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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.)
Douglas Adams * —
The Salmon of Doubt (an incomplete novel, but also essays)
James Agee —
A Death in the Family (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon —
Shira
Louisa May Alcott —
A Long Fatal Love Chase
Horatio Alger — over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899
Isaac Asimov —
Forward the Foundation
Jane Austen —
Northanger Abbey ,
Persuasion ,
Sanditon , and
Lady Susan
William Baldwin —
Beware the Cat
L. Frank Baum —
The Magic of Oz and
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
Marlon Brando and
Donald Cammell — Fan Tan (with
David Thomson )
Roberto Bolaño —
2666 ,
A Little Lumpen Novelita ,
The Secret of Evil ,
The Third Reich , and
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 1994
Mikhail 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Burning Your Boats (including six previously unpublished short stories)
Raymond Chandler —
Poodle Springs (with
Robert B. Parker )
Bruce Chatwin * —
Anatomy of Restlessness (a collection of short stories and travel tales, as well as essays and articles)
Geoffrey Chaucer * —
The Canterbury Tales
Agatha Christie * —
Sleeping Murder and notebooks
Tom Clancy —
Command Authority (with
Mark Greaney )
Wilkie Collins —
Blind Love (with
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 (with Claude Schopp)
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
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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 (with
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 (with
David Stevens )
Kenneth Halliwell — Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (with
Joe Orton )
Jean Harlow —
Today is Tonight (with
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 (with
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 , and
Under Kilimanjaro
Frank Herbert —
High-Opp ,
Angels' Fall ,
A Game of Authors ,
A Thorn in the Bush
Hergé —
Tintin and Alph-Art (assembled by
Benoît Peeters , Michel Bareau, and Jean-Manuel Duvivier)
Winifred Holtby —
South Riding (with
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 , and
A Memory of Light (all with
Brandon Sanderson )
Franz Kafka —
The Trial ,
The Castle , and
Amerika , as well as many short stories
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa * —
The Leopard
Stieg Larsson —
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ,
The Girl Who Played with Fire , and
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 (with
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 (with
Todd McCaffrey )
Michael McDowell — Candles Burning
James A. Michener —
Matecumbe
Walter M. Miller Jr. —
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (with
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 (with Sally M. Conly and
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 (the latter two with
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! (with
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 (with Norman H. Matson)
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 (assembled by
Christopher Tolkien ),
The Children of Húrin (published 35 years after his death; also assembled by
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 (assembled by Michael Pietsch)
Edward Lewis Wallant —
The Tenants of Moonbloom , The Children at the Gate
Edward Noyes Westcott —
David Harum (published version assembled by
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 (later chapters assembled by
William Godwin )
Virginia Woolf —
Between the Acts
John Wyndham —
Web ,
Exiles on Asperus ,
No Place Like Earth
Roger Zelazny —
Donnerjack ,
Lord Demon (with
Jane Lindskold )
Richard Beckinsale — With Love
Charles Bukowski * — over twenty books of poetry and short stories
Emily Dickinson * — virtually all of her poems
Federico 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 (with
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
Autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, diaries and letters
The best-known writings of Holocaust victims are listed here, but for a more complete catalog, see
List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims .
Georgius Agricola —
De re metallica
Douglas Adams * —
The Salmon of Doubt (essays, as well as an incomplete novel)
Albert Camus * — nine publications of notebooks and collected essays
Heinz 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 (a collection of essays and articles, as well as short stories and travel tales),
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 (essays and short stories)