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Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American writer, renowned for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction multiple times, a distinction shared by only two other authors, William Faulkner and John Updike. In the 1910s and 1920s, he was regarded as the greatest living American author. Tarkington made his novelistic debut in 1899 with The Gentleman From Indiana. Below is a list of his books in the order of their original publication.

Booth Tarkington became a published novelist in 1899 with the novel The Gentleman from Indiana. Below is a list of Booth Tarkington's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of The Growth Trilogy Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Turmoil (1915) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Midlander (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Penrod Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Penrod (1914) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Penrod and Sam (1916) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Penrod Jashber (1929) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Monsieur Beaucaire (1900) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Old Gray Eagle (1901) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Two Vanrevels (1902) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cherry (1903) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Flirt (1913) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Seventeen (1916) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Rich Man's War (1917) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beasley's Christmas Party (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Beautiful Lady (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beauty and the Jacobin (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Conquest of Canaan (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Gibson Upright (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Guest of Quesnay (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
His Own People (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Neither Dead nor Sleeping (1920) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alice Adams (1921) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gentle Julia (1922) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Women (1925) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
About Fred C. Kelly, author of Kellygrams (1926) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Plutocrat (1927) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Claire Ambler (1928) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Young Mrs. Greeley (1929) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramsey Milholland (1929) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mary's Neck (1932) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wanton Mally (1932) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Presenting Lily Mars (1933) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Little Orvie (1934) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fighting Littles (1941) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
To the Girls and Boys of Indianapolis (1942) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson (1945) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Showpiece (1947) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Image of Josephine (1948) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mrs. Protheroe (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Harlequin and Columbine (1918) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Works of Booth Tarkington ... (1922) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories (1923) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Strack selections from Booth Tarkington's stories, (1926) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr. White, The red barn, Hell, and Bridewater, (1935) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stories (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Plays Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Man from Home (1915) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Trysting Place (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bimbo, the Pirate ; (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How's your Health? (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mister Antonio; (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
In the Arena (1905) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collector's Whatnot (1923) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Just Princeton (1924) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The World Does Move (1928) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Some Old Portraits (1939) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Booth Tarkington on Dogs (1944) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
An Open Letter from Booth Tarkington (1945) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Your Amiable Uncle (1949) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
On Plays, Playwrights, And Playgoers (1959) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Looking Forward And Others. (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dr. Panofsky and Mr. Tarkington: An Exchange of Letters, 1938-1946 (With: Erwin Panofsky,Richard Ludwig) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Second Christmas Megapack (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The American Short Story: A Chronological History - Volume 5 (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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