Order of Norman Mailer Books
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was an American author, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He was considered one of the innovators of creative nonfiction – sometimes known as New Journalism. He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a winner of the National Book Award.
Norman Mailer made his debut as a published author in 1948 with the novel The Naked and the Dead. Below is a list of Norman Mailer’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Advertisements for Myself | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deaths for the Ladies | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Existential Errands | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pieces | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Essential Mailer | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pontifications | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pieces and Pontifications | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Time Of Our Time | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Modest Gifts | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Nation Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Was Your War | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Accuse | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cosmos Reader | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unknown California | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writing Los Angeles | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Into the Mirror was co-authored by Lawrence Schiller. The Big Empty was written with John Buffalo Mailer. On God was written with Michael Lennon. Muhammad Ali: Ringside was written with Alex Haley and Joyce Carol Oates. The Faith of Graffiti was co-authored by Jon Naar. Vidal vs. Mailer also contains contributions by Gore Vidal.
If You Like Norman Mailer Books, You’ll Love…
Norman Mailer Synopsis: The Castle in the Forest is the final novel written by Norman Mailer. Its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler’s parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailer’s novel is full of twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in every one of us.