Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look Homeward, Angel | 1929 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 2 | Of Time and the River | 1935 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 3 | The Web and the Rock | 1938 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 4 | You Can’t Go Home Again | 1940 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 5 | Good Child’s River | 1991 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 6 | O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life | 2000 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
| 7 | The Web and the Root | 2009 | Thomas Wolfe | Buy |
Thomas Wolfe’s major novels follow Eugene Gant and later George Webber through experiences drawn closely from his own life: childhood in Asheville, student days at Harvard, teaching in New York, travels in Europe, and the complex relationships that shaped his writing. The prose is dense and lyrical, often running to great length within individual scenes.
The posthumously published novels — Good Child’s River (1991), O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life (2000), and The Web and the Root (2009) — represent earlier drafts and manuscript versions of material that Wolfe’s editors shaped into the published novels. They offer a closer look at his process and the raw material behind his finished work.