Howard Fast Reading Order

1 book (1999–1999)

#	Title
1	Bangs & Whimpers 1999Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1852–2022)

Start with A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev), the first of 19 books in the Art of the Story series.

#	Title
1	A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev) 1852Buy 🇺🇸
2	The General Zapped an Angel 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	In the Garden of the North American Martyrs(By: Tobias Wolff) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Essential Tales of Chekhov(By: Anton Chekhov) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Garden Party and Other Stories(By: Katherine Mansfield) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Continent(By: Jim Crace) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Wild Nights!(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tunneling to the Center of the Earth(By: Kevin Wilson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Monstress(By: Lysley Tenorio) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mr. and Mrs. Baby(By: Mark Strand) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition(By: Anton Chekhov) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Vanishing Princess(By: Jenny Diski) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
13	Catastrophe and Other Stories(By: Dino Buzzati) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
14	Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls(By: Alissa Nutting) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	We Are Taking Only What We Need(By: Stephanie Powell Watts) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
16	Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry(By: Elizabeth McCracken) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
17	Hue and Cry(By: Edward P. Jones,James McPherson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Hurly Burly and Other Stories(By: Russell Banks,A.E. Coppard) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
19	Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary(By: Francine Prose,Johanna Kaplan) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1964–1969)

Start with Lydia(As:E.V. Cunningham) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Lydia(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cynthia(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1969Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1965–1966)

Start with Penelope(As:E.V. Cunningham) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Penelope(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	Margie(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1966Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1977–1997)

Start with The Immigrants, the first of 6 books in the Lavette Family series.

#	Title
1	The Immigrants 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Second Generation 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Establishment 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Legacy 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Immigrant's Daughter 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	An Independent Woman 1997Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1967–2000)

Start with The Case of the Angry Actress / Samantha, the first of 8 books in the Masao Masuto series.

#	Title
1	The Case of the Angry Actress / Samantha 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Case of the One-Penny Orange 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Case of the Russian Diplomat 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Case of the Sliding Pool 1981Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Case of the Kidnapped Angel 1982Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie 1984Buy 🇺🇸
8	Masuto Investigates 2000Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1941–2013)

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

#	Title
1	The Novelist 1941Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Picture Book History of the Jews(With: Bette Fast) 1942Buy 🇺🇸
3	Literature and Reality 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	Peekskill, USA 1951Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Naked God 1957Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Jews 1970Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Art of Zen Meditation 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	Being Red 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	War and Peace 1992Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Incredible Tito 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tito and His People 2013Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

1 book (1952–1952)

10 books (1945–2018)

Start with Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel 1945Buy 🇺🇸
2	Departure and Other Stories 1949Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Last Supper and Other Stories 1955Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Howard Fast Reader 1960Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Edge of Tomorrow 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Hunter and the Trap 1967Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Touch of Infinity 1973Buy 🇺🇸
8	Time and the Riddle 1973Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Call of Fife and Drum 1987Buy 🇺🇸
10	Collected Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸

50 books (1933–2002)

Start with Strange Yesterday, the first of 50 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Strange Yesterday 1933Buy 🇺🇸
2	Two Valleys 1933Buy 🇺🇸
3	Place in the City 1937Buy 🇺🇸
4	Conceived in Liberty 1939Buy 🇺🇸
5	Haym Salomon, Son of Liberty 1941Buy 🇺🇸
6	Lord Baden-Powell of the Boy Scouts 1941Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Last Frontier 1941Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Romance of a People 1941Buy 🇺🇸
9	Goethals and the Panama Canal 1942Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Tall Hunter 1942Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Unvanquished 1942Buy 🇺🇸
12	Citizen Tom Paine 1943Buy 🇺🇸
13	Freedom Road 1944Buy 🇺🇸
14	The American 1946Buy 🇺🇸
15	Clarkton 1947Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Children 1947Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Glorious Brothers 1948Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Proud and the Free 1950Buy 🇺🇸
19	Spartacus 1951Buy 🇺🇸
20	Fallen Angel / Mirage(As: Walter Ericson) 1952Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Magic Door / Tony and the Wonderful Door 1952Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti 1953Buy 🇺🇸
23	Silas Timberman 1954Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Story of Lola Gregg 1956Buy 🇺🇸
25	Moses, Prince of Egypt 1958Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Winston Affair 1959Buy 🇺🇸
27	Sylvia(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1960Buy 🇺🇸
28	April Morning 1961Buy 🇺🇸
29	Phyllis(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1962Buy 🇺🇸
30	Power 1962Buy 🇺🇸
31	Alice(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1963Buy 🇺🇸
32	Agrippa's Daughter 1964Buy 🇺🇸
33	Shirley(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1964Buy 🇺🇸
34	Helen(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1966Buy 🇺🇸
35	Torquemada 1966Buy 🇺🇸
36	Sally(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1967Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Assassin Who Gave Up His Gun(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1969Buy 🇺🇸
38	Millie(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
39	Max 1982Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Outsider 1984Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Wabash Factor(As:E.V. Cunningham) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Dinner Party 1987Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Pledge 1988Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Confession of Joe Cullen 1989Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Trial of Abigail Goodman 1993Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Bridge Builder's Story 1995Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Hessian 1996Buy 🇺🇸
48	Redemption 1999Buy 🇺🇸
49	Greenwich 2000Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Hollywood Blacklist 2002Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1971–1994)

Start with The Crossing and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Crossing 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bunker Hill 1994Buy 🇺🇸