Philip Roth

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1960
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

American Trilogy

1 - American Pastoral (Jun-1997)
2 - I Married a Communist (Nov-1998)
3 - Human Stain (Apr-2000)

David Kepesh

1 - The Breast (1973)
2 - The Professor of Desire (Sep-1977)
3 - The Dying Animal (May-2001)

Nathan Zuckerman

1 - My Life As a Man (1974)
2 - The Ghost Writer (Aug-1979)
3 - Zuckerman Unbound (Apr-1981)
4 - The Anatomy Lesson (Nov-1983)
5 - The Prague Orgy (1985)
6 - The Counterlife (Jan-1987)
7 - Exit Ghost (Oct-2007)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Goodbye, Columbus

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winnning writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion comes "a masterpiece" (Newsweek) that illuminates the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friend...

  • Letting Go

    The first full-length novel from one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century, the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral, tells the story of a mid-century America and offers “further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing talen...

  • When She Was Good

    In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. ...

  • Portnoy's Complaint

    Unabridged on audio, read by Ron Silver and directed by the author, Philip Roth

    Portnoy's Complaint is the famously outrageous confession made to his analyst by Alexander Portnoy, the Huck Finn of Newark, who is trust through life by his...

  • Our Gang

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    From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. • “Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" -- The New York Times Book Rev...

  • The Breast

    David Kepesh - 1

    From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed -- into a 155-pound breast. What follows is “terrific…inventive and sa...

  • My Life As a Man

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    Nathan Zuckerman - 1

    The Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness. • "Roth's best.” -- NewsweekA fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and h...

  • Reading Myself and Others

    The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work an...

  • The Professor of Desire

    David Kepesh - 2

    From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral -- "a thoughtful...elegant" (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce b...



  • The Ghost Writer

    Nathan Zuckerman - 2

    The novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winnning author’s most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol....

  • A Philip Roth Reader

    Selections from nine novels following Goodbye Columbus, Roth's first book, including Letting Go, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Ghost Writer, chronicle Roth's satiric and sensitive examination of art, life, and personal crisis...

  • Zuckerman Unbound

    Nathan Zuckerman - 3

    A “masterful” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral tells the story of a bestselling writer whose life is falling apart -- all because of his great good fortune. Now in his mid-thirti...

  • The Anatomy Lesson

    Nathan Zuckerman - 4

    From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral -- and one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century -- ”a ferocious, heartfelt book” (The New Yorker) featuring Nathan Zuckerman whose life is about to unravel when he com...

  • The Prague Orgy

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    Nathan Zuckerman - 5

    From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral -- “a lithe comic masterpiece” (Newsweek) consisting of notebook entries from one of his best-loved characters, Nathan Zuckerman. In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Y...

  • The Counterlife

    Nathan Zuckerman - 6

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A “magnificent…splendid” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral about people living out their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them...

  • Deception

    A dazzling novel about a man and woman married to other people -- and the riveting conversations that take place before and after they make love -- from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral. "This swift, elegant, disturb...

  • The Great American Novel

    From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral -- a richly imagined novel featuring America’s only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers “shameless comic extravagance…. Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let...

  • Operation Shylock: a Confession

    What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography and went around the world pretending to be you? In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name ...

  • Sabbath's Theater

    He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's astonishing new...



  • The Conversion of the Jews

  • American Pastoral

    American Trilogy - 1

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece -- an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, w...

  • I Married a Communist

    American Trilogy - 2

    Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lin...

  • Human Stain

    American Trilogy - 3

    It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a rac...

  • The Dying Animal

    David Kepesh - 3

    David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly p...

  • The Plot Against America

    Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history -- the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president -- is soon to be an HBO limited series.   In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, ...

  • Everyman

    Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one ...

  • Novels 1973-1977

    This third volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of Philip Roth’s collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America’s indispensable novelists.

  • Exit Ghost

    Nathan Zuckerman - 7

    The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven year...

  • Indignation

    It is 1951, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner, of Newark, New Jersey, is beginning his sophomore year at pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems ...



  • The Humbling

    Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt ...

  • Nemesis

    In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, and even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenchin...

  • Operation Shylock

    WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of American Pastoral -- a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member...

Award-Winning Books by Philip Roth

American Pastoral
1998 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
The Counterlife
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction
Everyman
2007 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction
Goodbye, Columbus
1960 National Book Award -- Fiction
Human Stain
2000 National Jewish Book Award -- Fiction
2001 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction
I Married a Communist
1999 Ambassador Book Award -- Fiction
Operation Shylock: a Confession
1994 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction
Sabbath's Theater
1995 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Philip Roth has published 32 books.

Philip Roth does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Operation Shylock, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, was published in January 1960.

Yes. Philip Roth has 3 series.
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