John Updike bibliography
The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for his prolific output over a 50-year period. His bibliography includes some 21 novels, 18 short story collections, 12 collections of poetry, 4 children's books, and 12 collections of non-fiction.
John Updike in 2008.
Chronological listing
Novels are highlighted in bold.
Title |
Year |
Type |
Notes |
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures |
1958 |
poetry |
collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (1993) |
The Poorhouse Fair |
1959 |
novel |
reprinted in 1977 |
The Same Door |
1959 |
short stories |
collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (2003) |
Rabbit, Run |
1960 |
novel |
collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (1995) |
Pigeon Feathers |
1962 |
short stories |
collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (2003) |
The Magic Flute |
1962 |
children's book |
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Telephone Poles and Other Poems |
1963 |
poetry |
collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (1993) |
The Centaur |
1963 |
novel |
|
Olinger Stories: A Selection |
1964 |
short stories |
all previously collected |
The Ring |
1964 |
children's book |
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Of the Farm |
1965 |
novel |
|
Assorted Prose |
1965 |
non-fiction |
|
Verse |
1965 |
poetry |
collects The Carpentered Hen and Telephone Poles |
A Child’s Calendar |
1965 |
poetry |
reprinted in 1999; collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (1993) |
The Music School |
1966 |
short stories |
collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (2003) |
Couples |
1968 |
novel |
|
Three Texts from Early Ipswich |
1968 |
non-fiction |
|
Midpoint and Other Poems |
1969 |
poetry |
collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (1993) |
Bottom's Dream |
1969 |
children's book |
|
Bech: A Book |
1970 |
short stories |
collected in The Complete Henry Bech (2001) |
Rabbit Redux |
1971 |
novel |
collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (1995) |
Museums and Women and Other Stories |
1972 |
short stories |
collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (2003) |
Buchanan Dying |
1974 |
play |
reprinted in 2000 |
Cunts |
1974 |
poetry |
limited edition chapbook |
A Month of Sundays |
1975 |
novel |
part of The Scarlet Letter trilogy |
Picked-Up Pieces |
1975 |
non-fiction |
|
Marry Me |
1976 |
novel |
|
Tossing and Turning |
1977 |
poetry |
collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (1993) |
The Coup |
1978 |
novel |
|
Too Far to Go |
1979 |
short stories |
reprinted as The Maples Stories in 2009 |
Problems and Other Stories |
1979 |
short stories |
|
Rabbit is Rich |
1981 |
novel |
collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (1995) |
Bech is Back |
1982 |
short stories |
collected in The Complete Henry Bech (2001) |
Hugging the Shore |
1983 |
non-fiction |
|
The Witches of Eastwick |
1984 |
novel |
|
Facing Nature |
1985 |
poetry |
collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (1993) |
Roger's Version |
1986 |
novel |
part of The Scarlet Letter trilogy |
Trust Me |
1987 |
short stories |
|
S. |
1988 |
novel |
part of The Scarlet Letter trilogy |
Just Looking: Essays on Art |
1989 |
non-fiction |
reprinted in 2000 |
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs |
1989 |
non-fiction |
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Rabbit at Rest |
1990 |
novel |
collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (1995) |
Odd Jobs |
1991 |
non-fiction |
|
Memories of the Ford Administration |
1992 |
novel |
|
Collected Poems: 1953–1993 |
1993 |
poetry |
|
Brazil |
1994 |
novel |
|
The Afterlife and Other Short Stories |
1994 |
short stories |
|
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels |
1995 |
novels |
collects the Rabbit novels |
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects |
1995 |
children's book |
|
In the Beauty of the Lilies |
1996 |
novel |
|
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf |
1996 |
non-fiction |
|
Toward the End of Time |
1997 |
novel |
|
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel |
1998 |
short stories |
collected in The Complete Henry Bech (2001) |
More Matter: Essays and Criticism |
1999 |
non-fiction |
|
Gertrude and Claudius |
2000 |
novel |
|
On Literary Biography |
2000 |
non-fiction |
limited edition |
Licks of Love |
2000 |
short stories |
|
Humor in Fiction |
2001 |
non-fiction |
limited edition |
The Complete Henry Bech |
2001 |
short stories |
collects the Bech books |
Americana and Other Poems |
2001 |
poetry |
|
Seek My Face |
2002 |
novel |
|
The Early Stories: 1953–1975 |
2003 |
short stories |
collects previously published collections |
Not Cancelled Yet |
2003 |
poetry |
limited edition |
Villages |
2004 |
novel |
|
Still Looking: Essays on American Art |
2005 |
non-fiction |
|
Terrorist |
2006 |
novel |
|
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism |
2007 |
non-fiction |
|
The Widows of Eastwick |
2008 |
novel |
|
Endpoint and Other Poems |
2009 |
poetry |
posthumous publication |
My Father's Tears and Other Stories |
2009 |
short stories |
posthumous publication |
The Maples Stories |
2009 |
short stories |
posthumous publication; reprint of Too Far to Go (1979) |
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams |
2010 |
non-fiction |
posthumous publication; Library of America |
Higher Gossip |
2011 |
non-fiction |
posthumous publication |
Always Looking |
2012 |
non-fiction |
posthumous publication |
The Collected Stories |
2013 |
short stories |
posthumous publication; 186 stories in two volumes; Library of America |
Title |
Date |
Notes |
Collected Early Stories |
000000002013-09-12-0000September 12, 2013 |
102 Stories Written from 1953 to 1975 (Ace in the Hole - Friends from Philadelphia - A Game of Botticelli - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth - Dentistry and Doubt - The Kid's Whistling - Toward Evening - Snowing in Greenwich Village - Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow? - His Finest Hour - Sunday Teasing - The Lucid Eye in Silver Town - A Trillion Feet of Gas - Incest - A Gift from the City - Intercession - The Alligators - The Happiest I've Been - Walter Briggs - The Persistence of Desire - Still Life - Flight - Should Wizard Hit Mommy? - Dear Alexandros - A Sense of Shelter - Wife-wooing - Pigeon Feathers - Home - Archangel - The Sea's Green Sameness - You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You - The Astronomer - A & P - The Doctor's Wife - Lifeguard - The Crow in the Woods - The Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother's Thimble, and Fanning Island - Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car - Unstuck - In Football Season - The Indian - A Madman - My Uncle's Death - Solitaire - Leaves - The Stare - Museums and Women - Avec la Bébé-sitter - Four Sides of One Story - The Morning - At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie - The Christian Roommates - My Lover Has Dirty Fingernails - Eclipse - Harv Is Plowing Now - The Music School - The Rescue - The Dark - God Speaks - The Bulgarian Poetess - The Family Meadow - Man and Daughter in the Cold - The Hermit - During the Jurassic - The Witnesses - The Pro - The Slump - Under the Microscope - The Corner - The Day of the Dying Rabbit - I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying - Cemeteries - The Deacon - I Will Not Let Thee Go, Except Thou Bless Me - One of My Generation - The Hillies - The Orphaned Swimming Pool - Plumbing - The Carol Sing - Minutes of the Last Meeting - The Baluchitherium - The Tarbox Police - When Everyone Was Pregnant - The Beloved - The Invention of the Horse Collar - Jesus on Honshu - Commercial - The Gun Shop - Believers - How to Love America and Leave It at the Same Time - Nevada - Son - Daughter, Last Glimpses of - Ethiopia - Transaction - Augustine's Concubine - Killing - The Chaste Planet - A Constellation of Events - The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals - Problems - Love Song, for a Moog Synthesizer), ed. Christopher Carduff |
Collected Later Stories |
000000002013-09-12-0000September 12, 2013 |
84 Stories Written from 1976 to 2008 (Domestic Life in America - From the Journal of a Leper - The Fairy Godfathers - The Egg Race - The Parade - The Faint - Guilt-Gems - Atlantises - Morocco - Trust Me - More Stately Mansions - Still of Some Use - The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd - Venezuela for Visitors - Pygmalion - The City - Learn a Trade - The Ideal Village - Deaths of Distant Friends - First Wives and Trolley Cars - The Other - One More Interview - Slippage - Poker Night - Made in Heaven - Getting Into the Set - The Wallet - The Other Woman - Beautiful Husbands - Leaf Season - The Afterlife - Wildlife - The Burglar Alarm - Conjunction - Brother Grasshopper - Spat - The Journey to the Dead - The Football Factory - Part of the Process - The Lens Factory - The Man Who Became a Soprano - Short Easter - A Sandstone Farmhouse - The Other Side of the Street - Aperto, Chiuso - Tristan and Iseult - Farrell's Caddie - The Rumor - Falling Asleep Up North - The Brown Chest - His Mother Inside Him - Bluebeard in Ireland - Baby's First Step - Playing with Dynamite - Scenes from the Fifties - The Black Room - Cruise - The Women Who Got Away - Lunch Hour - New York Girl - The Cats My Father on the Verge of Disgrace - Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War - Oliver's Evolution - Natural Color - How Was It, Really? - Metamorphosis - Personal Archaeology - Free - The Guardians - The Walk with Elizanne - The Laughter of the Gods - Varieties of Religious Experience - Spanish Prelude to a Second Marriage - Delicate Wives - The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe - German Lessons - The Road Home - My Father's Tears - Kinderszenen - The Apparition - Blue Light - Outage - The Full Glass), ed. Christopher Carduff |
See also
Further reading
- Broomfield, Michael and de Bellis, Jack, John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007, Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2007.
- Begley, Adam, Updike, Harper-Collins Publishers, New York, NY, 2014.
External links
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