John Updike Books in Order
John Hoyer Updike is a renowned American writer, celebrated for his meticulous craftsmanship and boundless literary output. His magnum opus, the Rabbit series, comprises five novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered. Notably, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest earned him Pulitzer Prizes. With a remarkable body of work, including 22 novels and over a dozen short story collections, Updike has explored a wide range of genres, from poetry to literary criticism and children's literature. His contributions to The New Yorker, spanning several decades, feature hundreds of stories, reviews, and poems. Through his works, Updike probes the complexities of sex, faith, and death, forging a lasting impact on modern American literature.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by John Updike
- #1AmazonWalt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(1892)
- #2AmazonEdgar Allan Poe (By: Richard Wilbur)(1909)
- #3AmazonTheodore Roethke (By: )(1969)
- #4AmazonA. R. Ammons (By: David Lehman,A.R. Ammons)(1977)
- #5AmazonWilliam Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)(1984)
- #6AmazonEdna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)(1991)
- #7AmazonCarl Sandburg: Selected Poems (By: Carl Sandburg)(1996)
- #8AmazonYvor Winters (By: Thom Gunn,Yvor Winters)(1999)
- #9AmazonKarl Shapiro (With: Karl Shapiro)(2003)
- #10AmazonPoets of World War II (By: Various,Harvey Shapiro)(2003)
- #11AmazonAmerican Wits (By: John Hollander)(2003)
- #12AmazonJohn Greenleaf Whittier (By: John Greenleaf Whittier)(2004)
- #13AmazonKenneth Fearing (By: Robert Polito,Kenneth Fearing)(2004)
- #14AmazonMuriel Rukeyser (By: Muriel Rukeyser)(2004)
- #15AmazonJohn Berryman (By: Kevin Young,John Berryman)(2004)
- #16AmazonPoets of the Civil War (By: )(2005)
- #17AmazonEmma Lazarus (By: Emma Lazarus)(2005)
- #18AmazonEdith Wharton (By: Edith Wharton)(2005)
- #19AmazonThe Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (By: Gwendolyn Brooks,Elizabeth Alexander)(2005)
- #20AmazonCole Porter (By: Robert Kimball,Cole Porter)(2006)
- #21AmazonLouis Zukofsky (By: Louis Zukofsky,Charles Bernstein)(2006)
- #22AmazonKenneth Koch (By: Ron Padgett,Kenneth Koch)(2007)
- #23AmazonAmerican Sonnets (By: David Bromwich)(2007)
- #24AmazonJames Agee (By: James Agee,Andrew Hudgins)(2008)
- #25AmazonPoems from the Women's Movement (By: Honor Moore)(2009)
- #26AmazonIra Gershwin (By: Robert Kimball,Ira Gershwin)(2009)
- #27AmazonLyrics of the First Great Popular Songs (By: Stephen Collins Foster,Ken Emerson)(2010)
- #28AmazonCountee Cullen (By: Major Jackson,Countee Cullen)(2010)
- #29AmazonAmy Lowell (By: Honor Moore)(2012)
- #30AmazonA Child's Calendar(1965)
- #31AmazonSeventy Poems(1972)
- #32AmazonCollected Poems, 1953-1993(1993)
- #33AmazonA Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects(1995)
- #34AmazonSelected Poems(2015)
- #1AmazonPoints of View(1956)
- #2Amazon50 Great American Short Stories(1963)
- #3AmazonTen Modern American Short Stories(1965)
- #4AmazonPrize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards(1970)
- #5AmazonThe Best American Short Stories 1984(1984)
- #6AmazonGreat Baseball Stories(1990)
- #7AmazonThe Best American Short Stories 1991(1991)
- #8AmazonThe Oxford Book of American Short Stories(1992)
- #9AmazonThe Short Story: 30 Masterpieces(1992)
- #10AmazonThe Literary Traveller(1994)
- #11AmazonFirst Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers(1994)
- #12AmazonDeadly Sins(1994)
- #13AmazonListening for God, Vol. 2(1996)
- #14AmazonOur Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men(1997)
- #15AmazonThe Best American Mystery Stories 1999(1999)
- #16AmazonWonderful Town(2000)
- #17AmazonThe Best American Short Stories of the Century(2000)
- #18Amazon40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology(2000)
- #19AmazonWriters on Writing(2001)
- #20AmazonThe Best American Short Stories 2001(2001)
- #21AmazonBaseball: a Literary Anthology(2002)
- #22AmazonClassic Erotic Tales(2002)
- #23AmazonCommon Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania(2005)
- #24AmazonThe Best American Erotica 2006(2006)
- #25AmazonThe New Granta Book of the American Short Story(2007)
- #26AmazonFirst Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors(2009)
- #27AmazonMy Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me(2010)
- #28AmazonWriters: Their Lives and Works(2018)
- #29AmazonReel Verse(2019)
- #1AmazonThe Doubtful Guest (By: Edward Gorey)(1957)
- #2AmazonThe Object-Lesson (By: Edward Gorey)(1958)
- #3AmazonThe Fatal Lozenge (By: Edward Gorey)(1961)
- #4AmazonThe Sinking Spell (By: Edward Gorey)(1964)
- #5AmazonThe Remembered Visit (By: Edward Gorey)(1965)
- #6AmazonThe Utter Zoo (By: Edward Gorey)(1967)
- #7AmazonThe Blue Aspic (By: Edward Gorey)(1968)
- #8AmazonThe Other Statue (By: Edward Gorey)(1968)
- #9AmazonThe Osbick Bird (By: Edward Gorey)(1970)
- #10AmazonThe Sopping Thursday (By: Edward Gorey)(1971)
- #11AmazonThe Eleventh Episode (By: Edward Gorey)(1971)
- #12AmazonThe Lost Lions (By: Edward Gorey)(1973)
- #13AmazonThe Glorious Nosebleed (By: Edward Gorey)(1974)
- #14AmazonThe Twelve Terrors of Christmas(1994)
- #15AmazonThe Beastly Baby (By: Edward Gorey)(1995)
- #16AmazonThoughtful Alphabets (By: Edward Gorey)(2012)
- #17AmazonA Halloween Treat (By: Edward Gorey)(2012)
- #1AmazonAssorted Prose(1965)
- #2AmazonPicked-Up Pieces(1975)
- #3AmazonHugging the Shore(1983)
- #4AmazonSelf-Consciousness(1989)
- #5AmazonJust Looking(1989)
- #6AmazonOdd Jobs(1991)
- #7AmazonGolf Dreams(1996)
- #8AmazonMore Matter(1999)
- #9AmazonStill Looking(2005)
- #10AmazonDue Considerations(2007)
- #11AmazonHub Fans Bid Kid Adieu(2010)
- #12AmazonHigher Gossip(2011)
- #13AmazonAlways Looking(2012)
- #14AmazonIn Love with a Wanton(2020)
- #1AmazonA&P(1961)
- #2AmazonThe Alligators(1989)
- #3AmazonThe Same Door, Short Stories(1959)
- #4AmazonPigeon Feathers and Other Stories(1961)
- #5AmazonTelephone Poles and Other Poems(1963)
- #6AmazonOlinger Stories(1964)
- #7AmazonThe Music School(1966)
- #8AmazonMidpoint and Other Poems(1969)
- #9AmazonThe Dance of the Solids(1969)
- #10AmazonMuseums and Women and Other Stories(1972)
- #11AmazonC*nts(1974)
- #12AmazonTossing and Turning(1977)
- #13AmazonProblems and Other Stories(1979)
- #14AmazonValentine Generation And Other Stories(1981)
- #15AmazonThe Carpentered Hen(1982)
- #16AmazonFacing Nature(1985)
- #17AmazonTrust Me(1987)
- #18AmazonThe Afterlife and Other Stories(1994)
- #19AmazonFriends from Philadelphia and Other Stories(1995)
- #20AmazonLicks of Love(2000)
- #21AmazonAmericana(2001)
- #22AmazonThe Early Stories(2003)
- #23AmazonThree Trips(2005)
- #24AmazonMy Father's Tears and Other Stories(2009)
- #25AmazonEndpoint and Other Poems(2009)
- #26AmazonRich In Russia(2011)
- #27AmazonCollected Later Stories(2013)
- #28AmazonCollected Early Stories(2013)
- #29AmazonHoping for a Hoopoe(2020)
- #1AmazonThe Poorhouse Fair(1958)
- #2AmazonThe Centaur(1963)
- #3AmazonOf the Farm(1965)
- #4AmazonCouples(1968)
- #5AmazonMarry Me(1971)
- #6AmazonThe Coup(1978)
- #7AmazonYour Lover Just Called(1980)
- #8AmazonMore Stately Mansions(1987)
- #9AmazonBrazil(1994)
- #10AmazonIn the Beauty of the Lilies(1996)
- #11AmazonToward the End of Time(1997)
- #12AmazonGertrude and Claudius(2000)
- #13AmazonSeek My Face(2002)
- #14AmazonVillages(2004)
- #15AmazonTerrorist(2007)
- #16AmazonThe Women Who Got Away(2007)
About John Updike
John Hoyer Updike is a renowned American writer, celebrated for his meticulous craftsmanship and boundless literary output. His magnum opus, the Rabbit series, comprises five novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered. Notably, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest earned him Pulitzer Prizes. With a remarkable body of work, including 22 novels and over a dozen short story collections, Updike has explored a wide range of genres, from poetry to literary criticism and children's literature. His contributions to The New Yorker, spanning several decades, feature hundreds of stories, reviews, and poems. Through his works, Updike probes the complexities of sex, faith, and death, forging a lasting impact on modern American literature.
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