Joan Didion bibliography

This is a list of works by and on American author Joan Didion.

Fiction

 * Run, River (1963) ISBN 978-0679752509
 * Play It as It Lays (1970) ISBN 978-0374529949
 * A Book of Common Prayer (1977) ISBN 978-0679754862
 * Democracy (1984) ISBN 978-0679754855
 * The Last Thing He Wanted (1996) ISBN 978-0679752851

Nonfiction

 * Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) ISBN 978-0374531386
 * The White Album (1979) ISBN 978-0374532079
 * Salvador (1983) ISBN 978-0679751830
 * Miami (1987) ISBN 978-0679781806
 * After Henry (1992) ISBN 978-0679745396
 * Political Fictions (2001) ISBN 978-0375718908
 * Where I Was From (2003) ISBN 978-0679752868
 * Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; essay first published in the January 16, 2003 issue of The New York Review of Books) ISBN 978-1590170731
 * The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) ISBN 978-1400078431
 * Blue Nights (2011) ISBN 978-0307267672
 * South and West: From a Notebook (2017) ISBN 978-1524732790
 * Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021) ISBN 978-0593312193

Anthologies

 * Vintage Didion (2004; includes excerpts from previous nonfiction works) ISBN 978-1400033935
 * Live and Learn (2005; includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album and After Henry) ISBN 978-0007204380
 * We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes Didion's first seven volumes of nonfiction) ISBN 978-0307264879
 * I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction (2025 [upcoming]; includes Didion's last four books) ISBN 978-0593992210

Library of America collection

 * Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (2019; edited by David L. Ulin) ISBN 978-1598536454
 * Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (2021; edited by David L. Ulin) ISBN 978-1598536836
 * Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (2024 [upcoming]; edited by David L. Ulin) ISBN 978-1598537871

Uncollected essays and articles
Below are essays and articles by Didion that have not been published in book form to date.


 * (Review of Falconer by John Cheever)
 * (Review of Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick)
 * (Review of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (Review of Falconer by John Cheever)
 * (Review of Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick)
 * (Review of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (Review of Falconer by John Cheever)
 * (Review of Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick)
 * (Review of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (Review of Falconer by John Cheever)
 * (Review of Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick)
 * (Review of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (Review of Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick)
 * (Review of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
 * (With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)

Screenplays and plays

 * The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (with husband John Gregory Dunne and based on the novel by James Mills)
 * Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel)
 * A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne)
 * True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel of the same name)
 * Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne)
 * The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (a stage play based on her book) ISBN 978-0307386410

Biographies of and memoirs about Didion
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