E.L. Doctorow Reading Order

5 books (1986–2001)

Start with Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Writing New York 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best American Short Stories 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Good Parts 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Writers on Writing 2001Buy 🇺🇸

97 books (1969–2023)

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

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

5 books (1983–2006)

Start with Essays and Conversations, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Essays and Conversations 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lamentation: 9/11 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1984–2013)

Start with Lives of the Poets, the first of 15 books in the Random House Reader's Circle series.

#	Title
1	Lives of the Poets 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Billy Bathgate 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tender at the Bone(By: Ruth Reichl) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Anthropology of an American Girl(By: Hilary Thayer Hamann) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	The White Garden(By: Stephanie Barron) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Delta Girls(By: Gayle Brandeis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Juliet(By: Anne Fortier) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Pull of the Moon(By: Elizabeth Berg) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wives of Henry Oades(By: Johanna Moran) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Game of Secrets(By: Dawn Tripp) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Definition of Wind(By: Ellen Block) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Homecoming of Samuel Lake(By: Jenny Wingfield) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	When We Were Friends(By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Invisible(By: Carla Buckley) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Lullaby of Polish Girls(By: Dagmara Dominczyk) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2011)

Start with Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sweet Land Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	All the Time in the World 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry 2011Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1960–2014)

Start with Welcome to Hard Times, the first of 13 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Welcome to Hard Times 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Big As Life 1966Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Book of Daniel 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ragtime 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Drinks Before Dinner 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Loon Lake 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	American Anthem(With: J.C. Suares) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
8	World's Fair 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Waterworks 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	City of God 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	The March 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	Homer & Langley 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Andrew's Brain 2014Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1986–2017)

Start with The American Newness(By: Irving Howe), the first of 18 books in the The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures series.

#	Title
1	The American Newness(By: Irving Howe) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Highbrow/Lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Playing in the Dark(By: Toni Morrison) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Dissent of the Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	To Be the Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	Reporting the Universe 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Architecture as Signs and Systems(By: Robert Venturi) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Circles and Lines(By: John Putnam Demos) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
14	Reshaping the Work-Family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Just a Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse) 2017Buy 🇺🇸