James T. Farrell Reading Order
1 series ยท 200 books
James T. Farrell was an American novelist and short story writer whose prolific career spanned more than six decades, producing over two hundred works between 1934 and 1998. Working primarily with standalone novels rather than series, Farrell became known for his unflinching examination of working-class life and urban America in the twentieth century. His extensive body of work established him as a significant literary voice in depicting the social realities and psychological complexities of ordinary people navigating American society.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with Calico shoes and other stories, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The silene of History |
| 2 | "A Note on Literary Criticism" in Nation (March 4, 1936) |
| 3 | $1,000 a Week and Other Stories |
| 4 | $1,000 a week and 16 other short stories |
| 5 | $1,000 a week, |
| 6 | $1,000 a week, and other stories |
| 7 | $1,000- A Week and 16 Other New Short Stories |
| 8 | $1000 a week, and other stories |
| 9 | A Brand New Life |
| 10 | A Brand New Life |
| 11 | A Dangerous Woman, and Other Short Stories |
| 12 | A Father and His Son |
| 13 | A World I Never Made |
| 14 | A World I Never Made |
| 15 | A World I Never Made |
| 16 | A World I Never Made. |
| 17 | A brand new life |
| 18 | A dangerous woman |
| 19 | A misunderstanding |
| 20 | A note on literary criticism |
| 21 | A note on literary criticism |
| 22 | A note on literary criticism, |
| 23 | A world I never made |
| 24 | A world I never made |
| 25 | A world I never made |
| 26 | An American dream girl |
| 27 | An Omnibus of Short Stories (Classic Reprint) |
| 28 | An omnibus of short stories |
| 29 | An omnibus of short stories |
| 30 | Artie, and Pink Marsh |
| 31 | Bernard Clare |
| 32 | Bernard Clare |
| 33 | Boarding House Blues |
| 34 | Boarding House Blues |
| 35 | Calico shoes and other stories |
| 36 | Can all this grandeur parish? |
| 37 | Can all this grandeur perish? |
| 38 | Childhood is not forever |
| 39 | Childhood is not forever |
| 40 | Conversations with writers II |
| 41 | Das alte Germanien; die Nachrichten der griechischen und rรถmischen Schriftsteller |
| 42 | Dialogue on John Dewey |
| 43 | Ellen Rogers |
| 44 | Ellen Rogers |
| 45 | Fate of Writing in America |
| 46 | Fate of Writing in America |
| 47 | Father and Son |
| 48 | Father and Son |
| 49 | Father and Son |
| 50 | Father and son |
| 51 | French girls are vicious |
| 52 | French girls are vicious and other stories |
| 53 | Gas-House McGinty |
| 54 | Guillotine party and other stories |
| 55 | Guillotine party and other stories |
| 56 | H. L. Mencken Prejudices |
| 57 | International Trade Names Dictionary Company Index |
| 58 | Invisible swords |
| 59 | It Has Come to Pass |
| 60 | It has come to pass |
| 61 | James T. Farrell Short Stories |
| 62 | Judgement Day |
| 63 | Judgment Day |
| 64 | Judgment day |
| 65 | Judith |
| 66 | Judith |
| 67 | LITERATURE AND MORALITY |
| 68 | Laughing Space |
| 69 | Literature and morality |
| 70 | Literature and morality |
| 71 | Lonely for the future |
| 72 | Lonely for the future |
| 73 | Lonely for the future |
| 74 | More Stories |
| 75 | More stories |
| 76 | My Baseball Diary (Abridged, New Intro) |
| 77 | My baseball diary; |
| 78 | My baseball diary; a famed American author recalls the wonderful world of baseball, yesterday and today. |
| 79 | New Year's Eve/1929 |
| 80 | New Years Eve |
| 81 | Olive and Mary Anne |
| 82 | Omnibus of short stories |
| 83 | On Irish Themes |
| 84 | Reflections at Fifty and Other Essays |
| 85 | Reflections at Fifty and Other Essays |
| 86 | Reflections at fifty, and other stories |
| 87 | STUDS LONIGAN A Trilogy |
| 88 | Selected essays |
| 89 | Short Stories of James T Farrell |
| 90 | Short stories |
| 91 | Side Street and Other Stories |
| 92 | Slum Street U.S.A |
| 93 | Studs lonigan |
| 94 | The Best Short Stories of 1933 |
| 95 | The Coming of age of a great book |
| 96 | The Dominion of Canada vs. "Bernard Clare," a novel by James T. Farrell |
| 97 | The Face of Time |
| 98 | The League of Frightened Philistines |
| 99 | The Other Persuasion |
| 100 | The Road Between |
| 101 | The Short Stories of James T. Farrell |
| 102 | The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan |
| 103 | The best short stories of Theodore Dreiser |
| 104 | The collected poems of James T. Farrell |
| 105 | The face of time |
| 106 | The face of time |
| 107 | The face of time |
| 108 | The face of time |
| 109 | The fate of writing in America |
| 110 | The life adventurous |
| 111 | The life adventurous, |
| 112 | The road between |
| 113 | The road between |
| 114 | The road between |
| 115 | The short stories of James T. Farrell |
| 116 | The short stories of James T. Farrell |
| 117 | The short stories of James T. Farrell (Grosset's Universal library) |
| 118 | The young manhood of Studs Lonigan |
| 119 | Theodore Dreiser |
| 120 | This man and this woman |
| 121 | This man and this woman |
| 122 | To Whom It May Concern |
| 123 | To Whom It May Concern More Stories |
| 124 | To Whom It May Concern and Other Stories |
| 125 | To whom it may concern |
| 126 | To whom it may concern, |
| 127 | Truth and myth about America |
| 128 | What Time Collects |
| 129 | What time collects |
| 130 | What time collects |
| 131 | When Boyhood Dreams Come True |
| 132 | When Boyhood Dreams Come True - Further Short Stories |
| 133 | When Time Was Born |
| 134 | When boyhood dreams come true |
| 135 | When time was born |
| 136 | When time was born, |
| 137 | Who are the 18 prisoners in the Minneapolis Labor Case? |
| 138 | Will the commercialization of publishing destroy good writing? |
| 139 | YET OTHER WATERS. |
| 140 | Yesterday's love, and eleven other stories |
| 141 | Yet other waters |
| 142 | more stories |
| 143 | ืืืืืช ืืืื |
| 144 | Calico shoes and other stories 1934 |
| 145 | The young manhood of Studs Lonigan 1934 |
| 146 | Guillotine party and other stories 1935 |
| 147 | Studs Lonigan 1935 |
| 148 | A note on literary criticism 1936 |
| 149 | Can all this grandeur perish? and other stories 1937 |
| 150 | Fellow countrymen 1937 |
| 151 | Tommy Gallagher's crusade 1939 |
| 152 | The short stories of 1941 |
| 153 | Fifteen selected stories 1943 |
| 154 | One thousand dollars a week, and other stories 1943 |
| 155 | To whom it may concern, and other stories 1944 |
| 156 | Judgment Day 1945 |
| 157 | The league of frightened Philistines 1945 |
| 158 | Twelve great stories 1945 |
| 159 | Bernard Clare ... 1946 |
| 160 | More stories 1946 |
| 161 | The fate of writing in America 1946 |
| 162 | Literature and morality 1947 |
| 163 | The Dominion of Canada vs. "Bernard Clare", a novel by James T. Farrell 1947 |
| 164 | The life adventurous 1947 |
| 165 | Bernard Clayre 1948 |
| 166 | Yesterday's love 1948 |
| 167 | A misunderstanding 1949 |
| 168 | An American dream girl 1950 |
| 169 | Texas by the Potomac 1950 |
| 170 | Short stories 1951 |
| 171 | This man and this women 1951 |
| 172 | Yet other waters 1952 |
| 173 | Reflections at fifty 1954 |
| 174 | French girls are vicious 1955 |
| 175 | An omnibus of short stories 1956 |
| 176 | A dangerous woman 1957 |
| 177 | It has come to pass 1958 |
| 178 | Dzieล sadu 1961 |
| 179 | Side street 1961 |
| 180 | Side streets and other stories 1961 |
| 181 | Sound of a city 1962 |
| 182 | What time collects 1964 |
| 183 | The collected poems of James T. Farrell 1965 |
| 184 | Lonely for the future 1966 |
| 185 | New Year's eve, 1929 1967 |
| 186 | Slum street, USA 1967 |
| 187 | A brand new life 1968 |
| 188 | Childhood is not forever 1969 |
| 189 | Judith 1969 |
| 190 | Invisible swords 1971 |
| 191 | Judith, and other stories 1973 |
| 192 | Literary essays, 1954-1974 1976 |
| 193 | The Dunne family 1976 |
| 194 | Olive and Mary Anne 1977 |
| 195 | The death of Nora Ryan 1978 |
| 196 | Tuis man and this woman 1978 |
| 197 | Eight short, short stories & sketches 1981 |
| 198 | On Irish themes 1982 |
| 199 | Hearing out James T. Farrell 1985 |
| 200 | Chicago Stories 1998 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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