John Updike bibliography

The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike, an American author, poet, and essayist.

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)

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