Order of John Updike Books
John Updike (1932-2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer and essayist. He is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom series, including the novels Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and a novella entitled Rabbit Remembered. He began his career as a staff writer with The New Yorker and became associated with the publication, despite only working there for two years. Besides writing more than twenty novels and many short story and poetry collections, Updike was also considered one of the best American literature and art critics of his generation.
John Updike’s first book to be published was a poetry collection entitled The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. The next year, he came out with his first short story collection, entitled The Same Door. Finally, his debut novel was the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run, which Time magazine listed as one of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Below is a list of John Updike’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom Books
| Rabbit, Run | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rabbit Redux | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rabbit Is Rich | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rabbit at Rest | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Licks of Love | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Henry Bech Books
(with)
| Bech: A Book | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bech Is Back | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bech at Bay | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Buchanan Books
| Buchanan Dying | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Memories of the Ford Administration | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Scarlet Letter Trilogy Books
| A Month of Sundays | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roger's Version | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| S. | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Maples Stories Collections
| Too Far to Go | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Maples Stories | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Eastwick Books
| The Witches of Eastwick | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Widows of Eastwick | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Poorhouse Fair | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Centaur | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Of the Farm | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Couples | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Marry Me | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Coup | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Your Lover Just Called | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Stately Mansions | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Brazil | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Beauty of the Lilies | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Toward the End of Time | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gertrude and Claudius | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Seek My Face | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Villages | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terrorist | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Women Who Got Away | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories Books
| A&P | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Alligators | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Magic Flute | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twelve Terrors of Christmas | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Assorted Prose | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Picked-Up Pieces | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hugging the Shore | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Self-Consciousness | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Just Looking | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Odd Jobs | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Golf Dreams | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Matter | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Still Looking | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Due Considerations | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Higher Gossip | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Always Looking | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Love with a Wanton | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
| Seventy Poems | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Poems, 1953-1993 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Poems | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Edward Gorey Picture Books
(with Edward Gorey)
| The Doubtful Guest | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Object-Lesson | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fatal Lozenge | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sinking Spell | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Remembered Visit | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Utter Zoo | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Blue Aspic | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Other Statue | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Osbick Bird | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sopping Thursday | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eleventh Episode | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Lions | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Glorious Nosebleed | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twelve Terrors of Christmas | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Beastly Baby | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thoughtful Alphabets | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Halloween Treat | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
| Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening for God, Vol. 3 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening For God, Vol. 4 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Points of View | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 50 Great American Short Stories | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ten Modern American Short Stories | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Baseball Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Literary Traveller | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deadly Sins | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wonderful Town | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers on Writing | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Baseball: a Literary Anthology | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Classic Erotic Tales | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Erotica 2006 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: The Best American Short Stories 1984 was co-edited with Shannon Ravenel. The Best American Short Stories of the Century was co-edited alongside Katrina Kenison.
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John Updike Synopsis: In John Updike’s first novel, Rabbit, Run, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom was once the star player for his high school basketball team. And now he’s in his mid-20s, work is uninteresting, his marriage is rocky to say the least and the solution seems to be an affair. But happiness isn’t as easy to acquire as a medal. Harry must run from his wife, his life and from himself until he gets to a point where he cannot turn around and go back.
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