F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading Order
6 series · 188 books · Born 24 September 1896
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a pivotal American author known for his evocative storytelling and vivid depictions of the Jazz Age. Spanning his career from 1914 to 2023, he produced 188 works across six series, including novels, short stories, and non-fiction titles, with *The Great Gatsby* standing out as his most iconic achievement. His writing continues to resonate with readers, cementing his place as a defining voice of the 20th century.
Anthologies Series
Complete13 books (1954–2018)
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.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century 1954Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Writing New York 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Writing Los Angeles 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 - 1950 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | 50 Classic Novellas 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Flappers, Jazz, & Bootleg Whiskey 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Radio Silence 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Favorite Love Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
Collections Series
Complete33 books (1914–2020)
Start with F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14, the first of 33 books in the Collections series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 1914Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917 1917Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Spires and Gargoyles 1919Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Flappers and Philosophers 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  The Short Stories 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories 1921Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age 1922Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Tales of the Jazz Age 1922Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories 1922Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1924Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  All the Sad Young Men 1926Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  The Basil and Josephine Stories 1928Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 1931Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1931Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Taps at Reveille 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  The Lost Decade and other stories 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  Poems 1911-1940 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  The Pat Hobby Stories 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  Bits of Paradise(With: Zelda Fitzgerald) 1973Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  The Price Was High 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 |  Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1983Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 |  Afternoon of an Author 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  Before Gatsby 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 |  On Booze 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 |  Gatsby Girls 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 |  Mystery & Fantasy Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 |  The Love Boat and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 |  I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 |  The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  All of the Belles 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 |  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
Literary Conversations Series
Likely Complete97 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 🇺🇸 |
Non-Fiction Series
Complete11 books (1936–2013)
Start with The Crack-Up, the first of 11 books in the Non-Fiction series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  The Crack-Up 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  As ever, Scott Fitz 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Dear Scott/Dear Max 1971Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1978Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  A Life in Letters 1980Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda(With: Zelda Fitzgerald) 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  On Authorship 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | A Short Autobiography 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  Dreams of Youth 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
Short Stories/Novellas Series
Complete26 books (1919–2018)
Start with Babes in the Woods, the first of 26 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Babes in the Woods 1919Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Benediction 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Head and Shoulders 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  May Day 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Myra Meets His Family 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  The Camel's Back 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  The Four Fists 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  The Ice Palace 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  The Jelly-Bean 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  The Lees of Happiness 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  The Offshore Pirate 1920Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside 1921Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 1922Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Winter Dreams 1922Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | Absolution 1924Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  Gretchen's Forty Winks 1924Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | The Cruise of the Rolling Junk 1924Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  Love in the Night 1925Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  The Rich Boy 1926Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  Magnetism 1928Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 |  The Night at Chancellorsville 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 |  Basil the Freshest Boy 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 |  What a Handsome Pair ! 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
Standalone Novels Series
Complete8 books (1920–2006)
Start with This Side of Paradise, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has F. Scott Fitzgerald written?
- F. Scott Fitzgerald has written 188 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1914 to 2023.
- What is the first book in each F. Scott Fitzgerald series?
- Here are the first books in F. Scott Fitzgerald's series: Anthologies: Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century; Collections: F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14; Literary Conversations: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges; Non-Fiction: The Crack-Up; Short Stories/Novellas: Babes in the Woods.
- What order should I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's books?
- We recommend reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Are F. Scott Fitzgerald's series complete?
- F. Scott Fitzgerald has 5 completed series.