Joyce Carol Oates Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Wonderland Quartet/Garden Of Earthly Delights Books
A Garden of Earthly Delights | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Expensive People | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Them | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonderland | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Gothic Saga Books
Bellefleur | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Bloodsmoor Romance | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of Winterthurn | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Heart Laid Bare | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Accursed | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
With Shuddering Fall | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Do With Me What You Will | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Assassins: A Book of Hours | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Childwold | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cybele | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Son of the Morning | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unholy Loves | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Angel of Light | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Luxury of Sin | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Solstice | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marya: A Life | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lives of the Twins / Kindred Passions | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Must Remember This | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Appetites | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soul/Mate | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nemesis | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snake Eyes | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What I Lived For | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Can't Catch Me | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We Were the Mulvaneys | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Man Crazy | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Delight | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Broke Heart Blues | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blonde | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Barrens | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Middle-Age: A Romance | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'll Take You There | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Freaky Green Eyes | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tattooed Girl | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Falls | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Take Me, Take Me With You | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sexy | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stolen Heart | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Missing Mom / Mother, Missing | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Girl/White Girl | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Mask | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gravedigger's Daughter | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Bird of Heaven | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Sister, My Love | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fair Maiden | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mudwoman | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daddy Love | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carthage | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sacrifice | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack of Spades | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Without a Shadow | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Book of American Martyrs | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hazards of Time Travel | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Life as a Rat | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pursuit | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Sleep Death The Stars | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Breathe | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Babysitter | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Lock My Door Upon Myself | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rise of Life on Earth | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Water | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Love | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Shock | (2000) | |
Beasts | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunting | (2003) | |
Rape | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fossil-Fiigures | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spotted Hyenas | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patricide | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rescuer | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Momma | (2016) | |
Gun Accident | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crawl Space | (2016) | |
The Sign of the Beast | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
By the North Gate | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Goddess and Other Women | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Upon the Sweeping Flood, and Other Stories | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anonymous Sins and Other Poems | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cupid & Psyche | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Angel Fire: Poems | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hungry Ghosts | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fabulous Beasts | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seduction and Other Stories | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossing the Border | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night-Side | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marriages and Infidelities | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Good People I've Left Behind | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Sentimental Education | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Plays | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Perfectionist and Other Plays | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invisible Woman | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild Saturday, and Other Stories | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Days | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raven's Wing | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Assignation | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Traveler | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heat and Other Stories | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oates in Exile | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twelve Plays | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where is Here? | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Haunted | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tenderness | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon and Other Tales | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invisible Writer | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Collector of Hearts | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Plays | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faithless | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Small Avalanches and Other Stories | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Am No One You Know | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Female of the Species | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
High Lonesome | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Museum of Dr. Moses | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dear Husband | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Give Me Your Heart | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sourland | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evil Eye | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
High Crime Area | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lovely, Dark, Deep | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beautiful Days | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dis Mem Ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cardiff, by the Sea | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The (Other) You: Stories | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Melancholy: Poems | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night, Neon | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extenuating Circumstances | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
Miracle Play | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Stand Before You Naked | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Come Meet Muffin! | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where is Little Reynard? | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Naughty Chérie! | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Kitten | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Edge Of Impossibility | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hostile Sun | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Heaven New Earth | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Contraries | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Person Singular | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Profane Art | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Boxing | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Woman Writer | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Muhammad Ali: Ringside | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
George Bellows: American Artist | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Faith of a Writer | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncensored | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Widow's Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Rough Country | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gerald Slota: Story | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Landscape | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soul at the White Heat | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Akashic Drug Chronicles Books
The Cocaine Chronicles | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Marijuana Chronicles | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nicotine Chronicles | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1947 | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1956 | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1979 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1982 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1983 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1986 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1992 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1993 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1995 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1996 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1997 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2000 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2003 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2020 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2022 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dark Corners Books
Hannah-Beast | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleep Tight Motel | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miao Dao | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tangled Woods | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Remedy | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oak Avenue | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Snow White, Blood Red Anthology Books
Snow White, Blood Red | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Thorn, White Rose | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Swan, White Raven | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silver Birch, Blood Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Heart, Ivory Bones | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books
Best New Horror | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 17 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 27 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 28 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 29 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror, Volume One | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #30 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #31 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of New Fairy Tales Books
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Hot Blood Books
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hottest Blood | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly After Dark | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeds of Fear | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear the Fever | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss and Kill | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimes of Passion | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Blood X | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Attractions | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Bedfellows | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Passions | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stranger by Night | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Walks | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Web She Weaves | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Witches' Brew | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Descent | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Picador Book of the New Gothic | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Sins | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Behavior | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Telling Stories | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder for Revenge | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Irreconcilable Differences | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Opening Shots, Vol. II | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Redshift | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Future Dictionary of America | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Women | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transgressions | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detroit Noir | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hint Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boston Noir 2 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What My Mother Gave Me | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prison Noir | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drawing Lines | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Short Stories by Women | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July-August 2021 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When Things Get Dark | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Joyce Carol Oates is one of most prolific and versatile contemporary writer in the United States of America. She has produced so much work and on various subjects, but most of which focus majorly on intellectual, sexual and spiritual decline of modern America society.
Synopsis
Joyce Carol Oates, an acclaimed writer popularly known for novels such as ‘The Falls’, ‘A Garden of Earthly Delights’ and ‘them’ that won the National Book Award, was born on the 16th of June 1938, in Lockport, New York. Joyce dad, Fredrick James Oates was a tool designer, while her mum, Caroline was a homemaker or housewife of Hungarian descent. Currently aged 76 years, she is the oldest of Caroline and Frederic Oates’s three children.
Her family lived in a working-class family community on a farm in Millersport, New York owned by Caroline’s parents. She loved to read and read a lot for that matter. Even before she could learn to write, she’d started telling stories by drawing pictures. Though life was sometimes tough, her writing skills and love for literature slowly developed.
At age 15, in 1953, Joyce wrote her first and foremost novel, though the publishers rejected it on the basis that the subject matter that concerned the rehabilitation of a drug addict (restoring to a productive state) too depressing for the teenage audiences. Upon finishing her high school education, she won a scholarship to join the Syracuse University, where she further developed her writing skills.
She studied English at the university and prior to her senior year (at 19 years of age), she received an award for being a co-winner of a Mademoiselle Magazine sponsored fiction contest known as ‘college short story’. In 1960, she graduated from the university on top of her class, after which she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she received her M.A. It was here that she also met an English professor called Raymond Joseph Smith and got married in 1961.
Writing and Teaching
In 1961, after receiving her master’s degree and beginning her Ph.D. in English at Rice University, Joyce Oates came across one of her stories in Foley’s collection of Best American Short Stories. It was then that she decided to launch her writing career (become a full-time writer) and published her first book, a collection of short stories in 1963 known as By the North Gate.
Joyce Oates also lectured at the State University of Detroit from 1961 to 1967, after which she relocated to Canada with her husband to teach at Windsor University. In 1974, they established the Ontario Review publication. In 1977 after leaving Windsor University, she became a writer-in-residence and later on a professor as the Princeton University in New Jersey.
In 1964, Joyce Oates’s published her foremost novel, ‘With Shuddering Fall’, at the age of 26 that showed her interest in violence and evil in the romantic story between a 30 year old stock car driver and a teenage girl, which ends tragically with an accident that claims his life. Joyce’s best-recognized early novels form a three-volume work or trilogy in simple terms, exploring three different sections of the American society. The foremost, ‘A Garden of Earthly Delights’ published in 1967, narrates the story of a migrant worker daughter who marries a rich farmer so as to provide for her son born out of wedlock. The woman’s life is, however, destroyed when the child kills his step-father and then commits suicide.
Oates’s second novel ‘In Expensive People’ was published in 1967. It exposes the lives of people living in the outskirts whose concern on material comforts shows the vacuum of their lives. The last volume, ‘them’, a fiction book was published in 1969 and won the National Book Award. It describes the suffering and violence suffering endured by 3 generations of an urban-dwelling family located in Detroit, Michigan. Joyce’s experiences as a lecturer in Detroit in the early 1960s added to her understanding of the city and her social issues.
Joyce Oates’s 1970s novels explore characters involved in a number of American professional as well as cultural institutions whilst adding tragic features. ‘Wonderland’, published in 1971 narrates a story of a brilliant doctor who’s unable to establish a fulfilling home life. On the other hand, ‘Do With Me What You Will’ published in 1973 narrates a young attorney life honored by his friends for his dedication to social work. Oates’s The Assassins: A Book of Hours published in 1975 focuses on the impacts of the assassination of a prominent politician on his two brothers and more so, the wife. ‘Son of the Morning’, published in 1978 narrates the rise & fall of a minister whose faith is tested and strengthened by a number of happenings in his life. Lastly, ‘Unholy Loves’ published in 1979 focuses on the lives of some teachers at a small college in New York.
In the early 1980s, Joyce Oates published a number of novels based on publications by nineteenth-century authors. The foremost was ‘A Bloodsmoor Romance’ published in 1982. It’s a story of 5 maiden sisters who lived in Pennsylvania State in the late 1800s. The novel was influenced by Charlotte Bronte 1816 to 1855 writings and Emily Brontë 1818 to1848 writings. In ‘The Mysteries of Winterthur’ published in 1984, Joyce borrowed heavily from Edgar Allan Poe 1809 to 1849 works. While several critics dismissed these publications, others, citing Joyce Oates’s proficient description of evil, upheld that they were major achievements in literature.
Other publications
Throughout her writing career, Joyce has distributed her energies amongst various projects simultaneously. Her ‘On Boxing’, book-length essay published in 1987 resulted in more than one appearance mentioning on a televised boxing bout. Almost simultaneously, she submitted a mystery novel under a pseudonym to a publisher and had the delight of having it accepted. She published the work ‘Lives of the Twins’ under the title Rosamond Smith her reasons being she wanted a fresh reading and to escape from her own identity. Although she used the pseudonym repeatedly on numerous other books, she went back to using her original name on her ‘My Heart Laid Bare’ publication, wherein she explores morality during the 1920s.
Other forms of Oates’s works also address human’s darker sides. Most critics feel her short fiction, for which she’s received the O. Henry Special Award twice for Continuing Achievement, best show her main themes. Collections such as the 1974 publication ‘By the North Gate; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America’; 1980 publication ‘The Lamb of Abyssalia)’; and the 1986 publication ‘Raven’s Wing’ has pieces that emphasis on abusive and violent relationships between men & women.
Later Publications
Some of Oates’s later publications include the 1990 ‘Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart’ where she returns to her familiar themes of violence and race, the 1992 ‘Black Water’, an narration of a catastrophic encounter between a young woman and a powerful U.S. senator at a party, and the 1993 ‘Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang’, which narrates the destructive doings of a gang of teenage girls, as well as several published and produced plays in the 1990s.
Oates published her twenty-ninth novel in 1999 called ‘Broke Heart Blues’. Her other publications included ‘Blonde’ (2000), based on Marilyn Monroe (an actress) life. It was a National Book Award finalist for fiction. Also published include ‘Getting to Know You’ (June 2000), and released a film based on her ‘Heat’ short story collection of 1992. In 2000, she published ‘Beast’ a novella and ‘Middle Age: A Romance’, a novel, which were her edited version of ‘The Best American Essays of the Century’ collection’.
Raymond Smith, Joyce Oates’s husband died in 2008 of pneumonia complications. She reflected on the time they spent together, his death as well as the aftermath in ‘A Widow’s Story’, her 2011 memoir.
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