Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travelogue writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. He is the father of Marcel and Louis Theroux, and the brother of Alexander and Peter. Justin Theroux is his nephew.
Books
Travelling the World
1990
The Bad Angel Brothers
2022
Sinning With Annie
1972
Figures in a Landscape
People and Places
2018
The Great Railway Bazaar
1975
Fresh Air Fiend
Travel Writings
2000
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
2008
Sailing through China
1984
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Paddling the Pacific
1992
Upside-Down Cake
2016
The Family Arsenal
1976
Fong and the Indians
1968
On the Edge of the Great Rift
Three Novels of Africa
1996
Deep South
Four Seasons on Back Roads
2015
Hotel Honolulu
2001
Half Moon Street
1984
Birthday Stories
Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
2004
Mr Bones
2014
Jungle Lovers
1971
A Dead Hand
A Crime in Calcutta
2009
The Elephanta Suite
2007
The Last Train to Zona Verde
My Ultimate African Safari
2012
World's End
1980
2 Stars
2005
Under The Wave At Waimea
2021
To the Ends of the Earth
1980
Riding the Iron Rooster
By Train Through China
1988
My Secret History
1989
The Imperial Way
1985
Picture Palace
1978
The London Embassy
1982
Sunrise With Seamonsters
1985
The Tao of Travel
Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
2011
Dark Star Safari
Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
2002
On The Plain Of Snakes
A Mexican Journey
2019
Slow Trains to Simla
1996
The Pillars of Hercules
1995
Fakes
An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
2012
A Christmas Card
1978
The Collected Short Novels
1998
Sir Vidia's Shadow
A Friendship Across Five Continents
1998
London Snow, A Christmas Story
1982
The Kingdom by the Sea
1983
Blinding Light
2005
Murder in Mount Holly
1969
Saint Jack
1973
O-Zone
1986
Burma Sahib
2024
Kowloon Tong
1997
The Stranger At The Palazzo D'oro
2003
Chicago Loop
1990
My Other Life
1996
Girls at play
1969
The Lower River
2012
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
2018
Doctor Slaughter
1984
The Consul's File
1972
The Greenest Island
1995
The Mosquito Coast
1981
Mother Land
2017
The Black House
1974
The Old Patagonian Express
By Train Through the Americas
1979
Millroy the Magician
1993
