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John Updike Complete Bibliography

Browse books by John Updike in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 132 books / 15 series

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.

Books by John Updike in Publication Order

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 A&P POoSSB / 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 C*nts POoSSC / 9 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
1988 S. POoSLTB / 3 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 Brazil POoSN / 9 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 Yvor Winters(By: Thom Gunn,Yvor Winters) POoAPPB / 8 Buy
1999 More Matter POoNB / 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

Complete John Updike Series Reading Order / browse all ->

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
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
01 A Month of Sundays 1974 Buy
02 Roger's Version 1986 Buy
03 S. 1988 Buy
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
09 C*nts 1974 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
14 Facing Nature 1985 Buy
15 Trust Me 1987 Buy
16 The Afterlife and Other Stories 1994 Buy
17 Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories 1995 Buy
19 Americana 2001 Buy
20 The Early Stories 2003 Buy
21 Three Trips 2005 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
Non-Fiction Reading Order 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
05 Just Looking 1989 Buy
06 Odd Jobs 1991 Buy
07 Golf Dreams 1996 Buy
08 More Matter 1999 Buy
09 Still Looking 2005 Buy
10 Due Considerations 2007 Buy
11 Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu 2010 Buy
12 Higher Gossip 2011 Buy
13 Always Looking 2012 Buy
14 In Love with a Wanton 2020 Buy
01 Too Far to Go 1979 Buy
02 The Maples Stories 1980 Buy
Eastwick Reading Order 2 books / 1984-2008
01 The Witches of Eastwick 1984 Buy
02 The Widows of Eastwick 2008 Buy
Short Stories Reading Order 2 books / 1961-1989
01 A&P 1961 Buy
02 The Alligators 1989 Buy
Henry Bech Reading Order 3 books / 1982-1999
01 Bech Is Back 1982 Buy
02 Bech at Bay 1998 Buy
03 Bech: A Book 1999 Buy
Picture Reading Order 2 books / 1964-1994
01 Magic Flute 1964 Buy
02 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas(With: Edward Gorey) 1994 Buy
01 Rabbit, Run 1960 Buy
02 Rabbit Redux 1971 Buy
03 Rabbit Is Rich 1981 Buy
04 Rabbit at Rest 1990 Buy
05 Licks of Love 2000 Buy
Edward Gorey Picture Reading Order 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
Standalone Reading Order 16 books / 1958-2007
01 The Poorhouse Fair 1958 Buy
02 The Centaur 1963 Buy
03 Of the Farm 1965 Buy
04 Couples 1968 Buy
05 Marry Me 1971 Buy
06 The Coup 1978 Buy
07 Your Lover Just Called 1980 Buy
08 More Stately Mansions 1987 Buy
09 Brazil 1994 Buy
10 In the Beauty of the Lilies 1996 Buy
11 Toward the End of Time 1997 Buy
12 Gertrude and Claudius 2000 Buy
13 Seek My Face 2002 Buy
14 Villages 2004 Buy
15 Terrorist 2007 Buy
16 The Women Who Got Away 2007 Buy
Poetry Collections Reading Order 5 books / 1965-2015
01 A Child's Calendar 1965 Buy
02 Seventy Poems 1972 Buy
03 Collected Poems, 1953-1993 1993 Buy
04 A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects 1995 Buy
05 Selected Poems 2015 Buy
Buchanan Reading Order 2 books / 1974-1992
01 Buchanan Dying 1974 Buy
02 Memories of the Ford Administration 1992 Buy

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