F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading Order

14 books (1954–2020)

This series comprises 13 literary anthologies published between 1954 and 2018, featuring short stories and works by F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside other classic American and British writers. The collection includes themed volumes such as Writing New York, Writing Los Angeles, and The Lost Generation Reader, as well as broader selections like The Best American Short Stories of the Century and 50 Classic Novellas. Each book functions as a standalone anthology and should be read in publication order for a chronological perspective on anthology curation over six decades. The series is complete.

Start with Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Writing New York 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Writing Los Angeles 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 - 1950 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	50 Classic Novellas 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Flappers, Jazz, & Bootleg Whiskey 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Radio Silence 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Favorite Love Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

34 books (1914–2020)

This 33-book Collections series gathers F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories, plays, and selected works spanning from 1914 to 2020. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 and progressing through various thematic and chronological collections. These volumes showcase Fitzgerald's literary fiction across different periods of his career, from his apprentice work through his most celebrated stories of the Jazz Age.

Start with F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14, the first of 33 books in the Collections series.

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1	F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 1914Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917 1917Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Spires and Gargoyles 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Flappers and Philosophers 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Short Stories 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories 1921Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Tales of the Jazz Age 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	All the Sad Young Men 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Basil and Josephine Stories 1928Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 1931Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1931Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Taps at Reveille 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Lost Decade and other stories 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Poems 1911-1940 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Pat Hobby Stories 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Bits of Paradise(With: Zelda Fitzgerald) 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Price Was High 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Afternoon of an Author 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Before Gatsby 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	On Booze 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Gatsby Girls 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Mystery & Fantasy Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Last of the Belles and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Love Boat and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	All of the Belles 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

97 books (1969–2023)

The Literary Conversations series spans 97 volumes of interviews and discussions with major literary figures, published between 1969 and 2023. Each book focuses on a single author or writer, featuring conversations that explore their work, creative process, and literary perspectives. These volumes should be read in publication order, beginning with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges and continuing through discussions with writers including Czeslaw Milosz, Graham Greene, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, and many others. The series appears to be complete, offering readers direct insight into the thoughts and experiences of some of the twentieth century's most significant literary voices.

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

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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

11 books (1936–2013)

This eleven-book non-fiction series collects essays, letters, notebooks, and autobiographical writings by F. Scott Fitzgerald, spanning from 1936 to 2013. The collection includes his personal correspondence with editors and fellow writers, reflections on his craft, and intimate glimpses into his creative process and life. Reading these works in publication order provides the most coherent progression through Fitzgerald's evolving thoughts and circumstances. This complete series offers scholars and fans comprehensive access to the literary figure beyond his celebrated novels.

Start with The Crack-Up, the first of 11 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	The Crack-Up 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	As ever, Scott Fitz 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dear Scott/Dear Max 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Life in Letters 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda(With: Zelda Fitzgerald) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	On Authorship 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	A Short Autobiography 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Dreams of Youth 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

26 books (1919–2018)

This complete collection comprises 26 short stories and novellas by F. Scott Fitzgerald, spanning from 1919 to 2018. The stories should be read in publication order, beginning with "Babes in the Woods" and progressing through celebrated pieces like "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Ice Palace," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These literary fiction works showcase Fitzgerald's mastery of the short form, capturing the spirit and social dynamics of the Jazz Age and beyond. The series represents a comprehensive gathering of the author's shorter fiction across nearly a century of publication.

Start with Babes in the Woods, the first of 26 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

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1	Babes in the Woods 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Benediction 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Head and Shoulders 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	May Day 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Myra Meets His Family 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Camel's Back 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Four Fists 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Ice Palace 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Jelly-Bean 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Lees of Happiness 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Offshore Pirate 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside 1921Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Winter Dreams 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Absolution 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Gretchen's Forty Winks 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Cruise of the Rolling Junk 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Love in the Night 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Rich Boy 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Magnetism 1928Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Night at Chancellorsville 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Basil the Freshest Boy 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	What a Handsome Pair ! 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1920–2006)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Standalone Novels collection spans eight literary works published between 1920 and 2006, presenting his complete and finished output in this category. These independent novels should be read in publication order, beginning with This Side of Paradise and concluding with The Popular Girl. The series comprises both his most celebrated works and lesser-known pieces, offering readers a comprehensive view of Fitzgerald's evolution as a literary fiction writer across the twentieth century.

Start with This Side of Paradise, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	This Side of Paradise 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Beautiful and Damned 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Diamond as Big as the Ritz 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Great Gatsby 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tender Is the Night 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Last Tycoon 1941Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Popular Girl 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible