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Publication Order of American Trilogy Books

American Pastoral (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
I Married a Communist (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Human Stain (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of David Kepesh Books

The Breast (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Professor of Desire (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dying Animal (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Nathan Zuckerman Books

My Life as a Man (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ghost Writer (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Zuckerman Unbound (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Anatomy Lesson (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Prague Orgy (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Exit Ghost (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Letting Go (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
When She Was Good (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Portnoy's Complaint (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Our Gang (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Great American Novel (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Counterlife (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Deception (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Patrimony (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Operation Shylock (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sabbath's Theater (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
His Mistress's Voice (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Plot Against America (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Everyman (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Indignation (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Humbling (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nemesis (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Conversion of the Jews (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Philip Roth Reader (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Reading Myself and Others (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
American West's Acid Rain Test (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Facts (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shop Talk (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Writer at Work (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Notes For My Biographer (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Why Write? (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Selected Shorts Books

Selected Shorts: Fictions for Our Times: Listener Favorites Old & New (By:Richard Bausch,,Ron Carlson) (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs 18 (By:Nicholson Baker) (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (By:James Thurber) (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Baseball (By:John Updike,T.C. Boyle) (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Falling in Love (By:Rick Bass) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (By:Symphony Space) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Travel Tales A Celebration Of The Short Story (By:Symphony Space) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal (By:John Biguenet) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Are We There Yet? (By:Stuart Dybek) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers (By:Ray Bradbury,,,Evelyn Waugh,Adam Haslett) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Shorts: For Better and for Worse (By:Symphony Space) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
An audio anthology series.

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 1956 (1956)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 1979 (1979)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 1983 (1983)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 1990 (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1992 (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1995 (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1998 (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000)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 American Short Stories 2003 (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005)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 2009 (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2017 (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2018 (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2019 (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2020 (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

New American Review 10(1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wonderful Town(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories of the Century(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Baseball: a Literary Anthology(2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fathers: A Literary Anthology(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Philip Roth was a bestselling American author who wrote novels and short stories. A National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, Roth died in 2018.

+Biography
Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey to Bess and Herman. Philip’s parents were second-generation Americans of Jewish ancestry. Weequahic High School in Newark appears in Philip’s literary works because his days at the institution were some of the most transformative of his life.

The author remembers being particularly intelligent and witty yet also quite humorous. A former student of Bucknell University (Pennsylvania) from where he got his Bachelor’s Degree in English, and the University of Chicago from where he acquired his Masters in English Literature, Philip knew he wanted to pursue writing from a relatively early age.

And even after he left college, his talents were such that he was called upon to teach at the University of Chicago’s writing program.

As was often the case with authors born in that era, Philip Roth was forced to put his writing dreams to the side when the war came into the picture and he was drawn into the army.

Fortunately, a back injury during basic training allowed him to return to civilian life. The author would eventually find his way back into the army, serving for a two-year period but only after completing teaching stints at the Universities of Iowa, Princeton, and Pennsylvania.

+Literary Career
Before garnering a reputation for producing ingenious and sensual novels, Philip Roth wrote essays, articles, and criticisms for magazines. His name gained some renown when he wrote ‘Goodbye, Columbus’, the book not only attracting critical acclaim but also receiving the National Book Award.

He followed it up with a couple of short stories and a full-length novel before finally producing ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’, the controversial book that saw his star skyrocket.

A number of Philip Roth’s novels and short stories are autobiographical in nature. They feature themes and references that are tied to Philip’s own personal life. Many of Philip’s protagonists were drawn directly from aspects of his own personality.

The author repeatedly explores the plight of Jewish American individuals struggling to carve out a living in an alien land even as they attempt to escape the weight of their parents’ influence.

Philip was repeatedly criticized for the opinions his books seemed to support and put across. The author repeatedly argued that Jewish Americans had to eliminate the elements of tradition that kept them bound if they were to live fulfilling lives.

He wasn’t afraid to publish strong social and political commentaries most of which were veiled by the satirical nature of his works. For the most part, Philip’s work was very pessimistic about the future, probably the result of his personal experiences.

Chief amongst those experiences was his encounter with Margaret Martinson, a woman he married in 1959 and then divorced later, only for her to die in a car accident. Philip never truly recovered from her death and proceeded to use her person as a template for some of the female characters of his future novels.

The author was quite open about his atheistic beliefs. He was heard saying that he looked forward to a time when religion would eventually leave the world because then humanity would finally achieve true happiness.

Philip wasn’t quite as polite about religious people. He often boasted about the fact that for all the loneliness and anxiety that assaulted him, he had never felt compelled to give into the trappings of religion.

These opinions from the author persisted even after he married and divorced Claire Bloom, his second wife.

Philip was 85 when he died. Heart failure was identified as the cause of death.

Opinions about the author, not only his works but his personal life, have changed over the years. Some voices have accused him of being a control freak and a sexist. Others have suggested that he rose to fame not for any literary gifts he had but because of his penchant for eliciting controversy.

The author was fortunate enough to see many of his novels receive film adaptations, this including ‘American Pastoral’, ‘The Dying Animal’, ‘The Human Stain’, and ‘The Ghostwriter’.

+American Pastoral
Seymour Levov had a pretty ordinary American life. He was a family man working to keep his father’s factory on its feet. And he had a great daughter called Merry that seemed to be thriving in Post-War America.

But then the turbulence of the 1960s struck and Merry was swept away by the political unrest of the time, engaging in activities that would ultimately bring her father’s idyllic life to ruin.

This novel features one of Philip Roth’s most popular protagonists. Also called the Swede, Levov is a Jewish man with Viking features who could have achieved success on a much larger scale.

But he allowed his father to talk him into taking up the family trade and inheriting his factory. Having achieved the American dream in its entirety, Levov must come to terms with the negative attitudes of his young daughter who takes extreme measures to protest the war in Vietnam.

+The Plot Against America
Charles A. Lindbergh might be a hero to some because of his aviation antics and adventures but he is also an isolationist. So when Franklin Roosevelt loses to him in the presidential elections, the Jewish community in America grinds to a standstill as fear pervades their households.

The Plot against America takes an engaging look at the alternate path history would have taken if Charles Lindbergh, a famous historical figure had brought his anti-Semitic views to light and won the presidential elections in 1940.

Philip Roth plays the role of the narrator. Inhabiting a Jewish child observing events unfold in Newark, Roth tries to imagine the sort of horror that might have unfolded as a result.

He imagines the programs that the United States would have put forth to extinguish the Jewish Community and the reactions such changes would have elicited in Jewish households. Conflicts arise both between the Jews and their nation, and Jews and their neighbors, some of whom show a confusing willingness to fall in line with Lindbergh’s plans.

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One Response to “Philip Roth”

  1. Bob Gardner: 1 year ago

    I have found as fresh and fascinating voice in Philip Roth having read ten of his titles and looking forward to collecting the remainder of his works. Thank you for this information.

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