F. Scott Fitzgerald Books in Order

79 books are credited to F. Scott Fitzgerald, published between 1914 and 2020; 29 of them appeared after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death in 1940. The first book is F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 (1914) and the newest is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books: 79
Published: 1914–2020
Confirmed: 79 of 79 titles
Pages on record: 14,824 in 57 of 79 books
Reading time: 247–371 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 14,824 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 57 of 79 titles with a page count on record.

See all 79 books in order Printable F. Scott Fitzgerald checklist

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896, was an American novelist, essayist and short story writer who died on December 21, 1940. The Jazz Age is the era most tied to Fitzgerald, who spread the term through the story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's output came to four novels, four story collections and 164 short stories; fortune arrived in the 1920s, and critical recognition followed only after death. The catalogue holds 79 books dated 1914 to 2020, including Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020). Subjects name short stories, social customs and the nineteen twenties.

How many F. Scott Fitzgerald books are there?

F. Scott Fitzgerald has 79 books, released between 1914 and 2020. 29 of them were published after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death in 1940. 33 of them belong to the F. Scott Fitzgerald series.

F. Scott Fitzgerald 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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in order

33 books

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14
2. The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917
3. Spires and Gargoyles
4. The Short Stories
5. Flappers and Philosophers
6. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories
8. Tales of the Jazz Age
9. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
10. Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age
11. The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. All the Sad Young Men
and 21 more in the table above

F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Stories/Novellas

26 books

26 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Non-Fiction

11 books

11 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Standalone Novels

8 books

8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Literary Conversations in order

1 book

78. Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the F. Scott Fitzgerald books run from F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 (1914) to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for F. Scott Fitzgerald in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read F. Scott Fitzgerald books in order?

You only need to read F. Scott Fitzgerald books in order within the F. Scott Fitzgerald series, which holds 33 of the 79 F. Scott Fitzgerald books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with F. Scott Fitzgerald

Start with F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 (1914), the earliest published title.

What is the newest F. Scott Fitzgerald book?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020) is the newest F. Scott Fitzgerald book released so far.

Is there a new F. Scott Fitzgerald book coming?

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald at a glance

Died: F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, according to Wikidata.
After death: Books credited to F. Scott Fitzgerald are still being published after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death in 1940; the newest appeared in 2020.
Release pace: F. Scott Fitzgerald books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length: 14,824 pages across the 57 of 79 books with a recorded length, a median of 208 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most F. Scott Fitzgerald books, 35 of 79, were published in the 1920s.

What the F. Scott Fitzgerald books are about

60 of the 79 F. Scott Fitzgerald books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 22 of 60. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Short stories 22 of 60 books
Social life and customs 16 of 60 books
Authors 10 of 60 books
Classics 10 of 60 books
Manners and customs 10 of 60 books
American literature 9 of 60 books
Contemporary romance 9 of 60 books
Nineteen twenties 7 of 60 books
Correspondence 6 of 60 books