William S. Burroughs bibliography

This is a bibliography of the works of William S. Burroughs.

Novels and other long fiction

• And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945; published November 2008) (with Jack Kerouac) (ISBN 9781846141645)
• Interzone (written mid-1950's, published 1988) (ISBN 978-0140094510)
• Junkie (1953) (ISBN 0-14-200316-6)
• Queer (written 1951-3; published 1985) (ISBN 0-14-008389-8)
• Naked Lunch (1959) (ISBN 0-8021-3295-2)
• The Soft Machine (1961) (ISBN 0-8021-3329-0)
• The Ticket That Exploded (1962) (ISBN 0-8021-5150-7)
• Dead Fingers Talk (1963) - excerpts from Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded combined together to create a new narrative
• Nova Express (1964) (ISBN 0-8021-3330-4)
• The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (1969) (ISBN 1-55970-211-7)
• The Wild Boys: A Book Of The Dead (1971) (ISBN 0-8021-3331-2)
• Port of Saints (1973) (ISBN 0-912652-64-0)
• Cities of the Red Night (1981) (ISBN 0-03-053976-5)
• The Place of Dead Roads (1983) (ISBN 0-312-27865-9)
• The Western Lands (1987) (ISBN 0-14-009456-3)
• My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) (ISBN 0-14-009454-7)
• Rules of Duel (2010) (with Graham Masterton) (ISBN 978-1-84583-052-6)

Non-fiction

• Letter From A Master Addict To Dangerous Drugs, British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 53, No. 2, August 3rd, 1956
• The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1969) (ISBN 0-14-011882-9) (with Daniel Odier)
• Jack Kerouac (1970) (with Claude Pelieu)
• The Electronic Revolution (1971)
• The Retreat Diaries (1976) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957 (1976)
• Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4)
• Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2007; ISBN 978-0814210802)

Stories and novellas

• Valentine's Day Reading (1965)
• Time (1965)
• APO-33 (1966)
• The Dead Star (1969)
• Ali's Smile (1971)
• Mayfair Academy Series More or Less (1973)
• White Subway (1973) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Exterminator! (1973) (ISBN 0-14-005003-5) (a different book from the 1960 collaboration with Brion Gysin)
• The Book of Breething (1974)
• Snack... (ISBN 0-85652-014-4) (1975)
• Cobble Stone Gardens (1976) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Blade Runner (a movie) (1979) (ISBN 0-912652-46-2)
• Dr. Benway (1979)
• Die Alten Filme (The Old Movies) (1979) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Streets of Chance (1981)
• Early Routines (1981)
• Sinki's Sauna (1982)
• Ruski (1984)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1984)
• The Cat Inside (1986)
• The Whole Tamale (c.1987-88)
• Interzone (1987) (ISBN 0-14-009451-2)
• Tornado Alley (1989)
• Ghost of Chance (1991) (ISBN 1-85242-457-5)
• Seven Deadly Sins (1992)
• Paper Cloud; Thick Pages (1992)

Collections

• Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities (1965)
• Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology (1978)
• Ah Pook is Here, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night (1981) (ISBN 0-312-27846-2)
• The Burroughs File (1984)
• The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985) (ISBN 1-55970-210-9)
• Uncommon Quotes Vol. 1 (1989)
• Selected Letters (1993)
• Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5)
• The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959
• Word Virus : The William Burroughs Reader (1998) (ISBN 0-00-655214-5)

Collaborations

• Minutes To Go (1960) (with Sinclair Beilles, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin)
• The Exterminator (1960) (with Brion Gysin)
• The Yage Letters (1963) (with Allen Ginsberg)
• So Who Owns Death TV? (1967) (with Claude Pelieu and Carl Weissner)
• Brion Gysin Let the Mice In (1973) (with Brion Gysin)
• Sidetripping (1975) (with Charles Gatewood)
• Colloque de Tangier (1976) (with Brion Gysin)
• The Third Mind (1977) (with Brion Gysin)
• Colloque de Tangier Vol. 2 (1979) (with Brion Gysin and Gérard-Georges Lemaire)
• Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts (1979) (with Malcolm McNeill)
• Apocalypse (1988) (with Keith Haring)
• The Black Rider (1989) (with Tom Waits and Robert Wilson)

Film collaborations

The Final Academy Documents, with experimental film collaborations of Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, John Giorno, and others, based on a tour organized by David Dawson, Roger Ely, and Genesis P-Orridge. A DVD of edited highlights from the tour, including Burroughs's 1982 appearance reading from his work at Manchester's The Haçienda, a performance by Giorno and includes the experimental film collaborations with Balch, Gysin, and others, Towers Open Fire and Ghosts at No. 9.

Burroughs also played a cameo part in the film Drugstore Cowboy. He collaborated on the documentary Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road eventually released in 2007.

Recordings (partial list)

• Call Me Burroughs (1965) - The English Bookshop, Paris (reissued in 1995 by Rhino Word Beat)
• The Nova Convention (1979) by Burroughs and others - LP GPS 14-15
• Nothing Here Now But The Recordings (1981) with Brion Gysin - LP Industrial Records IR0016
• You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (1981) with John Giorno and Laurie Anderson - LP GPS 20-21 et al.
• Poetry in Motion (1982) a film directed by Ron Mann - Burroughs is a featured writer.
• Mister Heartbreak (1984) by Laurie Anderson - Burroughs speaks the lyrics to the song "Sharkey's Night"
• Home of the Brave (1986) by Laurie Anderson - a sample of Burroughs intoning "Listen to my heart beat" is incorporated into the song "Late Show"
• UnCommon Quotes (1986) - Recorded live at the CARAVAN of DREAMS, September 11, 1986 ([1]) (ISBN 0 929856 00 7)
• Smack My Crack (1987) with Tom Waits and various artists
• Like A Girl I Want To Keep Coming (1989) by John Giorno - LP Giorno Poetry System
• Seven Souls (1989) by Material - Burroughs collaborates with Bill Laswell, later remixed in 1998 as The Road to the Western Lands
• Dead City Radio (1990) - Island Records
• The "Priest" they called him (1992) - Burroughs narrates and Kurt Cobain plays guitar
• Break Through In Grey Room (1992) - A collection of readings and cutups - Sub Rosa Records
• "Just One Fix" (1992) from the Ministry album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs - Burroughs speaks the lyrics to the song "Quick Fix" and created the cover art
• The Black Rider (1992) - Musical co-authored with Tom Waits and Robert Wilson, sings on "T'ain't No Sin"
• Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (1993) - Island Records (features the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy)
• "Words Of Advice" on the Material album Hallucination Engine (1994) - same piece as on Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales accompanied by different music
• The Elvis of Letters (1995) with Gus van Sant
• 10%: File under Burroughs (1996) - 2 CD set; Disc one: "Beats" (dance music using Burroughs's voice and Brion Gysin); Disc two: "Beat" (acoustic sounds and voices)
• Songs in the Key of X (1996) and In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 bonus disc (2003) - Burroughs records his vocal over an instrumental version of R.E.M.'s "Star Me Kitten"
• Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors (2000) - Burroughs reads poetry by Jim Morrison over music provided by The Doors on the track "Is Everybody In?"