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Richard Yates Books in Order

Richard Yates has written 20 books, published between 1961 and 2021. The first book is Revolutionary Road (1961) and the newest is The Basis of National Welfare: Considered in Reference Chiefly to the Prosperity of Britain, and Safety of the Church of England &C.: in a 2Nd Letter (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1961–2021
Pages on record
3,198 in 11 of 20 books
Reading time
53–80 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,198 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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Richard Walden Yates, an American fiction writer who lived from February 3, 1926 to November 7, 1992, is associated with the mid-century Age of Anxiety. Revolutionary Road (1961), the first Yates novel, reached the finalists for the 1962 National Book Award, and the story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962) drew comparisons with James Joyce. Yates won praise from critics but few sales during a lifetime that ended in 1992. The Easter Parade (1976), A Good School (1978) and Cold Spring Harbor (1986) are later titles.

How many Richard Yates books are there?

Richard Yates has 20 books, released between 1961 and 2021.

Richard Yates Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Richard Yates 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 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
  2. Cover of A Special Providence by Richard Yates (1969)
  3. Cover of Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates (1975)
  4. Cover of The Easter Parade by Richard Yates (1976)
  5. Cover of A Good School by Richard Yates (1978)
  6. Cover of Liars in Love by Richard Yates (1981)
  7. Cover of William Styron's Lie Down In Darkness by Richard Yates, book 1 of the Screenplays series (1983)
  8. Cover of Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates (1984)
  9. Cover of The Collected Stories by Richard Yates (2001)
  1. 1
    Revolutionary Road1961 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1961337
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  2. 2
    Eleven Kinds of Loneliness1962 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1962240
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  3. 3
    A Special Providence1969 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969336
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  4. 4
    Disturbing the Peace1975 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975288
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  5. 5
    The Easter Parade1976 · 229 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976229
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  6. 6
    A Good School1978 · 178 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978178
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  7. 7
    Liars in Love1981 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981272
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  8. 8
    William Styron's Lie Down In DarknessScreenplays #11983 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983208
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  9. 9
    Young Hearts Crying1984 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984432
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  10. 10
    Cold Spring Harbor1986 · 182 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986182
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  11. 11
    Castles of Gold & Dust1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996–
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  12. 12
    The Collected Stories2001 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001496
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  13. 13
    Representation in Congress2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  14. 14
    Essay On The Cultivation Of The Oak2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  15. 15
    An Illustration of the Monastic History and Antiquities of the Town and Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury; With Views of the Most Considerable Monasterial R2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  16. 16
    Allen Tombes - Fire from Water2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
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  17. 17
    O Tempo2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  18. 19
    The Gospel Kingdom Considered in Respect to Some Practical Means of Its Advancement. a Sermon2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  19. 20
    The Basis of National Welfare: Considered in Reference Chiefly to the Prosperity of Britain, and Safety of the Church of England &C.: in a 2Nd Letter2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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Richard Yates 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.

Screenplays in order

1 book
  1. 1. William Styron's Lie Down In Darkness

Standalone books

19 books

19 Richard Yates titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Richard Yates books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 20 Richard Yates books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Richard Yates

Start with Revolutionary Road (1961), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Richard Yates book?

The Basis of National Welfare: Considered in Reference Chiefly to the Prosperity of Britain, and Safety of the Church of England &C.: in a 2Nd Letter (2021) is the newest Richard Yates book released so far.

Is there a new Richard Yates book coming?

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

Richard Yates at a glance

Paused
No new Richard Yates title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Richard Yates books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,198 pages across the 11 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 272 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Richard Yates books, 4 of 20, were published in the 2020s.

What the Richard Yates books are about

10 of the 20 Richard Yates books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 2 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.