Gore Vidal Books in Order
Gore Vidal is a renowned American writer, celebrated for his incisive essays, novels, and screenplays that continue to captivate audiences worldwide. As a prominent figure in the literary world, he is recognized for his distinctive Transatlantic accent and sharp wit, often expressed through biting aphorisms. Born into a distinguished political family, Vidal's grandfather, Thomas Gore, a senator, instilled in him a strong sense of politics and public service. Vidal's own forays into politics, including two runs for office, demonstrate his commitment to social justice and his status as a lifelong isolationist Democrat. His prolific writing career has spanned numerous publications, including The Nation, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Review of Books. As a vocal critic of American foreign policy, Vidal's essays and media appearances have left a lasting impact on public discourse. His notable novels, such as Myra Breckinridge, Julian, Burr, and Lincoln, showcase his versatility and mastery of the craft.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Gore Vidal
- #1AmazonInventing a Nation(2003)
- #2AmazonWall Street (By: Steve Fraser)(2008)
- #3AmazonThe Hamburger: A History (By: Josh Ozersky)(2008)
- #4AmazonNo Such Thing as Silence (By: Kyle Gann)(2009)
- #5AmazonAlger Hiss and the Battle for History (By: Susan Jacoby)(2009)
- #6AmazonFrankly, My Dear: "Gone with the Wind" Revisited (By: Molly Haskell)(2009)
- #7AmazonKing's Dream (By: Eric Sundquist)(2009)
- #8AmazonGypsy: The Art of the Tease (By: Rachel Shteir)(2009)
- #9AmazonAndy Warhol (By: Arthur C. Danto)(2009)
- #10AmazonThe Big House (By: Stephen Cox)(2009)
- #11AmazonThe Liberty Bell (By: Gary B. Nash)(2010)
- #12AmazonUnwarranted Influence (By: James Ledbetter)(2011)
- #13AmazonJoe DiMaggio (By: Jerome Charyn)(2011)
- #14AmazonThe Hollywood Sign (By: Leo Braudy)(2011)
- #15AmazonBob Dylan (By: David Yaffe)(2011)
- #16AmazonRenegade (By: Frederick Turner)(2012)
- #17AmazonJackson Pollock (By: Evelyn Toynton)(2012)
- #18AmazonThe Statue of Liberty (By: Edward Berenson)(2012)
- #19AmazonThe Gateway Arch (By: Tracy Campbell)(2013)
- #20AmazonDeadly Sins(1994)
- #21AmazonFirst Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors(2009)
- #22AmazonCiting Atheists: Quotes of Agnosticism, Non-Theism, Skepticism, Irreligion, Free Thought, and Philosophy(2015)
- #23Vidal died in 2012 at the age of 86.(20)
- #1AmazonConversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969)
- #2AmazonConversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981)
- #3AmazonConversations with Graham Greene(1983)
- #4AmazonConversations with Eudora Welty(1985)
- #5AmazonConversations with Walker Percy(1985)
- #6AmazonConversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985)
- #7AmazonConversations with William Styron(1985)
- #8AmazonConversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986)
- #9AmazonConversations with Lillian Hellman(1986)
- #10AmazonConversations with Tennessee Williams(1986)
- #11AmazonConversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986)
- #12AmazonConversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987)
- #13AmazonTruman Capote: Conversations(1987)
- #14AmazonConversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987)
- #15AmazonConversations with Peter Taylor(1987)
- #16AmazonConversations with Arthur Miller(1987)
- #17AmazonConversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988)
- #18AmazonConversations with Edward Albee(1988)
- #19AmazonConversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988)
- #20AmazonConversations with Norman Mailer(1988)
- #21AmazonConversations with Robert Graves(1989)
- #22AmazonConversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989)
- #23AmazonConversations with Shelby Foote(1989)
- #24AmazonConversations with Robertson Davies(1989)
- #25AmazonConversations with James Baldwin(1989)
- #26AmazonConversations with John Gardner(1990)
- #27AmazonConversations with Richard Wilbur(1990)
- #28AmazonConversations with Tom Wolfe(1990)
- #29AmazonConversations with Raymond Carver(1990)
- #30AmazonConversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990)
- #31AmazonConversations with Reynolds Price(1991)
- #32AmazonConversations with Bernard Malamud(1991)
- #33AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991)
- #34AmazonConversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992)
- #35AmazonConversations With Thornton Wilder(1992)
- #36AmazonConversations with Robert Coles(1992)
- #37AmazonConversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992)
- #38AmazonMore Conversations with Walker Percy(1993)
- #39AmazonConversations with Richard Wright(1993)
- #40AmazonConversations with Paul Bowles(1993)
- #41AmazonConversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994)
- #42AmazonConversations with Amiri Baraka(1994)
- #43AmazonConversations with Toni Morrison(1994)
- #44AmazonConversations with Saul Bellow(1994)
- #45AmazonConversations with Henry Miller(1994)
- #46AmazonConversations with Ernest Gaines(1995)
- #47AmazonConversations with Ralph Ellison(1995)
- #48AmazonConversations with Chester Himes(1995)
- #49AmazonConversations with Susan Sontag(1995)
- #50AmazonConversations with Ishmael Reed(1995)
- #51AmazonConversations with Derek Walcott(1996)
- #52AmazonMore Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996)
- #53AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996)
- #54AmazonConversations with Pauline Kael(1996)
- #55AmazonConversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997)
- #56AmazonConversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997)
- #57AmazonConversations with Chinua Achebe(1997)
- #58AmazonConversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998)
- #59AmazonConversations with Denise Levertov(1998)
- #60AmazonConversations With William Faulkner(1999)
- #61AmazonConversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999)
- #62AmazonConversations With John Fowles(1999)
- #63AmazonConversations with Salman Rushdie(2000)
- #64AmazonConversations with William S. Burroughs(2000)
- #65AmazonConversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000)
- #66AmazonConversations with Chaim Potok(2001)
- #67AmazonConversations with Richard Ford(2001)
- #68AmazonConversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001)
- #69AmazonConversations with Mary Gordon(2002)
- #70AmazonConversations with Jim Harrison(2002)
- #71AmazonConversations with Clarence Major(2002)
- #72AmazonConversations with Margaret Walker(2002)
- #73AmazonConversations with Erica Jong(2002)
- #74AmazonElie Wiesel: Conversations(2002)
- #75AmazonJoseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003)
- #76AmazonConversations with Rita Dove(2003)
- #77AmazonConversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003)
- #78AmazonConversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003)
- #79AmazonConversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003)
- #80AmazonConversations with Gloria Naylor(2004)
- #81AmazonConversations with Audre Lorde(2004)
- #82AmazonConversations with Ray Bradbury(2004)
- #83AmazonConversations With John le Carré(2004)
- #84AmazonConversations with Isaac Asimov(2005)
- #85AmazonConversations with Don DeLillo(2005)
- #86AmazonConversations with Gore Vidal(2005)
- #87AmazonConversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005)
- #88AmazonConversations with Jack Kerouac(2005)
- #89AmazonConversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005)
- #90AmazonConversations with Thomas McGuane(2006)
- #91AmazonConversations with Larry Brown(2007)
- #92AmazonConversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007)
- #93AmazonConversations with Wendell Berry(2007)
- #94AmazonConversations with Leon Forrest(2007)
- #95AmazonConversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
- #1AmazonLos Gusanos (By: John Sayles)(1991)
- #2AmazonThe Best of The Nation (By: Victor Navasky,vanden Heuvel, Katrina)(2000)
- #3AmazonThe Betrayal of America (By: Vincent Bugliosi)(2001)
- #4AmazonDreaming War(2002)
- #5AmazonUnsustainable (By: Eamonn Fingleton)(2003)
- #6AmazonThe Red and the Blacklist (By: Norma Barzman)(2003)
- #7AmazonNapoleon's Glance (By: William Duggan)(2003)
- #8AmazonShaking the Foundations (By: Pete Hamill,Bruce Shapiro)(2003)
- #9AmazonA Prayer for America (By: Dennis Kucinich)(2003)
- #10AmazonTaking Back America (By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel,Robert L. Borosage)(2004)
- #11AmazonA Hole in the World (By: Jonathan Schell)(2004)
- #12AmazonThe Truth About Camp David (By: Clayton E. Swisher)(2004)
- #13AmazonThe Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita (By: Norman Mailer,Mickey Knox)(2004)
- #14AmazonMurdered by Capitalism (By: John Ross)(2004)
- #15AmazonImperial America(2004)
- #16AmazonKilled (By: David Wallis)(2004)
- #17AmazonLove, Poverty, and War (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2004)
- #18AmazonThe High Times Reader (By: Ann Nocenti,Paul Krassner,Ruth Baldwin)(2004)
- #19AmazonDeserter from Death (By: Howard Zinn,Daniel Singer)(2005)
- #20AmazonBlood, Class and Empire (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2009)
- #21AmazonGenocide of the Mind (By: Vine Deloria Jr.)(2009)
- #1AmazonRocking the Boat(1962)
- #2AmazonSex, Death, and Money(1968)
- #3AmazonReflections Upon a Sinking Ship(1969)
- #4AmazonCollected Essays(1972)
- #5AmazonHomage to Daniel Shays(1973)
- #6AmazonMatters of Fact and of Fiction(1977)
- #7AmazonViews from a Window(1980)
- #8AmazonThe Decline and Fall of the American Empire(1981)
- #9AmazonThe Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982(1982)
- #10AmazonVidal in Venice(1985)
- #11AmazonArmageddon?(1987)
- #12AmazonAt Home(1987)
- #13AmazonPaths of Resistance (With: Isabel Allende,Charles McCarry)(1989)
- #14AmazonA View from the Diners Club(1991)
- #15AmazonScreening History(1992)
- #16AmazonUnited States 1952-1992(1993)
- #17AmazonPalimpsest(1995)
- #18AmazonVirgin Islands(1998)
- #19AmazonSexually Speaking(1999)
- #20AmazonThe Last Empire(2001)
- #21AmazonPerpetual War for Perpetual Peace(2002)
- #22AmazonPoint to Point Navigation(2006)
- #23AmazonSelected Essays(2007)
- #24AmazonThe Selected Essays of Gore Vidal(2007)
- #25AmazonSnapshots in History's Glare(2009)
- #26AmazonI Told You So(2012)
- #27AmazonVidal vs. Mailer (With: Norman Mailer)(2013)
- #28AmazonBuckley vs. Vidal (With: William F. Buckley Jr.)(2015)
- #1AmazonWilliwaw(1946)
- #2AmazonIn a Yellow Wood(1947)
- #3AmazonThe City and the Pillar & Seven Early Stories(1948)
- #4AmazonThe Season of Comfort(1949)
- #5AmazonA Search for the King(1950)
- #6AmazonCry Shame!(1950)
- #7AmazonDark Green, Bright Red(1950)
- #8AmazonThieves Fall Out (As: Cameron Kay)(1953)
- #9AmazonThe Judgment Of Paris(1953)
- #10AmazonMessiah(1954)
- #11AmazonVisit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays(1957)
- #12AmazonJulian(1964)
- #13AmazonTwo Sisters(1970)
- #14AmazonKalki(1976)
- #15AmazonCreation(1981)
- #16AmazonDuluth(1983)
- #17AmazonLive from Golgotha(1992)
- #18AmazonThe Smithsonian Institution(1998)
- #19AmazonThe Best Man(1960)
- #20AmazonAn Evening with Richard Nixon(1972)
- #21AmazonGore Vidal's 'Caligula'(1979)
- #22AmazonA Thirsty Evil(1956)
- #23AmazonThe Collected Mysteries of Edgar Box(1978)
- #24AmazonThe Essential Gore Vidal(1999)
- #25AmazonClouds and Eclipses(2006)
About Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is a renowned American writer, celebrated for his incisive essays, novels, and screenplays that continue to captivate audiences worldwide. As a prominent figure in the literary world, he is recognized for his distinctive Transatlantic accent and sharp wit, often expressed through biting aphorisms. Born into a distinguished political family, Vidal's grandfather, Thomas Gore, a senator, instilled in him a strong sense of politics and public service. Vidal's own forays into politics, including two runs for office, demonstrate his commitment to social justice and his status as a lifelong isolationist Democrat. His prolific writing career has spanned numerous publications, including The Nation, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Review of Books. As a vocal critic of American foreign policy, Vidal's essays and media appearances have left a lasting impact on public discourse. His notable novels, such as Myra Breckinridge, Julian, Burr, and Lincoln, showcase his versatility and mastery of the craft.
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