Tom Wolfe

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    October 2012
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Books in Order: 14 titles

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  • Back to Blood

    A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscap...

  • I Am Charlotte Simmons

    Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from ...

  • Radical Chic

    RADICAL CHIC is Tom Wolfe's hilarious dissection of the need among wealthy liberals in late '60s America to be seen to support the correct political causes - even if that meant giving champagne receptions for the feared Black Panther Party. MAU-MAUIN...

  • Hooking Up

    Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. ...

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism. This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and ...

  • The Pump House Gang

  • A Man in Full

    Tom Wolfe's THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES defined an era and established Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. In his #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, A MAN IN FULL, the setti...

  • Bonfire of the Vanities

    Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) â...

  • Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

    A collection of impeccably observed stories, sketches, and essays in full, exuberant, classic Wolfe mode.The third installment in Wolfe’s trilogy of essay-length works after The Pump House Gang and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,...



  • The Right Stuff

    When the future began...

    The men had it.  Yeager.  Conrad.  Grissom.  Glenn.  Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line.  The women had it.  While M...

  • The Purple Decades

    The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture.The Purple Decades brings together the author's selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Maui...

  • The Painted Word

  • Of Time and the River

    The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperat...

  • The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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    "An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.

    "This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tom Wolfe has published 14 books.

Tom Wolfe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Back to Blood, was published in October 2012.

The first book by Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, was published in January 1965.

No. Tom Wolfe does not write books in series.
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