John Updike Books In Order
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Rabbit, Run | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rabbit Redux | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rabbit Is Rich | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rabbit at Rest | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Licks of Love | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Henry Bech Books
Bech: A Book | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bech Is Back | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bech at Bay | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Buchanan Books
Buchanan Dying | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memories of the Ford Administration | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Scarlet Letter Trilogy Books
A Month of Sundays | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roger's Version | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
S. | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Maples Stories Collections
Publication Order of Eastwick Books
The Witches of Eastwick | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Widows of Eastwick | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Poorhouse Fair | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Centaur | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Of the Farm | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Couples | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marry Me | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Coup | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Your Lover Just Called | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Stately Mansions | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brazil | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Beauty of the Lilies | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Toward the End of Time | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gertrude and Claudius | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seek My Face | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Villages | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terrorist | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Women Who Got Away | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories Books
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Same Door, Short Stories | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Telephone Poles and Other Poems | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Olinger Stories | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Music School | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midpoint and Other Poems | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dance of the Solids | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Museums and Women and Other Stories | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cunts- Signed Limited Edition | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tossing and Turning | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Problems and Other Stories | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Valentine Generation And Other Stories | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Carpentered Hen | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Facing Nature | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trust Me | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Afterlife and Other Stories | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Licks of Love | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Americana | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Early Stories | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Trips | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Father's Tears and Other Stories | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Endpoint and Other Poems | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rich In Russia | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Later Stories | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Early Stories | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoping for a Hoopoe | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Magic Flute | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Assorted Prose | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Picked-Up Pieces | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hugging the Shore | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Self-Consciousness | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just Looking | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Odd Jobs | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Golf Dreams | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Matter | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Still Looking | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Due Considerations | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Higher Gossip | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Always Looking | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Love with a Wanton | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
Seventy Poems | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Poems, 1953-1993 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Poems | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Listening for God, Vol. 3 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Listening For God, Vol. 4 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. The author will have written at least one story in this series. |
Publication Order of The O. Henry Prize Collection Books
unknown book | (0) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First-Prize Stories from the O. Henry Memorial Awards 1919-1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories Volume 1; | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
O. Henry Prize Stories: Volume 2 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
O. Henry Prize Stories: Volume 2 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories: Volume 1 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories: Volume 1 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories: Volume 1 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Points of View | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Great American Short Stories | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ten Modern American Short Stories | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Baseball Stories | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Sins | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonderful Town | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writers on Writing | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baseball: a Literary Anthology | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Erotica 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Updike is an American author. His full name is John Hoyer Updike. He is most recognized for his positive impact on the world of American literature. Two of his Rabbit books won Updike two Pulitzer prizes, one for each. His stories, poems, and reviews have been featured in print since the 1950s and they often explore such topics as faith, sex, death, and inter-relationships between the themes.
He describes his subject as American small town. He is celebrated for his prolific writing and craftsmanship of the written word. He has published twenty-two novels and had many collections of his short stories published. He has also had several children’s books and poems as well as literary criticism published.
Updike is widely considered one of the best writers to ever grace American literature. He was born March 18, 1932, in Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard College in 1954 and then spent a year attending the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. He joined the staff of the New Yorker from 1955 to 1957 and then moved to Massachusetts where he lived until his death at age 76 on January 27, 2009.
John Updike had four children. He is the author of over fifty books that span everything from poetry to short stories and criticism as well as fiction. His books have won a variety of awards from the American Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, Howells Medal, and Rosenthal Award.His first book ever published was a poetry collection.
He followed it the next year with The Same Door, his first collection of short stories. His debut fiction novel was Rabbit, Run. He is the writer of the Henry Bech series as well as the Maples Stories. He was also the originator of The Witches of Eastwick, which was released in 1984 and was a big hit.
The novel did so well that it was adapted into a famous feature-length film released in 1987. It was directed by George Miller and starred Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon. In the movie, the three women play dissatisfied women living in Eastwick, Rhode Island, who became entranced by a mystery man that comes to town. The film was shot in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
He is the author of the Rabbit Run series. Rabbit, Run was released in 1960 and was named one of the best English-language novels by Time magazine. This novel would establish him as one of the biggest novelists of his generation and entered him into the literary history books.
The main character in this series is Harry Angstrom, nicknamed Rabbit. He used to be a basketball star but deserts his family at twenty-six years of age. After that, he goes through the trials of being an adult, from a boring job to a dissipating marriage on more. However, he may end up finding peace in exhaustion. There are four books in the series. Rabbit Redux was the sequel and it was released in 1971. Rabbit Is Rich was released in 1981 and the fourth in the series came out in 1990.
Rabbit, Run is the first in the Rabbit series. Harry Angstrom is also known by the name Rabbit. At the age of 26, he has a wife and he has a son. He was once a basketball star in high school, but it seems that he is somewhere between childhood and manhood. On an impulse, he deserts his family and flees from home.
Rabbit is caught in a struggle between himself and the demands of society, between instinct and thought, caught between family duty and feeling like a man. He is somewhere between Divine Grace and the errors of mortality. Rabbit finds himself running away from everything that he is supposed to stick around for. All the while, he manages to convince himself or find faith in his own belief that he is doing the right thing and on the correct path towards his own salvation. He just has to keep going and he will eventually get there.
Can Rabbit find his way and is right in thinking that he is pursuing destiny? Or will he have a change of heart and see eventually that he is abandoning his wife and son to fend for themselves? Pick up the debut novel in this series Rabbit, Run to find out!
Rabbit Redux is the sequel to Rabbit, Run. Celebrated American author John Updike returns the reader to the world of Harry Rabbit Angstrom and takes us back to an Everyman’s spiritual quest. The sequel does not pick up right where the first novel in the series left off. Instead, it is nearly a decade later that the reader is starting to get acquainted with Rabbit again.
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom used to be an all-star in high school and ruled the court. But now in his increasingly middling age, the athlete has seen his stomach begin to paunch out and his face bloat a little. He doesn’t quite have the slender athletic figure that he prized before. Now he is no longer youthfully 26 but 36, and a conservative at that. Whereas before he left his family behind, he is now in a strange age.
The calm that occupied America under President Eisenhower has been replaced with a roiling mix of drugs, fantasy, violence, and technology. Things are not the same as they once were, and Rabbit may see the tides turning as things start to come full circle. Karma is unfortunate when it swings back at you, and Harry Angstrom experiences a series of unfortunate events.
The first thing that happens is that he is abandoned by his family. Then his house happens to be invaded by a radical and a runaway. His past and all the promise of it is long gone, yet Rabbit is just barely able to stay sane. He’s trying his best to be a good citizen, but all he wants to do is belong to something and believe in something once more. Can things turn around for him? Pick up Rabbit Redux to find out for yourself in this masterfully written novel from John Updike.
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