Upton Sinclair Books in Order

Sinclair examines organized religion as a source of wealth and influence, arguing that powerful institutions protect capitalism at the poor's expense. His critique connects religious hypocrisy with exploitation and calls for a society organized around social justice.

Orphaned poet Arthur loves Helen, the daughter of the minister who raised him. When she returns from years abroad with more worldly expectations, his devotion and literary ambitions face the challenge of winning a changed woman's heart.

West Point newcomer Mark Mallory refuses to submit to hazing and turns the tables on older cadets. Their anger makes him a target, forcing Mark and his friends to defend their dignity against organized retaliation.

Cadet Mark Mallory and the Banded Seven explore the mountains near West Point and discover a hidden cave. Counterfeit coins and human remains transform a youthful outing into a mystery demanding courage and cooperation from the friends.

Mark Mallory struggles to secure a military cadetship and enter West Point. Rival candidates and hostility at the academy test his determination, while the prospect of hazing challenges the independence he brings to his new life.

West Point cadet Mark Mallory rallies his fellow plebes against the upperclassmen's hazing. An encouraging letter draws attention to similar troubles at Annapolis, strengthening the friends' resolve as their resistance brings fresh challenges within military life.

Gerald Isman encounters a mysterious peddler and enters the underground world of the Nibelungs. Tutoring rebellious Prince Hagen brings him into a struggle over power and gold that exposes the ambitions beneath respectable wealthy society.

Young cadet Mark Mallory enters West Point's demanding world of military discipline and fierce competition. Yearling Bull Harris tries to haze him and his fellow plebes, but Mark's resistance turns the usual hierarchy into a personal rivalry.

Raised on a Mississippi plantation, Allan Montague initially accepts slavery as natural. Moving to Boston exposes him to abolitionists and Frederick Douglass, challenging inherited beliefs as the country approaches the conflict that will test his loyalties.

Robert van Rensselaer, the son of a wealthy tycoon, moves through a privileged world with charm and recklessness. His treatment of businesses and people exposes the corruption, appetite, and personal damage underlying an admired industrial fortune.

Responding to J. Ogden Armour's defense of government meat inspection, Sinclair challenges claims that consumers are protected from diseased products. He examines slaughterhouse conditions and inspection rules while defending the allegations that made his meatpacking exposé controversial.

Sinclair examines expanding industrial production alongside limited consumer buying power, asking how nations can find markets for their surplus goods. His argument connects international competition, factory closures, and working-class hardship with the concentration of wealth.

Allan Montague moves from Mississippi to New York and enters wealthy society through his brother. Building his legal career reveals the suffering beneath its luxury, putting him in conflict with the powerful people whose invitations once welcomed him.

Lucy Dupree arrives in New York hoping to enter high society, with lawyer Allan Montague as her guide. Rival financiers draw her into a struggle for power, while their manipulations threaten both her safety and the financial markets.

Sinclair and Michael Williams recount their experiments with diet and hygiene, including Horace Fletcher's emphasis on thorough chewing. Personal accounts and contemporary investigations explore their search for improved health and the ideas behind the period's dietary reform movement.

Aspiring writer Thyrsis struggles to reconcile artistic ambition with earning a living while building a relationship with Corydon. Their love becomes entangled with the practical pressures of marriage and the conflicting expectations each brings to their shared life.

Sinclair recounts his experiences with fasting and presents the arguments that prompted extensive correspondence from readers. Drawing together magazine articles and additional commentary, this historical account records his enthusiasm for an approach he wanted scientists to investigate.

A young couple's future is endangered by venereal disease and the husband's concealed past. Adapting Eugène Brieux's play, Sinclair explores how ignorance, shame, and social expectations complicate decisions that can affect an entire family's health.

Young Southern aristocrat Sylvia Castleman navigates love and the expectations surrounding marriage within her privileged world. Her story is recounted by a woman whose hard experience of ordinary life offers a different perspective on wealth and happiness.

Sylvia Castleman's marriage confronts the consequences of her husband's earlier sexual conduct, exposing the dangers hidden beneath social respectability. Her friendship with self-made Mary Abbott brings practical knowledge into a life shaped by privilege and restrictive expectations.

Sinclair's correspondence with Vincent Astor challenges inherited wealth and urges support for the poor and socialism. The exchange also raises questions about newspaper fairness when the millionaire's reply receives attention denied to the original appeal.

Privileged student Hal Warner takes a job in a Colorado coal mine to experience life beyond college. Dangerous working conditions and friendship with a miner's daughter draw him into a union struggle against employers determined to suppress organizing.

Raised to seek truth for himself, Samuel leaves his rural upbringing and enters a world shaped by poverty and social inequality. His search for purpose tests the moral convictions inherited from his father against harsh everyday realities.

Sinclair analyzes concentrated wealth, industrial development, and the struggle between capital and labor, projecting America's economic future. He argues that the contradictions of capitalism will drive a transformation toward an industrial republic with a more equitable distribution of wealth.

Unknown poet Arthur Stirling records his attempt to create a major work and establish himself as an artist. His journal reveals the tension between literary ideals and the material struggle of pursuing recognition without money or influence.

Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus arrives in Chicago hoping hard work will secure his family's future. Employment in the stockyards instead exposes him to dangerous labor, exploitation, and poverty that threaten the dreams they brought to America.

Scientist Edward searches for his long-lost brother Daniel and discovers him living alone on an island. Their reunion raises unsettling questions about civilization, solitude, and the kind of fulfillment Daniel believes he has found beyond ordinary society.

Impoverished Peter Gudge becomes caught in the chaos of a bombing during a patriotic parade. His struggle to survive draws him into industrial spying and political manipulation, revealing the interests hidden behind public declarations of loyalty.

Peter Gudge's precarious life changes when a bombing entangles him in political intrigue. His involvement in industrial spying and sabotage exposes a world where powerful business interests manipulate patriotic feeling to attack labor organizers and suspected radicals.

Sinclair offers his views on mind, body, love, and society in a practical guide to living. Personal experience and arguments about reason, morality, and health shape his attempt to answer questions he believes conventional institutions leave unresolved.

Investigating American colleges and universities, Sinclair argues that wealthy donors and business interests control education. He examines the conflict between institutional privilege and intellectual freedom, asking whether schools serve public knowledge or protect the economic order.

After a mob attacks Billy outside a theater, he encounters Jesus emerging from a church's stained-glass window. The figure called Carpenter enters modern Western City, where wealth, prejudice, and Hollywood culture challenge the values he represents.

Sinclair investigates political and corporate influence over American public schools, beginning with Southern California. His account links the struggles of teachers and workers to powerful interests that, he argues, shape education for their own advantage.

A catastrophic experiment leaves eleven survivors in a towering luxury palace after killing everyone else on Earth. Their efforts to rebuild society recreate familiar conflicts over wealth, ownership, and labor, testing whether a different social order is possible.

Addressing an elderly carpenter named Judd, Sinclair explains his ideas about work, wealth, and economic injustice. Everyday experiences become the starting point for letters questioning a system in which laborers create prosperity but receive little security.

Oil magnate J. Arnold Ross hopes his son Bunny will follow him into the business, but the young man grows sympathetic to workers and socialist ideas. California's oil boom exposes bribery and exploitation, dividing Bunny's family loyalty from his conscience.

Presented as Mame's letters to her mother, this satire examines an official spokesman and the American society surrounding him. Sinclair uses the secretary's correspondence to scrutinize public institutions and the contradictions beneath their respectable language and familiar routines.

Sinclair examines American literature through the economic circumstances of its writers, asking how they earn money and what those financial relationships demand. His socialist critique connects literary production with wealth, patronage, and the influence of powerful institutions on culture.

Sinclair recounts experiments in which his wife Mary Craig attempted to reproduce drawings without seeing them, interpreting the results as evidence of telepathy. The book presents his account of psychic investigation and its implications for ideas about mind and communication.

Sinclair challenges the New York Times over its handling of his claims and correspondence, framing the dispute as a test of journalistic decency. Letters and public exchanges support his argument about misrepresentation, accountability, and the power of the press.

Farmer's son Jed Rusher dreams of power and uses educational opportunity to enter the world of a wealthy family. His relentless pursuit of success connects personal relationships with business ambition, exposing the moral costs behind an apparently impressive rise.

Luke Faber moves between modern America and the Roman Republic, unsure which existence is real and which a dream. Romance and social satire intertwine as labor unrest, wealth, and political upheaval reveal unsettling parallels between the two civilizations.

Sinclair recalls the first thirty years of his life, tracing his upbringing and the beginnings of his literary ambitions. This early autobiography explores formative experiences behind the novelist and social critic, connecting personal memory with the development of his public concerns.

This account of Sinclair's first thirty years follows his childhood, early aspirations as a writer, and formative experiences. Published also as American Outpost, it presents the author's own recollections of the circumstances that shaped his emerging literary and social commitments.

Imagining his election as California's governor, Sinclair lays out a program for ending Depression-era poverty. Idle farmland and factories would be put to work through cooperative production, linking unemployed workers with unused resources in a fictional account of political reform.

Working-class socialist Jimmie Higgins devotes himself to organizing while struggling with poverty and family responsibilities. The approach of world war challenges his belief in international solidarity, drawing his modest personal life into a much larger conflict over labor, loyalty, and resistance.

Addressing a young capitalist acquaintance through essays and letters, Sinclair argues for socialism as a response to America's economic crisis. The exchange presents his interpretation of Depression-era conditions and attempts to persuade someone whose assumptions about wealth differ from his own.

Issued amid criticism of Sinclair's California campaign, this pamphlet revises and clarifies his End Poverty in California proposal. It presents the plan's final form as the author responds to opposition and explains the economic changes he wants voters to support.

This collection presents Sinclair's End Poverty in California program through an imagined account of his governorship and related political writings. It links unused land and industrial capacity with cooperative work for the unemployed, offering a proposed response to the Depression.

Sinclair responds to the campaign against his California gubernatorial bid, examining how opponents extracted fictional characters' statements and attributed them to him. The pamphlet challenges the editorial methods behind such attacks and their role in shaping public judgment.

This campaign pamphlet answers questions about Sinclair's End Poverty in California movement and its proposed response to economic distress. The author explains his reform agenda for voters, addressing the program as a practical route out of widespread poverty and unemployment.

Sinclair recounts his 1934 California gubernatorial campaign, from the rise of the EPIC movement to the attacks that helped defeat it. His account examines cooperative economic proposals, popular organizing, media hostility, and the influence of wealth on political competition.

Displaced workers and their families begin living in sewage pipes during the Depression and organize a cooperative to improve their circumstances. Their experiments bring both setbacks and successes as they try to construct a more equitable community outside conventional economic arrangements.

Elizabeth and her uncle Rodney meet two surviving gnomes in California's redwoods, where logging has destroyed their community. Traveling together in the newly named Gnomobile, they search for other gnomes while confronting the consequences of the industry behind the family's wealth.

Sinclair turns to the private lives of Edward Windsor and Wallis Warfield in this dramatic treatment of royalty. The work focuses on a royal relationship, inviting readers to consider intimate affairs within the world of public status and inherited power.

Sinclair extends his anti-poverty vision from California to the nation in an imagined account of economic transformation. Presented as a future history, the pamphlet advocates a national EPIC program and political organizing within the Democratic Party to achieve its aims.

Drawing on interviews with former film magnate William Fox, Sinclair recounts his childhood and the growth of Fox Film. Fox's account of losing control of the company becomes a central inquiry into Hollywood business, financial power, and alleged Wall Street intervention.

Comfortable young German-American Rudy Messer befriends socialist Izzy Bloch after a New York demonstration supporting the Spanish Republic. Encounters with workers and competing political perspectives challenge his family's sympathies, drawing him toward the fight against fascism in Spain.

The Virgin Mary finds herself in modern Los Angeles, encountering a society whose customs and entertainments she cannot understand. Through her bewildered perspective on contemporary California, Sinclair combines religious fantasy with satire of a world far removed from her own.

In letters addressed to a wealthy acquaintance, Sinclair questions why a rich nation leaves so many people dependent on charity. His discussion examines economic arrangements in the United States and challenges the relationship between private fortunes and widespread deprivation.

Sinclair and Eugene Lyons offer opposing views on political repression in Soviet Russia. Their exchange examines the treatment of dissent and arguments used to defend or condemn Soviet rule, presenting a disagreement within the broader debate over socialism and dictatorship.

Sinclair and newspaper publisher Raymond C. Hoiles debate a planned economy as a response to America's financial difficulties. Their exchange brings contrasting views of collective action, taxation, and voluntary association into a discussion of the nation's economic direction.

Addressing a millionaire through letters, Sinclair examines what great wealth does to its holder and the surrounding society. The work links personal fortune with American economic hardship, questioning the social consequences of money and the responsibilities attached to possessing it.

Raised among artists and wealthy Europeans, young American Lanny Budd learns the languages and privileges of international society. As the First World War approaches, his friendships, family ties to arms manufacturing, and growing awareness of inequality unsettle his sheltered world.

After the First World War, Lanny Budd begins an international art-dealing career while Europe confronts fascism and instability. Love affairs and marriage connect him to American wealth, but the approaching financial collapse threatens the comfortable future he and his circle expect.

Sinclair and Philip F. La Follette debate the question of peace or war in America during an era of international conflict. The pamphlet sets their positions beside one another, asking readers to consider the country's direction through contrasting political arguments.

Addressing people living under European occupation and their relatives abroad, Sinclair considers the loss of political freedom and legitimate government. Written from the safety of California, the appeal confronts the difficulty of offering meaningful solidarity to those enduring conquest and oppression.

Lanny Budd's wealth cushions him from the Depression but deepens disagreements with his capitalist wife. Visiting Germany as Nazism gains power, he fears for his sister's Jewish relatives and faces the possibility of risking his privileged life to protect them.

Sinclair proposes redirecting Germany's industrial power toward producing material security for Europe's people. This wartime political argument considers how the economic machinery of the Nazi empire might be transformed into a different foundation for the continent's future.

Lanny Budd becomes involved in helping a German revolutionary escape, straining his marriage as fascism tightens its grip. His concern with Europe's struggles draws him toward Spain, where civil war creates new dangers for the people close to him.

Art dealer Lanny Budd accepts a secret assignment for President Roosevelt, returning to Nazi Germany as international diplomacy approaches crisis. His opposition to fascism becomes intensely personal when the woman he loves falls into Gestapo hands, making rescue part of his mission.

Working secretly for President Roosevelt, art dealer Lanny Budd moves through Europe's privileged circles as war approaches. His clandestine commitments become increasingly dangerous when Nazi expansion threatens the people and causes he is trying to protect.

As war spreads across Europe, Lanny Budd maintains his cover as a Nazi sympathizer while gathering intelligence for Roosevelt. Occupied France, wartime London and shifting alliances test his ability to serve the Allies without exposing himself.

In a steel town divided by labor unrest, workers struggle to organize against powerful employers. Sinclair places family loyalties and corporate intimidation alongside the campaign for union recognition, exposing the human pressures behind an industrial confrontation.

This Danish edition of Between Two Worlds follows Lanny Budd through the aftermath of World War I and the upheavals of the 1920s. Art, romance and privilege collide with growing poverty, political unrest and European extremism.

Trusted inside Nazi circles, Lanny Budd continues his secret work for President Roosevelt under the cover of art dealing. Assignments in North Africa and the Soviet Union bring him into dangerous negotiations involving competing wartime interests.

Lanny Budd's undercover work becomes more perilous as the Allies prepare an invasion of Europe. Protecting military secrets while posing as a fascist sympathizer, he faces Gestapo scrutiny that threatens both his mission and his escape.

As World War II draws toward its close, Lanny Budd joins efforts to recover art and question Germans about the Nazi regime. The fighting and its aftermath confront him with Europe's devastation and emerging political divisions.

Pamela, a devout Seventh-day Adventist, enters an eccentric wealthy woman's California household as a maid. Her employer wants her help reforming a spoiled nephew, placing Pamela's religious convictions amid the complications of money, service and courtship.

An American scientist and his children escape danger in South America, only to find New York devastated by biological warfare. Confronting the survivors forces them to reckon with a civilization whose weapons have destroyed its future.

Lanny Budd's retirement ends when a neo-Nazi counterfeiting operation threatens Germany's recovery. Drawn back into espionage by a personal connection to the plot, he enters a divided Europe where Soviet power creates new dangers and loyalties.

Sinclair offers a personal portrait and interpretation of Jesus, considering his life and religious significance through an imaginative approach. The book explores the figure behind Christian belief while presenting the author's own understanding of his spiritual importance.

Drawing on his father's drinking and his encounters with other writers, Sinclair examines alcoholism's damage to family life and literary work. Personal memories support his argument about the costs of a habit often associated with creative achievement.

Didymus reluctantly receives miraculous powers and a mission from an angel to enlighten the world. His extraordinary abilities bring him into conflict with people who resist the message he has been charged with carrying to them.

Sinclair examines alcohol's effects on writers including Jack London, Ben Hecht and Hart Crane. These accounts consider the damage drinking can cause to literary lives, connecting creative achievement with the personal costs of dependence on alcohol.

Selected correspondence traces Sinclair's literary and public life through exchanges with writers and prominent figures. Letters involving people such as Jack London, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Einstein reveal the relationships surrounding his work and political interests.

Sinclair recounts his life as a writer and social reformer, beginning with a childhood shaped by poverty, wealthy relatives and his father's drinking. His memories connect personal experience with the convictions that informed his literary and political work.