Order of Thomas Pynchon Books
Thomas Pynchon is an American author of English literature. His style is very dense, and lends from influences such as Herman Melville, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka and William Faulkner. Pynchon grew up in Long Island, New York. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years and earned his English degree from Cornell University. Pynchon is a MacArthur Fellow and the winner of the National Book Award, and has been considered for the Noble Prize for Literature many times. Subjects in his works include history, science and mathematics (among others). Pynchon is a very private person and has very few published photographs since the 1960s.
Thomas Pynchon became a published novelist in 1961 with the novel V. Below is a list of Thomas Pynchon’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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V. |
(1963) |
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The Crying of Lot 49 |
(1966) |
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Gravity’s Rainbow |
(1973) |
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Vineland |
(1990) |
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Mason & Dixon |
(1997) |
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Against the Day |
(2006) |
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Inherent Vice |
(2009) |
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Bleeding Edge |
(2013) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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Mortality and Mercy in Vienna |
(1959) |
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The Small Rain |
(1959) |
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Low-Lands |
(1960) |
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The Secret Integration |
(1964) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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Slow Learner |
(1984) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Unknown California |
(1985) |
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Storming the Reality Studio |
(1991) |
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Deadly Sins |
(1994) |
Note: Deadly Sins also contains essays by Antonia S. Byatt, Mary Gordon, Richard Howard, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor, John Updike and Gore Vidal.