Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cruise of the Dry Dock | 1917 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 2 | Birthright | 1922 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 3 | East Is East | 1922 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 4 | Fombombo | 1923 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 5 | Red Sand | 1924 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 6 | Teeftallow | 1926 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 7 | Bright Metal | 1929 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 8 | Strange Moon | 1929 | T.S. Stribling | N/A |
| 9 | Backwater | 1930 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 10 | Railroad | 1933 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 11 | The Sound Wagon | 1935 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
| 12 | These Bars of Flesh | 1938 | T.S. Stribling | Buy |
T.S. Stribling’s standalone novels cover a broad range of settings and subjects. His early books, including The Cruise of the Dry Dock, Fombombo, and Red Sand, are adventure stories set in South America and the Caribbean. These were popular in their time and show Stribling’s interest in exotic locations and political intrigue.
His later standalones turned more literary and focused on the American South. Birthright, published in 1922, was notable for its time as a novel that took a Black protagonist’s perspective seriously. Teeftallow is a satirical look at small-town Tennessee life. The Glendower Legacy and Hollywood Gothic are more genre-oriented, with mystery and thriller elements. Across this varied output, Stribling wrote about power, corruption, and social change with a sharpness that his adventure plots sometimes disguised.