John Steinbeck

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1929
  • Latest Book:
    March 2013
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Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Cup of Gold

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    This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was u...

  • The Pastures of Heaven: Short Stories

    A Penguin ClassicIn Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in...

  • The Red Pony: A Novella

    Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-temper...

  • To a God Unknown

    A Penguin ClassicAncient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream o...

  • Viva Zapata!

    An Academy Award-nominated screenplay from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
     
    The hitherto unpublished script for Viva Zapata! was written by John Steinbeck between 1948 and 1950; it is his only completely original screenplay. Th...

  • In Dubious Battle

    A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence, now a major motion picture starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Selena Gomez, and Zach BraffA Penguin ClassicAt once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and...

  • Of Mice and Men: A Novella

    They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in Cali...

  • Tortilla Flat

    Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose h...

  • The Long Valley: Short Stories

    A Penguin ClassicFirst published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas V...



  • The Grapes of Wrath

    The Pulitzer Prize -- winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized -- and sometimes outraged -- millions of readers At once naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, rood novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wr...

  • Bombs Away

    A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers

    A Penguin Classic

    On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the hei...

  • The Moon is Down

    Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside -- and betrayal born within the close-knit communityA Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores...

  • The Pearl: A Novella

    Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like ...

  • Cannery Row

    Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, ...

  • The Wayward Bus

    A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, t...

  • Burning Bright: A Novella

    Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format. Rather than providing only the dialogue and brief stage directions as would be expected in a play, Steinbeck fleshes out the scenes wit...

  • The Log from the 'Sea of Cortez'

    This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure....

  • East of Eden

    "A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition

    In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden ""the first book,"" and indeed it has ...

  • Sweet Thursday

    A Penguin ClassicIn Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row -- the weedy lots and junk heaps and ...



  • The Short Reign of Pippin IV

    In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the m...

  • Once There Was a War

    A Penguin Classic“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from E...

  • The Winter of Our Discontent

    Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterizes success ...

  • Travels with Charley in Search of America

    To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light: these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many yea...

  • Journal of a Novel

    Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm ...

  • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

    CAMELOT AS YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN IT... AS IT'S NEVER BEEN BEFORE... The glory and magnificence of the Arthurian legends recreated by Nobel laureate John Steinbeck in an epic fantasy alive with the magic of Merlin...the menace of Mordred...the romance...

  • Zapata

    Before there was Viva Zapata!, the acclaimed film for which John Steinbeck received Academy Award nominations for best story and screenplay, there was the original Zapata.

    In the research library of UCLA, James Robertson unearthed Steinbeck's origi...

  • Novels and Stories 1932-1937

    The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the...

  • The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories

  • The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941

    The second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publ...



  • Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952

    This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.

    The ...

  • Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962

    John Steinbeck was never content to repeat himself, and his restless search for new forms and fresh subject matter is fully evident in the books of his later years. This volume collects four novels that exhibit the full range of his gift, along with ...

  • The Short Novels of John Steinbeck:

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novelsCollected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in...

  • The Portable Steinbeck

    It would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters. Profuse with a richness of language, sly humor, and empathy for even his most flawed characters, Steinbeck's books are still widely read and deeply relevant ...

  • Grapes

    A novel concerning the plight of the "Okies" - the refugee farmers and sharecroppers fleeing the dustbowl of Oklahoma. Attracted by the golden promise of California, they meet only with abject hostility, shame and destitution. ...

Award-Winning Books by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath
1999 Audies -- Classics


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Steinbeck has published 34 books.

John Steinbeck does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Grapes, was published in March 2013.

The first book by John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold, was published in October 1929.

No. John Steinbeck does not write books in series.
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