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Dorothy Parker Books in Order

23 books are credited to Dorothy Parker, published between 1922 and 2024; 8 of them appeared after Dorothy Parker's death in 1967. The first book is Men I'm Not Married To (1922) and the newest is Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28 (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
23
Published
1922–2024
Pages on record
1,534 in 9 of 23 books
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Photo of Dorothy Parker, author

Dorothy Parker, born Rothschild in 1893, was a New York poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1967. Parker was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table and published in magazines including The New Yorker. Screenwriting in Hollywood brought 2 Academy Award nominations before left-wing politics put Parker on the blacklist. The catalogue lists 23 books, including Enough Rope (1926) and Laments for the Living (1930), with collections still appearing as late as 2024.

How many Dorothy Parker books are there?

Dorothy Parker has 23 books, released between 1922 and 2024. 8 of them were published after Dorothy Parker's death in 1967.

Dorothy Parker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 23 Dorothy Parker books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Big Blonde and Other Stories by Dorothy Parker (1929)
  2. Cover of The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (1944)
  3. Cover of The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker (1954)
  4. Cover of Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (1976)
  5. Cover of The Coast of Illyria by Dorothy Parker (1990)
  6. Cover of Selected Stories by Dorothy Parker (1995)
  7. Cover of Not Much Fun by Dorothy Parker (1996)
  8. Cover of Here We Are, a Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker (2001)
  1. 1
    Men I'm Not Married To1922 · confirmed 1/4
    1922–
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  2. 2
    Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker1924 · confirmed 1/4
    1924–
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  3. 3
    Enough Rope1926 · confirmed 1/4
    1926–
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  4. 5
    Laments for the Living1930 · confirmed 1/4
    1930–
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  5. 6
    Death and Taxes1931 · confirmed 1/4
    1931–
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  6. 7
    Not So Deep as a Well1937 · confirmed 1/4
    1937–
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  7. 8
    Here Lies1939 · confirmed 1/4
    1939–
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  8. 9
    Sunset Gun: Poems1940 · confirmed 1/4
    1940–
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  9. 10
    After Such Pleasures1940 · confirmed 1/4
    1940–
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  10. 11
    The Collected Short Stories1942 · confirmed 1/4
    1942–
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  11. 12
    The Sexes1944 · confirmed 1/4
    1944–
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  12. 13
    The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker1944 · confirmed 1/4
    1944–
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  13. 14
    The Portable Dorothy Parker1944 · 610 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1944610
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  14. 15
    The Ladies of the Corridor1954 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1954110
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  15. 16
    Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker1976 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976200
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  16. 17
    The Coast of Illyria1990 · 212 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990212
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  17. 18
    Sayings of Dorothy Parker1992 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199264
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  18. 19
    Selected Stories1995 · 2 pages · confirmed 1/4
    19952
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  19. 20
    Not Much Fun1996 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996256
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  20. 21
    Here We Are, a Telephone Call2001 · 22 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200122
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  21. 23
    Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–282024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Dorothy Parker books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

23 books

23 Dorothy Parker titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Dorothy Parker books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 23 Dorothy Parker books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Dorothy Parker

Start with Men I'm Not Married To (1922), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dorothy Parker book?

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28 (2024) is the newest Dorothy Parker book released so far.

Is there a new Dorothy Parker book coming?

No next Dorothy Parker book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Dorothy Parker has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Dorothy Parker. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • O. Henry Award1929Won

Dorothy Parker at a glance

Died
Dorothy Parker died in 1967, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Dorothy Parker are still being published after Dorothy Parker's death in 1967; the newest appeared in 2024.
Release pace
Dorothy Parker books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
1,534 pages across the 9 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 110 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dorothy Parker books, 6 of 23, were published in the 1940s.

What the Dorothy Parker books are about

8 of the 23 Dorothy Parker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: drama is tagged on 2 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.