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
| The Naked and the Dead | (1948) |    |
| Barbary Shore | (1952) | |
| The Deer Park | (1955) | |
| The Presidential Papers | (1963) | |
| Cannibals and Christians | (1966) | |
| An American Dream | (1966) | |
| Bull Fight: A Photographic Narrative | (1967) | |
| Why Are We in Vietnam? | (1968) | |
| Maidstone | (1971) | |
| St. George and the Godfather | (1972) | |
| Watching My Name Go By | (1974) | |
| Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots | (1980) | |
| After the White Negro | (1982) | |
| Ancient Evenings | (1983) | |
| Tough Guys Don't Dance | (1984) | |
| Harlot's Ghost | (1991) | |
| The Gospel According to the Son | (1997) | |
| The Castle in the Forest | (2007) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Advertisements for Myself | (1959) | |
| Deaths for the Ladies | (1962) | |
| Existential Errands | (1973) | |
| The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer | (1980) | |
| Pieces | (1982) | |
| Essential Mailer | (1982) | |
| Pontifications | (1982) | |
| Pieces and Pontifications | (1983) | |
| The Time Of Our Time | (1998) | |
| Modest Gifts | (2003) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The White Negro | (1959) | |
| Miami and the Siege of Chicago | (1968) | |
| Why Are We at War? | (1968) | |
| The Armies of the Night | (1968) | |
| A Fire on the Moon | (1970) | |
| Prisoner of Sex | (1971) | |
| Marilyn | (1973) | |
| The Faith of Graffiti | (1974) | |
| The Fight | (1975) | |
| Genius & Lust | (1976) | |
| Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 | (1976) | |
| A Transit To Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript | (1978) | |
| The Executioner's Song | (1979) | |
| Of Women and Their Elegance | (1980) | |
| Huckleberry Finn: Alive at 100 | (1985) | |
| Language of Men | (1989) | |
| How the Wimp Won the War | (1992) | |
| Oswald's Tale | (1995) | |
| Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man | (1995) | |
| Muhammad Ali: Ringside | (1999) | |
| Into the Mirror: The Life of Robert P. Hanssen | (2002) | |
| The Spooky Art | (2003) | |
| The Big Empty | (2006) | |
| On God: An Uncommon Conversation | (2007) | |
| Mind of an Outlaw | (2013) | |
| Vidal vs. Mailer | (2013) | |
| Selected Letters of Norman Mailer | (2014) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| We Accuse | (1965) | |
| Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction | (1971) | |
| Unknown California | (1985) | |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | |
| Writing Los Angeles | (2002) | |
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.