Pearl S. Buck

Bibliography

Novels

• East Wind: West Wind (1930)
• The Mother (1934)
• House of Earth (1935):
  • The Good Earth (1931)
  • Sons (1932)
  • A House Divided (1935)
• Now and Forever (1936-1937)
• This Proud Heart (1938)
• The Patriot (1939)
• Other Gods (1941)
  A/K/A: An American Legend
• Dragon Seed (1942)
• China Gold (1942)
• China Sky (1942)
• The Promise (1943)
• China Flight (1945)
• Portrait of a Marriage (1945)
  A/K/A: Man's Daily Bread
• Pavilion of Women (1946)
• Peony (1948)
• Kinfolk (1949)
• God's Men (1951)
• Sylvia (1951)
  A/K/A: No Time for Love
• The Hidden Flower (1952)
• Satan Never Sleeps (1952)
  – Initially movie script; outline by Leo McCarey.
• Come, My Beloved (1953)
• Imperial Woman (1956)
• Letter from Peking (1957)
• Command the Morning (1959)
• The Living Reed (1963)
• Death in the Castle (1965)
• The Time Is Noon (1966-1967)
• The New Year (1968)
• The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969)
• Mandala (1970)
• The Goddess Abides (1972)
• All Under Heaven (1973)
• The Rainbow (1974)

Novellas, Short Story, Fairy Tale and Poetry Collections

• Father Andrea (1930s)
  Also in The First Wife and Other Stories (Twenty-seven Stories)
• The First Wife and Other Stories (1933)
• Stories for Little Children (1940)
  A/K/A: When Fun Begins
• Today and Forever (1941)
• Twenty-Seven Stories (1943)
  A/K/A: Stories of China:
  • The First Wife and Other Stories
  • Today and Forever
• Far and Near (1947)
• Fourteen Stories (1961)
• Hearts Come Home and Other Stories (1962)
  • The First Wife and Other Stories
  • Today and Forever
  • Far and Near
• Escape at Midnight and Other Stories (1963)
• Fairy Tales of the Orient (1965)
• My Mother's House (1965)
• The Good Deed and Other Stories (1969)
• Once Upon a Christmas (1972)
• Words of Love (1974)
  Poetry, selected from Buck's "Treasure Book" (diary).
• East and West (1975)
• Mrs. Stoner and the Sea and Other Works (1976)
• Secrets of the Heart (1976)
• The Lovers and Other Stories (1977)
• The Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories (1979)

Translation

• All Men Are Brothers (1933)
  2 volumes; translated from the Chinese novel Shui Hu Chuan.

Juvenilia

• The Young Revolutionist (1932)
• Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China (1945)
• The Chinese Children Next Door (1942)
• The Water-Buffalo Children (1943)
• The Dragon Fish (1944)
• The Big Wave (1947)
• One Bright Day (1950)
• One Bright Day and Other Stories for Children (1952)
  • One Bright Day
  • The Chinese Children Next Door
  • The Water-Buffalo Children
  • The Dragon Fish
  • Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China
• The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yet-sen (1953)
• Johnny Jack and His Beginnings (1954)
• The Beech Tree (1954)
  A/K/A: The Heart's Beginning
• My Several Worlds (1957)
• The Christmas Miniature (1957)
• The Christmas Ghost (1960)
• Welcome Child (1964)
• The Big Fight (1965)
• The Little Fox in the Middle (1966)
• The Water-Buffalo Children & The Dragon Fish (1966)
• Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1967)
• The Beech Tree & Johnny Jack and His Beginnings (late 1960s)
• The Chinese Story Teller (1971)
• Mrs. Starling's Problem (1972)
• A Gift for the Children (1973)
  • Stories for Little Children
  • The Chinese Story Teller
  • The Christmas Ghost
  • The Christmas Miniature
  • The Chinese Children Next Door
  • The Water-Buffalo Children
  • The Beech Tree
• The Old Demon (1982)
• The Enemy (1986)
• Little Red (1988)

Nonfiction: On Children's Welfare

• The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
• The Joy of Children (1964)
• Children for Adoption (1964)
• The Gifts They Bring (1965)
• A Community Success Story: The Founding of the Pearl Buck Center (1972)

Memoirs and Biographies

• The Exile (1936)
  Biography of Buck's mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker
  – Written in 1921.
• Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul (1936)
  Biography of Buck's father, Absalom Sydenstricker.
• The Spirit and the Flesh (1944)
  • Fighting Angel
  • The Exile
• My Several Worlds: A Personal Record (1954)
• A Bridge for Passing (1962)

Published Dialogues

• Talk About Russia: With Masha Scott (1945)
• Tell the People: Talks with James Yen about the Mass Education Movement (1945)
• How it Happens: Talk About the German People, 1914 – 1933; with Erna von Pustau (1947)
• American Argument: with Eslanda Goods Robeson (1949)
• Friend to Friend: A Candid Exchange Between Pearl Buck and Carlos P. Romulo (1956)
• For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue, with Theodore F. Harris (1966)

Articles, Speeches, Correspondence

• East and West and the Novel: Sources of the Early Chinese Novel (1932)
  – Two addresses.
• Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? (1932)
• The Chinese Novel (1939)
  – Nobel Prize Lecture (December 12, 1938).
• Of Men and Women (1941)
• American Unity and Asia (1942)
  A/K/A: Asia and Democracy
  – Letters, articles and speeches.
  
• What America Means to Me (1943)
  – Letters, addresses, lectureand articles.
• China In Black and White(1945)
  – Illustrated with Chinese woodcuts; commentary.
• A Certain Star (1957)
• The People of Japan (1966)
  – With Lyle Kenyon Engel; photographs by Stuart Fox.
• To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
  – Commencement addresses and other writings.
• China As I See It (1970)
  – Speeches, articles, letter and one new chapter.
• The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal (1970)
• Pearl Buck's America (1971)
• The Story Bible (1971)
  – With L. K. Engel:
  • Volume I, The Old Testament
  • Volume II, The New Testament
• China Past and Present (1972)

Cookbook

• Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972)
  Recipes from 11 Oriental countries with introductions by Buck.

Writing as John Sedges

• The Townsman (1945)
• The Angry Wife (1947)
• The Long Love (1949)
• Bright Procession (1952)
• Voices in the House (1953)
• American Triptych (1958)
  • The Townsman
  • The Long Love
  • Voices in the House