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Thomas Mallon Books in Order

Thomas Mallon has written 19 books, published between 1983 and 2025. The first book is Edmund Blunden (1983) and the newest is The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1983–2025
Pages on record
5,474 in 17 of 19 books
Reading time
91–137 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,474 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

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Thomas Mallon is an American novelist, essayist and critic born on 2 November 1951. Mallon has written ten works of fiction, among them Aurora 7, Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Watergate and Fellow Travelers, the last of which became a television miniseries. Mallon's nonfiction covers plagiarism in Stolen Words, diaries in A Book of One's Own and the Kennedy assassination in Mrs. Paine's Garage. The catalogue lists 19 books from Edmund Blunden (1983) to The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 (2025).

How many Thomas Mallon books are there?

Thomas Mallon has 19 books, released between 1983 and 2025.

Thomas Mallon Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Thomas Mallon 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 Edmund Blunden by Thomas Mallon (1983)
  2. Cover of A Book of One's Own by Thomas Mallon (1984)
  3. Cover of Arts and Sciences by Thomas Mallon (1988)
  4. Cover of Stolen Words by Thomas Mallon (1989)
  5. Cover of Aurora 7 by Thomas Mallon (1991)
  6. Cover of Rockets and Rodeos and Other American Spectacles by Thomas Mallon (1993)
  7. Cover of Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon (1994)
  8. Cover of Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon (1997)
  9. Cover of Two Moons by Thomas Mallon (2000)
  10. Cover of In Fact by Thomas Mallon (2001)
  11. Cover of Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon (2002)
  12. Cover of Bandbox by Thomas Mallon (2004)
  13. Cover of Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon (2007)
  14. Cover of Yours Ever by Thomas Mallon (2009)
  15. Cover of Watergate by Thomas Mallon (2012)
  16. Cover of Finale by Thomas Mallon (2015)
  17. Cover of Landfall by Thomas Mallon (2019)
  18. Cover of Up With the Sun by Thomas Mallon (2023)
  1. 1
    Edmund Blunden1983 · 139 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983139
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  2. 2
    A Book of One's Own1984 · 314 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984314
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  3. 3
    Arts and Sciences1988 · 210 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988210
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  4. 4
    Stolen Words1989 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989312
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  5. 5
    Aurora 71991 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991238
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  6. 6
    Rockets and Rodeos and Other American Spectacles1993 · 290 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993290
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  7. 7
    Henry and Clara1994 · 358 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994358
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  8. 8
    Dewey Defeats Truman1997 · 355 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997355
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  9. 9
    Two Moons2000 · 303 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000303
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  10. 10
    In Fact2001 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001352
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  11. 11
    Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy2002 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002217
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  12. 12
    Bandbox2004 · 305 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004305
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  13. 13
    Fellow Travelers2007 · 353 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007353
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  14. 14
    Yours Ever2009 · 338 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009338
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  15. 15
    Watergate2012 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012432
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  16. 16
    Finale2015 · 462 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015462
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  17. 17
    Landfall2019 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019496
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  18. 18
    Up With the Sun2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  19. 19
    The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-19942025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Thomas Mallon 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.

Standalone books

19 books

19 Thomas Mallon titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Thomas Mallon books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 19 Thomas Mallon books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Thomas Mallon

Start with Edmund Blunden (1983), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Thomas Mallon book?

The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 (2025) is the newest Thomas Mallon book released so far.

Is there a new Thomas Mallon book coming?

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

Thomas Mallon at a glance

Still publishing
Thomas Mallon published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Thomas Mallon books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
5,474 pages across the 17 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Thomas Mallon books, 6 of 19, were published in the 2000s.

What the Thomas Mallon books are about

18 of the 19 Thomas Mallon books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: historical fiction is tagged on 8 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.