Philip Roth Books in Order

How many Philip Roth books are there?

Philip Roth has 38 books, released between 1958 and 2017. They include 3 series and 26 titles listed outside any series.

Philip Roth Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 38 Philip Roth 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.

Philip Roth 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.

Philip Roth Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Philip Roth books run from The Conversion of the Jews (1958) to Why Write? (2017), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Philip Roth in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Philip Roth books in order?

You only need to read Philip Roth books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Philip Roth

Start with The Conversion of the Jews (1958), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Philip Roth book?

Why Write? (2017) is the newest Philip Roth book released so far.

Is there a new Philip Roth book coming?

No next Philip Roth 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 Philip Roth has won

Wikidata records 17 awards and 19 nominations for Philip Roth. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• Emerson-Thoreau Medal2013Won
• Princess of Asturias Literary Prize2012Won
• Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction2012Won
• International Booker Prize2011Won
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction2007Wonfor Everyman
• Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction2005Wonfor The Plot Against America
• Sidewise Award for Alternate History2004Wonfor The Plot Against America
• Prix Médicis étranger2002Wonfor The Human Stain
• National Book Award2002Won
• Franz Kafka Prize2001Won
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction2001Wonfor The Human Stain
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1998Wonfor American Pastoral

Philip Roth at a glance

Died

Philip Roth died in 2018, according to Wikidata.

Last book

The newest book credited to Philip Roth on record dates from 2017.

Release pace

Philip Roth books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.

Length

8,636 pages across the 32 of 38 books with a recorded length, a median of 277 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Philip Roth books, 8 of 38, were published in the 2000s.

What the Philip Roth books are about

35 of the 38 Philip Roth books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: jewish men is tagged on 8 of 35. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Jewish men 8 of 35 books
• Nathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character) 6 of 35 books
• College teachers 5 of 35 books
• Fiction in English 5 of 35 books
• Jews 5 of 35 books
• Roth, philip, 1933-2018 5 of 35 books
• Novelists 4 of 35 books
• Authors 3 of 35 books
• Biography 3 of 35 books
• David Kepesh (Fictitious character) 3 of 35 books
• History and criticism 3 of 35 books
• Interviews 3 of 35 books