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
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
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)
Impressions	1985		published by Sylvester & Orphanos
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
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

Library of America editions

After publishing the essay "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" as a standalone special edition book in 2010, and publishing two volumes of short stories in 2013 (available also as a boxed set), Library of America began a multi-volume edition of John Updike's novels in 2018, all under the editorship of Christopher Carduff.

Title	Year	Notes
Collected Early Stories	2013	102 stories written from 1953 to 1975 (LOA #242)
Collected Later Stories	2013	84 stories written from 1976 to 2008 (LOA #243)
Novels 1959‒1965	2018	The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit, Run, The Centaur, Of the Farm (LOA #311)
Novels 1968‒1975	2020	Couples, Rabbit Redux, A Month of Sundays (LOA #326)

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.
• Begley, Adam, Updike, Harper-Collins Publishers, New York, NY, 2014.

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
• Petri Liukkonen. "John Updike bibliography". Books and Writers.
• New York Review of Books Updike archive (complete)
• New Yorker archive