Sunday 18 May 2008

A Gore Vidal Reading List

This is a list of the fiction and non fiction books of Gore Vidal. Each blue link will take you to Amazon where you can read more and buy the books if you wish. Many of the earlier works are only available from Amazon's New and Used Section where the prices range from a penny to over £80. Where they are brutally expensive it is worth trying e-bay.

Essays and Non-Fiction

Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969)
Homage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972 (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays- 1973-1976 (1977)
Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1982)
Armageddon? (1987)
At Home Essays 1982-1988 (1988)
A View from the Diners Club
Screening History
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Real Story Series) (1992)
United States: Essays, 1952-92 v. 1 (1993)
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995)
Virgin Islands (1997)
The American Presidency (1998)
Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
The Last Empire(2001)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Yale Nota Bene series) (2003)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia(2004)
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
Selected Essays (2008)

Novels

Williwaw(1946)
In a Yellow Wood(1947)
The City and the Pillar (1948)
The Season of Comfort (1949)
A Search for the King
Dark Green, Bright Red(1950)
The Judgment of Paris (1952)
Messiah (1954)
Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories (1956)
Julian (1964)
Washington, D.C: A novel (1967)
Myra Breckinridge & Myron (1968)
Two Sisters (1970)
Burr (Narratives of a Golden Age) (1973)
Myron (1974)
1876 (Narratives of a Golden Age) (1976)
Kalki (1978)
Creation (1981)
Duluth (1983)
Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age) (1984)
Empire (Narratives of Empire)(1987)
Hollywood (Narratives of a Golden Age)(1990)
Live from Golgotha (1992)
The Smithsonian Institution (1998)
The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire) (2000)
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories