Paul Theroux

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1972
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Sinning With Annie

  • The Consul's File

    Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, ...

  • A Christmas Card

  • Saint Jack

    An American pimp in Singapore finds his life of pleasure turning against him in this comic novel by the acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar.   Once a small-time American hustler, Jack Flowers found his calling when he jumped into the St...

  • World's End and Other Stories

  • London Snow

  • California and Other States of Grace

    A journey back to California and her father's bedside prompts the noted writer to recall her California childhood and her studies and career in the East and to examine the customs and mores of California...

  • The Mosquito Coast

    In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materia...

  • London Embassy



  • Girls at Play

  • Half Moon Street

  • O-Zone

    "Remarkable... Powerful... Mesmerizing... Lyrical."
    Susan Cheever
    Welcome to the America of the 21st century. The O-Zone is a forbidding land of nuclear waste, mutants, and aliens. Except for one place that is a beautiful oasis amidst the destr...

  • Picture Palace

    “Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft.” -- New York Review of BooksMaude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world’s most recognizable celebrities ...

  • Waldo

  • My Secret History

    Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveller, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. It beg...

  • Fong and the Indians

  • Jungle Lovers

  • Sinning with Annie and Other Stories

  • Chicago Loop

    "Riveting...CHICAGO LOOP is an icy tale brilliantly imagined."
    THE BOSTON GLOBE
    He knifes silently through the shadows of the steamy Chicago summer night, prowling for lonely souls who need his help. The desperate come to him, answering his ads...



  • To the Ends of the Earth

    “There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewAuthor and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he t...

  • Millroy the Magician

    When Julie Farina walks into the tent at the Barnstable County Fair to see Millroy the Magician her life is transformed. Millroy performs miracles in front of her spellbound eyes. Through Julie, Millroy fins the strength to go out and preach his evan...

  • The Greenest Island

  • The Great Railway Bazaar

    The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene).   In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train fro...

  • The Black House

    The Mundays have taken their failing marriage to the solace of a quaint old country house. Here, in peace and quiet, it might restore itself. Then a strange, beautiful apparition enters their life. A deliciously cruel reign of terror begins…a fatal...

  • The Family Arsenal

    Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order through the opium fog of his room. His sometimes bedmate, Mayo, has stolen a Flemish painting and is negotiating for publicity with "The Times". Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in re...

  • My Other Life

    In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond." The book spans almost thirt...

  • Kowloon Tong

    In this “moody thriller,” a family business is targeted for takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the Chinese (The New York Times).   Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hon...

  • Theroux: Collected Stories

    More than sixty stories, written over a period of twenty-five years and including such genres as mystery, farce, and satire, are contained in this first major retrospective of the work of the best-selling author of The Mosquito Coast and The ...

  • Sir Vidia's Shadow

    The acclaimed writer shares an intimate portrait of his former mentor V.S. Naipaul in this memoir of their thirty-year friendship and sudden falling out.Paul Theroux was a young aspiring writer when he met the legendary V.S. Naipaul in Uganda in 1966...



  • The Collected Short Novels

    This collection of Theroux's short novels span his fictional world: from a pair of post-adolescent malcontents hiding from their future to a vulnerable ageing stripper and single mother who finds God. Theroux's characters struggle with indeterminate,...

  • Hotel Honolulu

    A writer turned Hawaiian hotel manager observes the many lives that pass through his rooms in this novel by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar. A New York Times Notable BookIn this wickedly satiric romp, a down-on-his-luck writer finds escape fro...

  • Fresh Air Fiend

    Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparab...

  • The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories

  • The Kingdom by the Sea

    This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review). After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out...

  • Blinding Light

    Slade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets out for Ecuador’s jungle ...

  • Journey without Maps

    His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding recor...

  • The Elephanta Suite

    A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's charac...

  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this “funny, informative and lyrical” travelogue (The Guardian, UK).Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounti...

  • The Dead Hand

    A travel writer is drawn into a strange criminal case, and an even stranger romantic affair, in a novel that brings India “brilliantly, blazingly to life” (The Washington Post).   When Jerry Delfont, an aimless, blocked travel writer, receiv...



  • Murder in Mount Holly

    Paul Theroux, one of the world's most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written. During the time of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss is...

  • Tao of Travel

  • The Lower River

    Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return t...

  • Mr. Bones

    A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the brilliantly evocative ("Time") Paul Theroux A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned ...

  • Mother Land

    A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the...

  • Camp Echo

    Celebrated as the “Indiana Jones of American literature,” legendary author Paul Theroux has explored the world and shared his vision of it in more than 50 books of bestselling fiction and nonfiction.In Camp Echo, his new novella for Scribd Origin...

  • Under the Wave at Waimea

    “Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” "Francine Prose, New York Times Book ReviewFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we cho...

  • The Bad Angel Brothers

    From the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother -- a powerful lawyer with a pattern of gleefully vicious betrayal...

  • Burma Sahib

    Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century“Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto… his fictional account of Blair’s life there [Burma] is a valid and ent...

  • The Vanishing Point

    From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and “master of the short story” (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection.The stories in Paul Theroux’s fascinating new collection are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Af...



  • Doctor Demarr

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    A short novel about identical twins, George and Gerald, who hate each other from an early age. Unhappily chained together during childhood, adulthood brings release, until George dies and Gerald discovers his double life of fraud and drug abuse....

  • Two Stars

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Theroux has published 51 books.

The next book by Paul Theroux, The Vanishing Point, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Paul Theroux, Sinning With Annie, was published in June 1972.

No. Paul Theroux does not write books in series.
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