Books By Joseph Mitchell
- My Ears Are Bent (1938; reissued in 2001 in a revised and expanded edition by Sheila McGrath and Dan Frank)
- McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1943)
- Old Mr. Flood (1948)
- The Bottom of the Harbor (1959)
- Joe Gould's Secret (1965)
- Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories (a 1992 collection that includes all of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould's Secret plus some additional stories)
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