TS Stribling Books in Order

A floating dry dock becomes the setting for a wartime sea adventure in the Sargasso. Young Leonard Madden and the impulsive Caradoc Smith face storms, enemy pursuit, and hard choices far from shore.

Peter Siner comes home to a small Tennessee town after Harvard, hoping to build a school and do some good. Instead he runs into the full force of Jim Crow, class tension, and impossible expectations.

A Southerner lands in modern Algiers and stumbles into romance, culture clash, and adventure. Stribling uses the travel plot for sharp comedy, showing an outsider trying to read a world he does not really understand.

American salesman Thomas Strawbridge reaches Venezuela on business and gets swept into revolution. Between gun deals, political chaos, and a dangerous local strongman, the book turns into a fast-moving mix of satire and adventure.

In Venezuela, a peasant boy rises toward fame as a bullfighter and finds that success has its own traps. Stribling uses the arena, and the world around it, to explore class, ambition, and desire.

Abner Teeftallow leaves the poor farm and enters the hard, suspicious world of a Tennessee hill community. Money, religion, and raw local power shape his future in this rough, satirical coming-of-age story.

Set in rural Tennessee, this satirical novel follows people trying to climb socially in a place ruled by gossip and old grudges. Stribling keeps the focus on money, pride, and the narrowness of small-town life.

Professor Henry Poggioli travels through Curaçao, Haiti, Martinique, Barbados, and Trinidad, untangling murders and stranger crimes from tiny clues. These are brisk, atmospheric mysteries with Caribbean settings and a psychological twist.

In Venezuela, an American is drawn into a dangerous hunt shaped by arson, murder, gold, and oil. The novel mixes romance and intrigue with the sense that every alliance may shift overnight.

Set in Arkansas, this Southern novel follows lives hemmed in by poverty, habit, and local power. Stribling watches a stagnant community with a cool eye, tracing how family pressure and limited choices harden into fate.

Set in north Alabama during the Civil War and its aftermath, this first Vaiden novel follows Miltiades Vaiden, neighboring families, and formerly enslaved people as the old order breaks apart. It is big-canvas Southern history with sharp social edges.

Milt Vaiden claws his way into business power in post-Reconstruction Florence, turning trade, debt, and local politics into weapons. The Pulitzer-winning middle volume shows how greed and ambition reshape a town.

As old river trade gives way to rail, Stribling turns a business problem into a story about progress and upheaval. Railroad looks at changing technology, regional commerce, and the people forced to bet on the future.

In boom-era Florence, religion, money, and public image become tightly tangled as the Vaiden story moves into the 1920s. Jerry Catlin and an aging Milt Vaiden stand at the center of a town chasing grandeur and losing its balance.

This later collection of Henry Poggioli cases moves beyond the Caribbean into darker, more varied territory. The professor-criminologist tackles odd crimes, uneasy psychology, and solutions that arrive by nerve as much as logic.

Young lawyer Henry Caridius heads to Washington hoping to do honest political work, then gets used by forces far bigger than he understands. The novel blends satire, machine politics, and crime in a dark look at public life.

Andrew Barnett, a Southern politician and school official, lands in a Northern university world full of ego, ideology, and absurdity. Stribling turns campus life into a biting satire about education, status, and modern ideas.

A posthumous selection of Henry Poggioli mysteries, from exotic puzzles to urban crime. Stribling's sleuth is a psychology professor first and a showman second, which gives these stories an offbeat, sometimes uncanny feel.

Compiled from Stribling's manuscripts after his death, this autobiography looks back on his climb from a small Tennessee town to the literary worlds of New York and Paris. It is reflective, dryly funny, and full of working-writer detail.