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E.L. Doctorow Books in Order

Find every E.L. Doctorow book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 151 books / 6 series

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 E.L. Doctorow Books in Chronological Order

1960 Welcome to Hard Times POoSN / 1 Buy
1966 Big As Life POoSN / 2 Buy
1969 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges POoLCB / 1 Buy
1971 The Book of Daniel POoSN / 3 Buy
1975 Ragtime POoSN / 4 Buy
1979 Drinks Before Dinner POoSN / 5 Buy
1980 Loon Lake POoSN / 6 Buy
1981 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz POoLCB / 2 Buy
1982 American Anthem(With: J.C. Suares) POoSN / 7 Buy
1983 Essays and Conversations POoNB / 1 Buy
1983 Conversations with Graham Greene POoLCB / 3 Buy
1984 Lives of the Poets POoRHRCB / 1 Buy
1985 Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 4 Buy
1985 Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 5 Buy
1985 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer POoLCB / 6 Buy
1985 Conversations with William Styron POoLCB / 7 Buy
1985 World's Fair POoSN / 8 Buy
1986 The American Newness(By: Irving Howe) POoTWEMSLB / 1 Buy
1986 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley POoLCB / 8 Buy
1986 Conversations with Lillian Hellman POoLCB / 9 Buy
1986 Conversations with Tennessee Williams POoLCB / 10 Buy
1986 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway POoLCB / 11 Buy
1987 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter POoLCB / 12 Buy
1987 Truman Capote: Conversations POoLCB / 13 Buy
1987 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor POoLCB / 14 Buy
1987 Conversations with Peter Taylor POoLCB / 15 Buy
1987 Conversations with Arthur Miller POoLCB / 16 Buy
1988 Highbrow/lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine) POoTWEMSLB / 2 Buy
1988 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut POoLCB / 17 Buy
1988 Conversations with Edward Albee POoLCB / 18 Buy
1988 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell POoLCB / 19 Buy
1988 Conversations with Norman Mailer POoLCB / 20 Buy
1989 Billy Bathgate POoRHRCB / 2 Buy
1989 Conversations with Robert Graves POoLCB / 21 Buy
1989 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates POoLCB / 22 Buy
1989 Conversations with Shelby Foote POoLCB / 23 Buy
1989 Conversations with Robertson Davies POoLCB / 24 Buy
1989 Conversations with James Baldwin POoLCB / 25 Buy
1990 Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis) POoTWEMSLB / 3 Buy
1990 Conversations with John Gardner POoLCB / 26 Buy
1990 Conversations with Richard Wilbur POoLCB / 27 Buy
1990 Conversations with Tom Wolfe POoLCB / 28 Buy
1990 Conversations with Raymond Carver POoLCB / 29 Buy
1990 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill POoLCB / 30 Buy
1991 Conversations with Reynolds Price POoLCB / 31 Buy
1991 Conversations with Bernard Malamud POoLCB / 32 Buy
1991 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer POoLCB / 33 Buy
1992 Playing In The Dark(By: Toni Morrison) POoTWEMSLB / 4 Buy
1992 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni POoLCB / 34 Buy
1992 Conversations With Thornton Wilder POoLCB / 35 Buy
1992 Conversations with Robert Coles POoLCB / 36 Buy
1992 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher POoLCB / 37 Buy
1993 Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 POoNB / 2 Buy
1993 More Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 38 Buy
1993 Conversations with Richard Wright POoLCB / 39 Buy
1993 Conversations with Paul Bowles POoLCB / 40 Buy
1994 Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 POoNB / 3 Buy
1994 The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese) POoTWEMSLB / 5 Buy
1994 The Waterworks POoSN / 9 Buy
1994 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris POoLCB / 41 Buy
1994 Conversations with Amiri Baraka POoLCB / 42 Buy
1994 Conversations with Toni Morrison POoLCB / 43 Buy
1994 Conversations with Saul Bellow POoLCB / 44 Buy
1994 Conversations with Henry Miller POoLCB / 45 Buy
1995 Conversations With S.J. Perelman POoLCB / 46 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ernest Gaines POoLCB / 47 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ralph Ellison POoLCB / 48 Buy
1995 Conversations with Chester Himes POoLCB / 49 Buy
1995 Conversations with Susan Sontag POoLCB / 50 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ishmael Reed POoLCB / 51 Buy
1996 Conversations with Derek Walcott POoLCB / 52 Buy
1996 More Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 53 Buy
1996 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop POoLCB / 54 Buy
1996 Conversations with Pauline Kael POoLCB / 55 Buy
1997 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul POoLCB / 56 Buy
1997 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday POoLCB / 57 Buy
1997 Conversations with Chinua Achebe POoLCB / 58 Buy
1998 Tender at the Bone(By: Ruth Reichl) POoRHRCB / 3 Buy
1998 Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin) POoTWEMSLB / 6 Buy
1998 The Dissent Of The Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter) POoTWEMSLB / 7 Buy
1998 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston POoLCB / 59 Buy
1998 Conversations with Denise Levertov POoLCB / 60 Buy
1999 Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty) POoTWEMSLB / 8 Buy
1999 The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco) POoTWEMSLB / 9 Buy
1999 Conversations With William Faulkner POoLCB / 61 Buy
1999 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow POoLCB / 62 Buy
1999 Conversations With John Fowles POoLCB / 63 Buy
2000 City of God POoSN / 10 Buy
2000 Conversations with Salman Rushdie POoLCB / 64 Buy
2000 Conversations with William S. Burroughs POoLCB / 65 Buy
2000 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko POoLCB / 66 Buy
2001 Conversations with Chaim Potok POoLCB / 67 Buy
2001 Conversations with Richard Ford POoLCB / 68 Buy
2001 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood POoLCB / 69 Buy
2002 Lamentation: 9/11 POoNB / 4 Buy
2002 To Be The Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston) POoTWEMSLB / 10 Buy
2002 Conversations with Mary Gordon POoLCB / 70 Buy
2002 Conversations with Jim Harrison POoLCB / 71 Buy
2002 Conversations with Clarence Major POoLCB / 72 Buy
2002 Conversations with Margaret Walker POoLCB / 73 Buy
2002 Conversations with Erica Jong POoLCB / 74 Buy
2002 Elie Wiesel: Conversations POoLCB / 75 Buy
2003 Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake POoSSC / 1 Buy
2003 Anthropology of an American Girl(By: Hilary Thayer Hamann) POoRHRCB / 4 Buy
2003 Reporting The Universe POoTWEMSLB / 11 Buy
2003 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations POoLCB / 76 Buy
2003 Conversations with Rita Dove POoLCB / 77 Buy
2003 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald POoLCB / 78 Buy
2003 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks POoLCB / 79 Buy
2003 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann POoLCB / 80 Buy
2004 Sweet Land Stories POoSSC / 2 Buy
2004 Circles And Lines(By: John Putnam Demos) POoTWEMSLB / 12 Buy
2004 Architecture As Signs And Systems(By: Robert Venturi) POoTWEMSLB / 13 Buy
2004 Conversations with Gloria Naylor POoLCB / 81 Buy
2004 Conversations with Audre Lorde POoLCB / 82 Buy
2004 Conversations with Ray Bradbury POoLCB / 83 Buy
2004 Conversations With John le Carr’ POoLCB / 84 Buy
2005 The March POoSN / 11 Buy
2005 Conversations with Isaac Asimov POoLCB / 85 Buy
2005 Conversations with Don DeLillo POoLCB / 86 Buy
2005 Conversations with Gore Vidal POoLCB / 87 Buy
2005 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren POoLCB / 88 Buy
2005 Conversations with Jack Kerouac POoLCB / 89 Buy
2005 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez POoLCB / 90 Buy
2006 Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 POoNB / 5 Buy
2006 Conversations with Thomas McGuane POoLCB / 91 Buy
2007 Conversations with Larry Brown POoLCB / 92 Buy
2007 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez POoLCB / 93 Buy
2007 Conversations with Wendell Berry POoLCB / 94 Buy
2007 Conversations with Leon Forrest POoLCB / 95 Buy
2008 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro POoLCB / 96 Buy
2009 The White Garden(By: Stephanie Barron) POoRHRCB / 5 Buy
2009 Homer & Langley POoSN / 12 Buy
2010 Juliet(By: Anne Fortier) POoRHRCB / 6 Buy
2010 The Wives of Henry Oades(By: Johanna Moran) POoRHRCB / 7 Buy
2010 Delta Girls(By: Gayle Brandeis) POoRHRCB / 8 Buy
2010 The Pull of the Moon(By: Elizabeth Berg) POoRHRCB / 9 Buy
2010 Reshaping The Work-family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams) POoTWEMSLB / 14 Buy
2011 Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry POoSSC / 3 Buy
2011 All the Time in the World POoSSC / 4 Buy
2011 The Definition of Wind(By: Ellen Block) POoRHRCB / 10 Buy
2011 When We Were Friends(By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold) POoRHRCB / 11 Buy
2011 Game of Secrets(By: Dawn Tripp) POoRHRCB / 12 Buy
2011 The Homecoming of Samuel Lake(By: Jenny Wingfield) POoRHRCB / 13 Buy
2012 Invisible(By: Carla Buckley) POoRHRCB / 14 Buy
2013 The Lullaby of Polish Girls(By: Dagmara Dominczyk) POoRHRCB / 15 Buy
2013 Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen) POoTWEMSLB / 16 Buy
2014 Andrew's Brain POoSN / 13 Buy
2015 Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus) POoTWEMSLB / 17 Buy
2017 Just A Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse) POoTWEMSLB / 18 Buy
2023 Conversations with Jimmy Carter POoLCB / 97 Buy

E.L. Doctorow Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

Standalone Books in Reading Order 13 books / 1960-2014
01 Welcome to Hard Times 1960 Buy
02 Big As Life 1966 Buy
03 The Book of Daniel 1971 Buy
04 Ragtime 1975 Buy
05 Drinks Before Dinner 1979 Buy
06 Loon Lake 1980 Buy
07 American Anthem(With: J.C. Suares) 1982 Buy
08 World's Fair 1985 Buy
09 The Waterworks 1994 Buy
10 City of God 2000 Buy
11 The March 2005 Buy
12 Homer & Langley 2009 Buy
13 Andrew's Brain 2014 Buy
01 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969 Buy
02 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981 Buy
03 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983 Buy
04 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985 Buy
05 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985 Buy
06 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985 Buy
07 Conversations with William Styron 1985 Buy
08 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986 Buy
09 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986 Buy
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986 Buy
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986 Buy
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987 Buy
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987 Buy
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987 Buy
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987 Buy
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987 Buy
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988 Buy
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988 Buy
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988 Buy
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988 Buy
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989 Buy
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989 Buy
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989 Buy
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989 Buy
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989 Buy
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990 Buy
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990 Buy
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990 Buy
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990 Buy
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990 Buy
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991 Buy
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991 Buy
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991 Buy
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992 Buy
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992 Buy
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992 Buy
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992 Buy
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993 Buy
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993 Buy
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993 Buy
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994 Buy
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994 Buy
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994 Buy
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994 Buy
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994 Buy
46 Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995 Buy
47 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995 Buy
48 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995 Buy
49 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995 Buy
50 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995 Buy
51 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995 Buy
52 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996 Buy
53 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996 Buy
54 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996 Buy
55 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996 Buy
56 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997 Buy
57 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997 Buy
58 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997 Buy
59 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998 Buy
60 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998 Buy
61 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999 Buy
62 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999 Buy
63 Conversations With John Fowles 1999 Buy
64 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000 Buy
65 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000 Buy
66 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000 Buy
67 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001 Buy
68 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001 Buy
69 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001 Buy
70 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002 Buy
71 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002 Buy
72 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002 Buy
73 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002 Buy
74 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002 Buy
75 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002 Buy
76 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003 Buy
77 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003 Buy
78 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003 Buy
79 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003 Buy
80 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003 Buy
81 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004 Buy
82 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004 Buy
83 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004 Buy
84 Conversations With John le Carr’ 2004 Buy
85 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005 Buy
86 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005 Buy
87 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005 Buy
88 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005 Buy
89 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005 Buy
90 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez 2005 Buy
91 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006 Buy
92 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007 Buy
93 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007 Buy
94 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007 Buy
95 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007 Buy
96 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008 Buy
97 Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023 Buy
01 Lives of the Poets 1984 Buy
02 Billy Bathgate 1989 Buy
03 Tender at the Bone(By: Ruth Reichl) 1998 Buy
04 Anthropology of an American Girl(By: Hilary Thayer Hamann) 2003 Buy
05 The White Garden(By: Stephanie Barron) 2009 Buy
06 Juliet(By: Anne Fortier) 2010 Buy
07 The Wives of Henry Oades(By: Johanna Moran) 2010 Buy
08 Delta Girls(By: Gayle Brandeis) 2010 Buy
09 The Pull of the Moon(By: Elizabeth Berg) 2010 Buy
10 The Definition of Wind(By: Ellen Block) 2011 Buy
11 When We Were Friends(By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold) 2011 Buy
12 Game of Secrets(By: Dawn Tripp) 2011 Buy
13 The Homecoming of Samuel Lake(By: Jenny Wingfield) 2011 Buy
14 Invisible(By: Carla Buckley) 2012 Buy
15 The Lullaby of Polish Girls(By: Dagmara Dominczyk) 2013 Buy
01 Essays and Conversations 1983 Buy
02 Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 1993 Buy
03 Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 1994 Buy
04 Lamentation: 9/11 2002 Buy
05 Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 2006 Buy
01 Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake 2003 Buy
02 Sweet Land Stories 2004 Buy
03 Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry 2011 Buy
04 All the Time in the World 2011 Buy
01 The American Newness(By: Irving Howe) 1986 Buy
02 Highbrow/lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine) 1988 Buy
03 Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis) 1990 Buy
04 Playing In The Dark(By: Toni Morrison) 1992 Buy
05 The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese) 1994 Buy
06 Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin) 1998 Buy
07 The Dissent Of The Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter) 1998 Buy
08 Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty) 1999 Buy
09 The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco) 1999 Buy
10 To Be The Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston) 2002 Buy
11 Reporting The Universe 2003 Buy
12 Circles And Lines(By: John Putnam Demos) 2004 Buy
13 Architecture As Signs And Systems(By: Robert Venturi) 2004 Buy
14 Reshaping The Work-family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams) 2010 Buy
16 Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen) 2013 Buy
17 Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus) 2015 Buy
18 Just A Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse) 2017 Buy

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Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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