Joyce Carol Oates Books in Order
Explore the Joyce Carol Oates books in order, with quick summaries, recurring themes, and simple starting points for Joyce Carol Oates's sprawling body of work.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
174 books
By the North Gate
by Joyce Carol Oates
1963
With Shuddering Fall
by Joyce Carol Oates
1964
The Goddess and Other Women
by Joyce Carol Oates
1966
Upon the Sweeping Flood
by Joyce Carol Oates
1966
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
by Joyce Carol Oates
1966
A Garden of Earthly Delights
by Joyce Carol Oates
1967
Expensive People
by Joyce Carol Oates
1968
Anonymous Sins and Other Poems
by Joyce Carol Oates
1969
Them
by Joyce Carol Oates
1969
Cupid & Psyche
by Joyce Carol Oates
1970
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
1970
Wonderland
by Joyce Carol Oates
1971
The Edge Of Impossibility
by Joyce Carol Oates
1972
Angel Fire
by Joyce Carol Oates
1973
Do With Me What You Will
by Joyce Carol Oates
1973
Hostile Sun
by Joyce Carol Oates
1973
Scenes From American Life
by Joyce Carol Oates
1973
Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems
by Joyce Carol Oates
1974
Miracle Play
by Joyce Carol Oates
1974
New Heaven New Earth
by Joyce Carol Oates
1974
The Hungry Ghosts
by Joyce Carol Oates
1974
The Assassins
by Joyce Carol Oates
1975
The Fabulous Beasts
by Joyce Carol Oates
1975
The Poisoned Kiss
by Joyce Carol Oates
1975
The Seduction
by Joyce Carol Oates
1975
Childwold
by Joyce Carol Oates
1976
Crossing the Border
by Joyce Carol Oates
1976
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
by Joyce Carol Oates
1976
Night-Side
by Joyce Carol Oates
1977
Cybele
by Joyce Carol Oates
1978
Marriages and Infidelities
by Joyce Carol Oates
1978
Son of the Morning
by Joyce Carol Oates
1978
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money
by Joyce Carol Oates
1978
All the Good People I've Left Behind
by Joyce Carol Oates
1979
Unholy Loves
by Joyce Carol Oates
1979
A Sentimental Education
by Joyce Carol Oates
1980
Bellefleur
by Joyce Carol Oates
1980
Three Plays
by Joyce Carol Oates
1980
Angel of Light
by Joyce Carol Oates
1981
Contraries
by Joyce Carol Oates
1981
The Perfectionist
by Joyce Carol Oates
1981
A Bloodsmoor Romance
by Joyce Carol Oates
1982
Invisible Woman
by Joyce Carol Oates
1982
First Person Singular
by Joyce Carol Oates
1984
Last Days
by Joyce Carol Oates
1984
Luxury of Sin
by Joyce Carol Oates
1984
Mysteries of Winterthurn
by Joyce Carol Oates
1984
Wild Saturday
by Joyce Carol Oates
1984
Solstice
by Joyce Carol Oates
1985
The Profane Art
by Joyce Carol Oates
1985
Marya
by Joyce Carol Oates
1986
Raven's Wing
by Joyce Carol Oates
1986
Lives of the Twins
by Joyce Carol Oates
1987
On Boxing
by Joyce Carol Oates
1987
You Must Remember This
by Joyce Carol Oates
1987
The Assignation
by Joyce Carol Oates
1988
Woman Writer
by Joyce Carol Oates
1988
American Appetites
by Joyce Carol Oates
1989
Time Traveler
by Joyce Carol Oates
1989
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
by Joyce Carol Oates
1990
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
by Joyce Carol Oates
1990
Nemesis
by Joyce Carol Oates
1990
Soul Mate
by Joyce Carol Oates
1990
Heat
by Joyce Carol Oates
1991
I Stand Before You Naked
by Joyce Carol Oates
1991
Oates in Exile
by Joyce Carol Oates
1991
The Rise of Life on Earth
by Joyce Carol Oates
1991
Twelve Plays
by Joyce Carol Oates
1991
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates
1992
Snake Eyes
by Joyce Carol Oates
1992
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
1992
Where is Here?
by Joyce Carol Oates
1992
Foxfire
by Joyce Carol Oates
1993
Haunted
by Joyce Carol Oates
1994
What I Lived For
by Joyce Carol Oates
1994
The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career
by Joyce Carol Oates
1995
You Can't Catch Me
by Joyce Carol Oates
1995
Zombie
by Joyce Carol Oates
1995
Demon
by Joyce Carol Oates
1996
First Love
by Joyce Carol Oates
1996
Tenderness
by Joyce Carol Oates
1996
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
1996
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Will You Always Love Me?
by Joyce Carol Oates
1996
Double Delight
by Joyce Carol Oates
1997
Man Crazy
by Joyce Carol Oates
1997
Telling Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
1997
Come Meet Muffin!
by Joyce Carol Oates
1998
My Heart Laid Bare
by Joyce Carol Oates
1998
New Plays
by Joyce Carol Oates
1998
The Collector of Hearts
by Joyce Carol Oates
1998
Broke Heart Blues
by Joyce Carol Oates
1999
Muhammad Ali
by Norman Mailer
1999
A large-format portrait of Muhammad Ali in and out of the ring, pairing Mailer's commentary with photographs. It tries to catch Ali's charisma, theatrical intelligence, and larger-than-life presence before he hardens into pure legend.
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon
by Joyce Carol Oates
1999
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going
by Joyce Carol Oates
1999
Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
2000
George Bellows
by Joyce Carol Oates
2000
Beasts
by Joyce Carol Oates
2001
Faithless
by Joyce Carol Oates
2001
Middle-Age
by Joyce Carol Oates
2001
The Barrens
by Joyce Carol Oates
2001
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
by Joyce Carol Oates
2002
I'll Take You There
by Joyce Carol Oates
2002
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates
by Joyce Carol Oates
2002
Freaky Green Eyes
by Joyce Carol Oates
2003
Rape
by Joyce Carol Oates
2003
Small Avalanches and Other Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
2003
The Faith of a Writer
by Joyce Carol Oates
2003
The Tattooed Girl
by Joyce Carol Oates
2003
Where is Little Reynard?
by Joyce Carol Oates
2003
I Am No One You Know
by Joyce Carol Oates
2004
Take Me, Take Me With You
by Joyce Carol Oates
2004
The Falls
by Joyce Carol Oates
2004
Missing Mom
by Joyce Carol Oates
2005
Sexy
by Joyce Carol Oates
2005
The Female of the Species
by Joyce Carol Oates
2005
The Stolen Heart
by Joyce Carol Oates
2005
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Uncensored
by Joyce Carol Oates
2005
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
by Joyce Carol Oates
2006
Black Girl/White Girl
by Joyce Carol Oates
2006
Blood Mask
by Joyce Carol Oates
2006
High Lonesome
by Joyce Carol Oates
2006
A Widow's Story
by Joyce Carol Oates
2007
Little Bird of Heaven
by Joyce Carol Oates
2007
The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates
2007
The Museum of Dr. Moses
by Joyce Carol Oates
2007
My Sister, My Love
by Joyce Carol Oates
2008
Naughty Chérie!
by Joyce Carol Oates
2008
Wild Nights!
by Joyce Carol Oates
2008
Dear Husband
by Joyce Carol Oates
2009
A Fair Maiden
by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
Give Me Your Heart
by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
In Rough Country
by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
Sourland
by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
Spotted Hyenas
by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
Black Dahlia & White Rose
by Joyce Carol Oates
2011
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
by Joyce Carol Oates
2011
Gerald Slota
by Joyce Carol Oates
2012
Mudwoman
by Joyce Carol Oates
2012
Patricide
by Joyce Carol Oates
2012
The Rescuer
by Joyce Carol Oates
2012
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
by Joyce Carol Oates
2012
Daddy Love
by Joyce Carol Oates
2013
Evil Eye
by Joyce Carol Oates
2013
The Accursed
by Joyce Carol Oates
2013
Carthage
by Joyce Carol Oates
2014
High Crime Area
by Joyce Carol Oates
2014
Lovely, Dark, Deep
by Joyce Carol Oates
2014
Jack of Spades
by Joyce Carol Oates
2015
Mystery, Inc.
by Various
2015
The Lost Landscape
by Joyce Carol Oates
2015
The Sacrifice
by Joyce Carol Oates
2015
Soul at the White Heat
by Joyce Carol Oates
2016
The Doll-Master
by Joyce Carol Oates
2016
The Man Without a Shadow
by Joyce Carol Oates
2016
A Book of American Martyrs
by Joyce Carol Oates
2017
The Sign of the Beast
by Joyce Carol Oates
2017
Beautiful Days
by Joyce Carol Oates
2018
Dis Mem Ber
by Joyce Carol Oates
2018
Hazards of Time Travel
by Joyce Carol Oates
2018
Night-Gaunts
by Joyce Carol Oates
2018
Cutting Edge
by Joyce Carol Oates
2019
My Life as a Rat
by Joyce Carol Oates
2019
The New Kitten
by Joyce Carol Oates
2019
The Pursuit
by Joyce Carol Oates
2019
Cardiff, by the Sea
by Joyce Carol Oates
2020
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
by Joyce Carol Oates
2020
American Melancholy
by Joyce Carol Oates
2021
Breathe
by Joyce Carol Oates
2021
Drawing Lines
by Joyce Carol Oates
2021
Night, Neon
by Joyce Carol Oates
2021
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The (Other) You
by Joyce Carol Oates
2021
When Things Get Dark
by Joyce Carol Oates
2021
Babysitter
by Joyce Carol Oates
2022
Extenuating Circumstances
by Joyce Carol Oates
2022
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