# Simple John Updike "Rabbit" question...

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**Created:** [August 26, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-john-updike-rabbit-question/125601 "2002-08-26T11:10:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-john-updike-rabbit-question/125601/1 "2002-08-26T11:10:27Z")

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Which book in the series of “Rabbit” (e.g. Rabbit is Rich) is first? I’ve been recommended this series, but I can’t seem to figure out which one came first. The version of the book I’m seeing at the local bookstore is republished (not the original print), so the copywrite dates are all screwed up. And in the list of other books by the author, each of the Rabbit books lists all of the other Rabbit books.

lol, I must be stupid 🙂

- Wind

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**Author:** ![Newton\_meter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/57b2e6/32.png) [@Newton\_meter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newton_meter)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-john-updike-rabbit-question/125601/2 "2002-08-26T12:51:18Z")

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You are correct to try to read them in order.

_Rabbit Run  
Rabbit Redux  
Rabbit is Rich  
Rabbit at Rest_

Rabbit Run is set in the late 1950s, when Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is 26 years old. Subsequent books were written and set approximately a decade later for each book.

I know you didn’t ask, but I really didn’t like _Rabbit Redux_, but I thought _Rabbit is Rich_ and _Rabbit at Rest_ were fabulous.

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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-john-updike-rabbit-question/125601/3 "2002-08-26T15:18:59Z")

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There was also a later novella called, I believe, “Rabbit Remembered”; it was collected in an Updike anthology called “Licks and Love.”

I’ve read the first two so far, and I liked Run better, but Redux was pretty good too, I thought.

–Cliffy