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Literary Fiction
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the... See More
Literary Fiction
In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and... See More
Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her "mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness" (Kirkus Reviews). Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Oates' American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country... Martyrs is a graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different... See More
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
Politics & Social Sciences
Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history -- from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the... See More
A "sinister, edgy, delectably creepy" story of mistaken identity, murder, and madness from a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Tristram Heade is a reclusive, repressed Virginia bachelor and... See More
Thrillers
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
Short Stories
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
Short 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
Literature & Fiction
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate... See More
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that... See More
Contemporary Fiction
"A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters." -- Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book... See More
Literature & Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series. Edgar Allan... See More
Literary Fiction
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce... See More
Literature & Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of... See More
Thrillers
Family Life
From one of America's most renowned storytellers -- the bestselling author of Blonde -- comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backdrop of shocking murders in the affluent suburbs of... See More
Horror
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
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
A New Jersey family takes an ex-con into their suburban home in this "chilling, nightmarish" novel by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Attorney Michael O'Meara's dogged belief that Lee Roy... See More
Horror
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
New York Times Bestselling Author Finally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence... See More
Literary Fiction
"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black... See More
Mystery
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
Crime Fiction
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous... See More
Short Stories
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us... See More
Short Stories
"A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America's premier authors." -- Kirkus Reviews In Rough Country is a sterling collection of essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that... See More
Crime Fiction
A female serial killer reconnects with her twin sister in this novel by an acclaimed National Book Award winner and "first-rate thriller writer" (The New York Times Book Review). Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife... See More
United States
"A sobering experience... The power of this collection comes from the voices of these authors, voices suffused with rage, despair, and madness." -- The New York Times Book Review This anthology, with stories set in... See More
Mystery
Twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from "America's preeminent fiction writer" (New Yorker) Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and... See More