Robert Byrne's Works

The Works of Robert Byrne

Memories of a Non-Jewish Childhood: Lyle Stuart, 1970.
Growing up Catholic in Iowa. Reissued in paperback in 1981 as Once a Catholic (Pinnacle Books).
The Tunnel: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Terrorists blow up the English Channel Tunnel.
The Dam: Atheneum, 1981.
The nation's highest dam suffers a catastrophic failure.
Always a Catholic: Pinnacle Books, 1981.
Further adolescent adventures in Iowa.
Skyscraper: Atheneum, 1984.
A 66-story skyscraper in Manhattan tips over.
Mannequin: Atheneum, 1988.
A runaway train loaded with nerve gas heads for San Francisco.
Thrill: Carroll & Graf, 1995.
A roller coaster is sabotaged.
(NBC Monday Night Movie, May 1996.)

The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Atheneum, 1982.
Sharp quotes, mostly funny.
The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Atheneum, 1984.
More zingers.
The Third And Possibly The Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Atheneum, 1986.
The 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Fawcett, 1988.
The first three collections in one.
The Fourth and by Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Atheneum, 1990.
The Fifth and Far Finer Than the First Four 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Fawcett, 1993.
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: Galahad, 1996.
The first four collections in one.

McGoorty: The Story of a Billiard Bum: Lyle Stuart, 1972, Citadel, 1984.
Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards: Harcourt, 1978.
300,000 copies sold.
Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards: Harcourt, 1982.
300 diagrams.
Byrne's Advanced Technique in Pool and Billiards: Harcourt, 1990.
Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories: Harcourt, 1995.
Thirty stories from Tolstoy to Tevis.
Byrne's Wonderful World of Pool and Billiards: Harcourt, 1996.
Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards: Harcourt, 1998.
An expanded edition of the 1978 work, with indexes, references, and four new chapters.

Byrne's Standard Video of Pool, vol. I and II: Premiere Home Video, 1987, 1988.
Two one-hour videos on how to play, filmed on a Hollywood sound stage with a crew of fifteen.
Byrne's Standard Video of Trick Shots, vol. III and IV: Premiere Home Video.
Two 50-minute videos explaining eighty trick shots not requiring extraordinary skill.
Power Pool Workout, vol. V.: Premiere Home Video, 1996.
Practice methods for serious players.
Rack 'em Up: Premiere Home Video, 1996.
Rules and fundamentals with a tour of the billiard world.
The Best of Three-Cushion, vol. I and II: Accu-Stats Video Productions, 1995, 1997.
Highlights of four world three-cushion tournaments, narrated by Byrne and guests.

Writing Rackets: Lyle Stuart, 1969.
Frauds who prey on would-be writers.
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary: (Editor), by Josefa Heifetz, Citadel, 1976, Birch Lane, 1995.
The 6,000 weirdest words in the English langauge bluntly defined.
Cat Scan: (With Teressa Skelton) Atheneum, 1983.
The cream of writing about cats.
Every Day is Father's Day: (with Teressa Skelton) Atheneum, 1989.
Great writing about fathers.