Books by Philip Roth

Nemesis (2010)
In a book set in 1944 Newark, devoted playground director Bucky Cantor, sidelined from the war due t...

The Plot Against America (2004)
In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in ...

Indignation (2009)
In 1951, Marcus Messner escapes his father's fears about the potential dangers facing his son by att...

The Dying Animal (2001)
Freed from the Bastille of convention, an aging aesthete's encounter with female beauty turns tragic...

Goodbye, Columbus (1987)
A Radcliffe undergraduate and a Newark public library employee engage in a summer romance...

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1987)
A Radcliffe undergraduate and a Newark public library employee engage in a summer romance...

The Human Stain (2000)
A college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemi...

When She was Good (1995)
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject ...

American Pastoral (1998)
The rise and fall of the American Dream provide the backdrop for the story of Swede Levov, a prosper...

The Humbling (2009)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral offers the story of Simon Axler--an actor in ...

Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out a sexual revenge in fact and fa...

Sabbath's Theater (1995)
The death of his mistress sends Mickey Sabbath, an audacious libertine and onetime producer, on a ps...

Operation Shylock (1994)
A Moses in reverse and a man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to...

The Counterlife (1986)
Novelist Nathan Zuckerman challenges the many schemes concocted by people around him for reversing t...

Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 (2005)
An authoritative reader's edition of key writings by the provocative author includes the National Bo...

My Life As A Man (2010)
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on ...

The Professor of Desire (1977)
A chronicle of the passion and desire of David Kepesh and of his endeavors, from adolescent accessio...

The Anatomy Lesson (1996)
In 1973, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who has lost the ability to create, attempts to console himself ...

The Ghost Writer (1979)
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979....

The Prague Orgy (1996)
A collection of entries and notes from the journals of Nathan Zuckerman recalls his sojourn among th...