Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American author, best known for the novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is a multiple time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, which is an feat only accomplished by two other authors (William Faulkner and John Updike). During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered to be the greatest living American author.

Booth Tarkington made his debut as a novelist in 1899 with the novel The Gentleman From Indiana. Below is a list of Booth Tarkington’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of The Growth Trilogy Books

The Turmoil (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Midlander (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Penrod Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Gentleman from Indiana (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Monsieur Beaucaire (1900)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Old Gray Eagle (1901)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Two Vanrevels (1902)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cherry (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Flirt (1913)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rich Man's War (1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Seventeen (1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beasley's Christmas Party (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beautiful Lady (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beauty and the Jacobin (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Conquest of Canaan (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gibson Upright (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Guest of Quesnay (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
His Own People (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Neither Dead nor Sleeping (1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alice Adams (1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gentle Julia (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Women (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
About Fred C. Kelly, author of Kellygrams (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Plutocrat (1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Claire Ambler (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Young Mrs. Greeley (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ramsey Milholland (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mary's Neck (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wanton Mally (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Presenting Lily Mars (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Little Orvie (1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fighting Littles (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
To the Girls and Boys of Indianapolis (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Showpiece (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Image of Josephine (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mrs. Protheroe (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Harlequin and Columbine (1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Works of Booth Tarkington ... (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Strack selections from Booth Tarkington's stories, (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr. White, The red barn, Hell, and Bridewater, (1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Plays

The Man from Home (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trysting Place (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bimbo, the Pirate ; (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How's your Health? (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mister Antonio; (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

In the Arena (1905)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Collector's Whatnot (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Just Princeton (1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World Does Move (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Some Old Portraits (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Booth Tarkington on Dogs (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Open Letter from Booth Tarkington (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Your Amiable Uncle (1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On Plays, Playwrights, And Playgoers (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Looking Forward And Others. (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dr. Panofsky and Mr. Tarkington: An Exchange of Letters, 1938-1946 (With: Erwin Panofsky,Richard Ludwig) (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Second Christmas Megapack(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like Booth Tarkington Books, You’ll Love…

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  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Stephen Vincent Benet

Booth Tarkington Synopses: Seventeen by Booth Tarkington is a story of youth and summertime romance. William Baxter’s seventeenth summer is spent in the throes of first love. William is smitten with Miss Lola Pratt, a visitor who speaks with a babyish lisp – mostly to her dog Flopit. He’s also tormented by his ten-year-old sister Jane, who delights in embarrassing him in public.

Alice Adams is a standalone title by Booth Tarkington. In a small Midwestern town following World War I, the title character delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family’s lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents develop various schemes to keep their family afloat. Though the realities of her situation eventually reveal themselves and her relationship with Arthur fizzles, Alice’s acceptance of this leads her to seek out work to support her family with an admirable resiliency. An enchanting and authentic tale of a family’s aspirations to seek more out of life, Alice Adams reveals the strength of the human spirit and its incredible ability to evolve.

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