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Saul Bellow Books in Order

34 books are credited to Saul Bellow, published between 1944 and 2018; 7 of them appeared after Saul Bellow's death in 2005. The first book is Dangling Man (1944) and the newest is Leaving the Yellow House (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
34
Published
1944–2018
Confirmed
1 of 34 titles
Pages on record
11,766 in 32 of 34 books
Reading time
196–294 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 11,766 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 34 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Saul Bellow, author

Saul Bellow is the only writer to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times. Born Solomon Bellows on June 10, 1915, Bellow was an American writer who died on April 5, 2005, and whose honours include the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature and the National Medal of Arts. The National Book Foundation gave Bellow its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. The catalogue lists 34 books from Dangling Man (1944) to Leaving the Yellow House (2018), including The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964) and Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970). Subjects name Jewish men and college teachers.

How many Saul Bellow books are there?

Saul Bellow has 34 books, released between 1944 and 2018. 7 of them were published after Saul Bellow's death in 2005.

Saul Bellow Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 34 Saul Bellow 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 Dangling Man by Saul Bellow (1944)
  2. Cover of The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
  3. Cover of Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (1956)
  4. Cover of Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow (1959)
  5. Cover of Herzog by Saul Bellow (1964)
  6. Cover of Mosby's Memoirs by Saul Bellow (1968)
  7. Cover of Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (1970)
  8. Cover of Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge by Saul Bellow (1974)
  9. Cover of Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1975)
  10. Cover of To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow (1976)
  11. Cover of The Dean's December by Saul Bellow (1982)
  12. Cover of Him With His Foot in His Mouth by Saul Bellow (1984)
  13. Cover of Summations by Saul Bellow (1987)
  14. Cover of More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow (1987)
  15. Cover of The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow (1989)
  16. Cover of A Theft by Saul Bellow (1989)
  17. Cover of Collected Stories by Saul Bellow (1992)
  18. Cover of It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow (1994)
  19. Cover of Conversations with Saul Bellow by Saul Bellow, book 44 of the Literary Conversations series (1994)
  20. Cover of The Actual by Saul Bellow (1997)
  21. Cover of Ravelstein by Saul Bellow (2000)
  22. Cover of Novels 1944–1953 by Saul Bellow (2003)
  23. Cover of Novels 1956–1964 by Saul Bellow (2007)
  24. Cover of Letters by Saul Bellow (2010)
  1. 1
    Dangling Man1944 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1944192
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  2. 2
    The Victim1947 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1947264
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  3. 3
    The Adventures of Augie March1953 · 608 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1953608
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  4. 4
    Seize the Day1956 · 114 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1956114
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  5. 5
    Henderson the Rain King1959 · 341 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1959341
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  6. 6
    Recent American Fiction1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
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  7. 7
    Herzog1964 · 371 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1964371
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  8. 8
    The Last Analysis1965 · confirmed 1/4
    1965–
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  9. 9
    Mosby's Memoirs1968 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968184
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  10. 10
    Mr. Sammler's Planet1970 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1970352
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  11. 11
    Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge1974 · 133 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974133
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  12. 12
    The Portable Saul Bellow1974 · 654 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974654
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  13. 13
    Humboldt's Gift1975 · 487 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975487
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  14. 14
    To Jerusalem and Back1976 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976192
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  15. 15
    The Dean's December1982 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982312
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  16. 16
    Him With His Foot in His Mouth1984 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984294
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  17. 17
    Summations1987 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198732
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  18. 18
    More Die of Heartbreak1987 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987336
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  19. 19
    The Bellarosa Connection1989 · 102 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989102
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  20. 20
    A Theft1989 · 108 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989108
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  21. 21
    Something to Remember Me By1990 · 222 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990222
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  22. 22
    Collected Stories1992 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992464
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  23. 23
    It All Adds Up1994 · 327 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994327
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  24. 24
    Conversations with Saul BellowLiterary Conversations #441994 · 303 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1994303
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  25. 25
    The Actual1997 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997112
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  26. 26
    Ravelstein2000 · 233 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000233
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  27. 27
    Novels 1944–19532003 · 1029 pages · confirmed 1/4
    20031029
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  28. 28
    Novels 1956–19642007 · 794 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007794
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  29. 29
    Letters2010 · 571 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010571
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  30. 30
    Novels 1970–19822010 · 1064 pages · confirmed 1/4
    20101064
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  31. 31
    Settling My Accounts Before I Go Away2013 · 108 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013108
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  32. 32
    Novels 1984–20002015 · 867 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015867
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  33. 33
    There Is Simply Too Much to Think AboutBenjamin Taylor #102015 · 532 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015532
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  34. 34
    Leaving the Yellow House2018 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201864
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Saul Bellow 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.

Benjamin Taylor in order

1 book
  1. 10. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About

Literary Conversations in order

1 book
  1. 44. Conversations with Saul Bellow

Standalone books

32 books

32 Saul Bellow titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Saul Bellow books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 34 Saul Bellow books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Saul Bellow

Start with Dangling Man (1944), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Saul Bellow book?

Leaving the Yellow House (2018) is the newest Saul Bellow book released so far.

Is there a new Saul Bellow book coming?

No next Saul Bellow 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 Saul Bellow has won

Wikidata records 11 awards and 7 nominations for Saul Bellow. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • PEN/Malamud Award1989Won
  • Helmerich Award1989Won
  • St. Louis Literary Award1986Won
  • O. Henry Award1980Won
  • Emerson-Thoreau Medal1977Won
  • Nobel Prize in Literature1976Won
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1976Wonfor Humboldt's Gift
  • National Book Award for Fiction1971Wonfor Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • National Book Award for Fiction1965Wonfor Herzog
  • Prix Formentor1965Won
  • National Book Award for Fiction1954Wonfor The Adventures of Augie March
  • International Booker Prize2005Shortlisted

Saul Bellow at a glance

Died
Saul Bellow died in 2005, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Saul Bellow are still being published after Saul Bellow's death in 2005; the newest appeared in 2018.
Release pace
Saul Bellow books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
11,766 pages across the 32 of 34 books with a recorded length, a median of 308 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Saul Bellow books, 6 of 34, were published in the 2010s.

What the Saul Bellow books are about

32 of the 34 Saul Bellow books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: americans is tagged on 5 of 32. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.