How many books has Don DeLillo written?

Don DeLillo has written 127 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1969 to 2023.

What is the first book in each Don DeLillo series?

Here are the first books in Don DeLillo's series: Anthologies: Storming the Reality Studio; Literary Conversations: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges; Standalone Plays: The Day Room.

What order should I read Don DeLillo's books?

We recommend reading Don DeLillo's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.

Are Don DeLillo's series complete?

Don DeLillo has 5 completed series.

Don DeLillo Reading Order

6 series · 127 books · Born 1936

Literary Fiction

Don DeLillo is an American novelist and essayist whose sprawling body of work spans decades of literary innovation. His fiction tackles expansive themes including technology, political violence, consumer culture, and the American psyche, combining intellectual rigor with compelling narrative momentum. DeLillo's influential novels and essays have established him as a defining voice in contemporary American literature, known for exploring how media, language, and ideology shape modern experience.

Anthologies Series

Complete

8 books (1991–2012)

Start with Storming the Reality Studio, the first of 8 books in the Anthologies series.

Start this series with Storming the Reality Studio

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1	Storming the Reality Studio 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Writing New York 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Good Parts 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Baseball: a Literary Anthology 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Secret Ingredients 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Pen America 13 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Legacy of David Foster Wallace 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Literary Conversations Series

Likely Complete

97 books (1969–2023)

Start with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, the first of 97 books in the Literary Conversations series.

Start this series with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

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#	Title
1	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Conversations with Graham Greene 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Conversations with Walker Percy 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Conversations with William Styron 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Truman Capote: Conversations 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Conversations with Edward Albee 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Conversations with James Baldwin 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Conversations with Robert Graves 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Conversations with John Gardner 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Conversations with Robert Coles 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Conversations with Richard Wright 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Conversations with Henry Miller 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Conversations with Chester Himes 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Conversations With John Fowles 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Conversations With William Faulkner 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Conversations with Richard Ford 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Conversations with Clarence Major 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Conversations with Erica Jong 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	Conversations with Rita Dove 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	Conversations With John le Carré 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Conversations with Larry Brown 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Short Stories/Novellas Series

Complete

1 book (2001–2001)

#	Title
1	Pafko at the Wall 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Short Story Collections Series

Complete

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	The Angel Esmeralda 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Novels Series

Complete

17 books (1971–2020)

Start with Americana, the first of 17 books in the Standalone Novels series.

Start this series with Americana

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#	Title
1	Americana 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	End Zone 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Great Jones Street 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Ratner's Star 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Players 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Running Dog 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Names 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	White Noise 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Libra 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Mao II 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Underworld 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Body Artist 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Cosmopolis 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Falling Man 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Point Omega 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Zero K 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Silence 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Plays Series

Complete

3 books (1986–2002)

Start with The Day Room and read in order.

Start this series with The Day Room

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#	Title
1	The Day Room 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Valparaiso 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Love-Lies-Bleeding 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Don DeLillo written?: Don DeLillo has written 127 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1969 to 2023.
What is the first book in each Don DeLillo series?: Here are the first books in Don DeLillo's series: Anthologies: Storming the Reality Studio; Literary Conversations: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges; Standalone Plays: The Day Room.
What order should I read Don DeLillo's books?: We recommend reading Don DeLillo's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
Are Don DeLillo's series complete?: Don DeLillo has 5 completed series.

Don DeLillo Reading Order

Anthologies Series

Literary Conversations Series

Short Stories/Novellas Series

Short Story Collections Series

Standalone Novels Series

Standalone Plays Series

Frequently Asked Questions

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