Saul Bellow

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1953
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Adventures of Augie March

    The great novel of the American dream, of “the universal eligibility to be noble,” Saul Bellow’s third book charts the picaresque journey of one schemer, chancer, romantic, and holy fool: Augie March. Awarded the National Book Award in 1953, T...

  • Seize the Day

    Seize the day. Be in the present. Grasp the hour, the moment, the instant. This is the dubious advice given by outlandish Dr. Tamkin -- part psychologist, part stockbroker -- to poor Tommy Wilhelm. Unemployed, at the whim of his ex-wife and two child...

  • Henderson the Rain King

    The most exuberant and funny of all Bellow’s novels, Henderson the Rain King remained the author’s personal favorite. Its outsized hero, Eugene Henderson, a mountain of a man, a millionaire, the father of many, remains adrift. Aggrieved, worn-out...

  • Herzog

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    Moses E. Herzog, the protagonist of Saul Bellow’s Herzog finds himself in a pickle. He may be handsome, witty and wise, but his wife has just taken off with his best friend, and he is without resources to face his troubles. What is an academic to d...

  • The Last Analysis

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  • The Dangling Man

    An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow -- now with an introduction by J. M. CoetzeeA Penguin Classic Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his depar...

  • The Victim

    "The best novel to come out of America -- or England -- for a generation."  -- V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books A Penguin Classic In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysteri...

  • Mr. Sammler's Planet

    Who is Mr. Sammler? A Jewish intellectual educated in Western philosophy, a one-eyed Holocaust survivor, the future author of the greatest biography ever written of H.G. Wells ... or merely the trusted confidant of countless eccentric New Yorkers, a ...



  • Humboldt's Gift

    With his uncanny wit and perception, Saul Bellow tells the story of Charlie Citrine, a young man whose life is reaching a critical moment. Over several years, Charlie’s almost obsessive love of literature has led him into a deep friendship with the...

  • To Jerusalem and Back

    In 1975, Saul Bellow traveled through Israel, turning his keen powers of observation upon the country he did not know. This book is a record of his stay -- his personal experiences and fleeting impressions -- and a reflection upon what he ultimately ...

  • Dean's December

    After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of seve...

  • Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

    Five of Saul Bellow’s most moving, richly textured, and exquisitely plotted short stories make up this volume, each providing a history of personality and self-awakening. The title story, “Him with His Foot in His Mouth,” follows a musicologist...

  • Great Jewish Short Stories

    In this wonderfully entertaining collection edited by Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, 28 stories by outstanding Jewish authors capture all the bold color and rich flavor of Jewish culture through the ages. Includes stories by Sholom Aleichem,...

  • More Die of Heartbreak

    In More Die of Heartbreak, our erratic narrator explains to his audience that he must abandon Paris for the Midwest. Of course, Kenneth merely wants to be closer to his beloved uncle, the world-famous botanist Benn Crader, to receive the older man’...

  • Theft: A Novella

  • A Theft

    Corporate executive Clara Velde has little patience with her fourth and current husband. She holds her passion for another man in an emerald ring that disappears repeatedly. Her attempts to recover the precious ring establish her as a genuine heroine...

  • The Bellarosa Connection

    A powerfully compressed exploration of the meaning of memory, The Bellarosa Connection is a masterful novella from a writer whose new work of fiction is further testament to his acclaimed gifts in creativity....

  • Something to Remember Me by

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    A collection of three novellas

    A Theft

    A clever but tender novella is also Bellow''s first book to feature a woman as its principal character. A 40ish executive of an international publishing group, Clara is ""the czarina of fashion wri...



  • It all Adds Up

    In this collection of more than thirty essays, published in The New York Times, Esquire and The New Republic, the vast range of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction is made abundantly clear. In Bellow’s capable hands, a single essay can range fluidly across ...

  • The Actual

    “The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time.” "The New York Times Book ReviewA Penguin Classic In this dazzling work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims...

  • Ravelstein

    Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has s...

  • Collected Stories

    Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Now collected...

  • Novels 1956-1964

    Passionate, insightful, often funny, and exhibiting a linguistic richness few writers have equaled, the novels of Saul Bellow are among the defining achievements of postwar American literature. The Library of America volume Novels 1956"1964 opens...

  • Modern Classics It All Adds Up

    Bellow was americas writer, and in this superb collection of nonfiction essays he demonstated his vigilance of and loyalty to his country over a span of 45 years from his earliest piece, a war report from spain written for the partisan review (1948),...

  • Him With His Foot in His Mouth

    'We were friends, somehow.But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy.All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing.'

    Vital...

  • Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000

    For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career -- which included winning the Nobel P...

  • Leaving the Yellow House

Award-Winning Books by Saul Bellow

The Actual
1997 National Jewish Book Award -- Fiction
The Adventures of Augie March
1954 National Book Award -- Fiction
Herzog
1965 National Book Award -- Fiction
Humboldt's Gift
1976 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
Mr. Sammler's Planet
1971 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Saul Bellow has published 28 books.

Saul Bellow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Leaving the Yellow House, was published in February 2018.

The first book by Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, was published in September 1953.

No. Saul Bellow does not write books in series.
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