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Publication Order of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom Books

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

Too Far to Go (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Maples Stories (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

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

A&P (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Alligators (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

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 (By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodríguez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Listening for God, Vol. 2 (With: Anne Tyler,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Listening for God, Vol. 3 (By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark) (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

with Diane Johnson, Raymond Carver, Wendell Berry, Tim Gautreaux, John Biguenet, Harry Hansen, Russell Banks, John Edgar Wideman, Ann Beattie, Mary Gordon, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Coover, Andrea Barrett, Allan Gurganus, James Salter, Ron Carlson, Ariel Dorfman, Nancy Willard, Kate Walbert, Christine Schutt, Shruti Swamy, William Eastlake
First-Prize Stories from the O. Henry Memorial Awards 1919-1966 (By: Harry Hansen) (1966)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
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 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
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(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
Classic Erotic Tales(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(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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