Order of Joyce Carol Oates Books
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author, poet, playwright, essayist and editor. She is the author of the Gothic Saga. Oates has won the O. Henry Award (twice), the M.L. Rosenthal Award, National Book Award for Fiction, Brad Stock Award (twice), Chicago Tribute Literary Prize, Norman Mailer Lifetime Achievement Prize, Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement and the National Humanities Medal. She has also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. As of this writing, Oates has been teaching writing at Princeton University since 1978, but intends on retiring in July 2015. Joyce was married to editor and publisher Raymond J. Smith for 47 years. She is now married to Charles Gross.
Joyce Carol Oates became a published author with the short story collection By the North Gate. She published her first novel the following year, which was entitled With Shuddering Fall. Below is a list of Joyce Carol Oates’ books in order of when they were originally published:
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Publication Order of Wonderland Quartet/Garden Of Earthly Delights Books
| A Garden of Earthly Delights | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Expensive People | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Them | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wonderland | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Gothic Saga Books
| Bellefleur | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Heart Laid Bare | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Accursed | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
(with Lawrence Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer)
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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| Miracle Play | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Key & Tone Clusters: Two Short Plays | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I Stand Before You Naked | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Come Meet Muffin! | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Where is Little Reynard? | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Naughty Chérie! | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Kitten | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Publication Order of Akashic Drug Chronicles Books
| The Cocaine Chronicles | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Speed Chronicles | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Heroin Chronicles | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Marijuana Chronicles | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Nicotine Chronicles | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Dark Corners Books
| Hannah-Beast | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Sleep Tight Motel | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Miao Dao | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Tangled Woods | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Remedy | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Oak Avenue | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Selected Shorts Books
| For Better and for Worse | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Even More Laughs | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Timeless Classics | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Falling in Love | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Food Fictions | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Travel Tales | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Edith Wharton | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pets! | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tales of Betrayal | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Family Matters | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Are We There Yet? | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Touch of Magic | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The William Hurt Collection | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Whodunit? | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| American Classics | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New American Stories | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Poe! | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Literary Conversations Books
| Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Graham Greene | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Walker Percy | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with William Styron | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Malcolm Cowley | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Lillian Hellman | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Tennessee Williams | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ernest Hemingway | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Truman Capote: Conversations | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Flannery O'Connor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Peter Taylor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Arthur Miller | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Edward Albee | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Erskine Caldwell | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Norman Mailer | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Graves | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Shelby Foote | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robertson Davies | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with James Baldwin | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with John Gardner | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Wilbur | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Tom Wolfe | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Raymond Carver | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Eugene O'Neill | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Reynolds Price | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Bernard Malamud | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Nikki Giovanni | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With Thornton Wilder | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Coles | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Conversations with Walker Percy | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Wright | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Paul Bowles | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Amiri Baraka | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Toni Morrison | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Saul Bellow | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Henry Miller | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ernest Gaines | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ralph Ellison | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chester Himes | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Susan Sontag | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ishmael Reed | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Derek Walcott | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Pauline Kael | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with V. S. Naipaul | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with N. Scott Momaday | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chinua Achebe | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Denise Levertov | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With William Faulkner | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with E. L. Doctorow | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With John Fowles | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Salman Rushdie | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with William S. Burroughs | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chaim Potok | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Ford | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Christopher Isherwood | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Mary Gordon | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Jim Harrison | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Clarence Major | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Margaret Walker | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Erica Jong | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Elie Wiesel: Conversations | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Joseph Brodsky: Conversations | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Rita Dove | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gloria Naylor | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Audre Lorde | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ray Bradbury | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With John le Carré | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Isaac Asimov | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Don DeLillo | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gore Vidal | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Penn Warren | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Jack Kerouac | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Thomas McGuane | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Larry Brown | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Sonia Sanchez | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Wendell Berry | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Leon Forrest | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Art of the Story Books
| A Sportsman's Notebook | (1852) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The General Zapped an Angel | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Essential Tales of Chekhov | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Garden Party and Other Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Wild Nights! | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Continent | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tunneling to the Center of the Earth | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Monstress | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Baby | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Vanishing Princess | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| We Are Taking Only What We Need | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Catastrophe and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Hue and Cry | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Hurly Burly and Other Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Winnie the Pooh Books
| Winnie the Pooh's Valentine | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh! | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pooh's Mailbox | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pooh's Wishing Star | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Family of Tiggers | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Disney's Winnie the Pooh Balloon Book | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Hundred-Acre-Wood Treasury | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Winnie the Pooh Surprise Tails | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Party in the Wood | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sweet Dreams, Roo | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pooh's Easter Basket | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pooh's Honey Trouble | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Gift for Pooh | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Out of Bounce | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pooh's Halloween Pumpkin | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Little Things in Life | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Best Horror of the Year Books
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Transgressions Books
| Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Transgressions, Vol. 3 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Transgressions, Vol. 4 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The Dark Descent Books
| Volume I: The Color of Evil | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: Mother, Missing was also published as Missing Mom. Lives of the Twins is also titled Kindred Passions. The books Take Me, Take Me with You, The Stolen Heart and Blood Mask were written as Lauren Kelly. Lives of the Twins, Soul/Mate, Nemesis, Snake Eyes, You Can’t Catch Me, Double Delight, Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon and The Barrens were written under the pen name of Rosamond Smith.
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur also contains stories by Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Alexander McCall Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sofia Quintero and Jane Yolen.
The Best American Short Stories 1979 was edited with Shannon Ravenel. Story: Fictions Past and Present was edited with Boyd Litzinger. Reading The Fights and The Sophisticated Cat were edited with Daniel Halpern. The Best American Essays of the Century was edited with Robert Atawan. The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction was edited with R.V. Cassill. Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction was edited with Janet Berliner. 21st Century Voices was edited with Christopher R. Beha. Muhammad Ali: Ringside was written with Alex Haley and Norman Mailer.
If You Like Joyce Carol Oates Books, You’ll Love…
Joyce Carol Oates Synopsis: Solstice is the story of two women, Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask. These two women are very different, but are extremely drawn towards eachother. Monica is a shy blonde teacher who has been divorced. Sheila is a dark nightbird and an artist. What starts as a simple friendship turns to love and then becomes obsession – a potentially fatal one.
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