Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lost Boy | 1937 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 2 | Mountains | 1970 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 3 | Welcome to Our City | 1983 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 4 | Mannerhouse | 1985 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 5 | The Good Child’s River | 1991 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 6 | The Starwick Episodes | 1994 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 7 | The Party At Jack’s | 1995 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 8 | The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version | 2008 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
Wolfe’s shorter works include plays, novellas, and stories written across his career. Welcome to Our City (1983) and Mannerhouse (1985) are early plays he wrote while at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The Lost Boy (1937) appeared shortly before his death and draws on a family tragedy from his childhood.
Later archival publications — The Starwick Episodes, The Party At Jack’s, and The Four Lost Men — pull from manuscript material, giving scholars and readers access to work that Wolfe did not see through to final publication himself.