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E.L. Doctorow Books in Order
E. L. Doctorow is a celebrated American novelist, whose works of fiction weave together history, mythology, and the human experience. His notable novels include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Throughout his illustrious career, Doctorow has garnered numerous accolades, including the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN Faulkner Awards, The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for his lifetime achievement in fiction and won the PEN Saul Bellow Award in 2012 for his exceptional contribution to American literature. In 2013, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with the Gold Medal for Fiction.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of E.L. Doctorow's book series? E.L. Doctorow has written 5 book series. The most notable is the Literary Conversations series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by E.L. Doctorow
- #1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969) - #2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981) - #3
Conversations with Graham Greene(1983) - #4
Conversations with Eudora Welty(1985) - #5
Conversations with Walker Percy(1985) - #6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985) - #7
Conversations with William Styron(1985) - #8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986) - #9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman(1986) - #10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams(1986) - #11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986) - #12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987) - #13
Truman Capote: Conversations(1987) - #14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987) - #15
Conversations with Peter Taylor(1987) - #16
Conversations with Arthur Miller(1987) - #17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988) - #18
Conversations with Edward Albee(1988) - #19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988) - #20
Conversations with Norman Mailer(1988) - #21
Conversations with Robert Graves(1989) - #22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989) - #23
Conversations with Shelby Foote(1989) - #24
Conversations with Robertson Davies(1989) - #25
Conversations with James Baldwin(1989) - #26
Conversations with John Gardner(1990) - #27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur(1990) - #28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe(1990) - #29
Conversations with Raymond Carver(1990) - #30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990) - #31
Conversations with Reynolds Price(1991) - #32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud(1991) - #33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991) - #34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992) - #35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder(1992) - #36
Conversations with Robert Coles(1992) - #37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992) - #38
More Conversations with Walker Percy(1993) - #39
Conversations with Richard Wright(1993) - #40
Conversations with Paul Bowles(1993) - #41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994) - #42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka(1994) - #43
Conversations with Toni Morrison(1994) - #44
Conversations with Saul Bellow(1994) - #45
Conversations with Henry Miller(1994) - #46
Conversations with Ernest Gaines(1995) - #47
Conversations with Ralph Ellison(1995) - #48
Conversations with Chester Himes(1995) - #49
Conversations with Susan Sontag(1995) - #50
Conversations with Ishmael Reed(1995) - #51
Conversations with Derek Walcott(1996) - #52
More Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996) - #53
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996) - #54
Conversations with Pauline Kael(1996) - #55
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997) - #56
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997) - #57
Conversations with Chinua Achebe(1997) - #58
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998) - #59
Conversations with Denise Levertov(1998) - #60
Conversations With William Faulkner(1999) - #61
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999) - #62
Conversations With John Fowles(1999) - #63
Conversations with Salman Rushdie(2000) - #64
Conversations with William S. Burroughs(2000) - #65
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000) - #66
Conversations with Chaim Potok(2001) - #67
Conversations with Richard Ford(2001) - #68
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001) - #69
Conversations with Mary Gordon(2002) - #70
Conversations with Jim Harrison(2002) - #71
Conversations with Clarence Major(2002) - #72
Conversations with Margaret Walker(2002) - #73
Conversations with Erica Jong(2002) - #74
Elie Wiesel: Conversations(2002) - #75
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003) - #76
Conversations with Rita Dove(2003) - #77
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003) - #78
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003) - #79
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003) - #80
Conversations with Gloria Naylor(2004) - #81
Conversations with Audre Lorde(2004) - #82
Conversations with Ray Bradbury(2004) - #83
Conversations With John le Carré(2004) - #84
Conversations with Isaac Asimov(2005) - #85
Conversations with Don DeLillo(2005) - #86
Conversations with Gore Vidal(2005) - #87
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005) - #88
Conversations with Jack Kerouac(2005) - #89
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005) - #90
Conversations with Thomas McGuane(2006) - #91
Conversations with Larry Brown(2007) - #92
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007) - #93
Conversations with Wendell Berry(2007) - #94
Conversations with Leon Forrest(2007) - #95
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
- #1
Essays and Conversations(1983) - #2
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992(1993) - #3
Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92(1994) - #4
Lamentation: 9/11(2002) - #5Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006(2006)
- #1
Lives of the Poets(1984) - #2
Billy Bathgate(1989) - #3
Tender at the Bone (By: Ruth Reichl)(1998) - #4
Anthropology of an American Girl (By: Hilary Thayer Hamann)(2003) - #5
The White Garden (By: Stephanie Barron)(2009) - #6
Juliet (By: Anne Fortier)(2010) - #7
The Wives of Henry Oades (By: Johanna Moran)(2010) - #8
Delta Girls (By: Gayle Brandeis)(2010) - #9
The Pull of the Moon (By: Elizabeth Berg)(2010) - #10
The Definition of Wind (By: Ellen Block)(2011) - #11
When We Were Friends (By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold)(2011) - #12
Game of Secrets (By: Dawn Tripp)(2011) - #13
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (By: Jenny Wingfield)(2011) - #14
Invisible (By: Carla Buckley)(2012) - #15
The Lullaby of Polish Girls (By: Dagmara Dominczyk)(2013)
- #1
Welcome to Hard Times(1960) - #2
Big As Life(1966) - #3The Book of Daniel(1971)
- #4
Ragtime(1975) - #5
Drinks Before Dinner(1979) - #6Loon Lake(1980)
- #7
American Anthem (With: J.C. Suares)(1982) - #8World's Fair(1985)
- #9The Waterworks(1994)
- #10City of God(2000)
- #11
The March(2005) - #12
Homer & Langley(2009) - #13
Andrew's Brain(2014) - #14
Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake(2003) - #15Sweet Land Stories(2004)
- #16
Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry(2011) - #17
All the Time in the World(2011)
- #1
The American Newness (By: Irving Howe)(1986) - #2
Highbrow/Lowbrow (By: Lawrence W. Levine)(1988) - #3
Revolutions (By: David Brion Davis)(1990) - #4
Playing in the Dark (By: Toni Morrison)(1992) - #5
The Southern Tradition (By: Eugene D. Genovese)(1994) - #6
Writing Was Everything (By: Alfred Kazin)(1998) - #7
The Dissent of the Governed (By: Stephen L. Carter)(1998) - #8
Achieving Our Country (By: Richard M. Rorty)(1999) - #9
The Real American Dream (By: Andrew Delbanco)(1999) - #10
To Be the Poet (By: Maxine Hong Kingston)(2002) - #11Reporting the Universe(2003)
- #12
Circles and Lines (By: John Putnam Demos)(2004) - #13
Architecture as Signs and Systems (By: Robert Venturi)(2004) - #14
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate (By: Joan C. Williams)(2010) - #15
Tiger Writing (By: Gish Jen)(2013) - #16
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations (By: Greil Marcus)(2015) - #17
Just a Journalist (By: Linda Greenhouse)(2017) - #18
Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth(1986) - #19
Writing New York(1998) - #20The Best American Short Stories 2000(2000)
- #21
The Good Parts(2000) - #22
Writers on Writing(2001)
About E.L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow is a celebrated American novelist, whose works of fiction weave together history, mythology, and the human experience. His notable novels include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Throughout his illustrious career, Doctorow has garnered numerous accolades, including the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN Faulkner Awards, The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for his lifetime achievement in fiction and won the PEN Saul Bellow Award in 2012 for his exceptional contribution to American literature. In 2013, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with the Gold Medal for Fiction.
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