John Updike bibliography

The following is a 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	Template:Ylt	poetry	collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (Template:Ylt)
The Poorhouse Fair	Template:Ylt	novel	reprinted in Template:Ylt
The Same Door	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (Template:Ylt)
Rabbit, Run	Template:Ylt	novel	collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Template:Ylt)
Pigeon Feathers	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (Template:Ylt)
The Magic Flute	Template:Ylt	children's book
Telephone Poles and Other Poems	Template:Ylt	poetry	collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (Template:Ylt)
The Centaur	Template:Ylt	novel
Olinger Stories: A Selection	Template:Ylt	short stories	all previously collected
The Ring	Template:Ylt	children's book
Of the Farm	Template:Ylt	novel
Assorted Prose	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Verse	Template:Ylt	poetry	collects The Carpentered Hen and Telephone Poles
A Child’s Calendar	Template:Ylt	poetry	reprinted in Template:Ylt; collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (Template:Ylt)
The Music School	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (Template:Ylt)
Couples	Template:Ylt	novel
Three Texts from Early Ipswich	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Midpoint and Other Poems	Template:Ylt	poetry	collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (Template:Ylt)
Bottom's Dream	Template:Ylt	children's book
Bech: A Book	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Complete Henry Bech (Template:Ylt)
Rabbit Redux	Template:Ylt	novel	collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Template:Ylt)
Museums and Women and Other Stories	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (Template:Ylt)
Buchanan Dying	Template:Ylt	play	reprinted in Template:Ylt
Cunts	Template:Ylt	poetry	limited edition chapbook
A Month of Sundays	Template:Ylt	novel	part of The Scarlet Letter trilogy
Picked-Up Pieces	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Marry Me	Template:Ylt	novel
Tossing and Turning	Template:Ylt	poetry	collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (Template:Ylt)
The Coup	Template:Ylt	novel
Too Far to Go	Template:Ylt	short stories	reprinted as The Maples Stories in Template:Ylt
Problems and Other Stories	Template:Ylt	short stories
Rabbit is Rich	Template:Ylt	novel	collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Template:Ylt)
Bech is Back	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Complete Henry Bech (Template:Ylt)
Hugging the Shore	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
The Witches of Eastwick	Template:Ylt	novel
Facing Nature	Template:Ylt	poetry	collected in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 (Template:Ylt)
Roger's Version	Template:Ylt	novel	part of The Scarlet Letter trilogy
Trust Me	Template:Ylt	short stories
S.	Template:Ylt	novel	part of The Scarlet Letter trilogy
Just Looking: Essays on Art	Template:Ylt	non-fiction	reprinted in Template:Ylt
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Rabbit at Rest	Template:Ylt	novel	collected in Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Template:Ylt)
Odd Jobs	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Memories of the Ford Administration	Template:Ylt	novel
Collected Poems: 1953–1993	Template:Ylt	poetry
Brazil	Template:Ylt	novel
The Afterlife and Other Short Stories	Template:Ylt	short stories
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels	Template:Ylt	novels	collects the Rabbit novels
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects	Template:Ylt	children's book
In the Beauty of the Lilies	Template:Ylt	novel
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Toward the End of Time	Template:Ylt	novel
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel	Template:Ylt	short stories	collected in The Complete Henry Bech (Template:Ylt)
More Matter: Essays and Criticism	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Gertrude and Claudius	Template:Ylt	novel
On Literary Biography	Template:Ylt	non-fiction	limited edition
Licks of Love	Template:Ylt	short stories
Humor in Fiction	Template:Ylt	non-fiction	limited edition
The Complete Henry Bech	Template:Ylt	short stories	collects the Bech books
Americana and Other Poems	Template:Ylt	poetry
Seek My Face	Template:Ylt	novel
The Early Stories: 1953–1975	Template:Ylt	short stories	collects previously published collections
Not Cancelled Yet	Template:Ylt	poetry	limited edition
Villages	Template:Ylt	novel
Still Looking: Essays on American Art	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
Terrorist	Template:Ylt	novel
Due Considerations: Essays and Critcism	Template:Ylt	non-fiction
The Widows of Eastwick	Template:Ylt	novel
Endpoint and Other Poems	Template:Ylt	poetry	posthumous publication
My Father's Tears and Other Stories	Template:Ylt	short stories	posthumous publication
The Maples Stories	Template:Ylt	short stories	posthumous publication; reprint of Too Far to Go (Template:Ylt)

See also

• Alfred A. Knopf
• Bibliography of Philip Roth
• The New Yorker

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.

External links

• A Revised Cumulative Updike Publications Bibliography 1997-2009--Books, Short Stories, Articles, Reviews, and Poems, The Centaurian Updike Homepage
• Books by John Updike
• Books and Writers: John Updike
• New York Review of Books Updike archive (complete)
• New Yorker archive