Order of F. Scott Fitzgerald Books
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author during the Lost Generation. He coined the phrase “The Jazz Age,” which he epitomized. He is best known for his novel The Great Gatsby, which has been adapted into films in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000 and 2013. His style was very lyrical, with a perfect ear for language. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940 when he was 44 years old.
F. Scott Fitzgerald became a published novelist in 1920 with The Beautiful and Damned. His final novel was The Last Tycoon, published unfinished posthumously in 1941. Below is a list of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
This Side of Paradise | (1920) | |
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | (1922) | |
The Beautiful and Damned | (1922) | |
The Great Gatsby | (1926) | |
Tender Is the Night | (1934) | |
The Last Tycoon | (1941) | |
Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby | (2000) | |
The Popular Girl | (2006) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Bernice Bobs Her Hair | (1920) | |
May Day | (1920) | |
The Ice Palace | (1920) | |
The Offshore Pirate | (1920) | |
Head and Shoulders | (1920) | |
The Lees of Happiness | (1920) | |
The Jelly-Bean | (1920) | |
The Camel’s Back | (1920) | |
Benediction | (1920) | |
Myra Meets His Family | (1920) | |
Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink | (1920) | |
The Four Fists | (1920) | |
Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside | (1921) | |
Winter Dreams | (1922) | |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | (1922) | |
Absolution | (1924) | |
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk | (1924) | |
Gretchen’s Forty Winks | (1924) | |
Love in the Night | (1925) | |
The Rich Boy | (1926) | |
Magnetism | (1928) | |
The Night at Chancellorsville | (1935) | |
Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar | (2018) | |
Basil the Freshest Boy | (2018) | |
What a Handsome Pair ! | (2018) |
Publication Order of Collections
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul Plays 1911-14 | (1914) | |
The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917 | (1917) | |
Spires and Gargoyles | (1919) | |
The Short Stories | (1920) | |
Flappers and Philosophers | (1920) | |
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1920) | |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories | (1921) | |
Tales of the Jazz Age | (1922) | |
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories | (1922) | |
Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age | (1922) | |
The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1924) | |
All the Sad Young Men | (1926) | |
The Basil and Josephine Stories | (1928) | |
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories | (1931) | |
The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1931) | |
The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1935) | |
Taps at Reveille | (1935) | |
The Lost Decade and other stories | (1939) | |
Poems 1911-1940 | (1940) | |
The Pat Hobby Stories | (1940) | |
The Price Was High | (1979) | |
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1983) | |
Afternoon of an Author | (1987) | |
Before Gatsby | (2001) | |
On Booze | (2011) | |
Gatsby Girls | (2013) | |
The Love Boat and Other Stories | (2015) | |
Mystery & Fantasy Stories | (2015) | |
I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories | (2017) | |
The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories | (2019) | |
All of the Belles | (2020) | |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories | (2020) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Crack-Up | (1936) | |
As ever, Scott Fitz | (1940) | |
Dear Scott/Dear Max | (1971) | |
The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1978) | |
A Life in Letters | (1980) | |
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda | (1985) | |
The Sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1995) | |
On Authorship | (1996) | |
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald | (2003) | |
A Short Autobiography | (2011) | |
Dreams of Youth | (2011) | |
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald | (2013) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century | (1954) | |
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | (1992) | |
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | |
Writing New York | (1998) | |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | |
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | (2000) | |
Writing Los Angeles | (2002) | |
The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 – 1950 | (2004) | |
50 Classic Novellas | (2011) | |
Radio Silence | (2012) | |
Favorite Love Stories | (2017) | |
Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | |
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) |
Note: The Last Tycoon was also published under the title The Love of the Last Tycoon.