John Cheever Reading Order
1 series · 169 books
John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer whose incisive social commentary on mid-twentieth-century life earned him comparison to literary master Anton Chekhov. His work captures the emotional undercurrents beneath suburban conformity and urban privilege, drawing on settings ranging from Manhattan's Upper East Side and Westchester County to the New England villages and Italian landscapes he knew intimately. Cheever's fiction combines psychological depth with elegant prose, exploring themes of desire, infidelity, and the tension between appearance and reality in American society.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete169 books
Start with The way some people live, the first of 169 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 55 Short Stories From The New Yorker (1940 to 1950) |
| 2 | Això sembla el paradís! |
| 3 | Angel na mostu |
| 4 | Avaz Asheghame |
| 5 | BULLET PARK [First Edition] 1st |
| 6 | Ballata |
| 7 | Bosanma Mevsimi |
| 8 | Buletʻ Park |
| 9 | Bullet Park |
| 10 | Bullet Park |
| 11 | Bullet Park |
| 12 | Bullet Park |
| 13 | Bullet Park |
| 14 | Bullet Park |
| 15 | Bullet Park |
| 16 | Bullet Park |
| 17 | Cartas |
| 18 | Collected Stories |
| 19 | Collected Works Of John Cheever |
| 20 | Complete novels |
| 21 | Contes |
| 22 | Contes |
| 23 | Cuentos |
| 24 | Diarios |
| 25 | Diarios |
| 26 | Diarios |
| 27 | Diarios |
| 28 | Diarios |
| 29 | Drinking |
| 30 | Elmalar Diyari Toplu Öyküleri 4 |
| 31 | Esto parece el paraíso |
| 32 | Ey YIkIlmIs Hayaller Sehri Toplu Öyküler 2 |
| 33 | FALL RIVER |
| 34 | Falconer |
| 35 | Falconer |
| 36 | Falconer |
| 37 | Falconer Hapishanesi |
| 38 | Falconer by John Cheever (1977-02-12) |
| 39 | Fall River and other uncollected stories |
| 40 | Falḳoner |
| 41 | Great American Short Stories [34 stories] |
| 42 | Güz Nehri ve Daha Önce Derlenmis Diger Hikayeler |
| 43 | Ho, ezeh gan-ʻeden |
| 44 | Hoi ʻir shel ḥalomot shevurim |
| 45 | I racconti |
| 46 | Il nuotatore |
| 47 | John Cheever |
| 48 | Journals of John Cheever |
| 49 | L'Ange sur le pont |
| 50 | L'homme De Ses Reves (French Edition) |
| 51 | L'homme de ses rêves (French Edition) |
| 52 | Le ver dans la pomme (French Edition) |
| 53 | Les Lumières de Bullet Park |
| 54 | Les wapshot |
| 55 | Letters of John Cheever |
| 56 | Los Wapshot / the Wapshot Chronicle |
| 57 | Oh What a Paradise It Seem Kindle |
| 58 | Oh What a Paradise It Seems |
| 59 | Oh, what a paradise it seems |
| 60 | On dirait vraiment le paradis |
| 61 | Proposals for Funding |
| 62 | Racconti italiani |
| 63 | Relatos. 1 |
| 64 | Relatos. 2 |
| 65 | STUDENTS' CHOICE |
| 66 | Selected American Short Stories (II) |
| 67 | Short Stories from the New Yorker |
| 68 | Six decades at Yaddo |
| 69 | Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel |
| 70 | Some people, places, and things that will not appear in my next novel |
| 71 | Stories |
| 72 | Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960 |
| 73 | Stories of John Cheever-V1 |
| 74 | Stories of John Cheever-V2 |
| 75 | THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL |
| 76 | The brigadier and the golf widow |
| 77 | The housebreaker of Shady Hill |
| 78 | The Best American Short Stories 1963 |
| 79 | The Best American Short Stories 1973 |
| 80 | The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II |
| 81 | The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories |
| 82 | The Journals of John Cheever |
| 83 | The Journals of John Cheever |
| 84 | The Situation of the Story |
| 85 | The Waoshot Chronicle |
| 86 | The Wapshot Chronicle |
| 87 | The Wapshot Scandal |
| 88 | The Wapshot chronicle |
| 89 | The Wapshot chronicle, the Wapshot scandal |
| 90 | The Wapshot scandal |
| 91 | The Wapshot scandal |
| 92 | The angel of the bridge |
| 93 | The brigadier and the golf widow |
| 94 | The enormous radio, and other stories |
| 95 | The errors of young and elderly men |
| 96 | The journals |
| 97 | The light fantastic |
| 98 | The stories of John Cheever |
| 99 | The stories of John Cheever |
| 100 | The way some people live |
| 101 | Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow |
| 102 | Viagra |
| 103 | Vision of the World |
| 104 | WORLD OF APPLES |
| 105 | Wapshot Chronicle |
| 106 | Wapshot Chronicle |
| 107 | Wapshot Chronicle/10085 |
| 108 | Wapshot Kayitlari |
| 109 | Wapshot Scandal |
| 110 | Wizja świata. Opowiadania wybrane |
| 111 | Wopuxiao Ji Shi |
| 112 | World of Apples |
| 113 | Yuzucu |
| 114 | ¡Oh, esto parece el paraíso! |
| 115 | ʻOlam ha-tapuḥim |
| 116 | בולט פארק |
| 117 | The way some people live 1943 |
| 118 | The enormous radio, and other stories 1953 |
| 119 | The Wapshot Chronicle 1957 |
| 120 | The housebreaker of Shady Hill, and other stories 1958 |
| 121 | Understanding fiction -- Second Edition 1959 |
| 122 | Some people, places, and things that will not appear in my next novel 1961 |
| 123 | The Wapshot chronicle 1963 |
| 124 | The Wapshot Scandal 1964 |
| 125 | Fifty Best American Short Stories 1965 |
| 126 | Homage to Shakespeare 1965 |
| 127 | The brigadier and the gold widow 1965 |
| 128 | Bullet Park 1969 |
| 129 | The world of apples 1973 |
| 130 | Falconer 1977 |
| 131 | The stories of John Cheever 1978 |
| 132 | The day the pig fell into the well 1978 |
| 133 | The Wapshot chronicle, the Wapshot scandal 1979 |
| 134 | Selected short stories 1980 |
| 135 | Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel 1980 |
| 136 | John Cheever 1981 |
| 137 | Oh What a Paradise It 1983 |
| 138 | Parecia UN Paraiso 1983 |
| 139 | The Enormous Radio 1983 |
| 140 | Stories of J. Cheever 1984 |
| 141 | Atlantic crossing ; excerpts from the journals of John Cheever 1986 |
| 142 | Stories of John Cheever (Mission Earth) 1986 |
| 143 | The Swimmer and the Death of Justina 1986 |
| 144 | The Swimmer and the Death of Justina (Swc1668) 1986 |
| 145 | Wapshot Chronicles 1986 |
| 146 | Angel of Bridge 1987 |
| 147 | Conversations with John Cheever 1987 |
| 148 | The letters of John Cheever 1988 |
| 149 | The Stories Of John Cheever Part 1 Of 2 1988 |
| 150 | The Stories Of John Cheever Part 2 Of 2 1988 |
| 151 | Collected Stories 1990 |
| 152 | Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930 1990 |
| 153 | El Escándalo de los Wapshot 1991 |
| 154 | The journals of John Cheever 1991 |
| 155 | Glad tidings 1993 |
| 156 | The Swimmer and Death of Justina 1993 |
| 157 | Cheever Reads 1994 |
| 158 | Thirteen uncollected stories 1994 |
| 159 | Der Schwimmer. Stories 1995 |
| 160 | Marcie Flints Schwierigkeiten 1997 |
| 161 | Insomnies 2000 |
| 162 | La geometría del amor 2003 |
| 163 | The John Cheever Audio Collection 2003 |
| 164 | Esto Parece El Paraiso 2005 |
| 165 | Vintage Cheever 2005 |
| 166 | Essential Cheever 2006 |
| 167 | Relatos I 2006 |
| 168 | Relatos II 2006 |
| 169 | Collected stories and other writings 2009 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has John Cheever written?
- John Cheever has written 169 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1943 to 2009.
- Are John Cheever's series complete?
- John Cheever has 1 completed series.