Philip Roth Reading Order

3 books (1997–2000)

Start with American Pastoral and read in order.

#	Title
1	American Pastoral 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	I Married a Communist 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Human Stain 2000Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1970–2011)

Start with New American Review 10, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	New American Review 10 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tales for Travellers: Short Stories: Collection 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Good Parts 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Wonderful Town 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Baseball As America Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Baseball: a Literary Anthology 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	Fathers: A Literary Anthology 2011Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1972–2001)

Start with The Breast and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Breast 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Professor of Desire 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dying Animal 2001Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1974–2007)

Start with My Life as a Man, the first of 6 books in the Nathan Zuckerman series.

#	Title
1	My Life as a Man 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ghost Writer 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	Zuckerman Unbound 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Anatomy Lesson 1983Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Prague Orgy 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Exit Ghost 2007Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1975–2017)

Start with Reading Myself and Others, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Reading Myself and Others 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	American West's Acid Rain Test 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Facts 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shop Talk 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Writer at Work 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	Notes For My Biographer 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Why Write? 2017Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1993–2012)

Start with For Better and for Worse, the first of 17 books in the Selected Shorts series.

#	Title
1	For Better and for Worse 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Even More Laughs 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Timeless Classics 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Edith Wharton 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Falling in Love 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Family Matters 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Food Fictions 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Pets! 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tales of Betrayal 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Travel Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Are We There Yet? 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Touch of Magic 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	The William Hurt Collection 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Whodunit? 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	American Classics 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	New American Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Poe! 2012Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1958–1958)

#	Title
1	The Conversion of the Jews 1958Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1959–1980)

Start with Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories 1959Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Philip Roth Reader 1980Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1961–2010)

Start with Letting Go, the first of 16 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Letting Go 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	When She Was Good 1966Buy 🇺🇸
3	Portnoy's Complaint 1969Buy 🇺🇸
4	Our Gang 1971Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Great American Novel 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Counterlife 1986Buy 🇺🇸
7	Deception 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Patrimony 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Operation Shylock 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	His Mistress's Voice 1995Buy 🇺🇸
11	Sabbath's Theater 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Plot Against America 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Everyman 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Indignation 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Humbling 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	Nemesis 2010Buy 🇺🇸