Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom was born in New York City on July 11th, 1930 and passed away at the age of 89 on October 14th, 2019.

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Harold Bloom Stats: The highest rated book by Harold Bloom on Book Notification is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the 85th novel in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series.

The most read book by Harold Bloom on Book Notification is Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, a Non-Fiction book. The second most read book is Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations #92).

Below is a complete list of Harold Bloom books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Bloom's BioCritiques Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Walt Whitman	1985	Loading... Go
2	Ernest Hemingway	1985	Loading... Go
3	Emily Dickinson	1985	Loading... Go
4	William Blake	1985	Loading... Go
5	James Baldwin	1986	Loading... Go
6	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1986	Loading... Go
7	Ralph Ellison	1986	Loading... Go
8	Zora Neale Hurston	1986	Loading... Go
9	Eudora Welty	1986	Loading... Go
10	Virginia Woolf	1986	Loading... Go
11	Franz Kafka, New Edition	1986	Loading... Go
12	Charles Dickens	1987	Loading... Go
13	Henry David Thoreau	1987	Loading... Go
14	Arthur Miller	1987	Loading... Go
15	Albert Camus	1987	Loading... Go
16	Langston Hughes	1987	Loading... Go
17	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1989	Loading... Go
18	Herman Melville	1989	Loading... Go
19	William Faulkner	1990	Loading... Go
20	Alice Walker	1990	Loading... Go
21	Stephen King	1998	Loading... Go
22	Gwendolyn Brooks	2000	Loading... Go
23	Miguel De Cervantes	2000	Loading... Go
24	The Brontë Sisters	2002	Loading... Go
25	Dante Alighieri	2010	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Classic Critical Views Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Edgar Allan Poe	1985	Loading... Go
2	Robert Browning	1985	Loading... Go
3	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1985	Loading... Go
4	Mary Shelley	1985	Loading... Go
5	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1986	Loading... Go
6	George Gordon, Lord Byron	1986	Loading... Go
7	Jonathan Swift	1986	Loading... Go
8	Oscar Wilde (With: Paul Fox)	1986	Loading... Go
9	John Milton	1986	Loading... Go
10	John Donne and the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical Poets	1986	Loading... Go
11	Jane Austen (With: Amy Watkin)	1986	Loading... Go
12	The Brontes	1987	Loading... Go
13	George Eliot	2000	Loading... Go
14	William Shakespeare (With: Aaron Tillman, Henry W.)	2002	Loading... Go
15	Benjamin Franklin	2008	Loading... Go
16	Percy Shelley	2009	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's How to Write About Literature Books in Publication Order

	Read	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1		Bloom's How to Write about Shakespeare's Tragedies (With: Paul Gleed)	2010	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Literary Guide/Literary Places Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Bloom's Literary Guide to Dublin (By: John Tomedi)	0	Loading... Go
2	Bloom's Literary Guide to Paris	2004	Loading... Go
3	New York	2004	Loading... Go
4	Bloom's Literary Guide to London	2005	Loading... Go
5	Bloom's Literary Guide to Rome	2006	Loading... Go
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List of Bloom's Literary Themes Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Civil Disobedience	1986	Loading... Go
2	The Grotesque (With: Blake Hobby)	2009	Loading... Go
3	The Labyrinth	2009	Loading... Go
4	The Trickster	2009	Loading... Go
5	The Taboo	2010	Loading... Go
6	The Sublime (With: Blake Hobby)	2010	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Major Dramatists Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Tennessee Williams	1987	Loading... Go
2	Ben Johnson	1987	Loading... Go
3	Luigi Pirandello	1989	Loading... Go
4	Sophocles	1989	Loading... Go
5	Christopher Marlowe	1991	Loading... Go
6	Henrik Ibsen	1998	Loading... Go
7	Shakespeare's Romances	1999	Loading... Go
8	Shakespeare's Tragedies	1999	Loading... Go
9	Shakespeare's Histories	1999	Loading... Go
10	Shakespeare's Comedies	1999	Loading... Go
11	Neil Simon	2001	Loading... Go
12	Moliere	2001	Loading... Go
13	Berthold Brecht	2002	Loading... Go
14	Aristophanes	2002	Loading... Go
15	Thornton Wilder	2002	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Major Literary Characters Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Gatsby	1989	Loading... Go
2	Isabel Archer	1989	Loading... Go
3	Clarissa Harlowe	1989	Loading... Go
4	Hester Prynne	1989	Loading... Go
5	Achilles	1989	Loading... Go
6	Sancho Panza	1989	Loading... Go
7	Holden Caulfield	1990	Loading... Go
8	Caddy Compson	1990	Loading... Go
9	Bigger Thomas	1990	Loading... Go
10	Willy Loman	1991	Loading... Go
11	Ahab	1991	Loading... Go
12	Brett Ashley	1991	Loading... Go
13	Antonia	1991	Loading... Go
14	Shylock	1991	Loading... Go
15	Odysseus/Ulysses	1991	Loading... Go
16	Marlow	1992	Loading... Go
17	Joan of Arc	1992	Loading... Go
18	Caliban	1992	Loading... Go
19	Lolita	1992	Loading... Go
20	Heathcliff	1992	Loading... Go
21	Rosalind	1992	Loading... Go
22	Emma Bovary	1994	Loading... Go
23	Portnoy	1995	Loading... Go
24	Anna Karenina	1996	Loading... Go
25	Becky Sharp	1996	Loading... Go
26	The Wife of Bath	1996	Loading... Go
27	Eustacia Vye	1996	Loading... Go
28	Mr. Pickwick	1996	Loading... Go
29	Herzog	1996	Loading... Go
30	Don Juan	1996	Loading... Go
31	Lambert Strether	1996	Loading... Go
32	Dorothea Brooke	1996	Loading... Go
33	Sir John Falstaff	2003	Loading... Go
34	George Babbit	2003	Loading... Go
35	Raskolnikov & Svidrigailov	2003	Loading... Go
36	Leopold Bloom	2003	Loading... Go
37	Frankenstein	2004	Loading... Go
38	King Arthur	2004	Loading... Go
39	Nick Adams	2004	Loading... Go
40	Elizabeth Bennet	2004	Loading... Go
41	Satan	2005	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Major Novelists Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Willa Cather	1985	Loading... Go
2	Edith Wharton	1986	Loading... Go
3	John Steinbeck	1987	Loading... Go
4	Stephen Crane	1987	Loading... Go
5	Toni Morrison	1987	Loading... Go
6	Mark Twain	1988	Loading... Go
7	Stendhal	1989	Loading... Go
8	Leo Tolstoy	2000	Loading... Go
9	Don Delillo	2003	Loading... Go
10	Fyodor Dostoevsky	2003	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Major Poets Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Wallace Stevens	1985	Loading... Go
2	Elizabeth Bishop	1985	Loading... Go
3	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1985	Loading... Go
4	William Butler Yeats	1986	Loading... Go
5	Homer	1986	Loading... Go
6	Dante	1986	Loading... Go
7	William Wordsworth	1986	Loading... Go
8	William Carlos Williams	1986	Loading... Go
9	Seamus Heaney	1986	Loading... Go
10	Sylvia Plath	1989	Loading... Go
11	John Donne	1999	Loading... Go
12	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1999	Loading... Go
13	Bloom's Major Poets Set	1999	Loading... Go
14	Hilda Doolittle	2002	Loading... Go
15	Hart Crane	2003	Loading... Go
16	Poets of World War I	2003	Loading... Go
17	E.E. Cummings	2003	Loading... Go
18	W.S. Merwin	2004	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Major Short Story Writers Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Ernest Hemingway (By: Melissa McDaniel)	1985	Loading... Go
2	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1985	Loading... Go
3	D.H. Lawrence	1986	Loading... Go
4	Thomas Mann	1986	Loading... Go
5	James Joyce	1986	Loading... Go
6	Flannery O'Connor	1986	Loading... Go
7	Joseph Conrad	1986	Loading... Go
8	Henry James	1987	Loading... Go
9	Isaac Babel	1987	Loading... Go
10	John Updike	1987	Loading... Go
11	J.D. Salinger	1987	Loading... Go
12	Rudyard Kipling	1988	Loading... Go
13	Bloom's Major Short Story Writers	1998	Loading... Go
14	O. Henry	1998	Loading... Go
15	Italo Calvino	2000	Loading... Go
16	Katherine Anne Porter	2000	Loading... Go
17	John Cheever	2001	Loading... Go
18	Shirley Jackson	2001	Loading... Go
19	Raymond Carver	2002	Loading... Go
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List of Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1884	Loading... Go
2	Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman	1949	Loading... Go
3	Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe	1951	Loading... Go
4	Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights	1986	Loading... Go
5	Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels	1986	Loading... Go
6	Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain	1986	Loading... Go
7	William Wordsworth's the Prelude	1986	Loading... Go
8	James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson	1986	Loading... Go
9	T.S. Eliot's the Waste Land	1986	Loading... Go
10	Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow	1986	Loading... Go
11	Jane Austen's Mansfield Park	1986	Loading... Go
12	Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men	1987	Loading... Go
13	James Joyce's Ulysses	1987	Loading... Go
14	Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts	1987	Loading... Go
15	George Eliot's Middlemarch	1987	Loading... Go
16	William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure	1987	Loading... Go
17	George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan	1987	Loading... Go
18	Charles Dickens's David Copperfield	1987	Loading... Go
19	Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure	1987	Loading... Go
20	George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman	1987	Loading... Go
21	Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness	1987	Loading... Go
22	Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh	1987	Loading... Go
23	Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady	1987	Loading... Go
24	Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy	1987	Loading... Go
25	Lord Byron's Don Juan	1987	Loading... Go
26	William Shakespeare's Henry IV	1987	Loading... Go
27	Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness	1987	Loading... Go
28	Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past	1987	Loading... Go
29	The Tales of Poe	1987	Loading... Go
30	Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus	1987	Loading... Go
31	William Faulkner's Light in August	1987	Loading... Go
32	Arthur Miller's All My Sons	1987	Loading... Go
33	Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy	1987	Loading... Go
34	Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita	1987	Loading... Go
35	William Blake's Songs of Innocence & of Experience	1987	Loading... Go
36	William Shakespeare's Henry V	1987	Loading... Go
37	Franz Kafka's the Trial	1987	Loading... Go
38	Michel De Montaigne's Essays	1987	Loading... Go
39	Exodus	1987	Loading... Go
40	William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom	1987	Loading... Go
41	Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe	1987	Loading... Go
42	John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi	1987	Loading... Go
43	Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native	1987	Loading... Go
44	Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	1987	Loading... Go
45	Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest	1987	Loading... Go
46	Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace	1987	Loading... Go
47	Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway	1987	Loading... Go
48	Fyodor Dostoevsky's the Brothers Karamazov	1987	Loading... Go
49	Homer's The Odyssey	1988	Loading... Go
50	T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral	1988	Loading... Go
51	Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable	1988	Loading... Go
52	William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra	1988	Loading... Go
53	Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"	1988	Loading... Go
54	Andre Malraux's Man's Fate	1988	Loading... Go
55	George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion	1988	Loading... Go
56	William Shakespeare's Coriolanus	1988	Loading... Go
57	Henry James' The Ambassadors	1988	Loading... Go
58	Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy	1988	Loading... Go
59	D.H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers	1988	Loading... Go
60	D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love	1988	Loading... Go
61	Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot	1988	Loading... Go
62	Homer's the Iliad	1988	Loading... Go
63	William Shakespeare's Sonnets	1988	Loading... Go
64	Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams	1988	Loading... Go
65	Henry David Thoreau's Walden	1988	Loading... Go
66	Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge	1988	Loading... Go
67	George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara	1988	Loading... Go
68	Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers and The Warden	1988	Loading... Go
69	William Faulkner's Sanctuary	1988	Loading... Go
70	D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow	1988	Loading... Go
71	Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature	1988	Loading... Go
72	Franz Kafka's the Castle	1988	Loading... Go
73	Stendhal's the Red and the Black	1988	Loading... Go
74	Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Tales	1995	Loading... Go
75	William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet	1996	Loading... Go
76	William Shakespeare's The Tempest	1996	Loading... Go
77	George Orwell's Animal Farm	1996	Loading... Go
78	Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	1996	Loading... Go
79	James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man	1996	Loading... Go
80	Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim	1997	Loading... Go
81	Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence	1998	Loading... Go
82	Toni Morrison's Sula	1999	Loading... Go
83	J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	1999	Loading... Go
84	Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night	2000	Loading... Go
85	James Joyce's Dubliners	2000	Loading... Go
86	10 Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451	2000	Loading... Go
87	Cervantes's Don Quixote	2000	Loading... Go
88	J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye	2000	Loading... Go
89	Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front	2001	Loading... Go
90	Elie Wiesel's Night	2001	Loading... Go
91	William Styron's Sophie's Choice	2001	Loading... Go
92	Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart	2001	Loading... Go
93	Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle	2002	Loading... Go
94	Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	2002	Loading... Go
95	Don DeLillo's White Noise	2002	Loading... Go
96	Bram Stoker's Dracula	2002	Loading... Go
97	Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint	2003	Loading... Go
98	Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon	2003	Loading... Go
99	Jane Austen's Persuasion	2003	Loading... Go
100	Jack Kerouac's On the Road	2003	Loading... Go
101	William Shakespeare's As You Like It	2003	Loading... Go
102	Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango Street	2004	Loading... Go
103	Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji	2004	Loading... Go
104	Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown	2005	Loading... Go
105	Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities	2005	Loading... Go
106	Richard Wright's Black Boy	2006	Loading... Go
107	Carlos Fuentes' the Death of Artemio Cruz	2006	Loading... Go
108	C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia	2006	Loading... Go
109	John Knowles's A Separate Peace	2008	Loading... Go
110	William Shakespeare's King Lear	2010	Loading... Go
111	Upton Sinclair's The Jungle	2010	Loading... Go
112	J.D. Salinger's Short Stories	2011	Loading... Go
113	F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories	2011	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Modern Critical Views Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Samuel Richardson	1897	Loading... Go
2	John Keats	1985	Loading... Go
3	James Merrill	1985	Loading... Go
4	Ursula K. Le Guin	1985	Loading... Go
5	Sigmund Freud	1985	Loading... Go
6	Geoffrey Chaucer	1985	Loading... Go
7	Alfred Lord Tennyson	1985	Loading... Go
8	John Ashbery	1985	Loading... Go
9	Walter Pater	1985	Loading... Go
10	Thomas Pynchon	1986	Loading... Go
11	Cynthia Ozick	1986	Loading... Go
12	Geoffrey Hill	1986	Loading... Go
13	Pre-Raphaelite Poets	1986	Loading... Go
14	Gertrude Stein	1986	Loading... Go
15	Nathanael West	1986	Loading... Go
16	Saul Bellow	1986	Loading... Go
17	Bernard Malamud	1986	Loading... Go
18	American Women Poets	1986	Loading... Go
19	Robert Penn Warren	1986	Loading... Go
20	Norman Mailer	1986	Loading... Go
21	Alexander Pope	1986	Loading... Go
22	A.R. Ammons	1986	Loading... Go
23	W.H. Auden	1986	Loading... Go
24	Philip Roth	1986	Loading... Go
25	Elizabethan Dramatists	1986	Loading... Go
26	John Ruskin	1986	Loading... Go
27	William Hazlitt	1986	Loading... Go
28	Thomas Carlyle	1986	Loading... Go
29	Walker Percy	1986	Loading... Go
30	Robert Frost	1986	Loading... Go
31	Iris Murdoch	1986	Loading... Go
32	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1986	Loading... Go
33	Carson McCullers	1986	Loading... Go
34	Doris Lessing	1986	Loading... Go
35	Poets of Sensibility and the Sublime	1986	Loading... Go
36	Joyce Carol Oates	1986	Loading... Go
37	Marianne Moore	1986	Loading... Go
38	John le Carré	1986	Loading... Go
39	Ezra Pound	1986	Loading... Go
40	Matthew Arnold	1986	Loading... Go
41	Sinclair Lewis	1986	Loading... Go
42	Virgil	1986	Loading... Go
43	Friedrich Nietzsche	1987	Loading... Go
44	George Orwell	1987	Loading... Go
45	Graham Greene	1987	Loading... Go
46	Vladimir Nabokov	1987	Loading... Go
47	Daniel Defoe	1987	Loading... Go
48	Robert Lowell	1987	Loading... Go
49	Charles Baudelaire	1987	Loading... Go
50	Oliver Goldsmith	1987	Loading... Go
51	E.M. Forster	1987	Loading... Go
52	Robert Graves	1987	Loading... Go
53	Anthony Burgess	1987	Loading... Go
54	Elizabeth Bowen	1987	Loading... Go
55	Dr. Sam Johnson & James Boswel	1987	Loading... Go
56	George Bernard Shaw	1987	Loading... Go
57	Harold Pinter	1987	Loading... Go
58	James Dickey	1987	Loading... Go
59	Sean O' Casey	1987	Loading... Go
60	Gershom Scholem	1987	Loading... Go
61	Alexander Pushkin	1987	Loading... Go
62	John Dryden	1987	Loading... Go
63	Henry Fielding	1987	Loading... Go
64	William Makepeace Thackeray	1987	Loading... Go
65	Tobias Smollett	1987	Loading... Go
66	Stephane Mallarme	1987	Loading... Go
67	Michel De Montaigne	1987	Loading... Go
68	Victor Hugo	1987	Loading... Go
69	Cervantes	1987	Loading... Go
70	Arthur Rimbaud	1988	Loading... Go
71	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1988	Loading... Go
72	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1988	Loading... Go
73	Theodore Roethke	1988	Loading... Go
74	Lewis Carroll	1988	Loading... Go
75	Contemporary Poets	1988	Loading... Go
76	The Bible	1988	Loading... Go
77	John Berryman	1989	Loading... Go
78	Andre Malraux	1989	Loading... Go
79	Petrarch	1989	Loading... Go
80	Blaise Pascal	1989	Loading... Go
81	Paul Valery	1989	Loading... Go
82	Gustave Flaubert	1989	Loading... Go
83	Soren Kierkegaard	1989	Loading... Go
84	H.D.	1989	Loading... Go
85	Pablo Neruda	1989	Loading... Go
86	Andrew Marvell	1989	Loading... Go
87	Carl Gustav Jung	1992	Loading... Go
88	Kurt Vonnegut	1994	Loading... Go
89	E.L. Doctorow	1994	Loading... Go
90	Ivan Turgenev	1994	Loading... Go
91	William Gaddis	1994	Loading... Go
92	Alice Munro	1994	Loading... Go
93	Modern Critical Views	1994	Loading... Go
94	Jamaica Kincaid	1997	Loading... Go
95	Asian-American Writers	1998	Loading... Go
96	Native American Writers	1998	Loading... Go
97	Hispanic-American Writers	1998	Loading... Go
98	Anton Chekhov	1999	Loading... Go
99	Eugene O'Neill	1999	Loading... Go
100	Amy Tan	1999	Loading... Go
101	Tom Wolfe	2000	Loading... Go
102	Thomas Wolfe	2000	Loading... Go
103	J.R.R. Tolkien	2000	Loading... Go
104	Tom Stoppard	2000	Loading... Go
105	John Irving	2000	Loading... Go
106	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	2000	Loading... Go
107	Jean-Paul Sartre	2001	Loading... Go
108	W.E.B. Du Bois	2001	Loading... Go
109	Agatha Christie	2001	Loading... Go
110	August Wilson	2001	Loading... Go
111	Octavio Paz	2001	Loading... Go
112	Elizabeth B. Browning	2001	Loading... Go
113	Cormac McCarthy	2001	Loading... Go
114	Aldous Huxley (With: Gabriel Welsch)	2002	Loading... Go
115	American Women Poets 1650-1950	2002	Loading... Go
116	American and Canadian Women Poets	2002	Loading... Go
117	Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	2002	Loading... Go
118	David Mamet (With: Pamela Loos)	2003	Loading... Go
119	Paul Auster	2003	Loading... Go
120	Emile Zola	2003	Loading... Go
121	Julio Cortazar	2004	Loading... Go
122	Robert Hayden	2004	Loading... Go
123	José Saramago	2004	Loading... Go
124	Hans Christian Andersen	2004	Loading... Go
125	H.G. Wells	2005	Loading... Go
126	Tony Kushner	2005	Loading... Go
127	G.K. Chesterton	2006	Loading... Go
128	C.S. Lewis	2006	Loading... Go
129	African-American Poets: Volume 1: 1700s-1940s	2009	Loading... Go
130	William Shakespeare - Histories	2009	Loading... Go
131	African-American Poets: Volume 2: 1950s to the Present	2010	Loading... Go
132	American Modernist Poets	2011	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Notes Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath	1939	Loading... Go
2	Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter	1986	Loading... Go
3	Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment	1988	Loading... Go
4	William Golding's Lord of the Flies	1996	Loading... Go
5	Arthur Miller's The Crucible	1996	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Period Studies Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Literature Of The Holocaust	2003	Loading... Go
2	The Harlem Renaissance	2003	Loading... Go
3	Elizabethan Drama	2004	Loading... Go
4	The American Renaissance	2004	Loading... Go
5	American Naturalism	2004	Loading... Go
6	Greek Drama	2004	Loading... Go
7	Modern American Drama	2004	Loading... Go
8	Modern American Poetry	2004	Loading... Go
9	American Fiction Between the Wars	2005	Loading... Go
10	Bloom's Period Studies	2005	Loading... Go

List of Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Hamlet	1990	Loading... Go
2	A Midsummer Night's Dream (With: Janyce Marson)	2008	Loading... Go
3	The Sonnets	2008	Loading... Go
4	Much Ado About Nothing	2010	Loading... Go

List of The Critical Cosmos Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	American Fiction 1914-1945	1986	Loading... Go
2	British Modernist Fiction 1920-1945	1986	Loading... Go
3	American Poetry Through 1914	1987	Loading... Go
4	American Poetry 1915-1945	1987	Loading... Go
5	American Poetry 1946-65	1987	Loading... Go
6	Eighteenth-century British Fiction	1988	Loading... Go
7	Modern German Poetry	1989	Loading... Go
8	Victorian Fiction	1989	Loading... Go
9	French Poetry	1989	Loading... Go
10	Edwardian and Georgian Fiction	1990	Loading... Go
11	French Prose & Criticism Through 1789	1990	Loading... Go
12	French Prose and Criticism, 1790 to World War II	1990	Loading... Go
13	British Drama	1990	Loading... Go
14	The Critical Cosmos	1996	Loading... Go

List of Library of Literary Criticism Books in Publication Order

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1		Critical Perspective	1988	Loading... Go
2		The Critical Perspective: Edwardian	1989	Loading... Go

List of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Medieval English Literature (By: J.B. Trapp)	1973	Loading... Go
2	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (By: John Hollander)	1973	Loading... Go
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List of Writers of English Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis	1988	Loading... Go
2	Classic Horror Writers	1993	Loading... Go
3	Classic Crime And Suspense Writers	1994	Loading... Go
4	Classic Fantasy Writers	1994	Loading... Go
5	Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance	1994	Loading... Go
6	Classic Mystery Writers	1994	Loading... Go
7	Classic Science Fiction Writers	1994	Loading... Go
8	Modern Black American Fiction Writers	1994	Loading... Go
9	Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists	1994	Loading... Go
10	Contemporary Fantasy Writers	1994	Loading... Go
11	Contemporary Mystery Writers	1994	Loading... Go
12	Modern Fantasy Writers	1995	Loading... Go
13	Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers	1995	Loading... Go
14	Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age	1995	Loading... Go
15	Modern Horror Writers	1995	Loading... Go
16	Modern Mystery Writers	1995	Loading... Go
17	Modern Crime and Suspense Writers	1995	Loading... Go
18	Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists	1995	Loading... Go
19	Black American Women Fiction Writers	1995	Loading... Go
20	Major Black American Writers Through The Harlem Renaissance	1995	Loading... Go
21	Black American Women Poets & Dramatists	1995	Loading... Go
22	Contemporary Horror Writers	1995	Loading... Go
23	Contemporary Science Fiction Writers	1996	Loading... Go

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	The Western Canon	1994	Loading... Go
2	Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human	1999	Loading... Go
3	How to Read and Why	2000	Loading... Go
4	Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?	2004	Loading... Go
5	The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread	2020	Loading... Go

List of Harold Bloom Anthologies in Publication Order

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom was born on July 11th, 1930. Harold passed away October 14th, 2019 at 89 years old. Harold Bloom was born in New York City.

Harold Bloom was the author of the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series which consists of 132 novels. The Bloom's Modern Critical Views series started in 1897 with the novel Samuel Richardson. The most recently released novel in the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series was American Modernist Poets which was released in 2011. There are no upcoming novels for the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series.

Harold Bloom also wrote the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series which has 113 books including Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

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Harold Bloom: F.A.Q

When was Harold Bloom Born?

Harold Bloom was born on July 11th, 1930.

When did Harold Bloom die?

Harold Bloom died on October 14th, 2019 at 89 years old.

Where was Harold Bloom Born?

Harold Bloom was born in New York City.

What was the first book Harold Bloom wrote?

The first book written by Harold Bloom was Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884.

What was the most recent book Harold Bloom wrote?

His most recently released work was The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread on November 24th, 2020.

How many books has Harold Bloom written?

Harold Bloom has written 462 books across 25 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.

25 books in the Bloom's BioCritiques Series
16 books in the Bloom's Classic Critical Views Series
1 book in the Bloom's How to Write About Literature Series
4 books in the Bloom's Literary Guide/Literary Places Series
6 books in the Bloom's Literary Themes Series
15 books in the Bloom's Major Dramatists Series
41 books in the Bloom's Major Literary Characters Series
10 books in the Bloom's Major Novelists Series
18 books in the Bloom's Major Poets Series
18 books in the Bloom's Major Short Story Writers Series
113 books in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Series
132 books in the Bloom's Modern Critical Views Series
5 books in the Bloom's Notes Series
10 books in the Bloom's Period Studies Series
4 books in the Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages Series
14 books in The Critical Cosmos Series
2 books in the Library of Literary Criticism Series
23 books in the Writers of English Series
5 Non-Fiction Books

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