William S. Burroughs

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1959
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Nova Trilogy

Nova Express (Sep-1992)
The Soft Machine (Sep-1992)
Ticket That Exploded (Feb-1994)

Western Lands

1 - Cities of the Red Night (Apr-1981)
2 - The Place of Dead Roads (Jan-1984)
3 - The Western Lands (Dec-1987)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Naked Lunch

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    Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literat...

  • Junky

    Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work...

  • The Third Mind

  • Ah Pook Is Here! and Other Texts

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  • Exterminator!

    Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all...

  • Roosevelt after Inauguration

  • Cities of the Red Night

    Western Lands - 1

    The first novel of the Red Night trilogy: “The most complete and most devastatingly sardonic statement of William Burroughs’s apocalyptic vision” (Newsday).Drawing freely from science fiction, hardboiled mystery, drug culture, and grotesque hor...

  • The Place of Dead Roads

    Western Lands - 2

    A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in th...

  • Speed



  • Queer

    The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel CraigOriginally written in 19...

  • Blade Runner

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  • The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

    1975 Sever Books, First Edition, very slight signs of age, gift note inside, Many Photos. 115 pages. Gunned down in 1935, he laid in the hospital for 2 days prior to his death. Burroughs sat at his side and wrote down all he said, turned it into a ti...

  • The Western Lands

    Western Lands - 3

    The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough’s profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death -- a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age. 

    "Burrough's visionary power, his comi...

  • Interzone

    In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical tr...

  • Tornado Alley

  • Nova Express

    Nova Trilogy

    The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray upon men, hook them, and turn them into beasts. Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish futuristic tale one step further. T...

  • The Soft Machine

    Nova Trilogy

    In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious v...

  • The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead

    The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs crea...

  • The Cat Inside

    A meditation on the long and mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts by one of America's leading literary outlaws traces back to the Egyptian cult of the "animal other" and includes anecdotes about the author's own cats....



  • Speed and Kentucky Ham

    A pair of autobiographical novels with “a compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast’s romantic search for identity" (Rolling Stone). William S. Burroughs, Jr. -- son of the legendary outlaw author of Naked Lunch -...

  • Ticket That Exploded

    Nova Trilogy

    In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for...

  • My Education

    My Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the m...

  • Word Virus

    With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative nove...

  • The Burroughs File

    Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publicati...

  • Last Words

    Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine month...

  • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

    In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of d...

  • Come in with the Dutchman

    Before he was gunned down in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, in October 1935, Arthur Flegenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz, was generally considered New York’s number one racketeer. Taken to a hospital following the gangland shooting, Schu...

  • The Finger

  • Don't Hide the Madness

    Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs’ ...



  • Blade Runner: A Movie

  • Port of Saints

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William S. Burroughs has published 31 books.

William S. Burroughs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blade Runner: A Movie, was published in June 2022.

The first book by William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, was published in January 1959.

Yes. William S. Burroughs has 2 series.
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