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E.L. Doctorow

American author E.L. Doctorow is best known for acclaimed novels like *Ragtime* and *The March*. A National Book Award winner and National Medal of Arts recipient, his works blend historical fiction with literary innovation. This page provides the E.L. Doctorow books in order, including both chronological publication order and series reading order.

All books · chronological

1960Welcome to Hard TimesPOoSN · 1Buy ↗

1966Big As LifePOoSN · 2Buy ↗

1969Conversations with Jorge Luis BorgesPOoLCB · 1Buy ↗

1971The Book of DanielPOoSN · 3Buy ↗

1975RagtimePOoSN · 4Buy ↗

1979Drinks Before DinnerPOoSN · 5Buy ↗

1980Loon LakePOoSN · 6Buy ↗

1981Conversations with Czeslaw MiloszPOoLCB · 2Buy ↗

1982American Anthem(With: J.C. Suares)POoSN · 7Buy ↗

1983Essays and ConversationsPOoNB · 1Buy ↗

1983Conversations with Graham GreenePOoLCB · 3Buy ↗

1984Lives of the PoetsPOoRHRCB · 1Buy ↗

1985Conversations with Eudora WeltyPOoLCB · 4Buy ↗

1985Conversations with Walker PercyPOoLCB · 5Buy ↗

1985Conversations With Isaac Bashevis SingerPOoLCB · 6Buy ↗

1985Conversations with William StyronPOoLCB · 7Buy ↗

1985World's FairPOoSN · 8Buy ↗

1986The American Newness(By: Irving Howe)POoTWEMSLB · 1Buy ↗

1986Conversations with Malcolm CowleyPOoLCB · 8Buy ↗

1986Conversations with Lillian HellmanPOoLCB · 9Buy ↗

1986Conversations with Tennessee WilliamsPOoLCB · 10Buy ↗

1986Conversations with Ernest HemingwayPOoLCB · 11Buy ↗

1987Conversations with Katherine Anne PorterPOoLCB · 12Buy ↗

1987Truman Capote: ConversationsPOoLCB · 13Buy ↗

1987Conversations with Flannery O'ConnorPOoLCB · 14Buy ↗

1987Conversations with Peter TaylorPOoLCB · 15Buy ↗

1987Conversations with Arthur MillerPOoLCB · 16Buy ↗

1988Highbrow/lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine)POoTWEMSLB · 2Buy ↗

1988Conversations with Kurt VonnegutPOoLCB · 17Buy ↗

1988Conversations with Edward AlbeePOoLCB · 18Buy ↗

1988Conversations with Erskine CaldwellPOoLCB · 19Buy ↗

1988Conversations with Norman MailerPOoLCB · 20Buy ↗

1989Billy BathgatePOoRHRCB · 2Buy ↗

1989Conversations with Robert GravesPOoLCB · 21Buy ↗

1989Conversations with Joyce Carol OatesPOoLCB · 22Buy ↗

1989Conversations with Shelby FootePOoLCB · 23Buy ↗

1989Conversations with Robertson DaviesPOoLCB · 24Buy ↗

1989Conversations with James BaldwinPOoLCB · 25Buy ↗

1990Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis)POoTWEMSLB · 3Buy ↗

1990Conversations with John GardnerPOoLCB · 26Buy ↗

1990Conversations with Richard WilburPOoLCB · 27Buy ↗

1990Conversations with Tom WolfePOoLCB · 28Buy ↗

1990Conversations with Raymond CarverPOoLCB · 29Buy ↗

1990Conversations with Eugene O'NeillPOoLCB · 30Buy ↗

1991Conversations with Reynolds PricePOoLCB · 31Buy ↗

1991Conversations with Bernard MalamudPOoLCB · 32Buy ↗

1991Conversations with Elizabeth SpencerPOoLCB · 33Buy ↗

1992Playing In The Dark(By: Toni Morrison)POoTWEMSLB · 4Buy ↗

1992Conversations with Nikki GiovanniPOoLCB · 34Buy ↗

1992Conversations With Thornton WilderPOoLCB · 35Buy ↗

1992Conversations with Robert ColesPOoLCB · 36Buy ↗

1992Conversations with M. F. K. FisherPOoLCB · 37Buy ↗

1993Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992POoNB · 2Buy ↗

1993More Conversations with Walker PercyPOoLCB · 38Buy ↗

1993Conversations with Richard WrightPOoLCB · 39Buy ↗

1993Conversations with Paul BowlesPOoLCB · 40Buy ↗

1994Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92POoNB · 3Buy ↗

1994The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese)POoTWEMSLB · 5Buy ↗

1994The WaterworksPOoSN · 9Buy ↗

1994Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael DorrisPOoLCB · 41Buy ↗

1994Conversations with Amiri BarakaPOoLCB · 42Buy ↗

1994Conversations with Toni MorrisonPOoLCB · 43Buy ↗

1994Conversations with Saul BellowPOoLCB · 44Buy ↗

1994Conversations with Henry MillerPOoLCB · 45Buy ↗

1995Conversations With S.J. PerelmanPOoLCB · 46Buy ↗

1995Conversations with Ernest GainesPOoLCB · 47Buy ↗

1995Conversations with Ralph EllisonPOoLCB · 48Buy ↗

1995Conversations with Chester HimesPOoLCB · 49Buy ↗

1995Conversations with Susan SontagPOoLCB · 50Buy ↗

1995Conversations with Ishmael ReedPOoLCB · 51Buy ↗

1996Conversations with Derek WalcottPOoLCB · 52Buy ↗

1996More Conversations with Eudora WeltyPOoLCB · 53Buy ↗

1996Conversations with Elizabeth BishopPOoLCB · 54Buy ↗

1996Conversations with Pauline KaelPOoLCB · 55Buy ↗

1997Conversations with V. S. NaipaulPOoLCB · 56Buy ↗

1997Conversations with N. Scott MomadayPOoLCB · 57Buy ↗

1997Conversations with Chinua AchebePOoLCB · 58Buy ↗

1998Tender at the Bone(By: Ruth Reichl)POoRHRCB · 3Buy ↗

1998Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin)POoTWEMSLB · 6Buy ↗

1998The Dissent Of The Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter)POoTWEMSLB · 7Buy ↗

1998Conversations with Maxine Hong KingstonPOoLCB · 59Buy ↗

1998Conversations with Denise LevertovPOoLCB · 60Buy ↗

1999Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty)POoTWEMSLB · 8Buy ↗

1999The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco)POoTWEMSLB · 9Buy ↗

1999Conversations With William FaulknerPOoLCB · 61Buy ↗

1999Conversations with E. L. DoctorowPOoLCB · 62Buy ↗

1999Conversations With John FowlesPOoLCB · 63Buy ↗

2000City of GodPOoSN · 10Buy ↗

2000Conversations with Salman RushdiePOoLCB · 64Buy ↗

2000Conversations with William S. BurroughsPOoLCB · 65Buy ↗

2000Conversations with Leslie Marmon SilkoPOoLCB · 66Buy ↗

2001Conversations with Chaim PotokPOoLCB · 67Buy ↗

2001Conversations with Richard FordPOoLCB · 68Buy ↗

2001Conversations with Christopher IsherwoodPOoLCB · 69Buy ↗

2002Lamentation: 9/11POoNB · 4Buy ↗

2002To Be The Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston)POoTWEMSLB · 10Buy ↗

2002Conversations with Mary GordonPOoLCB · 70Buy ↗

2002Conversations with Jim HarrisonPOoLCB · 71Buy ↗

2002Conversations with Clarence MajorPOoLCB · 72Buy ↗

2002Conversations with Margaret WalkerPOoLCB · 73Buy ↗

2002Conversations with Erica JongPOoLCB · 74Buy ↗

2002Elie Wiesel: ConversationsPOoLCB · 75Buy ↗

2003Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon LakePOoSSC · 1Buy ↗

2003Anthropology of an American Girl(By: Hilary Thayer Hamann)POoRHRCB · 4Buy ↗

2003Reporting The UniversePOoTWEMSLB · 11Buy ↗

2003Joseph Brodsky: ConversationsPOoLCB · 76Buy ↗

2003Conversations with Rita DovePOoLCB · 77Buy ↗

2003Conversations with F. Scott FitzgeraldPOoLCB · 78Buy ↗

2003Conversations with Gwendolyn BrooksPOoLCB · 79Buy ↗

2003Conversations with Stanley KaufmannPOoLCB · 80Buy ↗

2004Sweet Land StoriesPOoSSC · 2Buy ↗

2004Circles And Lines(By: John Putnam Demos)POoTWEMSLB · 12Buy ↗

2004Architecture As Signs And Systems(By: Robert Venturi)POoTWEMSLB · 13Buy ↗

2004Conversations with Gloria NaylorPOoLCB · 81Buy ↗

2004Conversations with Audre LordePOoLCB · 82Buy ↗

2004Conversations with Ray BradburyPOoLCB · 83Buy ↗

2004Conversations With John le Carr�POoLCB · 84Buy ↗

2005The MarchPOoSN · 11Buy ↗

2005Conversations with Isaac AsimovPOoLCB · 85Buy ↗

2005Conversations with Don DeLilloPOoLCB · 86Buy ↗

2005Conversations with Gore VidalPOoLCB · 87Buy ↗

2005Conversations with Robert Penn WarrenPOoLCB · 88Buy ↗

2005Conversations with Jack KerouacPOoLCB · 89Buy ↗

2005Conversations with Gabriel Garc�a M�rquezPOoLCB · 90Buy ↗

2006Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006POoNB · 5Buy ↗

2006Conversations with Thomas McGuanePOoLCB · 91Buy ↗

2007Conversations with Larry BrownPOoLCB · 92Buy ↗

2007Conversations with Sonia SanchezPOoLCB · 93Buy ↗

2007Conversations with Wendell BerryPOoLCB · 94Buy ↗

2007Conversations with Leon ForrestPOoLCB · 95Buy ↗

2008Conversations with Kazuo IshiguroPOoLCB · 96Buy ↗

2009The White Garden(By: Stephanie Barron)POoRHRCB · 5Buy ↗

2009Homer & LangleyPOoSN · 12Buy ↗

2010Juliet(By: Anne Fortier)POoRHRCB · 6Buy ↗

2010The Wives of Henry Oades(By: Johanna Moran)POoRHRCB · 7Buy ↗

2010Delta Girls(By: Gayle Brandeis)POoRHRCB · 8Buy ↗

2010The Pull of the Moon(By: Elizabeth Berg)POoRHRCB · 9Buy ↗

2010Reshaping The Work-family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams)POoTWEMSLB · 14Buy ↗

2011Poems for Life: A Special Collection of PoetryPOoSSC · 3Buy ↗

2011All the Time in the WorldPOoSSC · 4Buy ↗

2011The Definition of Wind(By: Ellen Block)POoRHRCB · 10Buy ↗

2011When We Were Friends(By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold)POoRHRCB · 11Buy ↗

2011Game of Secrets(By: Dawn Tripp)POoRHRCB · 12Buy ↗

2011The Homecoming of Samuel Lake(By: Jenny Wingfield)POoRHRCB · 13Buy ↗

2012Invisible(By: Carla Buckley)POoRHRCB · 14Buy ↗

2013The Lullaby of Polish Girls(By: Dagmara Dominczyk)POoRHRCB · 15Buy ↗

2013Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen)POoTWEMSLB · 16Buy ↗

2014Andrew's BrainPOoSN · 13Buy ↗

2015Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus)POoTWEMSLB · 17Buy ↗

2017Just A Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse)POoTWEMSLB · 18Buy ↗

2023Conversations with Jimmy CarterPOoLCB · 97Buy ↗

Book series · browse all →

Publication Order of Standalone Novels13 books · 1960–2014

01Welcome to Hard Times1960Buy ↗

02Big As Life1966Buy ↗

03The Book of Daniel1971Buy ↗

04Ragtime1975Buy ↗

05Drinks Before Dinner1979Buy ↗

06Loon Lake1980Buy ↗

07American Anthem(With: J.C. Suares)1982Buy ↗

08World's Fair1985Buy ↗

09The Waterworks1994Buy ↗

10City of God2000Buy ↗

11The March2005Buy ↗

12Homer & Langley2009Buy ↗

13Andrew's Brain2014Buy ↗

Publication Order of Literary Conversations Books97 books · 1969–2023

01Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges1969Buy ↗

02Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz1981Buy ↗

03Conversations with Graham Greene1983Buy ↗

04Conversations with Eudora Welty1985Buy ↗

05Conversations with Walker Percy1985Buy ↗

06Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer1985Buy ↗

07Conversations with William Styron1985Buy ↗

08Conversations with Malcolm Cowley1986Buy ↗

09Conversations with Lillian Hellman1986Buy ↗

10Conversations with Tennessee Williams1986Buy ↗

11Conversations with Ernest Hemingway1986Buy ↗

12Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter1987Buy ↗

13Truman Capote: Conversations1987Buy ↗

14Conversations with Flannery O'Connor1987Buy ↗

15Conversations with Peter Taylor1987Buy ↗

16Conversations with Arthur Miller1987Buy ↗

17Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut1988Buy ↗

18Conversations with Edward Albee1988Buy ↗

19Conversations with Erskine Caldwell1988Buy ↗

20Conversations with Norman Mailer1988Buy ↗

21Conversations with Robert Graves1989Buy ↗

22Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates1989Buy ↗

23Conversations with Shelby Foote1989Buy ↗

24Conversations with Robertson Davies1989Buy ↗

25Conversations with James Baldwin1989Buy ↗

26Conversations with John Gardner1990Buy ↗

27Conversations with Richard Wilbur1990Buy ↗

28Conversations with Tom Wolfe1990Buy ↗

29Conversations with Raymond Carver1990Buy ↗

30Conversations with Eugene O'Neill1990Buy ↗

31Conversations with Reynolds Price1991Buy ↗

32Conversations with Bernard Malamud1991Buy ↗

33Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer1991Buy ↗

34Conversations with Nikki Giovanni1992Buy ↗

35Conversations With Thornton Wilder1992Buy ↗

36Conversations with Robert Coles1992Buy ↗

37Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher1992Buy ↗

38More Conversations with Walker Percy1993Buy ↗

39Conversations with Richard Wright1993Buy ↗

40Conversations with Paul Bowles1993Buy ↗

41Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris1994Buy ↗

42Conversations with Amiri Baraka1994Buy ↗

43Conversations with Toni Morrison1994Buy ↗

44Conversations with Saul Bellow1994Buy ↗

45Conversations with Henry Miller1994Buy ↗

46Conversations With S.J. Perelman1995Buy ↗

47Conversations with Ernest Gaines1995Buy ↗

48Conversations with Ralph Ellison1995Buy ↗

49Conversations with Chester Himes1995Buy ↗

50Conversations with Susan Sontag1995Buy ↗

51Conversations with Ishmael Reed1995Buy ↗

52Conversations with Derek Walcott1996Buy ↗

53More Conversations with Eudora Welty1996Buy ↗

54Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop1996Buy ↗

55Conversations with Pauline Kael1996Buy ↗

56Conversations with V. S. Naipaul1997Buy ↗

57Conversations with N. Scott Momaday1997Buy ↗

58Conversations with Chinua Achebe1997Buy ↗

59Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston1998Buy ↗

60Conversations with Denise Levertov1998Buy ↗

61Conversations With William Faulkner1999Buy ↗

62Conversations with E. L. Doctorow1999Buy ↗

63Conversations With John Fowles1999Buy ↗

64Conversations with Salman Rushdie2000Buy ↗

65Conversations with William S. Burroughs2000Buy ↗

66Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko2000Buy ↗

67Conversations with Chaim Potok2001Buy ↗

68Conversations with Richard Ford2001Buy ↗

69Conversations with Christopher Isherwood2001Buy ↗

70Conversations with Mary Gordon2002Buy ↗

71Conversations with Jim Harrison2002Buy ↗

72Conversations with Clarence Major2002Buy ↗

73Conversations with Margaret Walker2002Buy ↗

74Conversations with Erica Jong2002Buy ↗

75Elie Wiesel: Conversations2002Buy ↗

76Joseph Brodsky: Conversations2003Buy ↗

77Conversations with Rita Dove2003Buy ↗

78Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald2003Buy ↗

79Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks2003Buy ↗

80Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann2003Buy ↗

81Conversations with Gloria Naylor2004Buy ↗

82Conversations with Audre Lorde2004Buy ↗

83Conversations with Ray Bradbury2004Buy ↗

84Conversations With John le Carr�2004Buy ↗

85Conversations with Isaac Asimov2005Buy ↗

86Conversations with Don DeLillo2005Buy ↗

87Conversations with Gore Vidal2005Buy ↗

88Conversations with Robert Penn Warren2005Buy ↗

89Conversations with Jack Kerouac2005Buy ↗

90Conversations with Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez2005Buy ↗

91Conversations with Thomas McGuane2006Buy ↗

92Conversations with Larry Brown2007Buy ↗

93Conversations with Sonia Sanchez2007Buy ↗

94Conversations with Wendell Berry2007Buy ↗

95Conversations with Leon Forrest2007Buy ↗

96Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro2008Buy ↗

97Conversations with Jimmy Carter2023Buy ↗

Publication Order of Random House Reader's Circle Books15 books · 1984–2013

01Lives of the Poets1984Buy ↗

02Billy Bathgate1989Buy ↗

03Tender at the Bone(By: Ruth Reichl)1998Buy ↗

04Anthropology of an American Girl(By: Hilary Thayer Hamann)2003Buy ↗

05The White Garden(By: Stephanie Barron)2009Buy ↗

06Juliet(By: Anne Fortier)2010Buy ↗

07The Wives of Henry Oades(By: Johanna Moran)2010Buy ↗

08Delta Girls(By: Gayle Brandeis)2010Buy ↗

09The Pull of the Moon(By: Elizabeth Berg)2010Buy ↗

10The Definition of Wind(By: Ellen Block)2011Buy ↗

11When We Were Friends(By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold)2011Buy ↗

12Game of Secrets(By: Dawn Tripp)2011Buy ↗

13The Homecoming of Samuel Lake(By: Jenny Wingfield)2011Buy ↗

14Invisible(By: Carla Buckley)2012Buy ↗

15The Lullaby of Polish Girls(By: Dagmara Dominczyk)2013Buy ↗

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books5 books · 1983–2006

01Essays and Conversations1983Buy ↗

02Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-19921993Buy ↗

03Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-921994Buy ↗

04Lamentation: 9/112002Buy ↗

05Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-20062006Buy ↗

Publication Order of Short Story Collections4 books · 2003–2011

01Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake2003Buy ↗

02Sweet Land Stories2004Buy ↗

03Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry2011Buy ↗

04All the Time in the World2011Buy ↗

Publication Order of The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures Books17 books · 1986–2017

01The American Newness(By: Irving Howe)1986Buy ↗

02Highbrow/lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine)1988Buy ↗

03Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis)1990Buy ↗

04Playing In The Dark(By: Toni Morrison)1992Buy ↗

05The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese)1994Buy ↗

06Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin)1998Buy ↗

07The Dissent Of The Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter)1998Buy ↗

08Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty)1999Buy ↗

09The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco)1999Buy ↗

10To Be The Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston)2002Buy ↗

11Reporting The Universe2003Buy ↗

12Circles And Lines(By: John Putnam Demos)2004Buy ↗

13Architecture As Signs And Systems(By: Robert Venturi)2004Buy ↗

14Reshaping The Work-family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams)2010Buy ↗

16Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen)2013Buy ↗

17Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus)2015Buy ↗

18Just A Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse)2017Buy ↗

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