Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| World’s Great Mystery Stories |
1943 |
Buy |
| 50 Great Short Stories |
1952 |
Buy |
| Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century |
1954 |
Buy |
| Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews |
1957 |
Buy |
| 50 Great American Short Stories |
1963 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror Stories |
1977 |
Buy |
| Stories of the Modern South |
1977 |
Buy |
| 65 Great Tales Of Horror |
1981 |
Buy |
| Magical Realist Fiction |
1984 |
Buy |
| Louisiana Stories |
1990 |
Buy |
| Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield |
1990 |
Buy |
| Growing Up in the South |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces |
1992 |
Buy |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Best American Short Stories of the Century |
2000 |
Buy |
| 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology |
2000 |
Buy |
| Writing Los Angeles |
2002 |
Buy |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works |
2018 |
Buy |
Screenplays#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Road to Glory |
1981 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Rose for Emily |
1930 |
Buy |
| Wash |
1934 |
N/A |
| The Bear |
1942 |
Buy |
| Mayday |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Marionettes |
1978 |
Buy |
| Barn Burning |
1996 |
Buy |
Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Wishing Tree |
1927 |
Buy |
| These 13 |
1931 |
Buy |
| Doctor Martino and Other Stories |
1934 |
Buy |
| Barn Burning and other stories |
1939 |
Buy |
| Go Down, Moses |
1942 |
Buy |
| Collected Stories |
1948 |
Buy |
| Knight’s Gambit |
1949 |
Buy |
| Big Woods |
1955 |
Buy |
| Selected Short Stories |
1956 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Sketches |
1957 |
Buy |
| Three Famous Short Novels |
1958 |
Buy |
| Marble Faun and a Green Bough |
1960 |
Buy |
| Uncle Willy and Other Stories |
1967 |
Buy |
| Jealousy and Episode |
1977 |
Buy |
| Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
1979 |
Buy |
| The Essential Faulkner |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ole Miss Juvenilia |
2018 |
Buy |
Sin and Salvation Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Sartoris |
1929 |
Buy |
| The Sound and the Fury |
1929 |
Buy |
| خشم و هیاهو |
1929 |
N/A |
| As I Lay Dying |
1930 |
Buy |
| گور به گور |
1930 |
N/A |
| Azyl |
1931 |
N/A |
| Sanctuary |
1931 |
Buy |
| Light in August |
1932 |
Buy |
| Absalom, Absalom! |
1936 |
Buy |
| Requiem for a Nun |
1950 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Soldiers’ Pay |
1926 |
Buy |
| Mosquitoes |
1927 |
Buy |
| Pylon |
1935 |
Buy |
| The Unvanquished |
1938 |
Buy |
| The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem |
1939 |
Buy |
| Intruder in the Dust |
1948 |
Buy |
| A Fable |
1954 |
Buy |
| Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun |
1954 |
Buy |
| The Reivers |
1962 |
Buy |
| Flags in the Dust |
1973 |
Buy |
The Snopes Trilogy Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Hamlet |
1940 |
Buy |
| Snopes |
1959 |
N/A |
| Kaupunki |
1957 |
N/A |
| The Town |
1957 |
Buy |
| The Mansion |
1959 |
Buy |
| Особняк |
1959 |
N/A |
William Faulkner (1897-1962) is one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and published novels, short stories, and screenplays across a career that began with Soldiers’ Pay in 1926. Most of his fiction is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a landscape drawn from his home in Oxford, Mississippi.
His major novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He also wrote the Snopes Trilogy, tracing the rise of the Snopes family across three novels. His short stories, collected in volumes like These 13 and Go Down, Moses, include some of the most widely taught fiction in the American canon, among them A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has William Faulkner written?
William Faulkner has written 69 books across seven series.
What was William Faulkner's first book?
William Faulkner’s first book is Soldiers’ Pay, published in 1926.
What order should William Faulkner's books be read in?
New readers often start with The Sound and the Fury (1929) or As I Lay Dying (1930). The Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion) should be read in order. His other novels and story collections can be read independently, though many share the Yoknapatawpha County setting.