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Selected Writings of Pearl S. Buck

Selected Writings of Pearl S. Buck

Novels

  • East Wind, West Wind (1930)
  • The Good Earth (1931)
  • Sons (1932)
  • The Mother (1933)
  • A House Divided (1935)
  • House of Earth (1938) [trilogy: The Good Earth; Sons; A House Divided]
  • This Proud Heart (1938)
  • The Patriot (1939)
  • Other Gods (1940)
  • China Sky (1941)
  • China Flight (1942)
  • Dragon Seed (1942)
  • The Promise (1943)
  • The Townsman (1945 [John Sedges pseudonym])
  • Portrait of a Marriage (1945)
  • Pavilion of Women (1946)
  • The Angry Wife (1947 [John Sedges])
  • Peony (1948)
  • Kinfolk (1949)
  • The Long Love (1949 [John Sedges])
  • God's Men (1951)
  • Bright Procession (1952 [John Sedges])
  • The Hidden Flower (1952)
  • Come, My Beloved (1953)
  • Voices in the House (1953 [John Sedges])
  • Imperial Woman (1956)
  • Letter from Peking (1957)
  • Command the Morning (1959)
  • Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
  • The Living Reed (1963)
  • Death in the Castle (1965)
  • The Time is Noon (1966)
  • The New Year (1968)
  • The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969)
  • Mandala (1970)
  • The Goddess Abides (1972)
  • All Under Heaven (1973)
  • The Rainbow (1974)

Story Collections

  • First Wife and Other Stories (1933)
  • Today and Forever (1941)
  • Far and Near (1947)
  • Fourteen Stories (1961)
  • The Good Deed and Other Stories (1969)
  • Once Upon a Christmas (1972)
  • East and West (1975)
  • Secrets of the Heart (1976)

Translation

  • All Men Are Brothers [Shuihuzhuan] (1933)

Poetry

  • Worlds of Love (1974)

Non-Fiction

  • The Exile (1936)
  • Fighting Angel (1936)
  • The Chinese Novel (1939)
  • Of Men and Women (1941)
  • American Unity and Asia (1942)
  • China in Black and White (1945)
  • Talk About Russia, with Masha Scott (1945)
  • Tell the People, with James Yen (1945)
  • How It Happens, with Erna von Pustau (1947)
  • American Argument, with Eslanda Goode Robeson (1949)
  • The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
  • My Several Worlds (1954)
  • Friend to Friend, with Carlos P. Romulo (1958)
  • The Delights of Learning (1960)
  • A Bridge for Passing (1961)
  • Children for Adoption (1964)
  • The Joy of Children (1964)
  • The Gifts They Bring: Our Debt to the Mentally Retarded (1965)
  • For Spacious Skies (1966)
  • The People of Japan (1966)
  • The Kennedy Women (1970)
  • Pearl S. Buck's America (1971)
  • The Story Bible (1971)
  • China Past and Present (1972)
  • Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972)

Children's Books

  • The Young Revolutionist (1932)
  • The Chinese Children Next Door (1942)
  • The Water-Buffalo Children (1943)
  • The Dragon Fish (1944)
  • Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China (1945)
  • The Big Wave (1947)
  • One Bright Day (1950)
  • The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen (1953)
  • Johnny Jack and His Beginnings (1954)
  • The Christmas Miniature (1957)
  • The Christmas Ghost (1960)
  • Welcome Child (1963)
  • The Big Fight (1964)
  • Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1966)
  • The Chinese Storyteller (1971)
  • Mrs. Starling's Problem (1973)