Paul Theroux bibliography

List of the published work of Paul Theroux, American novelist, short story writer and travel writer.

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Novels

• Waldo. 1967.
• Fong and the Indians (1968)
• Murder in Mount Holly (1969)
• Girls at Play (1971)
• Jungle Lovers (1971)
• Saint Jack (1973)
• The Black House (1974)
• The Family Arsenal (1976)
• Picture Palace (1978)
• A Christmas Card (1978)
• London Snow (1980)
• The Mosquito Coast (1981)
• Doctor Slaughter (1984) – filmed as Half Moon Street (1986)
• O-Zone. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1986.
• My Secret History. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1989.
• Chicago Loop (1990)
• Dr. DeMarr (1990)
• Millroy the Magician (1993)
• The Greenest Island (1995)
• My Other Life (1996)
• Kowloon Tong (1997)
• Hotel Honolulu (2001)
• Nurse Wolf and Dr. Sacks (2001)
• Blinding Light (2006)
• A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta (2009)
• The Lower River (2012)
• Mr. Bones (2014) - 20 short stories
• Mother Land (2017)
• On the Plain of Snakes (2019)

Short fiction

Collections

• Sinning with Annie (1972)
• The Consul's File (1977)
• World's End (1980)
• The London Embassy (1982)
• The Collected Stories. New York: Penguin Group. 1997.
• Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro (2004)
• The Elephanta Suite (2007)

Stories[1]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
The prison diary of Jack Faust	1970	Theroux, Paul (September, 1970). The prison diary of Jack Faust. Playboy. 17 (9): 135, 138, 258-264.		Construction by William Koralewski
Dog days	1971	Theroux, Paul (November, 1971). Dog Days. Playboy. 18 (11): 181-182, 240-243		Illustration by Kinuko Craft
Dengue Fever	1975	Theroux, Paul (November, 1975). Dengue fever. Playboy. 22 (11): 148-154		Illustrations by Bill Imhoff
Set of two	1977	Theroux, Paul (March, 1977). Set of two. Playboy. 24 (3): 114-116, 176.		Illustrations by Tom James
Sex and its substitutes	1982	Theroux, Paul (December, 1982). Sex and its substitutes. Playboy. 24 (3): 173, 178, 267-272
A Christmas fantasy	1985	???		Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg
The Furies	2013	Theroux, Paul (February 25, 2013). "The Furies". The New Yorker. 89 (2): 66–73.
Action	2014	Theroux, Paul (August 4, 2014). "Action". The New Yorker. 90 (22): 58–62.

Non-fiction

Miscellaneous non-fiction

• V. S. Naipaul: An Introduction to his Work (1972)
• Sir Vidia's Shadow (1998)

Travel

• The Great Railway Bazaar (1975)
• The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
• The Kingdom by the Sea (1983)
• Sailing Through China (1984)
• Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985)
• The Imperial Way (1985)
• Riding the Iron Rooster (1988)
• To the Ends of the Earth (Compilation of travel writing, 1990)
• Travelling The World - The Illustrated Travels of Paul Theroux (1990)
• The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992)
• The Pillars of Hercules (1995)
• Fresh Air Fiend (2000)
• Dark Star Safari (2002)
• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (2008)
• The Tao of Travel (2011)
• The Last Train to Zona Verde (2013)
• Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (2015)
• Figures in a Landscape: People and Places (2018)
• On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey (2019)

Notes

1. Short stories unless otherwise noted.

External links

• Works by or about Paul Theroux bibliography at Internet Archive