Books by Joyce Carol Oates
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The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares
Seven "masterfully told" stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award-winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her... See More
Expensive People
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the... See More
I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories
I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous... See More
Double Delight
An upstanding juror becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive plaintiff in this "fast-paced, haunting" novel by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Boston Sunday Herald). Terence Greene is admired for his perfect... See More
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician... See More
Patricide: A Novella (Kindle Single)
Roland Marks is a Nobel Prize winning novelist with a penchant for younger women and four marriages behind him. Lou-Lou Marks, his grown daughter, is a successful academic in her own right. But her real career lies in... See More
Beautiful Days: Stories
A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien" The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most... See More
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest... See More
Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories... See More
Mystery, Inc. (Bibliomysteries)
A book lover's lust for acquisition drives him to murder in this short tale from the New York Times-bestselling author of Beautiful Days. Identified only by the hastily -- and clumsily -- chosen alias Charles Brockden, the... See More
Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
"A quartet of shrewd and unnerving novellas about toxic entanglements" from the National Book Award-winning author (Booklist). Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation, and she is fearless... See More
Pursuit: A Novel of Suspense
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, "a compelling domestic horror story" of a new bride haunted by childhood nightmares (Kirkus Reviews). Less than twenty-four hours after exchanging vows with her new husband... See More
Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning "grand mistress of ghoulishness" (Publishers Weekly). An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after... See More
Marya: A Life
A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand and overcome the... See More
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long... See More
American Appetites
Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates -- a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the... See More
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary... See More
The Tattooed Girl: A Novel
Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous... See More
Dis Mem Ber: And Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
In this disturbing short story collection, Joyce Carol Oates explores the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women. Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners"... See More
Night-Gaunts: and Other Tales of Suspense
Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: "Oates' spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute."?Booklist In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce... See More
Triumph of the Spider Monkey (Hard Case Crime)
New York Times-bestselling author Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal crime novel of madness and murder is a powerful trip into the mind of a maniac -- and features a never-before-seen companion novella. "Oates'... See More
Dear Husband: Stories
"[Oates] has once again held a haunting mirror up to America, revealing who we are." -- Boston Globe The inimitable Joyce Carol Oates returns with Dear Husband -- a gripping and moving story collection that powerfully... See More
The Doll-Master: And Other Tales of Terror
This Bram Stoker Award-winning collection is "certain to stick in your mind long after you've turned the last page" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Includes "Big Momma," a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award... See More
Bookshop Mysteries: Five Bibliomysteries by Bestselling Authors
Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology... See More
Miao Dao (Dark Corners collection)
A girl comes of age with a vengeance -- and help from a friend -- in a tale of unnerving suspense from National Book Award winner and literary master Joyce Carol Oates. Bad things have been happening since Mia began to... See More
My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale -- inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery. "Dysfunctional families... See More
Carthage: A Novel
New York Times Bestselling Author A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war, the latest from literary legend Joyce Carol... See More