PRIMARY RESOURCES
Major Books by Walker Percy
A bibliography of Percy's novels, short fiction, non-fiction, collected interviews and correspondence, and books with introductions by him
The following headings outline a primary bibliography of books by Walker Percy. All titles are listed in chronological order unless otherwise noted. For individual book descriptions, see the Project's Books by Percy section.
Novels
- The Moviegoer. New York: Knopf, 1961; London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1963.
- The Last Gentleman. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1966; London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1967.
- Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1971; London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1971.
- Lancelot. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1977; London: Secker and Warburg, 1977.
- The Second Coming. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980; London: Secker and Warburg, 1981.
- The Thanatos Syndrome. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987; London: Andre Deutsch, 1987.
Short Fiction
- "Young Nuclear Physicist." Oxford American Magazine, Jan/Feb 1999, No. 25, pp. 28-39. [Posthumous. Previously unpublished.]
- "A Detective Story." The Hopkins Review, Spring 2009, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 271-293. [Posthumous. Previously unpublished.]
Non-Fiction
- The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1975.
- Going Back to Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia, 1978 [Limited edition; in Signposts, or SS, below].
- Questions They Never Asked Me. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979 [Limited edition; in SS].
- Bourbon. Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press, 1982 [Limited edition; in SS].
- Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.
- How to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and Catholic. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1984 [Limited edition; in SS].
- The City of the Dead. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1985 [Limited edition; in SS].
- Diagnosing the Modern Malaise. New Orleans: Faust, 1985 [Limited edition; in SS].
- Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time. Afterword by Eudora Welty. New Orleans: Faust, 1986 [Limited edition; in SS].
- The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?. New Orleans: Faust, 1987 [Limited edition; in SS].
- Signposts in a Strange Land. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991. [Posthumous]
- Symbol and Existence: A Study in Meaning: Explorations of Human Nature. Mercer University Press, 2019. [Posthumous. Previously unpublished materials, 244 pages.]
Interviews (Collected)
- Conversations with Walker Percy. Lawson, Lewis A. and Victor A. Kramer, eds. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
- More Conversations with Walker Percy. Lawson, Lewis A. and Victor A. Kramer, eds. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
Correspondence (Collected)
- A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy. Samway, Patrick, ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. [Posthumous]
- The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy. Tolson, Jay, ed. New York: DoubleTake, Norton, 1997. [Posthumous]
Books with Introductions by Walker Percy
- Percy, William Alexander (1885-1942). Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973 rpr.
- Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
- Ellis, Frederick Stephen. St. Tammany Parish: L'autre Cote du Lac. Gretna, LA: Pelican, 1981.
- Percy, William Alexander. Sewanee. New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1982. [Rpr. from Lanterns, 1973 above.]
- Gulledge, Jo. "William Alexander Percy and The Fugitives: An Exchange of Letters," Southern Review (Baton Rouge), Vol. 21, No. 2, April, 1985, pp. 415-427.
- Doss, Joe Morris. Let the Bastards Go: From Cuba to Freedom on "God's Mercy". Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003 [Note: book written in 1984; published 2003].
- Hobson, Linda Whitney. Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography. N.O.: Faust, 1988.
- Horgan, Paul. The Richard Trilogy. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1990.
- Kisor, Henry. What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990.
- Gretlund, Jan Norby and Karl-Heinz Westarp, eds. Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.