How many books has Upton Sinclair written?

Upton Sinclair has written 118 books across 9 series. Their published works span from 1900 to 2021.

What is the first book in each Upton Sinclair series?

Here are the first books in Upton Sinclair's series: Annapolis: Bound for Annapolis / The Trials of a Sailor Boy; Anthologies: The Cry for Justice; Lanny Budd: World's End; Non-Fiction: The Profits of Religion; Standalone Plays: Hell.

What order should I read Upton Sinclair's books?

We recommend reading Upton Sinclair's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.

Are Upton Sinclair's series complete?

Upton Sinclair has 9 completed series.

Upton Sinclair Reading Order

9 series · 118 books · Born 1878-09-20

Non-Fiction

Upton Sinclair was a prolific American author and Pulitzer Prize winner whose muckraking exposés profoundly influenced early 20th-century reform movements. His 1906 novel The Jungle, which revealed horrific conditions in the meatpacking industry, sparked public outrage and directly prompted federal food safety legislation. Beyond his most famous work, Sinclair authored over a hundred books spanning fiction and nonfiction, including the lengthy Lanny Budd series, establishing himself as one of the era's most socially conscious and commercially successful writers.

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Annapolis Series

Complete

2 books (1903–1903)

Start with Bound for Annapolis / The Trials of a Sailor Boy and read in order.

Start this series with Bound for Annapolis / The Trials of a Sailor Boy

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1	Bound for Annapolis / The Trials of a Sailor Boy 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Clif, the Naval Cadet / Exciting Days at Annapolis 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Anthologies Series

Complete

2 books (1915–2002)

Start with The Cry for Justice and read in order.

Start this series with The Cry for Justice

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1	The Cry for Justice 1915Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Writing Los Angeles 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Lanny Budd Series

Complete

11 books (1940–1953)

Start with World's End, the first of 11 books in the Lanny Budd series.

Start this series with World's End

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1	World's End 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Between Two Worlds 1941Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dragon's Teeth I 1942Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Wide is the Gate 1943Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Presidential Agent 1944Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Dragon Harvest 1945Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	A World to Win 1946Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Presidential Mission 1947Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	One Clear Call 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	O Shepherd, Speak! 1949Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Return of Lanny Budd 1953Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Lanny Budd Non-Fiction Series

Complete

1 book (2021–2021)

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1	Index to the Lanny Budd Story 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Non-Fiction Series

Complete

47 books (1900–1984)

Start with The Profits of Religion, the first of 47 books in the Non-Fiction series.

Start this series with The Profits of Religion

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1	The Profits of Religion 1900Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Good Health and How We Won It 1909Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Fasting Cure 1911Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Sinclair-Astor Letters 1914Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Russia: a Challenge 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The High Cost of Living 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Industrial Republic 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Socialism and How It is Coming 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Goose Step 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Goslings 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Letters to Judd: An American Workingman 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame To Mom 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Money Writes 1927Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Mental Radio 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Crimes of the Times: A Test of Newspaper Decency 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Upton Sinclair on Comrade Kautsky 1931Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Upton Sinclair, Station A 1931Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	American Outpost; A Book Of Reminiscences 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Candid Reminiscences: My First 30 Years 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty 1933Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America 1933Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Immediate EPIC 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Epic Plan for California 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Upton Sinclair's Last Will and Testament 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Epic Answers 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	I, Candidate for Governor 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Wally For Queen 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	We, People of America 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	No Pasaran! 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Letters to a Millionaire 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Terror in Russia? 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	What Can Be Done About America's Economic Troubles? 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Your Million Dollars 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Peace or War in America 1941Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	To the Conquered Peoples of Europe 1941Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	To Solve the German Problem 1943Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	This World of 1949 and What to Do About It 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	A Personal Jesus 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Spirits in American Literature 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	My Lifetime in Letters 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Secret Life of Jesus 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Brass Check 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Biographical and Critical Opinions 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Mammonart 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Upton Sinclair: Four Unpublished Letters 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Short Story Collections Series

Complete

1 book (2015–2015)

#	Title
1	Plays of Protest 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Novels Series

Complete

44 books (1901–2003)

Start with King Midas / Springtime and Harvest, the first of 44 books in the Standalone Novels series.

Start this series with King Midas / Springtime and Harvest

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1	King Midas / Springtime and Harvest 1901Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Prince Hagen 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Manassas / Theirs Be The Guilt 1904Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Captain Of Industry 1906Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Condemned Meat Industry 1906Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Jungle 1906Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Markets and Misery 1907Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Metropolis 1908Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Moneychangers 1908Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Love's Pilgrimage 1911Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Damaged Goods 1913Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Sylvia 1913Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Sylvia's Marriage 1914Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	King Coal 1917Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Samuel the Seeker 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Journal of Arthur Stirling 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Overman 1919Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	100% 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Spy 1921Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Book of Life 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	They Call Me Carpenter 1922Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Millennium 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Oil! 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Mountain City 1930Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Roman Holiday 1931Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Jimmie Higgins 1933Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Lie Factory Starts 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Depression Island, 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Co-op 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Gnomobile 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	William Fox 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Our Lady 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Little Steel 1946Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Mellem To Verdener 1947Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Limbo on the Loose 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Another Pamela 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Enemy in the Mouth 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	What Didymus Did 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	The Cup of Fury 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Affectionately Eve 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Boston 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Flivver King 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Coal War 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Pot Boiler 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Plays Series

Complete

5 books (1923–2014)

Start with Hell, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Plays series.

Start this series with Hell

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1	Hell 1923Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Marie Antoinette 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Enemy Had It Too 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Machine 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Naturewoman 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

West Point Series

Complete

5 books (1903–1903)

Start with A Cadet's Honor, the first of 5 books in the West Point series.

Start this series with A Cadet's Honor

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#	Title
1	A Cadet's Honor 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A West Point Treasure 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Off for West Point 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	On Guard 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The West Point Rivals 1903Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Upton Sinclair written?: Upton Sinclair has written 118 books across 9 series. Their published works span from 1900 to 2021.
What is the first book in each Upton Sinclair series?: Here are the first books in Upton Sinclair's series: Annapolis: Bound for Annapolis / The Trials of a Sailor Boy; Anthologies: The Cry for Justice; Lanny Budd: World's End; Non-Fiction: The Profits of Religion; Standalone Plays: Hell.
What order should I read Upton Sinclair's books?: We recommend reading Upton Sinclair's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
Are Upton Sinclair's series complete?: Upton Sinclair has 9 completed series.

Upton Sinclair Reading Order

Annapolis Series

Anthologies Series

Lanny Budd Series

Lanny Budd Non-Fiction Series

Non-Fiction Series

Short Story Collections Series

Standalone Novels Series

Standalone Plays Series

West Point Series

Frequently Asked Questions

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