Joyce Carol Oates bibliography

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

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Oates at the Miami Book Fair International 2014

## Novels[edit]

* 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)[1]
* Daddy Love (2013)
* The Accursed (2013)
* Carthage (2014)
* The Sacrifice (2015)
* Jack of Spades (2015)
* The Man Without a Shadow (2016)[2]
* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

## Short fiction[edit]

### Collections[edit]

* 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 Mistery 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)

### Novellas[edit]

* 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)

### Uncollected short stories[edit]

Title  | Year  | First published  | Reprinted/collected  | Notes

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In shock  | 2000  | "In shock". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 98 (6): 88–118. Jun 2000. |
Commencement  | 2001  | "Commencement". Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction. 2001. | Ellen Datlow (ed.). Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories. Dark Horse Books. 2009. |
Between Us There's a Secret  | 2004  | "Between Us There's a Secret". Narrative Magazine (Fall 2004). 2004. |
Gargoyle  | 2008  | "Gargoyal". Narrative Magazine (Stories of the Week: 2008–2009). 2008. |
Mudgirl saved by the King of Crows. April 1965  | 2011  | "Mudgirl saved by the King of Crows. April 1965" (PDF). Boulevard. 26 (3): 1–12. Spring 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2015-02-20. | Bill Henderson, ed. (2013). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 139–150. |
The White Cat  | 2011  | "The White Cat". Narrative Magazine (Winter 2011). 2011. |
Wanting  | 2018  | "Wanting". Narrative Magazine (Winter 2018). 2018. |

## Young adult fiction[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

## Drama[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Oates, Joyce Carol (1972). The edge of impossibility: tragic forms in literature. New York: Vanguard Press. ISBN 9780814906750.
* 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 John Ranard, photographer) (1987)
* (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" [3]
* -- (June 10–17, 2013). "After Black Rock". True Crimes. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 17\. pp. 96–97.
* 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)

## Poetry[edit]

### Collections[edit]

* 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)

### List of poems[edit]

Title  | Year  | First published  | Reprinted/collected

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Too young to marry but not too young to die | 2013  | Oates, Joyce Carol (August 5, 2013). "Too young to marry but not too young to die". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 23\. pp. 56–57. |

## Book reviews[edit]

Date  | Review article  | Work(s) reviewed

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2015  | Oates, Joyce Carol (February 16, 2015). "You will get yours : a novel of rage and revenge in the N.Y.P.D." The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 1\. pp. 72–73. | Brandt, Harry (2015). The Whites. Holt.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Oates, Joyce Carol. Mudwoman (retailer display). ISBN 0062095625.
2. ^ Hudelson, Emma Faesi (September 16, 2015). "Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates". Nuvo.
3. ^ Dan Crowe, ed. (2013). Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons. Granta, London. p. 155-200. ISBN 978-1-84708-827-7.

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Works by Joyce Carol Oates

The Wonderland Quartet|

* A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
* Expensive People (1968)
* Them (1969)
* Wonderland (1971)

The Gothic Saga|

* Bellefleur (1980)
* A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
* Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
* My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
* The Accursed (2013)

Other novels|

* With Shuddering Fall (1964)
* Do with Me What You Will (1973)
* The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
* Childwold (1976)
* Son of the Morning (1978)
* Cybele (1979)
* Unholy Loves (1979)
* Angel of Light (1981)
* 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)
* What I Lived For (1994)
* Zombie (1995)
* We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
* Man Crazy (1997)
* 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)
* The Sacrifice (2015)
* Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020)

Novellas|

* Black Water (1992)
* First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
* Beasts (2001)
* The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
* A Fair Maiden (2010)

Short story 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 Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975)
* Crossing the Border (1976)
* Night-Side (1977)
* All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979)
* The Assignation (1988)
* Demon and Other Tales (1996)
* I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004)
* 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)
* The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011)
* The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016)

Short stories|

* "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1963)
* "Stalking" (1972)
* "The Temple" (1996)

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)

## External links[edit]

* The Glass Ark: A Joyce Carol Oates Bibliography (Official Web Site)

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