Order of John Steinbeck Books
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American author. Steinbeck was a controversial figure during his lifetime for his leftist politics. During his literary career, he wrote 16 novels, 6 non-fiction books and 5 short story collections. He is best known for his novels Of Mice and Men (technically a novella), The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. The first two of those novels, along with In Dubious Battle, were considered to be his “California series,” set during the Dust Bowl.
John Steinbeck became a published author in 1929 with the novel Cup of Gold. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Below is a list of John Steinbeck’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Cannery Row Books
Cannery Row | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sweet Thursday | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Plays
The Moon is Down | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Zapata | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Flight | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Vigilante | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Murder | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Chrysanthemums | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
The Long Valley | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Harvest Gypsies | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bombs Away | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Russian Journal | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sea of Cortez | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Log from the 'Sea of Cortez' | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Once There Was a War | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Travels with Charley | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
America and Americans | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
In Touch | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Journal of a Novel | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
On Writing | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Working Days | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Of Men and Their Making | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Steinbeck in Vietnam | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Great Short Masterpieces of Mystery | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
50 Great Short Stories | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
This Was Your War | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Editors on Editing | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
50 Great American Short Stories | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
21 Great Stories | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Unknown California | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Little Big Book of California | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Not To Be Read Until I Am Dead: And Other Stuff | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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this is wrong . he couldn’t of released a book in 1992 because he died of a heart disease in 1968
maybe it was a novel that he wrote but never released. and then after his death the family or publishing company released it.