William S. Burroughs Reading Order
1 series · 200 books
William S. Burroughs was an American novelist and visual artist whose experimental, avant-garde fiction fundamentally shaped postmodern literature and counterculture movements throughout the late twentieth century. His trademark style employs fragmented narratives, unreliable perspectives, and provocative subject matter to challenge conventional storytelling, earning him recognition as a foundational Beat Generation writer whose influence extends across underground and mainstream artistic landscapes. Publishing from 1970 to 2007, Burroughs created darkly imaginative standalone novels that continue to inspire writers exploring the boundaries of literary form and social critique.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with Dead Fingers Talk, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Academy 23 |
| 2 | Adding Machine |
| 3 | Ah Pook is here, and other texts |
| 4 | Ali's smile |
| 5 | And the hippos were boiled in their tanks |
| 6 | Anti-junk |
| 7 | Apomorphine |
| 8 | Arabolge |
| 9 | At the front - critical reception |
| 10 | Beat! |
| 11 | Between spaces |
| 12 | Blade runner |
| 13 | Blade runner |
| 14 | Boards syndicates governments of the earth pay |
| 15 | Bruce Weber : an exhibition |
| 16 | Burroughs |
| 17 | Burroughs Live |
| 18 | Burroughs, Pélieu, Kaufman |
| 19 | Cat Inside |
| 20 | Ciplak Solen |
| 21 | City Lights Journal |
| 22 | Cobble stone gardens |
| 23 | Cursed from Birth |
| 24 | Datchi Shurutsu saigo no kotoba |
| 25 | Dead aim |
| 26 | Die Elektronische Revolution |
| 27 | Die Vier Apokalyptischen Reiter |
| 28 | Early routines |
| 29 | El fantasma accidental |
| 30 | El fantasma de l'oportunitat |
| 31 | El lugar de los caminos muertos |
| 32 | Electronic Revolution/Die Elektronische Revolution |
| 33 | Electronic revolution, 1970-71 |
| 34 | Electronische revolutie |
| 35 | Elektro Devrim 8 |
| 36 | Entre chats |
| 37 | Everything Lost |
| 38 | Everything lost |
| 39 | Exterminateur! |
| 40 | Exterminator! A novel |
| 41 | File ticker tape |
| 42 | Gato encerrado |
| 43 | Ghost of Chance |
| 44 | Ghost of chance |
| 45 | Havre des saints |
| 46 | Havre des saints |
| 47 | Helnwein - Kindskopf - Head of a Child |
| 48 | Hysteria caused by events leading to the Lindbergh trial |
| 49 | In Youth Is Pleasure |
| 50 | Interzone |
| 51 | Interzone |
| 52 | Jack Kerouac |
| 53 | Job |
| 54 | Just say no to drug hysteria |
| 55 | Kentucky Ham |
| 56 | Kentucky Ham |
| 57 | La Fille aux cheveux verts |
| 58 | La foire aux atrocités |
| 59 | La morbida macchina |
| 60 | La révolution electronique |
| 61 | Las Cartas de La Ayahuasca |
| 62 | Lasers (The Inside Story) |
| 63 | Last Words |
| 64 | Last Words of Dutch Schultz Edition |
| 65 | Last Words: Qui Vivre Verra |
| 66 | Last words |
| 67 | Le Complot |
| 68 | Le Havre des saints |
| 69 | Le festin nu |
| 70 | Le job |
| 71 | Les Garçons sauvages |
| 72 | Les garçons sauvages |
| 73 | Les lettres du yage |
| 74 | Les terres occidentales |
| 75 | Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs |
| 76 | Letters, 1945-59 |
| 77 | Lettre d'un maître intoxiqué aux drogues dangereuses |
| 78 | Lettres du yage |
| 79 | Los chicos salvajes |
| 80 | Maquina Blanda, La |
| 81 | Mayfair Acadamy series more or less |
| 82 | Mummies |
| 83 | My Education |
| 84 | Naked Lunch |
| 85 | Naked lunch |
| 86 | Naked scientology |
| 87 | Narkotyki |
| 88 | New Writing and Writers |
| 89 | Nova Express |
| 90 | Nova Express. |
| 91 | Oeuvre croisée |
| 92 | Painting and Guns |
| 93 | Paper Cloud Thick Pages (Art Random Series, No 102) |
| 94 | Patlamis Bilet |
| 95 | Place of Dead Roads |
| 96 | Port of saints |
| 97 | Proclaim present time over |
| 98 | Prostranstvo mertvykh dorog |
| 99 | RE/Search 4/5 |
| 100 | Radiert die Worte aus |
| 101 | Re/search #4/5 |
| 102 | Rebels and Devils |
| 103 | Roosevelt after inauguration and other atrocities |
| 104 | Rub Out The Words Letters Of William Burroughs 19591974 |
| 105 | Rub Out The Words The Letters Of William S Burroughs 19591974 |
| 106 | Rub Out The Words The Letters Of William S Burroughs 19591974 |
| 107 | Rub Out the Words |
| 108 | Rub Out the Words |
| 109 | Rules of Duel |
| 110 | Shotgun paintings |
| 111 | Snack .... |
| 112 | Snack... |
| 113 | Soft Machine (Calderbooks) |
| 114 | Son Sozler |
| 115 | Special Burroughs issue |
| 116 | Speed |
| 117 | Speed |
| 118 | Speed |
| 119 | Speed and Kentucky Ham |
| 120 | Speed and Kentucky Ham |
| 121 | Stiletto One |
| 122 | Strade Morte |
| 123 | Strange Amazing and Mysterious Places |
| 124 | Tape recorder mutations |
| 125 | Textes |
| 126 | Textes |
| 127 | Th e seven deadly sins |
| 128 | The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men |
| 129 | The Black rider |
| 130 | The Burroughs file |
| 131 | The Cat Inside |
| 132 | The Coldspring News |
| 133 | The Electronic Revolution |
| 134 | The Fenris Wolf 1-3 |
| 135 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| 136 | The Job |
| 137 | The Letters of William S. Burroughs: Volume I |
| 138 | The Letters of William S.Burroughs, 1945-59 |
| 139 | The Moroccan; James Brown |
| 140 | The Moving times |
| 141 | The Moving times |
| 142 | The Ticket That Exploded |
| 143 | The Ticket That Exploded |
| 144 | The Ticket That Exploded |
| 145 | The Yage Letters |
| 146 | The adding machine |
| 147 | The book of breeething |
| 148 | The cat inside |
| 149 | The dead child |
| 150 | The job |
| 151 | The last words of Dutch Schultz |
| 152 | The letters of William S. Burroughs |
| 153 | The retreat diaries |
| 154 | The seven deadly sins |
| 155 | The soft machine |
| 156 | The ticket that exploded |
| 157 | The western lands |
| 158 | Third Mind |
| 159 | Time |
| 160 | Time |
| 161 | Time |
| 162 | Tiquet Que Exploto, El |
| 163 | Tornado alley |
| 164 | Uncommon Quotes |
| 165 | Vahsi Oglanlar |
| 166 | Western Lands, the |
| 167 | What in Horton Hotel Rue Vernet Gen-San Marino Zaliola the swan last day de Cobo Princi e di castel-hos it-cicale von Keop en Countesse Gay Gudewill Count Hell does that mean????????? |
| 168 | When Men in Black Attack |
| 169 | White Subway |
| 170 | Wild Boys |
| 171 | Wild Boys |
| 172 | William Burroughs Reader |
| 173 | William Burroughs counter display |
| 174 | William Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Bob Kaufman |
| 175 | William S. Burroughs |
| 176 | William S. Burroughs |
| 177 | William S. Burroughs ; Brion Gysin ; and, Throbbing Gristle |
| 178 | William S. Burroughs' "The revised Boy Scout manual" |
| 179 | Word Virus |
| 180 | Word Virus |
| 181 | Word virus |
| 182 | Yonki |
| 183 | Yonqui |
| 184 | Yonqui ; El almuerzo desnudo ; Queer |
| 185 | You can't win |
| 186 | Yumusak Makine |
| 187 | Çıplak Şölen |
| 188 | וההיפופוטמים התבשלו בתוך הבריכות שלהם |
| 189 | ジャンキー |
| 190 | 麻薬書簡 |
| 191 | Dead Fingers Talk 1970 |
| 192 | Book of Breeething 1980 |
| 193 | The Soft Machine; Nova Express; The Wild Boys 1981 |
| 194 | Cities of the Red Night 1982 |
| 195 | Place of Dead Roads 1985 |
| 196 | Apocalypse 1988 |
| 197 | Seven Deadly Sins 1991 |
| 198 | Almuerzo Desnudo 2003 |
| 199 | La Maquina Blanda 2004 |
| 200 | Evil River 2007 |
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