Howard Fast Books in Order

An early novel in which the past presses unexpectedly on the present. Fast explores memory, change, and youthful uncertainty through characters trying to understand what has happened to the lives they once imagined.

Howard Fast's first published novel follows young people trying to find direction amid emotional uncertainty and economic hardship. Written when he was still a teenager, it offers an early glimpse of his interest in lives under pressure.

An early Howard Fast novel about city life, young people, and the search for a place in a crowded modern world. It reflects his early interest in class, belonging, and the pressures shaping ordinary lives.

At Valley Forge during the winter of 1777 and 1778, exhausted Continental soldiers struggle to hold together. Fast places the Revolution in the mud and cold, showing the loyalty and hardship behind its ideals.

This historical book introduces Haym Salomon, the Jewish financier and patriot who aided the American Revolution. Fast presents his work for the revolutionary cause in a clear, accessible story for younger readers.

A youth biography of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement. Fast follows his military career, outdoor interests, and the ideas that helped turn scouting into an international organization.

In 1878, Northern Cheyenne people flee an Oklahoma reservation and attempt to return to their homeland in Wyoming and Montana. Their dangerous journey becomes a powerful story of endurance, grief, and resistance.

A play centered on Jane Austen, imagining the private life behind a writer whose books have endured. Fast explores the tension between artistic ambition, family expectations, love, and the limits placed on a woman of her time.

A broad narrative of Jewish history that follows a people across centuries of migration, faith, persecution, and renewal. Fast presents major events and traditions in a story-driven, accessible form.

A biography for younger readers about George W. Goethals and the enormous task of building the Panama Canal. Fast explains the engineering challenge, the human labor involved, and the persistence needed to finish it.

An illustrated introduction to Jewish history for young readers, created with Bette Fast. It traces a people's long journey through biblical beginnings, dispersal, persecution, cultural achievement, and survival.

A historical adventure set on the American frontier, where survival depends on skill, endurance, and an understanding of an unforgiving landscape. Fast explores the tensions between settlers, native peoples, and the changing wilderness.

George Washington's determination is at the center of this Revolutionary War novel. As defeat and hardship threaten the patriot cause, Fast follows the people who continue fighting when victory still seems remote.

Thomas Paine's life becomes the subject of a sweeping historical novel about revolution and political conviction. Fast follows the pamphleteer through the American and French revolutions, showing both the force and cost of his radical beliefs.

After the Civil War, Gideon Jackson and other formerly enslaved people try to build political power and keep their land during Reconstruction. Their struggle for education, safety, and self-government meets violent resistance from the old order.

This collection gathers short historical stories of early America, including its title tale. Fast writes about revolution, frontier life, and ordinary people whose small decisions become part of the country's larger history.

This fictionalized biography follows Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld, whose pardon of Haymarket defendants destroys his political future. Fast portrays a public official choosing conscience over convenience in an America divided by class and fear.

After World War II, a labor dispute in a Massachusetts mill town turns increasingly bitter and violent. Factory owners, organizers, workers, and townspeople are all pulled into a conflict that leaves nobody untouched.

Four children of immigrant families grow up in New York tenements amid hunger, prejudice, and violence. Jewish, Irish, and Italian friendships are tested as they struggle to imagine a future beyond the city's harsh divisions.

In ancient Judea, Simon Maccabeus and his brothers lead a revolt against foreign rule and religious oppression. Fast tells the Hanukkah story as a family drama of courage, sacrifice, faith, and the fight for a homeland.

A collection of short fiction about people facing departures, losses, moral choices, and sudden shifts in ordinary life. The stories show Fast moving between social realism, history, and closely observed personal drama.

A collection of essays in which Fast considers literature, politics, and the writer's responsibility to society. Written during his years of political commitment, it argues for fiction that engages directly with real human conflict.

A Revolutionary War novel about people fighting for independence while confronting hunger, fear, and uncertainty. Fast focuses on the common soldiers and civilians whose endurance gives the ideal of freedom its real cost.

Fast recounts the violence surrounding a 1949 Peekskill concert connected with Paul Robeson. This personal political document examines racism, anti-Communism, mob intimidation, and the failure of authorities to protect peaceful citizens.

A Thracian slave named Spartacus escapes captivity and leads a growing revolt against Rome. Fast turns the ancient uprising into a human story of freedom, sacrifice, and people refusing to accept a world built on slavery.

A man wakes after an accident with gaps in his memory and evidence that his life may not be what he believed. Searching for the truth pulls him into a dangerous maze of identity, conspiracy, and pursuit.

A political pamphlet written in the early Cold War period, focused on Spain, anti-fascism, and the cause of peace. It reflects Fast's activist commitments and his concern with international struggles after World War II.

Tony discovers a remarkable door that opens onto an adventure beyond his ordinary world. This imaginative children's story follows curiosity, courage, and the surprises waiting when a young boy decides to step through.

Fast fictionalizes the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrants whose trial became a symbol of injustice. The novel focuses on prejudice, political fear, and the long shadow cast by a contested conviction.

A liberal university professor becomes a target during the McCarthy era and finds his career and freedom under attack. Fast turns Silas Timberman's ordeal into a direct story about conscience, intimidation, and civil liberties.

Sixteen stories explore faith, war, family, injustice, and the awkward moments that expose character. Fast moves from contemporary settings to historical and political subjects, keeping the focus on people under moral pressure.

Lola Gregg becomes caught in the pressure surrounding a hunted Communist labor activist. As federal authorities close in, the novel explores fear, loyalty, and the strain political persecution places on ordinary family life.

In this autobiographical account, Fast confronts his years in the Communist Party and the beliefs that once sustained him. He writes about political idealism, repression, disappointment, and the painful process of breaking away.

Fast retells the early life of Moses as a boy raised within Egypt's royal world while drawn toward a different spiritual inheritance. Palace politics, religious conflict, and Moses's Hebrew origins drive the historical drama.

A military officer faces a difficult court-martial case in a tense overseas setting. As the investigation develops, questions of duty, colonial power, and justice become inseparable from the fate of the accused man.

A wide-ranging selection of Howard Fast's work, bringing together novels and short stories from different stages of his career. It is a useful introduction to his historical fiction, social concerns, and direct storytelling style.

Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper wants to be treated as a man, but the battle at Lexington gives him more than he expects. Over one terrifying day in 1775, he faces fear, loss, and the real cost of revolution.

A collection of speculative short stories that uses science fiction and fantasy to test human habits, fears, and moral assumptions. Fast's imaginative premises often work like sharp fables about the present.

Howard Fast examines the ways power changes the people who seek it and those forced to live under it. The novel turns political and personal ambition into a tense story of loyalty, compromise, and consequence.

In first-century Judea, Berenice, daughter of King Agrippa, tries to protect her people as Roman power closes in. Civil conflict, loss, and her complicated bond with Titus make political survival painfully personal.

Set during the Spanish Inquisition, this historical novel examines religious persecution and the machinery of fear. Fast centers the human cost of a system that demands obedience while turning suspicion into a weapon.

This collection of fantastical and science-fiction stories turns strange situations into moral puzzles. Fast's characters encounter traps of their own making, unexpected visitors, and worlds that expose familiar human weaknesses.

A collection of satirical fantasy and science-fiction stories in which the impossible arrives with unsettling logic. Fast uses angels, aliens, and strange events to poke at military authority, greed, certainty, and human vanity.

Howard Fast offers a broad popular history of the Jewish people, tracing survival, migration, faith, persecution, and cultural continuity. It is an accessible overview shaped by his lifelong interest in Jewish history and identity.

In the desperate winter of 1776, George Washington's battered army prepares to cross the Delaware River and strike at Trenton. Fast tells the familiar historical moment through soldiers and civilians facing cold, exhaustion, and possible defeat.

Thirteen fantasy and science-fiction stories imagine encounters with the impossible, then use them to question ordinary human behavior. Fast mixes humor, unease, and moral curiosity in tales designed to linger after their twists.

Thirty-one brief Zen-inflected stories blend fable, fantasy, and science fiction. Each piece offers a compact riddle about time, pride, fear, compassion, or the gap between what people think they know and what they miss.

A plainspoken introduction to Zen meditation from a writer who brought Zen interests into several later works. Fast discusses the practice as a way of paying attention, sitting still, and approaching everyday life with greater clarity.

After surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Daniel Lavette rises from a fisherman's son to a powerful shipping magnate. His ambitions and loves intertwine with the fortunes of Italian, Jewish, Chinese, and Irish immigrant families.

Barbara Lavette rejects the sheltered social world expected of her and seeks a life on her own terms. Her journey carries the family saga from the Depression into wartime Europe, where danger reshapes her understanding of herself.

The Lavette family enters a new phase as its members move through wealth, influence, war, and changing social rules. Personal ambition and family obligation collide while the younger generation tries to shape its own future.

The Lavette family's wealth and influence continue to grow, but success does not simplify their lives. The next generation must deal with old loyalties, tangled relationships, and the political pressures that come with privilege.

Max follows a man confronting the weight of his past and the demands of the present. Fast builds a personal drama around memory, loyalty, and the search for a life that feels honest after years of compromise.

A novel about Jewish identity, belonging, and the costs of living outside the expectations of a community. Howard Fast brings personal conviction and family conflict into a story shaped by history and difficult choices.

Barbara Lavette, daughter of the self-made Dan Lavette, becomes the focus of the fifth Lavette family novel. Her activist past and sprawling family history carry the saga into later generations and changing American politics.

This omnibus gathers three of Fast's Revolutionary War novels, *The Unvanquished*, *Conceived in Liberty*, and *The Proud and the Free*. Together they follow soldiers and civilians enduring the uncertain fight for American independence.

Senator Richard Cromwell hosts a small country dinner at the urging of the secretary of state. Over one tense day, family secrets, political compromise, and a personal crisis force him to reconsider the life he has built.

A politically charged novel about loyalty, conscience, and the promises people make when private lives meet public pressure. Fast follows characters forced to choose between safety, principle, and the consequences of speaking plainly.

A CIA pilot walks into a New York police station and confesses to murder, drug smuggling, and covert operations in Central America. His astonishing account forces investigators to decide whether he is unstable, truthful, or both.

Howard Fast looks back on his years in the Communist Party, his imprisonment, and the blacklist. This candid memoir traces both his political commitment and the painful disillusionment that led him to leave the movement.

A collection of Howard Fast's observations on public life, conflict, and the arguments that shape modern society. It brings together his direct, politically engaged reflections on war, peace, citizenship, and human responsibility.

In a near-future Southern state, professor Abigail Goodman faces a murder charge after an abortion becomes punishable by death under a new law. Her courtroom trial turns into a fierce public battle over law, faith, and women's autonomy.

Set during the opening battles of the American Revolution, this novel follows volunteers, militia members, and ordinary people swept into the conflict around Boston. Their courage and confusion build toward the bloody fight at Bunker Hill.

An American engineering student survives a Nazi arrest in Berlin after his new wife is murdered. Years later, haunted by guilt and wartime memories, he meets another survivor and must decide whether a shattered life can be rebuilt.

During the Revolutionary War, a young Hessian drummer is accused after the death of a vulnerable Connecticut villager. His trial forces a divided community to confront war, prejudice, mercy, and what justice can mean in brutal times.

The Lavette family saga returns years later through a woman determined to define her own life. Old family ties, inherited expectations, and the changing world around her make independence both a promise and a hard-won struggle.

A story of people trying to live with past choices and find a way forward. Howard Fast explores the pull between private regret, public consequences, and the difficult hope that damaged relationships can still be repaired.

Eight people gather for a dinner party in wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut, where comfort and status conceal guilt and unresolved damage. As the evening unfolds, their private compromises raise difficult questions about responsibility and redemption.

This Masao Masuto volume returns to Beverly Hills, where Hollywood glamour repeatedly masks old crimes and dangerous private lives. Masuto's careful, patient method is tested by murder cases shaped by fame, money, and buried history.

This volume revisits the fear and censorship surrounding the Hollywood blacklist era, a period Fast knew firsthand. It explores the human cost of political suspicion and the pressure placed on writers, performers, and other film workers.

Howard Fast profiles Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito during the upheaval of World War II. The book follows Tito's rise as a resistance figure and places his leadership within Yugoslavia's difficult fight against occupation.

A dramatic work that uses betrayal, conscience, and political pressure to examine the price people pay for survival. Fast turns a biblical echo into a tense story about loyalty, fear, and moral compromise.

This nonfiction portrait examines Josip Broz Tito and the people of wartime Yugoslavia. Fast considers the resistance struggle against Axis occupation and the political forces shaping a country divided by history, region, and war.

A collection of Howard Fast's speculative fiction, including stories of strange visitors, altered realities, and moral reversals. These imaginative tales show another side of a writer better known for sweeping historical novels.