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Isaac Bashevis Singer Books in Order

54 books are credited to Isaac Bashevis Singer, published between 1950 and 2024; 7 of them appeared after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death in 1991. The first book is The Family Moskat (1950) and the newest is A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Isaac Bashevis Singer also publishes as Bashevis, D. Segal, Warszawski.

Books
54
Published
1950–2024
Pages on record
9,902 in 42 of 54 books
Reading time
165–248 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,902 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 42 of 54 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of the Manor series

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short story writer and essayist who wrote in Yiddish and then translated his own work into English. Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and stood among the leading figures of the Yiddish literary movement. This catalogue holds 54 titles dated 1950 to 2024, opening with The Family Moskat (1950) and taking in Satan in Goray (1955), Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957), The Magician of Lublin (1959) and The Slave (1962). The newest entry is A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories (2024).

How many Isaac Bashevis Singer books are there?

Isaac Bashevis Singer has 54 books, released between 1950 and 2024. 7 of them were published after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death in 1991. 2 of them belong to the Manor series.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 54 Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1950)
  2. Cover of In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1956)
  3. Cover of Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1957)
  4. Cover of The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1959)
  5. Cover of The Spinoza of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1961)
  6. Cover of The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1962)
  7. Cover of A Day of Pleasure by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1963)
  8. Cover of Short Friday and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1963)
  9. Cover of Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966)
  10. Cover of The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer, book 1 of the Manor series (1967)
  11. Cover of The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1967)
  12. Cover of Seance by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968)
  13. Cover of A Friend of Kafka by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1969)
  14. Cover of Elijah, the Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1970)
  15. Cover of The Wicked City by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972)
  16. Cover of Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972)
  17. Cover of A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1973)
  18. Cover of The Hasidim by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1973)
  19. Cover of The Fools of Chelm by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1973)
  20. Cover of Passions by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1975)
  21. Cover of Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1976)
  22. Cover of A Young Man in Search of Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
  23. Cover of Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
  24. Cover of More Stories from My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1980)
  1. 1
    The Family Moskat1950 · 611 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1950611
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  2. 2
    Satan in Goray1955 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1955208
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  3. 3
    In My Father's Court1956 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1956320
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  4. 5
    The Magician of Lublin1959 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1959208
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  5. 6
    The Spinoza of Market Street1961 · confirmed 1/4
    1961–
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  6. 7
    The Slave1962 · 311 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1962311
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  7. 8
    A Day of Pleasure1963 · 227 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1963227
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  8. 11
    The ManorManor #11967 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1967416
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  9. 12
    The Manor and The Estate1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
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  10. 13
    The Fearsome Inn1967 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    196748
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  11. 14
    Mazel and Shlimazel1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
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  12. 15
    Seance1968 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968256
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  13. 16
    The EstateManor #21969 · confirmed 1/4
    1969–
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  14. 17
    A Friend of Kafka1969 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969320
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  15. 18
    The Golem1969 · confirmed 1/4
    1969–
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  16. 20
    Elijah, the Slave1970 · confirmed 1/4
    1970–
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  17. 21
    Joseph and Koza1971 · 58 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197158
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  18. 22
    The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China1972 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197232
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  19. 23
    The Wicked City1972 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197239
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  20. 24
    Enemies, a Love Story1972 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1972280
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  21. 25
    A Crown of Feathers1973 · confirmed 1/4
    1973–
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  22. 26
    The Hasidim1973 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973122
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  23. 27
    The Fools of Chelm1973 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197364
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  24. 28
    Passions1975 · 324 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975324
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  25. 30
    A Young Man in Search of Love1978 · 177 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978177
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Isaac Bashevis Singer 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.

Manor in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Manor
  2. 2. The Estate

Standalone books

52 books

52 Isaac Bashevis Singer titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Isaac Bashevis Singer books in order?

You only need to read Isaac Bashevis Singer books in order within the Manor series, which holds 2 of the 54 Isaac Bashevis Singer books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Isaac Bashevis Singer

Start with The Family Moskat (1950), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Isaac Bashevis Singer book?

A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories (2024) is the newest Isaac Bashevis Singer book released so far.

Is there a new Isaac Bashevis Singer book coming?

No next Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 Isaac Bashevis Singer has won

Wikidata records 5 awards for Isaac Bashevis Singer. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Nobel Prize in Literature1978Won
  • National Book Award1974Wonfor A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
  • Itzik Manger Prize1973Won
  • National Book Award1970Wonfor A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
  • Bancarella Literary Prize1968Wonfor The Family Moskat

Isaac Bashevis Singer at a glance

Died
Isaac Bashevis Singer died in 1991, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Isaac Bashevis Singer are still being published after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death in 1991; the newest appeared in 2024.
Release pace
Isaac Bashevis Singer books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
9,902 pages across the 42 of 54 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Isaac Bashevis Singer books, 14 of 54, were published in the 1980s.

What the Isaac Bashevis Singer books are about

48 of the 54 Isaac Bashevis Singer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: jews is tagged on 20 of 48. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.