Joyce Carol Oates bibliography

List of the published work of Joyce Carol Oates, American writer.



Novels

 * With Shuddering Fall (1964)
 * A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
 * Expensive People (1968)
 * Them (1969)
 * Wonderland (1971)
 * Do With Me What You Will (1973)
 * The Assassins (1975)
 * Childwold (1976)
 * Son of the Morning (1978)
 * Cybele (1979)
 * Unholy Loves (1979)
 * Bellefleur (1980)
 * Angel of Light (1981)
 * A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
 * Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
 * Solstice (1985)
 * Marya: A Life (1986)
 * You Must Remember This (1987)
 * American Appetites (1989)
 * Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
 * Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) (the basis for the 1996 film Foxfire)
 * What I Lived For (1994)
 * Zombie (1995)
 * We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
 * Man Crazy (1997)
 * My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
 * Broke Heart Blues (1999)
 * Blonde (2000)
 * Middle Age: A Romance (2001)
 * I'll Take You There (2002)
 * The Tattooed Girl (2003)
 * The Falls (2004)
 * Missing Mom (2005)
 * Black Girl / White Girl (2006)
 * The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)
 * My Sister, My Love (2008)
 * Little Bird of Heaven (2009)
 * Mudwoman (2012)
 * Daddy Love (2013)
 * The Accursed (2013)
 * Carthage (2014)
 * The Sacrifice (2015)
 * Jack of Spades (2015)
 * The Man Without a Shadow (2016)
 * A Book of American Martyrs (2017)
 * Hazards of Time Travel (2018)
 * My Life as a Rat (2019)
 * Pursuit (2019)
 * Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020)
 * Breathe (2021)
 * Babysitter (2022)
 * 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (2023)
 * Butcher (2024)

As Rosamond Smith

 * Lives of the Twins (1987) (U.K. title: Kindred Passions)
 * Soul/Mate (1989)
 * Nemesis (1990)
 * Snake Eyes (1992)
 * You Can't Catch Me (1995)
 * Double Delight (1997)
 * Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)
 * The Barrens (2001)

As Lauren Kelly

 * Take Me, Take Me With You (2004)
 * The Stolen Heart (2005)
 * Blood Mask (2006)

Collections

 * By the North Gate (1963)
 * Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966)
 * The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970)
 * Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
 * The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
 * The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)
 * Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974)
 * The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975)
 * The Seduction and Other Stories (1975)
 * Crossing the Border (1976)
 * Night-Side (1977)
 * All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979)
 * A Sentimental Education (1980)
 * Last Days: Stories (1984)
 * Wild Saturday (1984)
 * Raven's Wing (1986)
 * The Assignation (1988)
 * Oates in Exile (1990)
 * Heat and Other Stories (1991)
 * Where Is Here? (1992)
 * Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993)
 * Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
 * Demon and Other Tales (1996)
 * Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996)
 * The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998)
 * Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)
 * I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004)
 * The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2006)
 * High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (2006)
 * The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007)
 * Wild Nights! (2008)
 * Dear Husband (2009)
 * Sourland: Stories (2010)
 * Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011)
 * The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011)
 * Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
 * Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013)
 * High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014)
 * Lovely, Dark, Deep (2014)
 * The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016)
 * DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017)
 * Beautiful Days (2018)
 * Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense (2018)
 * The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021)
 * The (Other) You (2021)
 * Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2021)
 * Extenuating Circumstances (2022)
 * Zero-Sum: Stories (2023)
 * Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024)

Novellas

 * The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
 * I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
 * The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)
 * Black Water (1992)
 * First Love: A Gothic Tale (Illustrated by Barry Moser) (1996)
 * Beasts (2002)
 * Rape: A Love Story (2003)
 * The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
 * A Fair Maiden (2010)
 * Patricide (2012)
 * The Rescuer (2012)
 * Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense (2020)

Young adult fiction

 * Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002)
 * Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003)
 * Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
 * Sexy (2005)
 * After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)
 * Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (2012)

Children's fiction

 * Come Meet Muffin! (1998)
 * Where Is Little Reynard? (2003)
 * Naughty Chérie! (2008)
 * The New Kitten (2019)

Drama

 * Miracle Play (1974)
 * Three Plays (1980)
 * Tone Clusters (1990)
 * In Darkest America (1991)
 * I Stand Before You Naked (1991)
 * Twelve Plays (1991) (including Black)
 * The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995)
 * New Plays (1998)
 * Dr. Magic: Six One Act Plays (2004)
 * Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906: Two One Act Plays (2009)

Essays and memoirs

 * The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence (1973)
 * New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde’s Parable of the Fall (1980)
 * Contraries: Essays (1981)
 * The Profane Art: Essays & Reviews (1983)
 * On Boxing (with photographs by John Ranard) (1987, revised edition 2006)
 * (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)
 * George Bellows: American Artist (1995)
 * They Just Went Away (1995)
 * Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999)
 * "A Fragmented Diary in a Fragmented Time" (2003) published in Narrative Magazine
 * The Faith of A Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003)
 * Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (2005)
 * The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007)
 * In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters (2009)
 * In Rough Country (2010)
 * A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011)
 * Joyce Carol Oates creates Evangeline Fife, who interviews Robert Frost: Lovely, Dark, Deep (2013) published in "Dead Interviews"
 * The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age (2015)
 * "Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time" (2015) published in Narrative Magazine
 * "The Lost Sister: An Elegy" (2015) published in Narrative Magazine
 * Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life (2016)
 * "The Lost Sister: An Elegy" (2015) published in Narrative Magazine
 * Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life (2016)

Collections

 * Women in Love and Other Poems (1968)
 * Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969)
 * Love and Its Derangements (1970)
 * Angel Fire (1973)
 * Dreaming America (1973)
 * The Fabulous Beasts (1975)
 * Season of Peril (1977)
 * Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978)
 * Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970–1982 (1982)
 * The Time Traveler (1989)
 * Tenderness (1996)
 * American Melancholy: Poems (2021)