This is a bibliography of works by Donald Barthelme.

Books Novels + Title Publisher Notes Snow White Atheneum (1967) first published in The New Yorker on February 18, 1967 The Dead Father Farrar, Straus (1975) incorporates the short story"A Manual for Sons" Paradise Putnam (1986) The King Harper (1990)

Collections + Title Publisher Notes Come Back, Dr. Caligari Little, Brown (1964) Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts Farrar, Straus (1968) Guilty Pleasures Farrar, Straus (1968) Non-fiction City Life Farrar, Straus (1970) Sadness Farrar, Straus (1972) Amateurs Farrar, Straus (1976) Great Days Farrar, Straus (1979) Sixty StoriesPutnam (1981) Overnight to Many Distant Cities Putnam (1983) Sam's Bar Doubleday (1987) With illustrations by Seymour Chwast Forty Stories Putnam (1987) The Teachings of Don B. Turtle Bay Books (1992) Satires, parodies, Fables, illustrated stories, and plays Not-Knowing Random House (1997) Essays and interviews Flying to America Shoemaker & Hoard (2008) Collected Stories Library of America (2021) Collects seven complete books: Come Back, Dr. Caligari;Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts; City Life;Sadness; Amateurs; Great Days; Overnight to Many Distant Cities;selections from Sixty Stories and Forty Stories, and 4 uncollected stories

Children's books + Title Publisher The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine,or the Hithering Thithering Djinn Farrar, Straus (1971)

Short works Includes short stories, satires, parodies, fables, and illustrated stories, arranged by first date of publication.

1959–1969 Title Originally published in Collected in: Pages from the Annual Report Forum, Spring 1959 (as David Reiner) Flying to America (2008) McSweeney's Issue 24 (2007) Me and Miss Mandible Contact 7, February 1961 (under the title "The Darling Little Duckling At School") Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Sixty Stories (1981) Hiding Man First Person 1, spring/summer 1961 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) The Big Broadcast of 1938 New World Writing 20, 1962 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) The Viennese Opera Ball Contact 10, June 1962 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) L'Lapse The New Yorker, March 2, 1963 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Florence Green is 81 Harper's Bazaar, April 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) The Piano Player The New Yorker, August 31, 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight The New Yorker, October 12, 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) To London and Rome Genesis West 2, Fall 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Flying to America (2008) A Shower of Gold The New Yorker, December 28, 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Sixty Stories (1981) Margins The New Yorker, February 22, 1964 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Sixty Stories (1981) Down the Line with the Annual The New Yorker, March 21, 1964 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Man's Face The New Yorker, May 30, 1964 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) A Picture History of the War The New Yorker, June 20, 1964 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Flying to America (2008) The Police Band The New Yorker, August 22, 1964 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Flying to America (2008) For I'm the Boy Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Sixty Stories (1981) Will you Tell me? Arts and Literature Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);Sixty Stories (1981) The Joker's Greatest Triumph Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Up, Aloft in the Air Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) Flying to America (2008) The President The New Yorker, September 5, 1964 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Game The New Yorker, July 31, 1965 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Can We Talk Art and Literature 5, Summer 1965 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Flying to America (2008) Snap Snap The New Yorker, August 28, 1965 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Edward and Pia The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Flying to America (2008) This Newspaper Here The New Yorker, February 12, 1966 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Flying to America (2008) See the Moon? The New Yorker, March 12, 1966 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Several Garlic Tales The Paris Review, No. 37, Spring 1966 The Balloon The New Yorker, April 16, 1966 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Games are the Enemies of Beauty,Truth, and Sleep, Amanda Said Mademoiselle, November 1966 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Dolt The New Yorker, November 11, 1967 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Alice Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) Report Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981) The Indian Uprising Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Sixty Stories (1981);The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (1998) A Few Moments of Sleeping and Waking Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);Forty Stories (1987) And Now Let's Hear it forThe Ed Sullivan Show! Esquire, April 1969 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Bone Bubbles The Paris Review 48, 1969 City Life (1970);Flying to America (2008) Paraguay The New Yorker, September 6, 1969 City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981)

1970–1974 Title Originally published in Collected in: Brain Damage The New Yorker, February 21, 1970 City Life (1970);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Sentence The New Yorker, March 7, 1970 City Life (1970);Forty Stories (1987) A Nation of Wheels The New Yorker, June 13, 1970 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Many Have Remarked... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,June 13, 1970 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Newsletter The New Yorker, July 11, 1970 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Views of My Father Weeping City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) On Angels City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) The Phantom of the Opera's Friend City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) City Life City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) The Falling Dog City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) The Policeman's Ball City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) The Glass Mountain City Life (1970);Sixty Stories (1981) At the Tolstoy Museum City Life (1970);Forty Stories (1987) The Explanation City Life (1970);Forty Stories (1987) Adventure Harper's Bazaar, December 1970 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Rise of Capitalism The New Yorker, December 12, 1970 Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) The Death of Edward Lear The New Yorker, January 2, 1971 Great Days (1979);Sixty Stories (1981) The Story Thus Far: The New Yorker, May 1, 1971 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Critique de la Vie Quotidienne The New Yorker, July 17, 1971 Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) Natural History Harper's, August 1971 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Mothball Fleet The New Yorker, September 11, 1971 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);Flying to America (2008) Two Hours to Curtain part of "Flying to America,"The New Yorker, December 4, 1971 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Dragon "Notes and Comments,"The New Yorker, February 26, 1972 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Sandman The Atlantic Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) Träumerei Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) A City of Churches The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) Daumier The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) The Party The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Sixty Stories (1981) The Genius The New Yorker, February 20, 1971 Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplacesan Aircraft Between Milbertshofenand Cambrai, March 1916 The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) Departures The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) The Catechist The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) The Temptation of St. Anthony The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) A Film The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Forty Stories (1987) Perpetua The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Flying to America (2008) Subpoena The New Yorker Sadness (1972);Flying to America (2008) Wrack The New Yorker, October 21, 1972 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);Flying to America (2008) Swallowing The New York Times, November 4, 1972 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Sea of Hesitation The New Yorker, November 11, 1972 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);Flying to America (2008) A Man The New Yorker, December 30, 1972 Flying to America (2008) The Inauguration Harper's, January 1973 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Young Visitirs "Notes and Comments,"The New Yorker, February 10, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Teachings of Don B.:A Yankee Way of Knowledge The New York Times Magazine,February 11, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Our Work and Why We Do It The New Yorker, May 5, 1973 Amateurs (1976);Sixty Stories (1981) The Educational Experience Harper's, June 1973 Amateurs(1976), Forty Stories (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) That Cosmopolitan Girl The New Yorker, July 16, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware The New Yorker, September 3, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Angry Young Man Fiction, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992)The BedViva, No. 1 October 1973Flying to America (2008) McSweeney's Issue 24 (2007) The Royal Treatment The New York Times, November 3, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Palace "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,December 24, 1973 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) The Photographs The New Yorker, January 28, 1974 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Heliotrope "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,April 1, 1974 The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Mr. Foolfarm's Journal The Village Voice, May 16, 1974 Guilty Pleasures (1974);The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Letters to the Editore Guilty Pleasures (1974);Forty Stories (1987) The New Member The New Yorker, July 15, 1974 Amateurs (1976);Flying to America (2008) Eugénie Grandet Guilty Pleasures (1974);Sixty Stories (1981) Bunny Image, Loss of:The Case of Bitsy S. Guilty Pleasures (1974) The Teachings of Don B. (1992) Nothing: A Preliminary Account Guilty Pleasures (1974);Sixty Stories (1981) I Bought a Little City The New Yorker, November 11, 1974 Amateurs (1976);Sixty Stories (1981) I Was Gratified This Week... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,November 18, 1974 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)

1975–1979