people can be more hardy than we may think or believe. The Gulf of Maine is the fsatest-warming marine ecosystem in the world. The Long Island Sound has also been the site for many fights that may determine the fights that lay up ahead for the Gulf. Read this memoir to absorb it all for yourself!

All the Water in the World is a fictional literary thriller set on the roof of the Museum of Natural History in New York (partially) in the tradition of Station Eleven where the world is flooded.

The main character in this book is a young girl who has the gift of having a deep feeling for water. The glaciers melt and in the ensuing years it is Nonie, her older sister, their parents, and their researcher friends who have survived.

They have all stayed behind in a New York City that is virtually abandoned and have come up with their own settlement located on the American Museum of Natural History’s roof. They also have a code of conduct. Only take from the exhibits if you are in dire need.

The group hunts to feed themselves and are also growing food in Central Park. In the meantime, they are doing their best to try and preserve the exhibits and human history and science.

No future is perfect, however. When a super storm comes across the flood walls of the city, the survivors have to escape north on the Hudson. They have with them a book that contains the records of the lost collections.

They want to get to safety, but is the river going to take them there? On the way, they meet other survivors and other communities that have adjusted to the new reality– sometimes in frightening and strange way.

The group wants to bring what they’ve preserved to this new world, but is it even valued here? Partially inspired by the stories of curators in Leningrad and Iraq who have worked to protect their collections in the midst of war, All the Water is a solid adventure story that you’ll enjoy greatly. Read this book to catch all of the excitement for yourself!