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Where the story refers specifically to naturism or nudism, the title is in bold.
New and updated entries in this sixth issue of Yarns Without Threads are listed at the end
| Year Month Day | Author | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
| 1884 | Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | |
| 1912 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan of the Apes | |
| 1914 | Feodor Sologub | The Created Legend | |
| 1917 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | A Princess of Mars Son of Tarzan | |
| 1921 | D H Lawrence | Women in Love | |
| 1923 | H G Wells | Men Like Gods | |
| 1932 | Thorne Smith | The Bishop's Jaegers | |
| James Laver | Nymph Errant | ||
| Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) | The Egyptian Cross Mystery | ||
| 1933 | Elmer Davis and Guy Holt | Bare Living | |
| 1934 | May 25 | Peter Hunt | Murder Among The Nudists |
| ??? | H E Bates | The Revelation | |
| Anthony Gibbs | The New Crusade | ||
| H A Keller | Yesterday's Sin reprinted as Her Day of Sin | ||
| E. R. Punshon | Death Among the Sunbathers | ||
| Thorne Smith | The Glorious Pool | ||
| 1935 | John Wyndham (writing as John Beynon) | The Secret People | |
| 1937 | H E Bates | Breeze Anstey | |
| 1939 | Gladys Mitchell | Printer's Error | |
| Dr Seuss | The Seven Lady Godivas | ||
| 1940 | Erskine Caldwell | Jackpot | |
| 1943 | Louise Dardanelle | World Without Raiment | |
| 1946 | Earl Wilson | Pike's Peek or Bust | |
| 1949 | Dodie Smith | I Capture the Castle | |
| 1950 | July | Eric Frank Russell | Exposure |
| 1951 | Robert Heinlein | The Puppet Masters | |
| William L Rohde | Murder on the Line - reprinted 1956 as High Red for Dead | ||
| 1952 | ??? | Donald A Wollheim (editor) | Let's Go Naked |
| November | Walter M Miller Jr | Command Performance aka Anybody Else Like Me | |
| 1953 | Theodore Sturgeon | More Than Human | |
| William Vaneer | Scandals At A Nudist Colony | ||
| 1955 | Patrick Dennis pen-name of Edward Everrett Tanner III | Auntie Mame | |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case Of The Sunbather's Diary | ||
| Edward Kiernan | God's Hitchhiker | ||
| Richard S Prather | Strip For Murder | ||
| 1956 | January | Leslie Charteris | The Reluctant Nudist |
| 1957 | Leslie A. Fiedler | Nude Croquet | |
| Robert Heinlein | The Door Into Summer | ||
| Orrie Hitt | Nudist Camp | ||
| 1958 | Patrick Dennis pen-name of Edward Everrett Tanner III | Around the World with Auntie Mame | |
| Ian Fleming | Dr No | ||
| Mary Renault | The King Must Die | ||
| 1959 | Cecil Biffin | Not Even A Fig Leaf (date uncertain) | |
| John Brunner | The World Swappers | ||
| Howard Fast | The Trap (aka The First Men) | ||
| James Vance Marshall | Walkabout | ||
| 1960 | Howard Fast | The Sight Of Eden | |
| 1961 | Ian Fleming | Thunderball | |
| Robert Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land | ||
| E E 'Doc' Smith | Masters of Space | ||
| Irving Wallace | The Prize | ||
| 1962 | ??? | J F Bone | The Lani People |
| ??? | Eric Frank Russell | The Great Explosion | |
| 1963 | Robert Heinlein | Glory Road | |
| 1964 | Harry Harrison | Final Encounter | |
| 1965 | July | Robert Heinlein | Farnham's Freehold |
| ??? | Poul Anderson | The Corridors of Time | |
| 1966 | ??? | John Ball | The Cool Cottontail |
| April | Allen Kim Lang | Murder in a Nudist Camp | |
| May | Robert H Rimmer | The Harrad Experiment | |
| 1967 | June 1 | Colin Fletcher | The Man who walked through Time |
| 1968 | March | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Birth Of A Salesman |
| ??? | John Baxter | The Beach | |
| ??? | John Brunner | Bedlam Planet | |
| ??? | Robert H Rimmer | Proposition 31 | |
| 1969 | January | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Faithful To Thee, Terra, In Our Fashion originally Parimutuel Planet |
| August | John Brunner | Quicksand | |
| September | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Your Haploid Heart | |
| November | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone | |
| 1970 | July 27 | John Brunner | Good Men Do Nothing |
| September 24 | David Lodge | Out Of The Shelter | |
| 1971 | ??? | Philip José Farmer | To Your Scattered Bodies Go The Fabulous Riverboat |
| September 16 | Colin Gibson | The Pepper Leaf | |
| ??? | Sam Merwin Jr | The Time Shifters | |
| ??? | Poul Anderson | The Dancer from Atlantis | |
| 1972 | ??? | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Through A Lass, Darkly |
| May 1 | Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves | |
| November | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket On The Last Afternoon | |
| 1973 | June 1 | Robert Heinlein | Time Enough for Love |
| ??? | Petra Christian | The Sexploiters | |
| ??? | Poul Anderson | The Merman's Children | |
| 1974 | January | Mack Reynolds | Commune 2000 A.D. |
| ??? | Piers Anthony | Rings of Ice | |
| 1975 | Robert H Rimmer | The Premar Experiments | |
| 1976 | July 22 | Timothy Lea (pen name of Christopher Wood) | Confessions from a Nudist Colony |
| ??? | Poul Anderson | The Winter of the World | |
| 1977 | March | Jo Clayton | Diadem from the Stars |
| September 1 | Philip José Farmer | The Dark Design | |
| 1978 | January | Jo Clayton | Lamarchos |
| ??? | Bob Hymer | Smarty Pants Snake and the Chinese Button Knot | |
| September | Jo Clayton | Irsud | |
| 1979 | ??? | Jo Clayton | Maeve |
| May | Max Ehrlich | Naked Beach | |
| November | Philip José Farmer | Riverworld and Other Stories | |
| 1980 | March 1 | Robert Heinlein | The Number of the Beast |
| April | Piers Anthony | Split Infinity, first of the Adept series | |
| Philip José Farmer | The Magic Labyrinth | ||
| ??? | Jo Clayton | Star Hunters | |
| October 1 | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Slow Music | |
| October | Robyn Davidson | Tracks | |
| 1981 | ??? | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Out Of The Everywhere |
| May 1 | Piers Anthony | Blue Adept | |
| 1982 | March 1 | Piers Anthony | Juxtaposition |
| April 1 | Robert Heinlein | Friday | |
| 1983 | May 23 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Mists of Avalon |
| October 1 | Philip José Farmer | Gods of Riverworld | |
| October 3 | Lucy Irvine | Castaway | |
| 1984 | ??? | Jo Clayton | The Snares of Ibex |
| April 26 | Gillian Linscott | A Healthy Body | |
| 1985 February 1 | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Brightness Falls From The Air | |
| 1986 | February 3 | Guy Bellamy | The Nudists |
| June | Judith Moffett | Surviving | |
| July 1 | Jo Clayton | Quester's Endgame | |
| Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | The Starry Rift | ||
| October | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Our Resident Djinn | |
| 1987 October 1 | Judith Moffett | Pennterra | |
| 1988 | April | Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr) | Backward, Turn Backward |
| May | Alice Sheldon (writing as Raccoona Sheldon) | The Earth Doth Like A Snake Renew | |
| August 14 | Adam Mars-Jones | Summer Lightning | |
| ??? | Stephen Spender | The Temple | |
| 1989 | August 1 | Harry Harrison | Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves |
| August 3 | Patrick Raymond | Daniel and Esther | |
| October 1 | Ken Campbell | The Furtive Nudist | |
| November 1 | Poul Anderson | Boat of a Million Years | |
| 1991 | February 14 | Mary Scott | Nudists May Be Encountered |
| April 1 | Jennifer (James) Finney Boylan | The Planets | |
| 1992 July 1 | John Varley | Steel Beach | |
| 1993 February 25 | Helen Dunmore | Zennor In Darkness | |
| 1996 | June 1 | Earl Emerson | Going Crazy in Public |
| ??? | Eric James Miller | The Metaphysics of Nudity | |
| October 17 | Laurence Anholt and Arthur Robins | The Emperor's Underwear | |
| 1997 | March 1 | David Sedaris | Naked |
| April 3 | Geoff Dyer | Out Of Sheer Rage | |
| September 4 | Eva Ibbotson | A Song for Summer | |
| 1998 | August 1 | Nicola Barker | Wide Open |
| Harold Stephens | The Tower and the River | ||
| October 15 | Michel Houellebecq | Atomised | |
| 1999 | January 3 | John S Lloyd | Leaving Flat Iron Creek |
| September | Ellen Forney | Monkey Food | |
| November 12 | Eva Ibbotson | Monster Mission / Island of the Aunts | |
| 2000 | February 24 | Carol Shields | Dressing Down |
| March 1 | Stephen Baxter and Arthur C Clarke | The Light Of Other Days | |
| July 29 | John Elder | The Naked Hunchback | |
| 2001 | January | Manoj Das | The Naked |
| February 1 | Henry Cobbold illustrator Tim Major | Wearing a Smile | |
| February 22 | Tim Moore | Continental Drifter aka The Grand Tour | |
| August 1 | William Jack Sibley | Any Kind of Luck | |
| September 1 | Joe R Lansdale | Captains Outrageous | |
| 2002 | March 1 | Maria Eppie | Gone Wild |
| August 4 | Stephen Crowley | The Koala Bares | |
| September 16 | Reon Laudat | It's a Love Thang | |
| 2003 | January 2 | Peter Lefcourt | Eleven Karens |
| April 26 | John Doan | Life-One | |
| 2004 | March 30 | Stacy Sims | Swimming Naked |
| April 1 | Stella Gibbons | Divining Women | |
| April 9 | Nick Alimonos | The Dark Age Of Enya | |
| June 1 | Leslie Meier | Star Spangled Murder | |
| June | Stuart Ward | Body Freedom Day | |
| June 30 | Jay Dubya | Frat Brats | |
| 2005 | September 1 | Stephen Clarke | Merde Actually |
| September 20 | Byron & Kay McAllister | Undercover Nudist | |
| September 26 | Louise Lang | Nudists Die Too | |
| October | A W Palmer | The Reluctant Nudist | |
| 2006 | February 20 | Lucy Ellmann | Doctors and Nurses |
| New/Updated Year Month Day | Author | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | E. R. Punshon | Death Among the Sunbathers | |
| 1939 | Dr Seuss | The Seven Lady Godivas | |
| 1951 | William L Rohde | Murder on the Line - reprinted 1956 as High Red for Dead | |
| 1957 | Orrie Hitt | Nudist Camp | |
| 1973 | ??? | Petra Christian | The Sexploiters |
| ??? | Poul Anderson | The Merman's Children | |
| 1976 | Poul Anderson | The Winter of the World | |
| 1978 | Bob Hymer | Smarty Pants Snake and the Chinese Button Knot | |
| 1988 | Stephen Spender | The Temple | |
| 1996 | Eric James Miller | The Metaphysics of Nudity | |
| 1998 | August 1 | Harold Stephens | The Tower and the River |
| 1999 | January 3 | John S Lloyd | Leaving Flat Iron Creek |
| 2001 | February 1 | Henry Cobbold illustrator Tim Major | Wearing a Smile |
| April 26 | John Doan | Life-One | |
| 2004 | March 30 | Stacy Sims | Swimming Naked |
| June | Stuart Ward | Body Freedom Day | |
| June 30 | Jay Dubya | Frat Brats | |
| 2005 | September 1 | Stephen Clarke | Merde Actually |
| September 20 | Byron & Kay McAllister | Undercover Nudist | |
| September 26 | Louise Lang | Nudists Die Too | |
| 2006 | February 20 | Lucy Ellmann | Doctors and Nurses |
Suggestions for additional material to be included in Yarns Without Threads are most welcome, as are your own views and reviews. Please email these to me.
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