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Philip Roth timeline

Last updated December 26

“She could read. But the trouble with her reading was that it was too casual; it did not satisfy. She had already decided that to remedy the situation she would have to read the works of one writer straight through, in chronological order. Then all of another writer, and so on. She planned to start with Faulkner but she did not have the books yet.” (from Letting Go)

Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
Letting Go (1962)
When She Was Good (1967)
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
Our Gang (1971)
The Breast (1972)
The Great American Novel (1973)
My Life as a Man (1974)
Reading Myself and Others (1975)
The Professor of Desire (1977)
The Ghost Writer (1979)
Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
The Anatomy Lesson (1984)
The Prague Orgy (1985)
The Counterlife (1987)
The Facts (1988)
Deception (1990)
Patrimony (1991)
Operation Shylock (1993)
Sabbath’s Theater (1995)
American Pastoral (1/3) (1997)
I Married a Communist (2/3) (1998)
The Human Stain (3/3) (2000)
The Dying Animal (2001)
The Plot Against America (2004)
Everyman (2006)
Exit Ghost (2007)
Indignation (2008)
The Humbling (2009)