List of works published posthumously
The following is a list of works that were published posthumously .
An asterisk indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. (For example, Philip Sidney appears in four.)
Literature
Novels and short stories
Douglas Adams * — The Salmon of Doubt James Agee — A Death in the Family Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira Louisa May Alcott — A Long Fatal Love Chase Horatio Alger — over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation Jane Austen — Northanger Abbey Persuasion Sanditon Lady Susan William Baldwin — Beware the Cat L. Frank Baum — The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz John Bellairs — The Ghost in the Mirror , The Vengeance of the Witch-finder , The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie and The Doom of the Haunted Opera (all with Brad Strickland )Cyrano de Bergerac — The Other World: The States and Empires of the Moon and The States and Empires of the Sun Enid Blyton — Any Time Tales , The Dog with the Long Tail, and other stories , More Wishing-Chair Stories The Young Adventurers Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell — Fan Tan (with David Thomson )Roberto Bolaño — 2666 A Little Lumpen Novelita The Secret of Evil The Third Reich Woes of the True Policeman Richard Brautigan — An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey Charlotte Brontë — The Professor Charles Bukowski * — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his death in 1994Mikhail Bulgakov — The Master and Margarita Edgar Rice Burroughs — John Carter of Mars Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins Tarzan and the Madman Tarzan and the Castaways Tarzan: The Lost Adventure Savage Pellucidar The Wizard of Venus I am a Barbarian Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M , Pirate Blood Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder Brother Men William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac — And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Octavia E. Butler — Seed to Harvest Samuel Butler — The Way of All Flesh Albert Camus * — A Happy Death The First Man Xueqin Cao (trad.) — Dream of the Red Chamber Angela Carter * — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders Burning Your Boats Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs Robert B. Parker )Bruce Chatwin * — Anatomy of Restlessness Geoffrey Chaucer * — The Canterbury Tales Agatha Christie * — Sleeping Murder Tom Clancy — Command Authority Mark Greaney )Wilkie Collins — Blind Love Walter Besant )Joseph Conrad — Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel Robert Cormier — The Rag and Bone Shop Hannah Crafts — The Bondwoman's Narrative Stephen Crane — The O'Ruddy (with Robert Barr )Michael Crichton — Pirate Latitudes Micro Dragon Teeth René Daumal — Mount Analogue James De Mille — A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Ella Cara Deloria — Waterlily (1980)Michael Dibdin — End Games Philip K. Dick — Gather Yourselves Together Radio Free Albemuth Humpty Dumpty in Oakland , Voices from the Street Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood Benjamin Disraeli — Falconet Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child Solace of the Road Gardner Dozois — Book of Magic (editor), City Under the Stars (with Michael Swanwick )Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine G.B. Edwards — The Book of Ebenezer Le Page E. R. Eddison — The Mezentian Gate Harlan Ellison — Blood’s a Rover Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth Three Days Before the Shooting... Hans Fallada — Every Man Dies Alone Louise Fitzhugh — Sport F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Last Tycoon Gustave Flaubert * — Bouvard et Pécuchet Ian Fleming — Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang The Man with the Golden Gun Octopussy and The Living Daylights C. S. Forester — Hornblower and the Crisis The Last Encounter ", Gold from Crete , The Pursued E. M. Forster — Maurice William Gaddis — Agapē Agape Gabriel García Márquez — Until August [ 1] Romain Gary * — Vie et Mort d'Émile Ajar , L'homme à la Colombe , L'orage Hugo Gernsback — Ultimate World William Golding — The Double Tongue René Goscinny — Asterix in Belgium Albert Uderzo )H. Rider Haggard — The Treasure of the Lake Allan and the Ice-gods Mary of Marion Isle Belshazzar Alex Haley — Queen: The Story of an American Family David Stevens )Kenneth Halliwell — Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (with Joe Orton )Jean Harlow — Today is Tonight Carey Wilson )E. Lynn Harris — Mama Dearest Jaroslav Hašek — The Glorious Licking Continues (Pokračování slavného výprasku ), the unfinished fourth volume of The Good Soldier Švejk Robert A. Heinlein — For Us, the Living Variable Star Spider Robinson ), The Pursuit of the Pankera Joseph Heller — Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man Ernest Hemingway * — Islands in the Stream The Garden of Eden True at First Light The Dangerous Summer Under Kilimanjaro Frank Herbert — High-Opp Angels' Fall A Game of Authors A Thorn in the Bush Hergé — Tintin and Alph-Art Benoît Peeters , Michel Bareau, and Jean-Manuel Duvivier)Winifred Holtby — South Riding Vera Brittain )Robert E. Howard — A Gent from Bear Creek Almuric Deborah Howe — Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery Shirley Jackson — "Paranoia" (short story) Brian Jacques — The Rogue Crew Tove Jansson — The True Deceiver and Traveling Light , et al. Alfred Jarry — Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician W. E. Johns — Biggles Does Some Homework Biggles: Air Ace Robert Jordan — The Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight A Memory of Light Brandon Sanderson )Franz Kafka — The Trial The Castle Amerika Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa * — The Leopard Stieg Larsson — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest John le Carré — Silverview Ursula K. Le Guin — Firelight , The Daughter of Odren , Pity and Shame Fritz Leiber — The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich Édouard Levé — Suicide Jack London — Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry The Red One Hearts of Three The Assassination Bureau, Ltd Robert L. Fish )Huey Long — My First Days in the White House Robert Ludlum — The Janson Directive Katherine Mansfield — The Doves' Nest William March — Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger 99 Fables Bruce Marshall — An Account of Capers George du Maurier — The Martian Anne McCaffrey — Sky Dragons Todd McCaffrey )Michael McDowell — Candles Burning James A. Michener — Matecumbe Walter M. Miller Jr. — Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman Terry Bisson )Yukio Mishima — The Decay of the Angel Margaret Mitchell — Lost Laysen Vladimir Nabokov — The Original of Laura Irène Némirovsky — Suite française Frank Norris — The Pit: A Story of Chicago Vandover and the Brute Patrick O'Brian — The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey Flann O'Brien — The Third Policeman Robert C. O'Brien — Z for Zachariah Jane Leslie Conly )Joe Orton — Head to Toe , Lord Cucumber , and The Boy Hairdresser (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell )Robert B. Parker — Split Image Mervyn Peake — Titus Awakes Petronius — Satyricon Edgar Allan Poe * — The Light-House Karel Poláček — There Were Five of Us (Czech : Bylo nás pět )Jan Potocki — The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Terry Pratchett — The Shepherd's Crown The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos Stephen Baxter )Mario Puzo — Omertà The Family Arthur Ransome — Coots in the North Dr. Seuss — Daisy-Head Mayzie My Many Colored Days Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Jack Prelutsky ), What Pet Should I Get? Yaakov Shabtai — Past Perfect Mary Ann Shaffer (and Annie Barrows ) — The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society M. P. Shiel — The New King Nevil Shute — Trustee from the Toolroom Philip Sidney * — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Shel Silverstein * — Runny Babbit Thorne Smith — The Passionate Witch Theodore Sturgeon — Godbody James Tiptree Jr. — Come Live With Me , Backward, Turn Backward , The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew J. R. R. Tolkien — The Silmarillion Christopher Tolkien ), The Children of Húrin Christopher Tolkien ). Other posthumous publications can be found here .Leo Tolstoy * — Hadji Murat John Kennedy Toole — A Confederacy of Dunces The Neon Bible Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End of the World The Golden Volcano The Thompson Travel Agency The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Danube Pilot The Survivors of the "Jonathan" The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz The Eternal Adam ", The Barsac Mission Paris in the Twentieth Century Backwards to Britain Kurt Vonnegut * — Armageddon in Retrospect Look at the Birdie Sucker's Portfolio While Mortals Sleep David Foster Wallace — The Pale King Edward Lewis Wallant — The Tenants of Moonbloom The Children at the Gate H. G. Wells — The Desert Daisy , The Haunted Ceiling Edward Noyes Westcott — David Harum Ripley Hitchcock )Donald E. Westlake — Memory Thomas Wolfe — The Web and the Rock , You Can't Go Home Again The Hounds of Darkness , The Hills Beyond (all assembled by Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell)Mary Wollstonecraft — Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman William Godwin )Virginia Woolf — Between the Acts John Wyndham — Web Exiles on Asperus No Place Like Earth Roger Zelazny — Donnerjack Lord Demon Jane Lindskold )
Plays
Poetry
Richard Beckinsale — With Love Charles Bukowski * — over twenty books of poetry and short storiesEmily Dickinson * — virtually all of her poemsFederico García Lorca * — Diván del Tamarit , Poet in New York Yerma Sonnets of Dark Love Mikhail Lermontov — Demon The Princess of the Tide Valerik Christopher Marlowe — Hero and Leander George Chapman ), The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Thomas Overbury — A Wife , Characters , The Remedy of Love , Observations in Foreign Travels Wilfred Owen — almost all of his poems, the first edition being 24 Poems (1920)Persius — Satires Sylvia Plath — Ariel Ennui Edgar Allan Poe * — The Bells Annabel Lee Alone An Acrostic Philip Sidney * — Astrophel and Stella Shel Silverstein * — Every Thing On It Virgil — Aeneid Đoàn Thị Điểm — Nữ Trung Tùng Phận
Non-fiction
The best-known writings of Holocaust victims are listed here, but for a more complete catalog, see List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims .
Philosophy
Other non-fiction
Georgius Agricola — De re metallica Douglas Adams * — The Salmon of Doubt Albert Camus * — nine publications of notebooks and collected essaysHeinz Cassirer — God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation Geoffrey Chaucer * — A Treatise on the Astrolabe Carl von Clausewitz — On War Bruce Chatwin * — Photographs and Notebooks Anatomy of Restlessness Winding Paths Roald Dahl — Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety David James Davies — Towards Welsh Freedom Gustave Flaubert * — Dictionary of Received Ideas Wilson Follett — Follett's Modern American Usage Gabriel García Márquez — The Scandal of the Century: Selected Journalistic Writings, 1950–1984 Romain Gary — L'affaire Homme Lauren Grandcolas — You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls C. L. R. James — American Civilization Humphrey Jennings — Pandaemonium, 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observer Joseph Joubert — Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert Carl Jung — The Red Book Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa * — Stories , Lessons on Stendhal , Introduction to Sixteenth Century French Literature Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince Isaac Newton — The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended Method of Fluxions Barbara Olson — The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House Thomas Overbury — Observations in Foreign Travels Carl Sagan — Billions and Billions Philip Sidney * — An Apology for Poetry Edmund Spenser — A View of the Present State of Ireland Kurt Vonnegut * — Armageddon in Retrospect Sucker's Portfolio
See also
References
