James Thurber Reading Order
1 series · 200 books
James Thurber was an American humorist, cartoonist, and playwright known for his witty, absurdist take on everyday life and human folly. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he built his career as a writer and illustrator while working as a journalist, eventually becoming famous for his satirical short stories and distinctive cartoon style that complemented his prose. His work spans essays, plays, and fiction that blend sharp social commentary with surreal humor, making him a defining voice in twentieth-century American comedy.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with Thurber Country Lt, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 12 Prose Writers |
| 2 | 13 Clocks 1ST Edition |
| 3 | 1950 Vtg The 13 Clocks James Thurber Illustrated Marc Simont Fairy Tale 1st/1st |
| 4 | A fehér szarvas és egyéb írások |
| 5 | A subtreasury of American humor |
| 6 | ALARMS & DIVERSIONS |
| 7 | Alarms & Diversions |
| 8 | Alarms and Diversions |
| 9 | Alarms and Diversions |
| 10 | Animal Farm with Connections |
| 11 | Campaigns and Elections American Style |
| 12 | Cases of Blue Ploermell |
| 13 | Collected Fables |
| 14 | Collected Fables |
| 15 | Credos and Curios |
| 16 | Els 13 rellotges |
| 17 | FURTHR FABLE TIME |
| 18 | Fables for our time |
| 19 | Fables for our time and famous poems |
| 20 | Fables for our time and famous poems |
| 21 | Further Fables For Our Time |
| 22 | Further Fables for Our Time |
| 23 | Further Fables for Our Time |
| 24 | Great American Short Stories |
| 25 | Great Short Stories of the World |
| 26 | Great humorous stories |
| 27 | Il più grand'uomo del mondo |
| 28 | Jam with my bread |
| 29 | James Thurber - Set of two "Alarms & Diversions" & "The Thurber Carnival" |
| 30 | James Thurber's FABLES FOR OUR TIME, Dedicated to Conventional Sinners |
| 31 | James Thurber's Fables For Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated |
| 32 | Julius Caesar and Related Readings |
| 33 | Kempy |
| 34 | Kūʾīlū-yi kabīr |
| 35 | L'última flor |
| 36 | LA DERNIERE FLEUR |
| 37 | LANTERNS AND LANCES-A COLLECTION OF THURBER'S VIGNETTES-TIME READING PROGRAM |
| 38 | La Vida secreta de Walter Mitty y otras historias |
| 39 | La dernière fleur |
| 40 | La meravellosa O |
| 41 | La meravellosa O |
| 42 | La meravellosa O |
| 43 | La vida secreta de Walter Mitty |
| 44 | La última flor |
| 45 | Lanterns |
| 46 | Lanterns & Lances |
| 47 | Le Conte de la biche blanche |
| 48 | Let Your Mind Alone! |
| 49 | MA CHIENNE DE VIE |
| 50 | MANY MOONS.Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin |
| 51 | MY WORLD - AND WELCOME TO IT. |
| 52 | Many Moons |
| 53 | Many Moons |
| 54 | Many Moons |
| 55 | Many Moons |
| 56 | Men, Women and Dogs |
| 57 | Men, Women and Dogs |
| 58 | Men, Women and Dogs; a Book of Drawings with a Preface By Doroty Parker |
| 59 | Middle Aged Man on the Fly |
| 60 | Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze |
| 61 | My Life and Hard Times & The Owl in the Attic |
| 62 | My World - And Welcome To It |
| 63 | My World and Welcome To It |
| 64 | My life and hard times |
| 65 | Nothing but the Truth and Related Readings |
| 66 | O. Henry memorial award prize stories of 1943 |
| 67 | Owl in the Attic & Other Perplexities |
| 68 | Prentice Hall Literature |
| 69 | Prentice Hall Literature |
| 70 | Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold |
| 71 | Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum |
| 72 | Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level |
| 73 | Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level |
| 74 | Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten] |
| 75 | Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze |
| 76 | Prentice Hall Literature--Copper |
| 77 | Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience |
| 78 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze |
| 79 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level |
| 80 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold |
| 81 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level |
| 82 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum |
| 83 | Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience |
| 84 | Rare First Edition James Thurber The Last Flower Harper & Brothers 1939 |
| 85 | Reader's Companion--Bronze Level |
| 86 | Selected Letters of James Thurber |
| 87 | Sheloshah ʻaśar orlogin |
| 88 | Short Stories from the New Yorker |
| 89 | Short Story Masterpieces |
| 90 | Sipure nesikhot |
| 91 | THE THUNDER ALBUM |
| 92 | THURBER'S DOGS |
| 93 | Tales for Travellers. Collection 3 |
| 94 | Ten Plays |
| 95 | The 13 Clocks |
| 96 | The 13 Clocks |
| 97 | The 13 clocks and the wonderful O |
| 98 | The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time |
| 99 | The Beast In Me |
| 100 | The Beast in Me and Other Animals |
| 101 | The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II |
| 102 | The Catbird Seat |
| 103 | The Fourth Round |
| 104 | The Genius of James Thurber |
| 105 | The Great Quillow |
| 106 | The Last Flower, A Parable in Pictures |
| 107 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1952 |
| 108 | The Male Animal |
| 109 | The Male Animal |
| 110 | The Male Animal |
| 111 | The Male Animal |
| 112 | The Male Animal A Play |
| 113 | The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze by James Thurber |
| 114 | The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze |
| 115 | The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze |
| 116 | The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories |
| 117 | The Owl in the Attic and other Perplexities |
| 118 | The Oxford book of detective stories |
| 119 | The Rinehart Book of Short Stories |
| 120 | The Seal in the Bedroom, Thurber's Dogs + Fables For Our Time |
| 121 | The Thunder Album |
| 122 | The Thunder Carnival |
| 123 | The Thurber Album |
| 124 | The Thurber Album |
| 125 | The Thurber Album; a New Collection of Pieces About People |
| 126 | The Thurber Touch |
| 127 | The Thurber album |
| 128 | The Tiger Who Would Be King |
| 129 | The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition |
| 130 | The White Deer |
| 131 | The Wonderful O |
| 132 | The beast in me and other animals |
| 133 | The beast in me and other animals, a new collection of pieces and drawings about human beings and less alarming creatures |
| 134 | The fifth New Yorker album |
| 135 | The greatest man in the world |
| 136 | The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze |
| 137 | The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze |
| 138 | The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze, |
| 139 | The seal in the bedroom & other predicaments |
| 140 | The seal in the bedroom and other predicaments |
| 141 | The wonderful O |
| 142 | Thurber & Company. Introd. by Helen Thurber |
| 143 | Thurber & company |
| 144 | Thurber Album A New Collection Of Piece |
| 145 | Thurber Album P |
| 146 | Thurber Country |
| 147 | Thurber Country A New Collection of Pieces about Males and Females |
| 148 | Thurber country |
| 149 | Thurber country; a new collection of pieces about males and females, mainly of our own species |
| 150 | Thurber's Dogs |
| 151 | Thurber's Men, Women and Dogs |
| 152 | Thurber's men, women and dogs |
| 153 | Thurber's men, women and dogs, a book of drawings |
| 154 | Vom Mann, der die Luft anhielt |
| 155 | Wit and Wisdom - Book |
| 156 | Wondrfl O |
| 157 | fables for our time and famous poems illustrated |
| 158 | human life Vietnam and Cambodian |
| 159 | lanterns and lances |
| 160 | the owl in the attic and other perplexities |
| 161 | thurber country |
| 162 | ʻOd yareaḥ |
| 163 | Thurber Country Lt 1901 |
| 164 | The last flower 1939 |
| 165 | Fables for our time and famous poems 1940 |
| 166 | Men, women, and dogs 1943 |
| 167 | Thurber's men, women and dogs 1943 |
| 168 | My life and hard times, & The owl in the attic 1950 |
| 169 | The 13 Clocks 1950 |
| 170 | The seal in the bedroom 1950 |
| 171 | Fables for our time and famous poems illustrated, and The lastflower 1951 |
| 172 | La quadrature du sexe 1952 |
| 173 | The Thurber album 1952 |
| 174 | The Crucible and Related Readings 1953 |
| 175 | A Thurber garland 1955 |
| 176 | Furthest fables for our time 1956 |
| 177 | Man against woman 1957 |
| 178 | A geometric algorithm for solving the general linear programming problem 1958 |
| 179 | The owl in the attic 1959 |
| 180 | Understanding fiction -- Second Edition 1959 |
| 181 | Lanters & lances 1961 |
| 182 | Fifty Best American Short Stories 1965 |
| 183 | Thurber & company 1966 |
| 184 | Grizzly and the Gadgets and Further Fables for Our Times (Swc 1412) 1972 |
| 185 | Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated 1974 |
| 186 | Happy Endings 1974 |
| 187 | The Wonderful O 1976 |
| 188 | The Curb in the Sky and Other Thurber Stories 1983 |
| 189 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1983 |
| 190 | The night the ghost got in 1983 |
| 191 | Years With Ross 1985 |
| 192 | Conversations with James Thurber 1989 |
| 193 | The World of James Thurber 1989 |
| 194 | The Thirteen Clocks 1990 |
| 195 | Wings Bestsellers: James Thurber 1990 |
| 196 | Fünfundsiebzig Fabeln für Zeitgenossen. Den unverbesserlichen Sündern gewidmet 1991 |
| 197 | and Welcome to It 1998 |
| 198 | Die 13 Uhren. Cassette. Hörspiel 2001 |
| 199 | The dog department 2001 |
| 200 | The Thurber letters 2002 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has James Thurber written?
- James Thurber has written 200 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1901 to 2002.
- Are James Thurber's series complete?
- James Thurber has 1 completed series.