Louis Auchincloss

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1964
  • Latest Book:
    December 2008
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Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Rector of Justin

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    “[A] certifiable masterpiece” from the acclaimed chronicler of New York City’s old money elite (The New York Observer).   Widely considered Louis Auchincloss’s greatest novel, The Rector of Justin is an astute dissection of the social mo...

  • The Embezzler

    Like Francis Prescott in The Rector of Justin, Guy Prime enjoyed the distinction of having become a legend in his lifetime. But in Guy's case, the legend is one of betrayal and infamy. For the scandal of his embezzlement brought down the delicately b...

  • Tales of Manhattan

  • I Come As a Thief

    A novel about a fortunate man tripped up by temptation, from the New York Times"bestselling author of The Embezzler and The Partners.   Tony Lowder is the able and good-looking grandson of an Irish immigrant who prospered as a contractor -- an...

  • Partners

    A New York Times"bestselling novel of love, money, and ambition among the employees of a white-shoe law firm. From a renowned chronicler of American high society, this is a novel set in the small but distinguished New York law firm of Shepard, Putn...

  • The Winthrop covenant

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    Spanning three centuries, these nine stories share the conflicts of a wealthy New England family while portraying the rise and fall of the Puritan ethic.The Winthrop Heritage begins in the stern confines of the Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Governor Jo...

  • The Dark Lady

    The offices, penthouses, and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from the 1930s to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it exacts.In ...

  • The Country Cousin

  • The House of the Prophet

    A novel about a powerful public intellectual -- and about what is true in the end -- by an acclaimed New York Times"bestselling author.   Felix Leitner has been a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, an advisor to presidents, an author...



  • Powers of Attorney

    Tales that take you behind the scenes of a powerful New York law firm, from the New York Times"bestselling author of The Partners. Ambition, jealousy, desire, hatred, deceit -- they’re all there inside the Wall Street law offices of Tower, Tilney...

  • The Cat and the King

    A cat may look at a king, says an old proverb. The king is the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, whose fabled court at Versailles was the wonder of Europe; the cat is the watchful chronicler, Louis de Rouvroy, second duc de Saint-Simon, author of the fa...

  • Watchfires

    The marriage of Dexter and Rosalie Fairchild--a relationship reflecting the security and privilege of their upper-class New York City lives--is disrupted by personal and political tensions arising from the Civil War....

  • Narcissa and Other Fables

    Twelve stories observing modern American life and morals in the twentieth century, from the National Medal of Arts"winning author of The Cat and the King.With this collection of short stories, Louis Auchincloss will delight his already devoted foll...

  • Exit Lady Masham

    In this witty historical novel by the author of Watchfires, a poor woman joins the eighteenth-century court of Queen Anne and ends a war.On the Continent, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, is laying waste to the lowlands in a bloody combat with Lo...

  • The Book Class

    The author of Exit Lady Masham explores the lives of twelve members of a high society ladies’ book club in New York over the course of sixty years.“If I have a bias it is in my suspicion that women are intellectually and intuitively superior to m...

  • False Dawn

    Traces the history, culture, and society of seventeenth-century Europe through the lives of such outstanding women as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Madame de Maintenon, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II, Abigail, Lady Masham, and others...

  • Pioneers and Caretakers

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    Pioneers and Caretakers was first published in 1965.In a series of stimulating and highly readable essays, Mr. Auchincloss discusses the work of nine American women novelists in whom he finds a unity of common tradition. As the title of the book impl...

  • Honorable Men

    Chip Benedict, a rich, successful, socially secure, and handsome man, is haunted by dark guilt and is consequently driven to excel, to conform, and to embrace a righteousness that he fails to perceive as hypocrisy...

  • Honourable Men

    From a New York Times"bestselling author: A novel about a member of the Greatest Generation wrestling with moral choices over the next generation’s war in Vietnam.   Chip Benedict appeared to have the best of everything: wealth, education, g...



  • Diary of a Yuppie

    In this novel by the author of Honorable Men, a hot-shot corporate lawyer will sacrifice anything for success in 1980s Manhattan.Bob Service is a thirty-two-year-old crack lawyer with blood as cold and clear as a five-dollar martini. His god is power...

  • Skinny Island

    Twelve stories contemplating destiny and detailing the life of Manhattan’s upper class over the course of one hundred years, from the author of Honorable Men.It’s only twelve miles long and two miles wide, but it has more money for its area, more...

  • Portrait in Brownstone

  • The Golden Calves

    A young Manhattan art museum curator goes to questionable lengths to garner success in this dramatic novel by the author of Diary of a Yuppie.In a world of opulent museums, lavish homes, and extravagant dreams, public spectacle pales before private i...

  • Fellow Passengers

    In this novel by the author of The Golden Calves set in 1930s high society, a young man recounts the people in his life and what he’s learned from them.This superb gallery of portraits gathers its wit and resonance from the discerning eye of the ce...

  • The Lady of Situations

    The New York Times"bestselling author “picks up where Wharton and James left off, with [a] stylish, tasteful novel of manners” (Publishers Weekly).   Natica Chauncey, the daughter of a financier ruined by the Great Depression, is determine...

  • Love without Wings

    The author of The Vanderbilt Era examines sixteen famous friendships, from Boswell and Johnson to Hawthorne and Melville.This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms -- from true intimacy to professional detente bet...

  • False Gods

    Six stories blending ancient Greek mythology with modern, upper-class Manhattan, from the author of Skinny Island.Louis Auchincloss once again evokes the beguiling world of New York society that he has made his own special literary landscape. Inspire...

  • Three Lives

    "Three Lives, more radically than any other work of the time* in English, brought the language back to life. Not the life of the peasantry or the emotions or the proletariat but life as it was lived by everybody living in the century, the average or ...

  • Tales of Yesteryear

    The author of False Gods and winner of the National Medal of Arts offers eight stories looking into the lives of the wealthy -- but troubled -- elite.Set in various decades throughout twentieth century, this entertaining short story collection reveal...



  • The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss

    This New York Times"bestselling author’s story collection “displays consistent excellence in observing the spheres of art, law, money and society” (Publishers Weekly).   Whether set in the world of Wall Street, the nineteenth-century Vir...

  • The Education of Oscar Fairfax

    In this novel by the author of Three Lives, a blue blood New York lawyer recounts his life through stories of people he has encountered along the way.Linking three generations of a Wall Street law firm, The Education of Oscar Fairfax provides a revea...

  • The Man Behind the Book

    Twenty-three biographical essays on writers admired by the National Medal of Arts"winning author of The Education of Oscar Fairfax.For Louis Auchincloss, life and letters are not two things but one. It therefore comes as no surprise that when he wr...

  • The Atonement and Other Stories

    Gaze into the lives of the twentieth century’s wealthy and declining WASP establishment in these twelve stories by the author of The Education of Oscar Fairfax.No one else writes about the moral life of America’s moneyed class with anything appro...

  • The Great World and Timothy Colt

    Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it is more like a seat of government than a place of business. To Timothy Colt, law is the very essence of ...

  • The Anniversary and Other Stories

    From a New York Times"bestselling author: A collection of short fiction “reminiscent of the work of Henry James and Edith Wharton” (Library Journal).   Crisscrossing a tumultuous century, these stories evoke lives both blessed and cursed b...

  • Her Infinite Variety

    HER INFINITE VARIETY spins the charmingly wicked tale of Clara Hoyt, perhaps one of the most colorful characters in the Auchincloss oeuvre. Employing uncommon savvy and elan, she charts a wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's ...

  • Manhattan Monologues

    From a New York Times"bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history:“Urbane, humorous . . . a treat to read.” -- Library Journal Sublime master of manners, exquisite criti...

  • The Scarlet Letters

    A New York Times"bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.   The year is 1953, and the coastal village of Glenville, on the opulent north shore of Long Island, is shaken...

  • East Side Story

    A “novel of power and hypocrisy in upper-class New York” that follows the rise of one prominent family, generation after generation (The New Yorker). How did the families who live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side get to where they are today? This...



  • The Young Apollo and Other Stories

    Short stories from a New York Times"bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.   While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their charac...

  • The Friend of Women and Other Stories

    The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces. In the title story, a teacher at a private girls' school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage his students to find a life less const...

  • The Headmaster's Dilemma

    The Headmaster's Dilemma shows Mr. Auchincloss returning to the subject of his most famous novel, The Rector of Justin. Published in 1964, that novel took the form of a fictional biography, giving the reader the full life story of a much beloved and ...

  • Last of the Old Guard

    A prominent lawyer in 1940s New York investigates the mystery of his partner’s life and death in this novel by a New York Times"bestselling author.   Nearing the end of his days, Adrian Suydam, half the partnership of the law firm of Suydam ...

  • Indifferent Children

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Louis Auchincloss has published 44 books.

Louis Auchincloss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Last of the Old Guard, was published in December 2008.

The first book by Louis Auchincloss, Rector of Justin, was published in January 1964.

No. Louis Auchincloss does not write books in series.
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