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Home / Authors / John Updike John Updike American author John Updike, best known for his Rabbit Angstrom series, won two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Award. His novels have sold millions of copies worldwide. This page presents John Updike’s books in order, including both chronological publication and the Rabbit series reading order.
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1892 Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman) POoAPPB · 1 Buy ↗ 1909 Edgar Allan Poe(By: Richard Wilbur) POoAPPB · 2 Buy ↗ 1957 The Doubtful Guest(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 1 Buy ↗ 1958 The Poorhouse Fair POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1958 The Object-Lesson(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 2 Buy ↗ 1959 The Same Door, Short Stories POoSSC · 1 Buy ↗ 1960 Rabbit, Run POoH"AB · 1 Buy ↗ 1961 Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories POoSSC · 2 Buy ↗ 1961 The Fatal Lozenge(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 3 Buy ↗ 1963 The Centaur POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1963 Telephone Poles and Other Poems POoSSC · 3 Buy ↗ 1964 Magic Flute POoPB · 1 Buy ↗ 1964 Olinger Stories POoSSC · 4 Buy ↗ 1964 The Sinking Spell(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 4 Buy ↗ 1965 Assorted Prose POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 1965 A Child's Calendar POoPC · 1 Buy ↗ 1965 Of the Farm POoSN · 3 Buy ↗ 1965 The Remembered Visit(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 5 Buy ↗ 1966 The Music School POoSSC · 5 Buy ↗ 1967 The Utter Zoo(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 6 Buy ↗ 1968 Couples POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 1968 The Blue Aspic(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 7 Buy ↗ 1968 The Other Statue(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 8 Buy ↗ 1969 Theodore Roethke(By: ) POoAPPB · 3 Buy ↗ 1969 Midpoint and Other Poems POoSSC · 6 Buy ↗ 1969 The Dance of the Solids POoSSC · 7 Buy ↗ 1970 The Osbick Bird(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 9 Buy ↗ 1971 Rabbit Redux POoH"AB · 2 Buy ↗ 1971 Marry Me POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 1971 The Sopping Thursday(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 10 Buy ↗ 1971 The Eleventh Episode(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 11 Buy ↗ 1972 Seventy Poems POoPC · 2 Buy ↗ 1972 Museums and Women and Other Stories POoSSC · 8 Buy ↗ 1973 The Lost Lions(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 12 Buy ↗ 1974 A Month of Sundays POoSLTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1974 Buchanan Dying POoBB · 1 Buy ↗ 1974 The Glorious Nosebleed(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 13 Buy ↗ 1975 Picked-Up Pieces POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 1977 A. R. Ammons(By: David Lehman,A.R. Ammons) POoAPPB · 4 Buy ↗ 1977 Tossing and Turning POoSSC · 10 Buy ↗ 1978 The Coup POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 1979 Too Far to Go POoMSC · 1 Buy ↗ 1979 Problems and Other Stories POoSSC · 11 Buy ↗ 1980 The Maples Stories POoMSC · 2 Buy ↗ 1980 Your Lover Just Called POoSN · 7 Buy ↗ 1981 Rabbit Is Rich POoH"AB · 3 Buy ↗ 1981 Valentine Generation And Other Stories POoSSC · 12 Buy ↗ 1982 Bech Is Back POoHBB · 1 Buy ↗ 1982 The Carpentered Hen POoSSC · 13 Buy ↗ 1983 Hugging the Shore POoNB · 3 Buy ↗ 1984 The Witches of Eastwick POoEB · 1 Buy ↗ 1984 William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams) POoAPPB · 5 Buy ↗ 1985 Facing Nature POoSSC · 14 Buy ↗ 1986 Roger's Version POoSLTB · 2 Buy ↗ 1987 More Stately Mansions POoSN · 8 Buy ↗ 1987 Trust Me POoSSC · 15 Buy ↗ 1989 The Alligators POoSSB · 2 Buy ↗ 1989 Self-Consciousness POoNB · 4 Buy ↗ 1989 Just Looking POoNB · 5 Buy ↗ 1990 Rabbit at Rest POoH"AB · 4 Buy ↗ 1991 Odd Jobs POoNB · 6 Buy ↗ 1991 Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay) POoAPPB · 6 Buy ↗ 1992 Memories of the Ford Administration POoBB · 2 Buy ↗ 1993 Collected Poems, 1953-1993 POoPC · 3 Buy ↗ 1994 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodr�guez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) POoCLatLoFB · 1 Buy ↗ 1994 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas(With: Edward Gorey) POoPB · 2 Buy ↗ 1994 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas POoEGPB · 14 Buy ↗ 1994 The Afterlife and Other Stories POoSSC · 16 Buy ↗ 1995 A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects POoPC · 4 Buy ↗ 1995 The Beastly Baby(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 15 Buy ↗ 1995 Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories POoSSC · 17 Buy ↗ 1996 Listening for God, Vol. 2(With: Anne Tyler,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus) POoCLatLoFB · 2 Buy ↗ 1996 Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems(By: Carl Sandburg) POoAPPB · 7 Buy ↗ 1996 Golf Dreams POoNB · 7 Buy ↗ 1996 In the Beauty of the Lilies POoSN · 10 Buy ↗ 1997 Toward the End of Time POoSN · 11 Buy ↗ 1998 Bech at Bay POoHBB · 2 Buy ↗ 1999 Bech: A Book POoHBB · 3 Buy ↗ 1999 More Matter POoNB · 8 Buy ↗ 1999 Yvor Winters(By: Thom Gunn,Yvor Winters) POoAPPB · 8 Buy ↗ 2000 Listening for God, Vol. 3(By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) POoCLatLoFB · 3 Buy ↗ 2000 Licks of Love POoH"AB · 5 Buy ↗ 2000 Gertrude and Claudius POoSN · 12 Buy ↗ 2001 Americana POoSSC · 19 Buy ↗ 2002 Listening For God, Vol. 4(By: Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark) POoCLatLoFB · 4 Buy ↗ 2002 Seek My Face POoSN · 13 Buy ↗ 2003 Karl Shapiro(With: Karl Shapiro) POoAPPB · 9 Buy ↗ 2003 Poets of World War II(By: Various,Harvey Shapiro) POoAPPB · 10 Buy ↗ 2003 American Wits(By: John Hollander) POoAPPB · 11 Buy ↗ 2003 The Early Stories POoSSC · 20 Buy ↗ 2004 John Greenleaf Whittier(By: John Greenleaf Whittier) POoAPPB · 12 Buy ↗ 2004 Kenneth Fearing(By: Robert Polito,Kenneth Fearing) POoAPPB · 13 Buy ↗ 2004 Villages POoSN · 14 Buy ↗ 2004 Muriel Rukeyser(By: Muriel Rukeyser) POoAPPB · 14 Buy ↗ 2004 John Berryman(By: Kevin Young,John Berryman) POoAPPB · 15 Buy ↗ 2005 Still Looking POoNB · 9 Buy ↗ 2005 Poets of the Civil War(By: J.D. McClatchy) POoAPPB · 16 Buy ↗ 2005 Emma Lazarus(By: Emma Lazarus) POoAPPB · 17 Buy ↗ 2005 Edith Wharton(By: Edith Wharton) POoAPPB · 18 Buy ↗ 2005 The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks(By: Gwendolyn Brooks,Elizabeth Alexander) POoAPPB · 19 Buy ↗ 2005 Three Trips POoSSC · 21 Buy ↗ 2006 Cole Porter(By: Robert Kimball,Cole Porter) POoAPPB · 20 Buy ↗ 2006 Louis Zukofsky(By: Louis Zukofsky,Charles Bernstein) POoAPPB · 21 Buy ↗ 2007 Due Considerations POoNB · 10 Buy ↗ 2007 Terrorist POoSN · 15 Buy ↗ 2007 The Women Who Got Away POoSN · 16 Buy ↗ 2007 Kenneth Koch(By: Ron Padgett,Kenneth Koch) POoAPPB · 22 Buy ↗ 2007 American Sonnets(By: David Bromwich) POoAPPB · 23 Buy ↗ 2008 The Widows of Eastwick POoEB · 2 Buy ↗ 2008 James Agee(By: James Agee,Andrew Hudgins) POoAPPB · 24 Buy ↗ 2009 My Father's Tears and Other Stories POoSSC · 22 Buy ↗ 2009 Endpoint and Other Poems POoSSC · 23 Buy ↗ 2009 Poems from the Women's Movement(By: Honor Moore) POoAPPB · 25 Buy ↗ 2009 Ira Gershwin(By: Robert Kimball,Ira Gershwin) POoAPPB · 26 Buy ↗ 2010 Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu POoNB · 11 Buy ↗ 2010 Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs(By: Stephen Collins Foster,Ken Emerson) POoAPPB · 27 Buy ↗ 2010 Countee Cullen(By: Countee Cullen) POoAPPB · 28 Buy ↗ 2011 Higher Gossip POoNB · 12 Buy ↗ 2011 Rich In Russia POoSSC · 24 Buy ↗ 2012 Always Looking POoNB · 13 Buy ↗ 2012 Thoughtful Alphabets(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 16 Buy ↗ 2012 A Halloween Treat(By: Edward Gorey) POoEGPB · 17 Buy ↗ 2012 Amy Lowell(By: Honor Moore) POoAPPB · 29 Buy ↗ 2013 Collected Later Stories POoSSC · 25 Buy ↗ 2013 Collected Early Stories POoSSC · 26 Buy ↗ 2015 Selected Poems POoPC · 5 Buy ↗ 2020 In Love with a Wanton POoNB · 14 Buy ↗ 2020 Hoping for a Hoopoe POoSSC · 27 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of American Poets Project Books 29 books · 1892–2012
01 Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman) 1892 Buy ↗ 02 Edgar Allan Poe(By: Richard Wilbur) 1909 Buy ↗ 03 Theodore Roethke(By: ) 1969 Buy ↗ 04 A. R. Ammons(By: David Lehman,A.R. Ammons) 1977 Buy ↗ 05 William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams) 1984 Buy ↗ 06 Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay) 1991 Buy ↗ 07 Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems(By: Carl Sandburg) 1996 Buy ↗ 08 Yvor Winters(By: Thom Gunn,Yvor Winters) 1999 Buy ↗ 09 Karl Shapiro(With: Karl Shapiro) 2003 Buy ↗ 10 Poets of World War II(By: Various,Harvey Shapiro) 2003 Buy ↗ 11 American Wits(By: John Hollander) 2003 Buy ↗ 12 John Greenleaf Whittier(By: John Greenleaf Whittier) 2004 Buy ↗ 13 Kenneth Fearing(By: Robert Polito,Kenneth Fearing) 2004 Buy ↗ 14 Muriel Rukeyser(By: Muriel Rukeyser) 2004 Buy ↗ 15 John Berryman(By: Kevin Young,John Berryman) 2004 Buy ↗ 16 Poets of the Civil War(By: J.D. McClatchy) 2005 Buy ↗ 17 Emma Lazarus(By: Emma Lazarus) 2005 Buy ↗ 18 Edith Wharton(By: Edith Wharton) 2005 Buy ↗ 19 The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks(By: Gwendolyn Brooks,Elizabeth Alexander) 2005 Buy ↗ 20 Cole Porter(By: Robert Kimball,Cole Porter) 2006 Buy ↗ 21 Louis Zukofsky(By: Louis Zukofsky,Charles Bernstein) 2006 Buy ↗ 22 Kenneth Koch(By: Ron Padgett,Kenneth Koch) 2007 Buy ↗ 23 American Sonnets(By: David Bromwich) 2007 Buy ↗ 24 James Agee(By: James Agee,Andrew Hudgins) 2008 Buy ↗ 25 Poems from the Women's Movement(By: Honor Moore) 2009 Buy ↗ 26 Ira Gershwin(By: Robert Kimball,Ira Gershwin) 2009 Buy ↗ 27 Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs(By: Stephen Collins Foster,Ken Emerson) 2010 Buy ↗ 28 Countee Cullen(By: Countee Cullen) 2010 Buy ↗ 29 Amy Lowell(By: Honor Moore) 2012 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books 4 books · 1994–2002
01 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodr�guez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) 1994 Buy ↗ 02 Listening for God, Vol. 2(With: Anne Tyler,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus) 1996 Buy ↗ 03 Listening for God, Vol. 3(By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) 2000 Buy ↗ 04 Listening For God, Vol. 4(By: Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark) 2002 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Scarlet Letter Trilogy Books 3 books · 1974–1988
01 A Month of Sundays 1974 Buy ↗ 02 Roger's Version 1986 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Story Collections 26 books · 1959–2020
01 The Same Door, Short Stories 1959 Buy ↗ 02 Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories 1961 Buy ↗ 03 Telephone Poles and Other Poems 1963 Buy ↗ 04 Olinger Stories 1964 Buy ↗ 05 The Music School 1966 Buy ↗ 06 Midpoint and Other Poems 1969 Buy ↗ 07 The Dance of the Solids 1969 Buy ↗ 08 Museums and Women and Other Stories 1972 Buy ↗ 10 Tossing and Turning 1977 Buy ↗ 11 Problems and Other Stories 1979 Buy ↗ 12 Valentine Generation And Other Stories 1981 Buy ↗ 13 The Carpentered Hen 1982 Buy ↗ 16 The Afterlife and Other Stories 1994 Buy ↗ 17 Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories 1995 Buy ↗ 20 The Early Stories 2003 Buy ↗ 22 My Father's Tears and Other Stories 2009 Buy ↗ 23 Endpoint and Other Poems 2009 Buy ↗ 24 Rich In Russia 2011 Buy ↗ 25 Collected Later Stories 2013 Buy ↗ 26 Collected Early Stories 2013 Buy ↗ 27 Hoping for a Hoopoe 2020 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 14 books · 1965–2020
01 Assorted Prose 1965 Buy ↗ 02 Picked-Up Pieces 1975 Buy ↗ 03 Hugging the Shore 1983 Buy ↗ 04 Self-Consciousness 1989 Buy ↗ 10 Due Considerations 2007 Buy ↗ 11 Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu 2010 Buy ↗ 13 Always Looking 2012 Buy ↗ 14 In Love with a Wanton 2020 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Maples Stories Collections 2 books · 1979–1980
02 The Maples Stories 1980 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Eastwick Books 2 books · 1984–2008
01 The Witches of Eastwick 1984 Buy ↗ 02 The Widows of Eastwick 2008 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Stories Books 2 books · 1961–1989
02 The Alligators 1989 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Henry Bech Books 3 books · 1982–1999
Publication Order of Picture Books 2 books · 1964–1994
02 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas(With: Edward Gorey) 1994 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom Books 5 books · 1960–2000
03 Rabbit Is Rich 1981 Buy ↗ 04 Rabbit at Rest 1990 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Edward Gorey Picture Books 17 books · 1957–2012
01 The Doubtful Guest(By: Edward Gorey) 1957 Buy ↗ 02 The Object-Lesson(By: Edward Gorey) 1958 Buy ↗ 03 The Fatal Lozenge(By: Edward Gorey) 1961 Buy ↗ 04 The Sinking Spell(By: Edward Gorey) 1964 Buy ↗ 05 The Remembered Visit(By: Edward Gorey) 1965 Buy ↗ 06 The Utter Zoo(By: Edward Gorey) 1967 Buy ↗ 07 The Blue Aspic(By: Edward Gorey) 1968 Buy ↗ 08 The Other Statue(By: Edward Gorey) 1968 Buy ↗ 09 The Osbick Bird(By: Edward Gorey) 1970 Buy ↗ 10 The Sopping Thursday(By: Edward Gorey) 1971 Buy ↗ 11 The Eleventh Episode(By: Edward Gorey) 1971 Buy ↗ 12 The Lost Lions(By: Edward Gorey) 1973 Buy ↗ 13 The Glorious Nosebleed(By: Edward Gorey) 1974 Buy ↗ 14 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas 1994 Buy ↗ 15 The Beastly Baby(By: Edward Gorey) 1995 Buy ↗ 16 Thoughtful Alphabets(By: Edward Gorey) 2012 Buy ↗ 17 A Halloween Treat(By: Edward Gorey) 2012 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Standalone Novels 16 books · 1958–2007
01 The Poorhouse Fair 1958 Buy ↗ 07 Your Lover Just Called 1980 Buy ↗ 08 More Stately Mansions 1987 Buy ↗ 10 In the Beauty of the Lilies 1996 Buy ↗ 11 Toward the End of Time 1997 Buy ↗ 12 Gertrude and Claudius 2000 Buy ↗ 16 The Women Who Got Away 2007 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Poetry Collections 5 books · 1965–2015
01 A Child's Calendar 1965 Buy ↗ 03 Collected Poems, 1953-1993 1993 Buy ↗ 04 A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects 1995 Buy ↗ 05 Selected Poems 2015 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Buchanan Books 2 books · 1974–1992
01 Buchanan Dying 1974 Buy ↗ 02 Memories of the Ford Administration 1992 Buy ↗