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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1947
  • Latest Book:
    November 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Winds of War

1 - Winds of War (Jun-1973)
2 - War and Remembrance (Nov-1978)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • The publication of 'Aurora Dawn' in 1947 immediately established Herman Wouk as a novelist of exceptional literary and historical significance. Today, Aurora Dawn's themes have grown still more relevant and, in the manner of all great fiction, its ch...



  • Over two years a national bestseller, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's compelling Pulitzer Prize novel of the U.S. Navy in World War II -- of Captain Queeg, the nervous, despotic commanding officer of the Caine; of Willie Keith, the careless, fun-lo...



  • An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misa...



  • NOW A FEATURE FILM DIRECTED BY WILLIAM FRIEDKIN AND STARRING KIEFER SUTHERLAND, STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIME   THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL is Herman Wouk's own stage adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel The...



  • Now hailed as a "proto-feminist classic" (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favorite since it was first a bests...



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    The tempestuous and dazzling career of a young novelist from the Kentucky hills .. . his meteoric rise to worldwide fame . . . the spectacular fortunes he made and lost .. . the secret maneuvers and intrigues that swirled about him . . the incredible...



  • It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise.It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York Ci...



  • Herman Wouk’s sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America’s most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk’s...



  • Herman Wouk’s sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America’s most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the wa...








  • A “truly enjoyable” journey through one man’s Jewish American experience by the #1 New York Times-bestselling authorof Marjorie Morningstar (Newsday).   Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing time in ...





  • "Valuable, wise, and quietly moving" (Chicago Tribune), This Is My God is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion w...



  • New York Times Bestseller: A “sprawling, action-packed novel” of Israel by the author of The Hope (Philadelphia Inquirer). This follow-up to The Hope plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967 -- and continues ...



  • An exciting tale of the interlocking fates of three families, this sweeping epic saga of the war-torn history of Israel spans the time from the 1948 War of Independence to the 1967 Six-Day War. 11 cassettes....



  • With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a fa...



  • For more than fifty years, legendary author Herman Wouk has dreamed of writing a novel about the life of Moses. Finally, at age ninety-seven, he has found an ingeniously witty way to tell the tale in The Lawgiver, a romantic and suspenseful epistolar...


Award-Winning Books by Herman Wouk

The Caine Mutiny
1951 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Herman Wouk has published 17 books.

Herman Wouk does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lawgiver, was published in November 2012.

The first book by Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn, was published in April 1947.

Yes. Herman Wouk has 1 series.