A List of J. P. Donleavy Books I Have Already Obtained, in the Order in which I Read Them

• The Ginger Man (Novel) Grove Press, New York
• A Fairy Tale of New York (Novel) The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
• The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (Novel) Grove Press, New York
• The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (Novel) The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
• A Singular Man (Novel) The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
• Leila (Novel) Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence (First Trade Edition)
• Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule (Short Stories) Penguin Books UK
• The Onion Eaters (Novel) Dell, New York
• The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms (Novella) St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

(Note: I have obtained Are You Listening Rabbi Löw, but have not yet read it. It is a sequel to Schultz which is on the former list of books to be obtained.)

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A List of J. P. Donleavy Books I Must Obtain and Read Straightaway

• The Ginger Man (Play) Random House, New York 1961
• Fairy Tales of New York (Play), Penguin, Random House, New York 1961
• A Singular Man (Play) The Bodley Head, UK 1965
• The Saddest Summer of Samuel S (Novella) Delacorte Press, New York 1966
• The Unexpurgated Code… (Nonfiction) Delacorte Press, New York 1975
• Schultz (Novel) Delacorte Press, New York 1979
• De Alfonce Tennis… (a Legend) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1984
• J.P. Donleavy’s Ireland… (Nonfiction) Viking, NY, 1986
• A Singular Country (Nonfiction) Peterborough – Ryan, UK 1989
• That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman (Novel) Viking, London 1990
• The History of the Ginger Man (Nonfiction) Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1994
• An Author and His Image (Collected Short Pieces-Nonfiction) Viking, London 1997
• Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton (Novel) Thomas Dunn-St. Martins Press, New York

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