List of works published posthumously

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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.)

Literature

Novels and short stories

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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
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, 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Angela Carter* — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, Burning Your Boats (including six previously unpublished short stories)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
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
H. G. Wells — The Desert Daisy, The Haunted Ceiling
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)

Plays

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Angela Carter* — The Curious Room (also scripts)
Federico García Lorca* — The House of Bernarda Alba, The Public
Alexander Griboyedov — Woe from Wit, A Georgian Night
Sarah Kane — 4.48 Psychosis
Philip Sidney* — The Lady of May
Leo Tolstoy* — The Living Corpse

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

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.