Order of Herman Wouk Books

Herman Wouk (1915-2019) was an American writer known for his historical fiction novels. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific Theater, which inspired much of his work. Wouk maintained a daily journal since 1937, utilizing it for research purposes. The U.S. Library of Congress digitized over 100 volumes of his journal and honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction Writing. He also received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Caine Mutiny, recognized as one of the most authentic portrayals of life aboard a U.S. ship during the war. Wouk died in 2019, just ten days shy of his 104th birthday. He published his first novel, The Ballad of Wake Island: Spoken by a Quantico Sergeant, in 1941. Below is a list of Herman Wouk’s books in the order of their original release: