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)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Barbary Shore(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Deer Park(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Presidential Papers(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cannibals and Christians(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An American Dream(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bull Fight: A Photographic Narrative(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Why Are We in Vietnam?(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maidstone(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
St. George and the Godfather(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Watching My Name Go By(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
After the White Negro(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ancient Evenings(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tough Guys Don't Dance(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Harlot's Ghost(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gospel According to the Son(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Castle in the Forest(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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

The White Negro(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Miami and the Siege of Chicago(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Why Are We at War?(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Armies of the Night(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Fire on the Moon(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prisoner of Sex(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marilyn(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Faith of Graffiti(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fight(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Genius & Lust(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Transit To Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Executioner's Song(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Of Women and Their Elegance(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Huckleberry Finn: Alive at 100(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Language of Men(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How the Wimp Won the War(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Oswald's Tale(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Muhammad Ali: Ringside (With: Joyce Carol Oates,Alex Haley)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Into the Mirror: The Life of Robert P. Hanssen(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Spooky Art(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Empty(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On God: An Uncommon Conversation(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mind of an Outlaw(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vidal vs. Mailer (With: Gore Vidal)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ten Thousand Words a Minute(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Nation Books

Los Gusanos (By: John Sayles)(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of The Nation (By: Victor Navasky,vanden Heuvel, Katrina)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Betrayal of America (By: Vincent Bugliosi)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dreaming War (By: Gore Vidal)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Unsustainable (By: Eamonn Fingleton)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Red and the Blacklist (By: Norma Barzman)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Napoleon's Glance (By: William Duggan)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shaking the Foundations (By: Pete Hamill,Bruce Shapiro)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Prayer for America (By: Dennis Kucinich)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Taking Back America (By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel,Robert L. Borosage)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Hole in the World (By: Jonathan Schell)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Truth About Camp David (By: Clayton E. Swisher)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita (With: Mickey Knox)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murdered by Capitalism (By: John Ross)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Imperial America (By: Gore Vidal)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killed (By: David Wallis)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love, Poverty, and War (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Against the Beast (By: John Nichols)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The High Times Reader (By: Ann Nocenti,Paul Krassner,Ruth Baldwin)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deserter from Death (By: Howard Zinn,Daniel Singer)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blood, Class and Empire (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Genocide of the Mind (By: Vine Deloria Jr.)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Anthologies

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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.

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