Gore Vidal

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1964
  • Latest Book:
    December 2021
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Full Series List in Order

American Chronicles

Burr (Oct-1973)
1876 (Feb-1976)
Lincoln (Jul-1984)
Washington, D.C. (Sep-1986)
Empire (Jun-1987)
Hollywood (Feb-1990)
The Golden Age (Sep-2000)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Best Man

    The Best Man crackles with the smart lines and situations inherent to the work of Gore Vidal. The political intrigues rampant in Vidals 1960 setting are strangly similar to the political intrigues of the present day. This darkly satirical drama finds...

  • An Evening with Richard Nixon

  • Homage to Daniel Shays

  • Burr

    American Chronicles

    For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel -- and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledglin...

  • Julian

    Julian the Apostate was the nephew of Emperor Constantine the Great. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. 361, at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later after an unsuccessful attempt to rebuke Christianity and restore the worship ...

  • Myron

    Myra caused a second furor when she returned in Myron to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego, a drab little man fallen into marriage and a job in Chinese catering. Theirs is a contest of hormonal roulette, with glorious Myra off on time-tra...

  • 1876

    American Chronicles

            The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United Stat...

  • Kalki

    Who is Kalki, and why is he planning to destroy the world -- and everything in it? And if Kalki is a mystical legend, then why does his ultimate world include only a select few chosen to breed a new human race?...

  • A Search for the King

    Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his faithful troubadour Blondel de Neel. But how? And what trials did the faithful and long-suffering lyricist have to o...



  • The City and the Pillar

    A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and h...

  • Creation

    Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of hi...

  • A Thirsty Evil

    From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as a boy in 'A Moment of Green Laurel': both stories combining the nostalgia and fear that haunt us all in old age....

  • Duluth

    A satiric look at the state of the union centers on a relocated Duluth and its assorted politicians, policemen and women, terrestrial and extraterrestrial aliens, Hispanics, feminists, mobsters, and other minorities...

  • Lincoln

    American Chronicles

    Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington...

  • Williwaw

    A boat of the Army Transportation Corps fights through the fierce wind of the Williwaw, carrying two officers and a chaplain with its crew. Human nature and the elements move the men through their uncertain destiny....

  • Dangerous Voyage

  • Myra Breckinridge and Myron

  • Dark Green, Bright Red

    Rainy season is over, perfect for a revolution. For Peter it seems a game the General and his beautiful daughter are playing. But the blood spilled is real, as are the forces secretly lusting for power....

  • Washington, D.C.

    American Chronicles

    "May well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital."THE NEW YORKERFrom the New Deal to the McCarthy era, follow the lives of Blaise Sanford, the ruthless Washington newspaper tycoon...his son, Peter, a brilliant liberal editor both fasc...



  • The Judgment of Paris

    Power, knowledge, and love are the temptations of three alluring women as Philip wanders from Paris to Rome. Yet his choice matters less than the act of choosing in this witty odyssey of self-discovery....

  • Empire

    American Chronicles

            Empire, the fourth novel in Gore Vidal's monumental six-volume chronicle of the American past, is his prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century as it begin...

  • Two Sisters

    Two Sisters is Gore Vidal’s fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris—a story skilfully interwoven with notebooks, diaries and the vivid fragment of a screenplay set in ancient Greece. In seducti...

  • Hollywood

    American Chronicles

    Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States.        It is 1917, and President W...

  • Live from Golgotha

    Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been...

  • The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories

    A literary cause clbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. Bu...

  • Palimpsest

    This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated life, from his birth in 1925...

  • Messiah

    When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal’s deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy,...

  • The Smithsonian Institution

    It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fissio...

  • The Golden Age

    American Chronicles

    The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.The historical no...



  • The Last Empire

    Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected her...

  • Clouds and Eclipses

    Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennesse...

  • Point to Point Navigation

    In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywoo...

  • Williwaw A Novel

  • Thieves Fall Out

    An American smuggler in Egypt finds himself at the mercy of killers, femme fatales, and an escalating revolution -- a lost pulp crime novel from one of the legends of the genre Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with poli...

  • The Judgement of Paris

  • Myra Breckinridge

    The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new introduction...

  • In a Yellow Wood

  • Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982

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    This collection of essays includes Vidal's noted pieces on Theodore Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and on the need for a new constitutional convention and ranges across a wide spectrum of social, political, and literary matters...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gore Vidal has published 38 books.

Gore Vidal does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In a Yellow Wood, was published in December 2021.

The first book by Gore Vidal, Best Man, was published in April 1964.

Yes. Gore Vidal has 1 series.
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