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John Updike Books in Order
Every John Updike book in publication order — 88 in total, spanning 1958–2020.
Publication Order of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbit, Run | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Rabbit Redux | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Rabbit Is Rich | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Rabbit at Rest | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Licks of Love | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Henry Bech Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bech: A Book | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Bech Is Back | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Bech at Bay | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Buchanan Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buchanan Dying | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Memories of the Ford Administration | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Scarlet Letter Trilogy Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Month of Sundays | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Roger's Version | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | S. | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Maples Stories Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too Far to Go | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Maples Stories | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Eastwick Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Witches of Eastwick | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Widows of Eastwick | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Poorhouse Fair | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Centaur | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Of the Farm | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Couples | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Marry Me | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Coup | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Your Lover Just Called | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | More Stately Mansions | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Brazil | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | In the Beauty of the Lilies | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Toward the End of Time | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Gertrude and Claudius | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Seek My Face | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Villages | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Terrorist | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Women Who Got Away | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A&P | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Alligators | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Same Door, Short Stories | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Telephone Poles and Other Poems | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Olinger Stories | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Music School | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Midpoint and Other Poems | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Dance of the Solids | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Museums and Women and Other Stories | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Cunts- Signed Limited Edition | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Tossing and Turning | 1977 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Problems | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Problems and Other Stories | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Valentine Generation And Other Stories | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The Carpentered Hen | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Facing Nature | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Trust Me | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Collected Poems | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | The Afterlife and Other Stories | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Licks of Love | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Americana | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The Early Stories | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Three Trips | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | My Father's Tears and Other Stories | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Endpoint and Other Poems | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Collected Later Stories | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Collected Early Stories | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Hoping For A Hoopoe | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magic Flute | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Twelve Terrors of Christmas | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Assorted Prose of Updike | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Assorted Prose | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Picked-Up Pieces | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Hugging the Shore | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Self-Consciousness | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Just Looking | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Odd Jobs | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Golf Dreams | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | More Matter | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Still Looking | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Due Considerations | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Higher Gossip | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Always Looking | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | In Love With A Wanton | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventy Poems | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Collected Poems, 1953-1993 | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Selected Poems | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Deadly Sins | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Best American Short Stories 2001 | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 88, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Poorhouse Fair | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Same Door, Short Stories | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Rabbit, Run | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | A&P | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Magic Flute | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Centaur | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Telephone Poles and Other Poems | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Olinger Stories | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Of the Farm | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Assorted Prose of Updike | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Assorted Prose | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Music School | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Couples | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Midpoint and Other Poems | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Dance of the Solids | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Bech: A Book | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Rabbit Redux | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Marry Me | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Museums and Women and Other Stories | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Seventy Poems | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | Buchanan Dying | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | A Month of Sundays | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Cunts- Signed Limited Edition | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Picked-Up Pieces | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Tossing and Turning | 1977 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | The Coup | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Too Far to Go | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | Problems | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | Problems and Other Stories | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | The Maples Stories | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Your Lover Just Called | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Rabbit Is Rich | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Valentine Generation And Other Stories | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | Bech Is Back | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | The Carpentered Hen | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | Hugging the Shore | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | The Witches of Eastwick | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Facing Nature | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | Roger's Version | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | More Stately Mansions | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | Trust Me | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | S. | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | The Alligators | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | Self-Consciousness | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Just Looking | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | Rabbit at Rest | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | Odd Jobs | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Memories of the Ford Administration | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | Collected Poems | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Collected Poems, 1953-1993 | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | Brazil | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | The Afterlife and Other Stories | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | The Twelve Terrors of Christmas | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | Deadly Sins | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | In the Beauty of the Lilies | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | Golf Dreams | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | Toward the End of Time | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | Bech at Bay | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | More Matter | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 65 | Licks of Love | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 66 | Gertrude and Claudius | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 67 | Licks of Love | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 68 | Americana | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 69 | The Best American Short Stories 2001 | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 70 | Seek My Face | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 71 | The Early Stories | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 72 | Villages | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 73 | Three Trips | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 74 | Still Looking | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 75 | Terrorist | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 76 | The Women Who Got Away | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 77 | Due Considerations | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 78 | The Widows of Eastwick | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 79 | My Father's Tears and Other Stories | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 80 | Endpoint and Other Poems | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 81 | Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 82 | Higher Gossip | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 83 | Always Looking | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 84 | Collected Later Stories | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 85 | Collected Early Stories | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 86 | Selected Poems | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 87 | Hoping For A Hoopoe | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 88 | In Love With A Wanton | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
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