Welcome to A Small Press Life’s Irregular Index of Literary Facts, a new feature designed to give lovely order to the random bookish trivia traveling around my brain. If you like lists, mental organization, random facts, or useless trivia about authors famous and obscure, you will definitely want to keep reading.

DEBUT NOVELS, DEAD WRITERS EDITION: PART ONE

The following books represent the first published novels of their respective authors, which were not always the first to be written. All novels are readily available in both traditional and e-reader versions.

• Louisa May Alcott: Moods
• Sherwood Anderson: Windy McPherson’s Son
  
• Gertrude Atherton: What Dreams May Come

Gertrude Atherton

• Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
• James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain
• Djuna Barnes: Ryder
• Arna Bontemps: God Sends Sunday: A Novel
• Elizabeth Bowen: The Hotel
• Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
• Kay Boyle: Plagued by the Nightingale
• Louis Bromfield: The Green Bay Tree
• Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
• Pearl S. Buck: East Wind: West Wind
• Fanny Burney: Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
• James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Willa Cather: Alexander’s Bridge
• Kate Chopin: At Fault
• Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
• Colette: Claudine at School
• Wilkie Collins: Antonina
• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
• Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
• Philip K. Dick: Solar Lottery
• Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Poor Folk
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
• George Eliot: Adam Bede

George Eliot

• William Faulkner: Soldier’s Pay
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
• Zelda Fitzgerald: Save Me the Waltz
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
• Ford Madox Ford: The Shifting of the Fire
• Zona Gale: Romance Island
• Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton
• Andre Gidé: The Notebooks of André Walter
• Ellen Glasgow: The Descendant
• Susan Glaspell: The Glory of the Conquered