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) |    |
| Expensive People | (1968) | |
| Them | (1969) | |
| Wonderland | (1971) | |
Publication Order of The Gothic Saga Books
| My Heart Laid Bare | (1998) | |
| The Accursed | (2013) | |
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) | |
| Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| With Shuddering Fall | (1964) | |
| Do With Me What You Will | (1973) | |
| The Assassins: A Book of Hours | (1975) | |
| Childwold | (1976) | |
| Cybele | (1978) | |
| Son of the Morning | (1978) | |
| Unholy Loves | (1979) | |
| Bellefleur | (1980) | |
| Angel of Light | (1981) | |
| A Bloodsmoor Romance | (1982) | |
| Mysteries of Winterthurn | (1984) | |
| Luxury of Sin | (1984) | |
| Solstice | (1985) | |
| Marya: A Life | (1986) | |
| Lives of the Twins / Kindred Passions | (1987) | |
| You Must Remember This | (1987) | |
| American Appetites | (1989) | |
| Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart | (1990) | |
| Soul/Mate | (1990) | |
| Nemesis | (1990) | |
| Snake Eyes | (1992) | |
| Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang | (1993) | |
| What I Lived For | (1994) | |
| Zombie | (1995) | |
| You Can't Catch Me | (1995) | |
| We Were the Mulvaneys | (1996) | |
| Man Crazy | (1997) | |
| Double Delight | (1997) | |
| Broke Heart Blues | (1999) | |
| Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon | (1999) | |
| Blonde | (2000) | |
| The Barrens | (2001) | |
| Middle-Age: A Romance | (2001) | |
| I'll Take You There | (2002) | |
| Big Mouth and Ugly Girl | (2002) | |
| Freaky Green Eyes | (2003) | |
| The Tattooed Girl | (2003) | |
| The Falls | (2004) | |
| Sexy | (2005) | |
| Missing Mom / Mother, Missing | (2005) | |
| Black Girl/White Girl | (2006) | |
| After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away | (2006) | |
| The Gravedigger's Daughter | (2007) | |
| Little Bird of Heaven | (2007) | |
| My Sister, My Love | (2008) | |
| A Fair Maiden | (2010) | |
| Mudwoman | (2012) | |
| Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You | (2012) | |
| Daddy Love | (2013) | |
| Carthage | (2014) | |
| The Sacrifice | (2015) | |
| Jack of Spades | (2015) | |
| The Man Without a Shadow | (2016) | |
| A Book of American Martyrs | (2017) | |
| Hazards of Time Travel | (2018) | |
| My Life as a Rat | (2019) | |
| The Pursuit | (2019) | |
| Night Sleep Death The Stars | (2020) | |
| Breathe | (2021) | |
| Babysitter | (2022) | |
| 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| 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 | (1996) | |
| In Shock | (2000) | |
| Beasts | (2001) | |
| The Haunting | (2003) | |
| Rape | (2003) | |
| Fossil-Fiigures | (2010) | |
| Spotted Hyenas | (2010) | |
| Patricide | (2012) | |
| The Rescuer | (2012) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| Big Momma | (2016) | |
| Gun Accident | (2016) | |
| The Crawl Space | (2016) | |
| The Sign of the Beast | (2017) | |
| 33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| By the North Gate | (1963) | |
| The Goddess and Other Women | (1966) | |
| Upon the Sweeping Flood, and Other Stories | (1966) | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | (1966) | |
| Anonymous Sins and Other Poems | (1969) | |
| The Wheel of Love and Other Stories | (1970) | |
| Cupid & Psyche | (1970) | |
| Angel Fire: Poems | (1973) | |
| The Hungry Ghosts | (1974) | |
| Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems | (1974) | |
| The Fabulous Beasts | (1975) | |
| The Seduction and Other Stories | (1975) | |
| The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese | (1975) | |
| Crossing the Border | (1976) | |
| Night-Side | (1977) | |
| Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money | (1978) | |
| Marriages and Infidelities | (1978) | |
| All the Good People I've Left Behind | (1979) | |
| A Sentimental Education | (1980) | |
| Three Plays | (1980) | |
| The Perfectionist and Other Plays | (1981) | |
| Invisible Woman | (1982) | |
| Wild Saturday, and Other Stories | (1984) | |
| Last Days | (1984) | |
| Raven's Wing | (1986) | |
| The Assignation | (1988) | |
| Time Traveler | (1989) | |
| Heat and Other Stories | (1991) | |
| Oates in Exile | (1991) | |
| Twelve Plays | (1991) | |
| Where is Here? | (1992) | |
| Haunted | (1994) | |
| Tenderness | (1996) | |
| Demon and Other Tales | (1996) | |
| Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories | (1996) | |
| Invisible Writer | (1998) | |
| The Collector of Hearts | (1998) | |
| New Plays | (1998) | |
| Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going | (1999) | |
| Faithless | (2001) | |
| Small Avalanches and Other Stories | (2003) | |
| I Am No One You Know | (2004) | |
| The Female of the Species | (2005) | |
| High Lonesome | (2006) | |
| The Museum of Dr. Moses | (2007) | |
| Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway | (2008) | |
| Dear Husband | (2009) | |
| Give Me Your Heart | (2010) | |
| Sourland | (2010) | |
| The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares | (2011) | |
| Evil Eye | (2013) | |
| High Crime Area | (2014) | |
| Lovely, Dark, Deep | (2014) | |
| The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror | (2016) | |
| Beautiful Days | (2018) | |
| Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense | (2018) | |
| Dis Mem Ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense | (2018) | |
| Cardiff, by the Sea | (2020) | |
| The (Other) You: Stories | (2021) | |
| American Melancholy: Poems | (2021) | |
| Night, Neon | (2021) | |
| Extenuating Circumstances | (2022) | |
| Zero Sum | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Plays
| Miracle Play | (1974) | |
| The Key & Tone Clusters: Two Short Plays | (1991) | |
| I Stand Before You Naked | (1991) | |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Come Meet Muffin! | (1998) | |
| Where is Little Reynard? | (2003) | |
| Naughty Chérie! | (2008) | |
| The New Kitten | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Edge Of Impossibility | (1972) | |
| Hostile Sun | (1973) | |
| New Heaven New Earth | (1974) | |
| Contraries | (1981) | |
| First Person Singular | (1984) | |
| The Profane Art | (1985) | |
| On Boxing | (1987) | |
| Woman Writer | (1988) | |
| The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career | (1995) | |
| Muhammad Ali: Ringside | (1999) | |
| George Bellows: American Artist | (2000) | |
| The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates | (2002) | |
| The Faith of a Writer | (2003) | |
| Uncensored | (2005) | |
| A Widow's Story | (2007) | |
| In Rough Country | (2010) | |
| Gerald Slota: Story | (2012) | |
| The Lost Landscape | (2015) | |
| Soul at the White Heat | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Akashic Drug Chronicles Books
| The Cocaine Chronicles | (2005) | |
| The Marijuana Chronicles | (2013) | |
| The Nicotine Chronicles | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
| The Book of Virtue | (2012) | |
| Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | |
| The Book Thing | (2012) | |
| The Book Case | (2012) | |
| An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | |
| Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | |
| The Final Testament | (2013) | |
| Rides a Stranger | (2013) | |
| The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | |
| The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | |
| The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | |
| What's in a Name? | (2014) | |
| Remaindered | (2014) | |
| The Sequel | (2014) | |
| The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | |
| The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | |
| It's in the Book | (2014) | |
| The Scroll | (2014) | |
| The Book of the Lion | (2015) | |
| The Little Men | (2015) | |
| Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| Every Seven Years | (2015) | |
| From the Queen | (2015) | |
| The Travelling Companion | (2016) | |
| Citadel | (2016) | |
| Reconciliation Day | (2016) | |
| Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | |
| The Haze | (2016) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | |
| Seven Years | (2018) | |
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
| The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | |
| The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | |
| The Dark Door | (2022) | |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
| The Book of Virtue | (2012) | |
| The Scroll | (2014) | |
| Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | |
| An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | |
| Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | |
| Seven Years | (2018) | |
| The Book Thing | (2012) | |
| The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | |
| The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | |
| The Final Testament | (2013) | |
| Rides a Stranger | (2013) | |
| What's in a Name? | (2014) | |
| It's in the Book | (2014) | |
| The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | |
| Remaindered | (2014) | |
| The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | |
| The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | |
| The Sequel | (2014) | |
| The Book of the Lion | (2015) | |
| The Little Men | (2015) | |
| From the Queen | (2015) | |
| Every Seven Years | (2015) | |
| Citadel | (2016) | |
| Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| The Travelling Companion | (2016) | |
| The Haze | (2016) | |
| Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | |
| Reconciliation Day | (2016) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | |
| The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | |
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
| The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | |
| The Book Case | (2012) | |
| The Dark Door | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Dark Corners Books
| Hannah-Beast | (2018) | |
| The Sleep Tight Motel | (2018) | |
| There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed | (2018) | |
| Miao Dao | (2018) | |
| The Tangled Woods | (2018) | |
| The Remedy | (2018) | |
| Oak Avenue | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Art of the Story Books
| A Sportsman's Notebook | (1852) | |
| The General Zapped an Angel | (1970) | |
| In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | (1981) | |
| The Essential Tales of Chekhov | (1998) | |
| The Garden Party and Other Stories | (2004) | |
| Continent | (2008) | |
| Tunneling to the Center of the Earth | (2009) | |
| Wild Nights! | (2009) | |
| Monstress | (2012) | |
| The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition | (2015) | |
| Mr. and Mrs. Baby Deluxe Edition | (2015) | |
| The Vanishing Princess | (2017) | |
| We Are Taking Only What We Need | (2018) | |
| Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls | (2018) | |
| Catastrophe and Other Stories | (2018) | |
| Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry | (2019) | |
| Hue and Cry | (2019) | |
| The Hurly Burly and Other Stories | (2021) | |
| Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary | (2022) | |
Publication Order of The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories Books
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories | (1994) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Points of View | (1956) | |
| The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | |
| Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards | (1970) | |
| Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction | (1971) | |
| Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction | (1973) | |
| Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards | (1973) | |
| Fiction International, No.1, Fall 1973 | (1973) | |
| Women and Fiction | (1975) | |
| Granta 1: New American Writing | (1979) | |
| Night Walks | (1982) | |
| The Web She Weaves | (1983) | |
| Witches' Brew | (1984) | |
| The Dark Descent | (1987) | |
| First Annual Collection | (1988) | |
| Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | |
| Third Annual Collection | (1989) | |
| Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews | (1989) | |
| Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers | (1989) | |
| Colors of a New Day | (1990) | |
| The Picador Book of the New Gothic | (1991) | |
| Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality | (1991) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | |
| Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | |
| The Architecture of Fear | (1991) | |
| The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | |
| The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | (1992) | |
| The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | (1992) | |
| The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | |
| Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories | (1992) | |
| Fiction International 22 | (1992) | |
| The Missouri Review: First Kisses First Wheels First Jobs (Volume XVII Number 2) | (1994) | |
| Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: November 1994 | (1994) | |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | |
| Deadly Sins | (1994) | |
| Bad Behavior | (1995) | |
| The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | (1995) | |
| Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | (1995) | |
| Murder For Love | (1996) | |
| Granta 58: Ambition | (1997) | |
| Black Swan, White Raven | (1997) | |
| Crimes of Passion | (1997) | |
| American Fiction | (1997) | |
| Telling Stories | (1997) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 | (1997) | |
| The Best of the Best | (1998) | |
| Murder for Revenge | (1998) | |
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | (1998) | |
| Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | |
| Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll: Stories to End the Century | (1998) | |
| The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | (1999) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | |
| Irreconcilable Differences | (1999) | |
| Ovid Metamorphosed | (2000) | |
| The Good Parts | (2000) | |
| Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | (2000) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | |
| Black Heart, Ivory Bones | (2000) | |
| The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | |
| The Best American Essays of the Century | (2000) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | |
| 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | (2000) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | (2001) | |
| Writers on Writing | (2001) | |
| Opening Shots, Vol. II | (2001) | |
| The Best American Essays of the Century | (2001) | |
| Redshift | (2001) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 | (2003) | |
| More Stories We Tell | (2004) | |
| The Future Dictionary of America | (2004) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | (2004) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | |
| Writers on Writers | (2005) | |
| Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules | (2005) | |
| Eighteenth Annual Collection | (2005) | |
| Dangerous Women | (2005) | |
| Transgressions | (2005) | |
| Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female | (2006) | |
| TwentiethAnnual Collection | (2007) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | (2007) | |
| Detroit Noir | (2007) | |
| The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | (2007) | |
| Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers | (2008) | |
| Twenty-First Annual Collection | (2008) | |
| Freedom | (2009) | |
| FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | (2009) | |
| Half-Minute Horrors | (2009) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 | (2009) | |
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | |
| My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | (2010) | |
| Hint Fiction | (2010) | |
| Kenyon Review Fall 2010 | (2010) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons | (2011) | |
| What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur | (2011) | |
| New Jersey Noir | (2011) | |
| Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers | (2012) | |
| Boston Noir 2 | (2012) | |
| The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction | (2012) | |
| USA Noir | (2013) | |
| What My Mother Gave Me | (2013) | |
| Buffalo Noir | (2013) | |
| Prison Noir | (2014) | |
| Boulevard No. 88: Vol. 30, 1 | (2014) | |
| The Doll Collection | (2015) | |
| Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good | (2015) | |
| Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns | (2015) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 | (2015) | |
| Unloaded | (2016) | |
| In Sunlight or In Shadow | (2016) | |
| Boulevard Nos. 95 & 96 | (2017) | |
| Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation | (2017) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 | (2017) | |
| Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 | (2017) | |
| Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | |
| Simpsonistas, Vol. 1 | (2018) | |
| Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers | (2019) | |
| Simpsonistas, Vol. 2 | (2019) | |
| Drawing Lines | (2021) | |
| Five Short Stories by Women | (2021) | |
| Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July-August 2021 | (2021) | |
| When Things Get Dark | (2021) | |
| Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March-April 2022 | (2022) | |
| Screams from the Dark | (2022) | |
| CVC10 Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Book Ten | (2022) | |
| The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 | (2022) | |
| Simpsonistas Vol. 4: Tales from the New Literary Project | (2022) | |
| A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers | (2023) | |
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.
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