Order of Philip Roth Books
Philip Roth was a Pulitzer Prize winning author best known for his Nathan Zuckerman series of books. Roth wrote American Pastoral in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize. He was given the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize, international literary award, in 2001. He was also the recipient of the National Medal of Arts from the White House.
Roth was also the author of The Plot Against America, an alternate history book that was made into a television series by HBO. Philip was born in Newark, New Jersey and that town would become a frequent location of his fiction. He was born in 1933 and grew up in Jersey. He would attend Rutgers University and Bucknell University where he earned a B.A. in English. He would then go to the University of Chicago where he earned an M.A. in English literature. Roth passed away in 2018.
Publication Order of American Trilogy Books
American Pastoral | (1997) | |
I Married a Communist | (1998) | |
The Human Stain | (2000) |
Publication Order of David Kepesh Books
The Breast | (1972) | |
The Professor of Desire | (1977) | |
The Dying Animal | (2001) |
Publication Order of Nathan Zuckerman Books
My Life as a Man | (1974) | |
The Ghost Writer | (1979) | |
Zuckerman Unbound | (1981) | |
The Anatomy Lesson | (1983) | |
The Prague Orgy | (1985) | |
Exit Ghost | (2007) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Letting Go | (1961) | |
When She Was Good | (1966) | |
Portnoy’s Complaint | (1969) | |
Our Gang | (1971) | |
The Great American Novel | (1973) | |
The Counterlife | (1986) | |
Deception | (1990) | |
Patrimony | (1991) | |
Operation Shylock | (1993) | |
Sabbath’s Theater | (1995) | |
His Mistress’s Voice | (1995) | |
The Plot Against America | (2004) | |
Everyman | (2006) | |
Indignation | (2008) | |
The Humbling | (2009) | |
Nemesis | (2010) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Conversion of the Jews | (1958) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories | (1959) | |
A Philip Roth Reader | (1980) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Reading Myself and Others | (1975) | |
American West’s Acid Rain Test | (1985) | |
The Facts | (1988) | |
Shop Talk | (2001) | |
A Writer at Work | (2011) | |
Notes For My Biographer | (2012) | |
Why Write? | (2017) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
New American Review 10 | (1970) | |
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | |
Tales for Travellers: Short Stories: Collection 1 | (1996) | |
The Good Parts | (2000) | |
Wonderful Town | (2000) | |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | |
Baseball: a Literary Anthology | (2002) | |
Fathers: A Literary Anthology | (2011) |