I've published over 40 of my books through GAD since 1996, with more always coming. Unfortunately I no longer sell paper versions of the books through the website - it was just becoming way too big of a pain, with a profit margin of nearly zero. A select amount of my paper books can be found at Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago, Reading Frenzy in Portland, City Lights in San Francisco and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City; if you know of a bookstore that would like to carry some of my books, by all means let me know at ilikejason at hotmail dot com. If for some reason you absolutely need a paper copy of one of these books, or if you're trying to track down one of the dozen or so books by other authors I published back in 2001, drop me a line and let's see if we can work out some kind of deal.
Below is a complete list of every book I've published since 1996; those with active hyperlinks are available in electronic format for free, which can be found by clicking on the title.
- AIMU
- A sexually-explicit science-fiction screenplay.
- (Andi.)
- Poems about an ex-girlfriend.
- Celibate
- A long-form performance project about sexual addiction.
- Chicago Stories 1997
- Poems and monologues from 1997.
- Chicago Stories 1998
- Poems and monologues from 1998.
- Chicago Stories 1999
- Poems and monologues from 1999.
- Chicago Stories 2000
- Poems and monologues from 2000.
- The Circle Jerk Club
- An erotic bisexual story.
- Complete Short Work 1996-2001
- A 700-page collection of all these books.
- Creamed Corn
- An interactive novel about six friends at a music club one rainy night.
- Dare to Dream a Beautiful Nightmare
- Essays about science-fiction.
- Eggs in the Fire
- Memoirs of my first chef job.
- The Fluffer
- An erotic story about nerds.
- Four Essays About Four Modern Books
- Essays about contemporary novels.
- The heat can sure do some crazy things to you sometimes
- An experimental hyperfiction project.
- The Heatseeker
- A long-form performance project about gifted children.
- How to Win a Poetry Slam
- A semi-funny, semi-serious guide to this unique literary genre.
- Ignite, Stop, Drop and Roll
- A four-book collection of my journal entries, dealing with (respectively) computer issues, literary issues, human-interest issues and sexual issues.
- Jasonettes
- Formal poetry of my own invention.
- Kathie Lee Gifford Likes to Fuck!
- Short stories from 1996.
- More Poems About Blowjobs
- A compliation of dirty poems and monologues.
- Notes from my Grandmother's Funeral
- A long-form performance project about death, grieving, and small towns.
- The Pillow Book of Jason Pettus
- 45 stories about being a kid, written in hyperfiction form.
- Porn Stores Are Scary: 2001 California Tour Diary
- A tour journal of my 2001 northern California book tour.
- The Jason Pettus Portable Reader
- A "greatest-hits" collection of my short performance work.
- Psycho Poets
- 14 poems about female writers, most of whom I slept with in 1997.
- Slacker Wedding
- A nonfiction book about collegetowns and the slacker lifestyle.
- Slut Summer
- Memoirs of my first year of sexual swinging, when I slept with 15 people in 15 weeks.
- Smells Like Sweat
- 205 haikus about the 1997 National Poetry Slam
- The Stewart Letters
- A series of letters written to an ex-girlfriend in 1996.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Reimagined for Modern Times
- A literary experiment, rewriting the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale for modern times.
- The Summer I Was a Girl
- The record of an online journal I kept in 1998, posing as a woman.
- The Sweet Alice Sessions
- Short stories from "The Testing Ground" open mic, 1996.
- The Tao of Now
- Interrelated short stories about white trash.
- The Tape
- An erotic lesbian story.
- The Tunnel Rat Sessions
- Long-form interviews with Chicago-area poets, from the pages of Tunnel Rat newspaper.
- When I Close My Eyes I Go Back in Time
- A science-fiction short story.
