John Cheever

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1957
  • Latest Book:
    June 2021
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Wapshot Chronicle

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    Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever''s National Book Award-winning first novel, finally back in print. A Vintage Original.

    By 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won t...

  • The Wapshot Scandal

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    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented cap...

  • The Swimmer

    REELING FROM THE REELS What was the original inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO? Where did David Cronenberg get the idea for THE FLY? Who dreamed up the character that Arnold Schwarzeneggar played in TOTAL RECALL? If you have ever wondered...

  • Bullet Park

    From "a master American storyteller" (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in ...

  • The World of Apples

    Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever's people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...decency, common sense, nostalgia, even truth. Stunned by these encounters, they nevertheless sur...

  • Falconer

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe ben...

  • The Stories of John Cheever

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of...

  • Oh, What a Paradise It Seems

    From one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers, this “luminous ephiphany of life ... [is] a charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss” (The Washington Post Book World). Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever's final nov...

  • Vintage Cheever

    In his finely wrought novels and short stories, John Cheever created men and women, young and old, suburbanites and city dwellers, all of whom, whether they reside in St. Botolphs or Bullet Park or mid-century Manhattan or some other mythic place, ar...



  • Thirteen Uncollected Stories

    A gathering of thirteen never-before-collected stories, originally published in the 1930s and 1940s, shows Cheever's use of unusual themes, techniques, and characters early in his career and gives a vivid picture of life during the Depression....

  • Essential Cheever

    One Great Author. One Great CD.

    Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.

    As Cheever wrote, "These stories seem at times to be stories...

  • John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings

    John Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, howeve...

  • John Cheever: Complete Novels

    Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey?s groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the asc...

  • Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories

    The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the pub...

  • The Collected Works of John Cheever

    Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, "Collected Stories and Other Writings," combines the Pulitzer Prize winning collection "The Stories of John Cheever" with seve...

  • The Jewels of the Cabots

    In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quie...

  • Drinking

  • A Vision of the World

Award-Winning Books by John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever
1978 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction
1978 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
1981 National Book Award -- Fiction (paperback)
The Wapshot Chronicle
1958 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Cheever has published 18 books.

John Cheever does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Vision of the World, was published in June 2021.

The first book by John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, was published in January 1957.

No. John Cheever does not write books in series.
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