List of works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The following is a list of the major publications of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). 142 volumes comprise the entirety of his literary output, ranging from the poetical to the philosophical, including 50 volumes of correspondence.

*1771: "Heidenröslein" ("Heath Rosebud"), a poem
*1773: "Prometheus", a poem
*1773: "Götz von Berlichingen", a drama
*1774: "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" ("The Sorrows of Young Werther"), a novel
*1775: "Stella, a tragedy in five acts
*1782: "Der Erlkönig" ("The Alder King"), a poem
*1787: "Iphigenie auf Tauris" ("Iphigenia in Tauris"), a drama
*1786: "Novella", a novella
*1788: "Egmont", a drama
*1790: "Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" ("The Metamorphosis of Plants"), a scientific text
*1790: "Torquato Tasso", a drama
*1790: "Römische Elegien" ("Roman Elegies"), a poetry collection
*1793: "Die Belagerung von Mainz", "(The Siege of Mainz)", non-fiction
*1794: "Reineke Fuchs", a fable
*1795: "The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily", a fairy-tale.
*1794-95: "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten," a novella, which also includes the fairy tale "Das Märchen"
*1795-96 (in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller): "Die Xenien" ("The Xenia"), a collection of epigrams
*1796: "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" ("Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"), a novel
*1797: "Der Zauberlehrling" ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"), a poem (which was later animated by Disney in Fantasia)
*1798: "Hermann und Dorothea" ("Hermann and Dorothea"), an epic poem
*1798: "Die Weissagungen des Bakis" ("The Soothsayings of Bakis")
*1798/01: "Propyläen", a periodical
*1805: "Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert" ("Winklemann and His Century")
*1808: "Faust Part One", a closet drama
*1809: "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" ("Elective Affinities"), a novel
*1810: "Zur Farbenlehre" ("Theory of Colours"), a scientific text
*1811: "" ("Out of my Life: Poetry and Truth") Part I, an autobiographical work
*1813: "Gefunden" ("Found"), a poem
*1817: "Italienische Reise" ("Italian Journey"), journals
*1819: "Westöstlicher Diwan", variously translated as "The West-Eastern Divan", "The Parliament of East and West", or otherwise. A collection of poems in imitation of Sufi and other Muslim poetry, including that of Hafiz.
*1821: "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden" ("Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants"/"Wilhelm Meister's Travels"), a novel
*1832: "Faust Part Two", a closet drama
*1832/33: "Nachgelassene Schriften" ("Posthumous Works")
*1833: "" , Part II, an autobiographical work
*1836: "Gespräche mit Goethe" ("Conversations with Goethe") also translated as: "Conversations with Eckermann".