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

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Cup of Gold (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pastures of Heaven (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
To a God Unknown (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Red Pony (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tortilla Flat (1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Dubious Battle (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nothing So Monstrous (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Of Mice and Men (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Forgotten Village (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wayward Bus (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pearl (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Burning Bright (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
East of Eden (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gift (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Plays

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

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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2 Responses to “Order of John Steinbeck Books”

  1. liam tomlington: 8 years ago

    this is wrong . he couldn’t of released a book in 1992 because he died of a heart disease in 1968

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    • Joshua: 5 years ago

      maybe it was a novel that he wrote but never released. and then after his death the family or publishing company released it.

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