List of Works Published Posthumously - Literature

Literature

• Douglas Adams — The Salmon of Doubt
• James Agee — A Death in the Family (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro)
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira
• Horatio Alger — over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899.
• Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation
• Jane Austen — Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sanditon, The Watsons, and Lady Susan
• 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
• Hélène Berr — The Journal of Hélène Berr
• Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell — Fan Tan (with David Thomson)
• Roberto Bolaño — 2666, Last Evenings on Earth, Una Novelita Lumpen, The Romantic Dogs, The Secret of Evil, The Third Reich, and Woes of the True Policeman
• Richard Brautigan — An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
• Charles Bukowski — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his death in 1994.
• Mikhail Bulgakov — The Master and Margarita
• William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac — And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
• Samuel Butler — The Way of All Flesh
• Julius Caesar — Commentarii de Bello Civili
• Albert Camus — The First Man
• Xueqin Cao (trad.) — Dream of the Red Chamber
• Angela Carter — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, The Curious Room
• Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs (with Robert B. Parker)
• Bruce Chatwin — Photographs and Notebooks, Anatomy of Restlessness, Winding Paths
• Geoffrey Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales, Treatise on the Astrolabe
• Agatha Christie — Sleeping Murder
• Wilkie Collins — Blind Love (with Walter Besant)
• Joseph Conrad — Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel
• Robert Cormier — The Rag and Bone Shop
• Rachel Corrie — Let Me Stand Alone
• Stephen Crane — The O'Ruddy (with Robert Barr)
• Michael Crichton — Pirate Latitudes, Micro
• Adam Czerniakow — The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom
• Roald Dahl — Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety
• Rene Daumal — Mount Analogue
• D.J. Davies — Towards Welsh Freedom
• 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
• Emily Dickinson — virtually all of her poems, as well as her letters.
• Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child, Solace of the Road
• Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp)
• Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting...
• Hans Fallada — Every Man Dies Alone
• Julius Feldman — The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman
• F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Love of the Last Tycoon
• Gustave Flaubert — Bouvard et Pécuchet, Dictionary of Received Ideas
• Ian Fleming — The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and the Living Daylights
• Moshe Flinker — Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe
• C. S. Forester — Hornblower and the Crisis
• E. M. Forster — Maurice
• Anne Frank — The Diary of a Young Girl
• Julius Fučík — Notes from the Gallows
• Romain Gary — Vie et Mort d'Émile Ajar, L'homme à la Colombe, L'affaire Homme, L'orage
• Petr Ginz — The Diary of Petr Ginz
• William Golding — The Double Tongue
• René Goscinny — Asterix in Belgium (with Albert Uderzo)
• 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 Good Soldier Švejk (intended as a six-volume work, but Hašek had only finished four at the time of his death by tuberculosis)
• Robert A. Heinlein — For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (written in 1939, but not published until 2003, 15 years after his death)
• Joseph Heller — Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
• Ernest Hemingway — Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, True at First Light, A Moveable Feast, The Dangerous Summer, and Under Kilimanjaro
• Hergé — Tintin and Alph-Art (assembled by Benoît Peeters, Michel Bareau and Jean-Manuel Duvivier)
• Eva Heyman — The Diary of Éva Heyman
• Etty Hillesum — An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
• Robert E. Howard — A Gent from Bear Creek, Almuric
• C.L.R. James — American Civilization
• 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 Homewrok, 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.
• Chaim Kaplan — Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
• Aryeh Klonicki — The Diary of Adam's Father
• David Koker — At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944
• Janusz Korczak — Ghetto Diary
• Sergei Kourdakov — The Persecutor (autobiography)
• Herman Kruk — The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
• Stieg Larsson — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
• Rutka Laskier — Rutka's Notebook
• Mikhail Lermontov — "Demon", "The Princess of the Tide", "Valerik"
• Abraham Lewin — A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
• Ruthka Lieblich — Ruthka: A Diary of War
• 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
• Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
• Kim Malthe-Bruun — Heroic Heart: The Diary and Letters of Kim Malthe-Bruun (titled Kim in Denmark)
• Manning Marable — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
• William March — "Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger", 99 Fables
• Christopher Marlowe — Hero and Leander (with George Chapman), "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
• Bruce Marshall — An Account of Capers
• Philip Mechanicus — Year of Fear: a Jewish Prisoner Waits for Auschwitz (also titled In Dépôt and Waiting for Death)
• 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
• Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death Revisited
• Vladimir Nabokov — The Original of Laura
• Irène Némirovsky — Suite française
• Eliot Ness — The Untouchables (with Oscar Fraley)
• 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
• Joe Orton — Head to Toe, Lord Cucumber, and The Boy Hairdresser (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell)
• Wilfred Owen — almost all of his poems, the first edition being 24 Poems (1920)
• Robert B. Parker — Split Image
• Mervyn Peake — Titus Awakes
• Persius — Satires
• Petronius — Satyricon
• Pliny the Younger — Letters, Book Ten (to and from the Roman Emperor Trajan)
• Edgar Allan Poe — "The Light-House", "The Bells", "Annabel Lee", "Alone", "An Acrostic"
• Karel Poláček — There Were Five of Us (Czech: Bylo nás pět)
• Jan Potocki — The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
• Egon Redlich — The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich
• Oskar Rosenfeld — In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz
• Dawid Rubinowicz — The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz
• Yitskhok Rudashevski — Diary of the Vilna Ghetto
• Carl Sagan — Billions and Billions
• Dr. Seuss — Daisy-Head Mayzie
• Yaakov Shabtai — Past Perfect (Sof Davar)
• Philip Sidney — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella, An Apology for Poetry, The Lady of May
• Dawid Sierakowiak — The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
• Shel Silverstein — Runny Babbit, Every Thing On It
• Thorne Smith — The Passionate Witch (with Norman H. Matson)
• Platt Rogers Spencer — Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship
• 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)
• Leo Tolstoy — The Living Corpse, Hadji Murat
• John Kennedy Toole — A Confederacy of Dunces, The Neon Bible
• Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger
• Jerzy Feliks Urman — I'm Not Even a Grownup: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman
• Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End of the World, Paris in the Twentieth Century
• Virgil — The Aeneid
• Kurt Vonnegut — Armageddon in Retrospect, Look at the Birdie, While Mortals Sleep
• David Foster Wallace — The Pale King (assembled by Michael Pietsch)
• Béla Weichherz — In Her Father's Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust
• 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, Sleepers of Mars, The Best of John Wyndham, Wanderers of Time, Exiles on Asperus, No Place like Earth
• Malcolm X — The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)