Order of Norman Mailer Books
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was an American author, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He was considered one of the innovators of creative nonfiction – sometimes known as New Journalism. He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a winner of the National Book Award.
Norman Mailer made his debut as a published author in 1948 with the novel The Naked and the Dead. Below is a list of Norman Mailer’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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The Naked and the Dead |
(1948) |
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Barbary Shore |
(1952) |
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The Deer Park |
(1955) |
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The Presidential Papers |
(1963) |
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Cannibals and Christians |
(1966) |
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An American Dream |
(1966) |
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Bull Fight: A Photographic Narrative |
(1967) |
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Why Are We in Vietnam? |
(1968) |
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Maidstone |
(1971) |
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St. George and the Godfather |
(1972) |
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Watching My Name Go By |
(1974) |
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Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots |
(1980) |
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After the White Negro |
(1982) |
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Ancient Evenings |
(1983) |
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Tough Guys Don’t Dance |
(1984) |
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Harlot’s Ghost |
(1991) |
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The Gospel According to the Son |
(1997) |
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The Castle in the Forest |
(2007) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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Advertisements for Myself |
(1959) |
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Deaths for the Ladies |
(1962) |
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Existential Errands |
(1973) |
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The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer |
(1980) |
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Pieces |
(1982) |
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Essential Mailer |
(1982) |
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Pontifications |
(1982) |
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Pieces and Pontifications |
(1983) |
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The Time Of Our Time |
(1998) |
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Modest Gifts |
(2003) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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The White Negro |
(1959) |
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago |
(1968) |
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Why Are We at War? |
(1968) |
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The Armies of the Night |
(1968) |
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A Fire on the Moon |
(1970) |
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Prisoner of Sex |
(1971) |
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Marilyn |
(1973) |
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The Faith of Graffiti |
(1974) |
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The Fight |
(1975) |
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Genius & Lust |
(1976) |
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Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 |
(1976) |
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A Transit To Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript |
(1978) |
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The Executioner’s Song |
(1979) |
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Of Women and Their Elegance |
(1980) |
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Huckleberry Finn: Alive at 100 |
(1985) |
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Language of Men |
(1989) |
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How the Wimp Won the War |
(1992) |
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Oswald’s Tale |
(1995) |
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Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man |
(1995) |
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Muhammad Ali: Ringside |
(1999) |
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Into the Mirror: The Life of Robert P. Hanssen |
(2002) |
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The Spooky Art |
(2003) |
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The Big Empty |
(2006) |
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On God: An Uncommon Conversation |
(2007) |
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Mind of an Outlaw |
(2013) |
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Vidal vs. Mailer |
(2013) |
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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer |
(2014) |
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Ten Thousand Words a Minute |
(2016) |
Publication Order of Nation Books
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Los Gusanos |
(1991) |
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The Best of The Nation |
(2000) |
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The Betrayal of America |
(2001) |
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Dreaming War |
(2002) |
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Unsustainable |
(2003) |
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The Red and the Blacklist |
(2003) |
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Napoleon’s Glance |
(2003) |
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Shaking the Foundations |
(2003) |
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A Prayer for America |
(2003) |
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Taking Back America |
(2004) |
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A Hole in the World |
(2004) |
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The Truth About Camp David |
(2004) |
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The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita |
(2004) |
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Murdered by Capitalism |
(2004) |
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Imperial America |
(2004) |
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Killed |
(2004) |
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Love, Poverty, and War |
(2004) |
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Against the Beast |
(2004) |
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The High Times Reader |
(2004) |
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Deserter from Death |
(2005) |
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Blood, Class and Empire |
(2009) |
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Genocide of the Mind |
(2009) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews |
(1957) |
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This Was Your War |
(1960) |
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We Accuse |
(1965) |
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The Cosmos Reader |
(1971) |
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Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction |
(1971) |
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Unknown California |
(1985) |
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers |
(1994) |
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Writing Los Angeles |
(2002) |
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FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors |
(2009) |
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UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat |
(2015) |
Notes: Into the Mirror was co-authored by Lawrence Schiller. The Big Empty was written with John Buffalo Mailer. On God was written with Michael Lennon. Muhammad Ali: Ringside was written with Alex Haley and Joyce Carol Oates. The Faith of Graffiti was co-authored by Jon Naar. Vidal vs. Mailer also contains contributions by Gore Vidal.