# Joyce Carol Oates bibliography

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

## 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) (the basis for the 1996 film Foxfire)
* 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)
* Daddy Love (2013)
* Carthage (2014)
* The Sacrifice (2015)
* Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense (2015)
* The Man Without a Shadow (2016)
* 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)
* Fox (2025)

### 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)

### As Rosamond Smith

* 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

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

## Short fiction
### 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 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: Eighteen Tales (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: Stories (2014)
* The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016)
* DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017)
* Beautiful Days (short story collection)|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)
* Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024)

### Novellas

* The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976), new ed. 2019, collected with Love, Careless Love (1974)
* 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

* The Spiral (1969)
* Bodies (1970)
* Queen of the Night (1979)
* The Rose Wall (1981)
* The Sunken Woman (1981)
* The Others (1987)
* Blue-Bearded Lover (1988)
* Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl (1988)
* The Stadium (1988)
* The Damnation of A--- K--- (1989)
* Family (1989)
* Pregnant (1990)
* Ladies and Gentlemen (1990)
* Brothers (1994)
* Leave Me Alone God Damn You (1996)
* Physical (1996)
* In the Insomniac Night (1997)
* A Manhattan Romance (1997)
* Summer Sweat (1999)
* You, Little Match-Girl (2000)
* In Shock (2000)
* The High School Sweetheart (2001)
* Subway (2003)
* Six Hypotheses (2004)
* Between Us There's a Secret (2004)
* Apoca ca lyp se: A Dip tych (2007)
* The Little Sacrifice (2007)
* Face (2007)
* EDickinsonRepilLyx (2008)
* Gargoyle (2008)
* Uranus (2009)
* Tiger Kitty (2009)
* Mudgrl Saved by the King of Crows (2011)
* Vena Cava (2011)
* A Game of Draughts (2013)
* Undocumented Alien (2016)
* Fractal (2017)
* Les Beaux Jours (2017)
* Wanting (2018)
* The Appointment (2020)
* Take Me, I Am Free (2021)
* Bone Marrow Dance (2021)
* Miss Golden Dreams (2021)
* Rio Piedra (2021)
* The Father of Modern Gynecology (2022)
* The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853) (2023)
* The Chair of Tranquility (from the Fish of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853) (2023)

## 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)
* Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (2012)

## Children's fiction

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

## Drama
### Full-Length Plays

* Sunday Dinner (1965)
* The Sweet Enemy (1970)
* Miracle Play (1973)
* Black (1989)
* In Darkest America (1990)
** The Eclipse
** Tone Clusters
* I Stand Before You Naked (1990)
* American Holiday (1990)
* The Secret Mirror (1991)
* Bad Girls
* Black Water (1997)
* The Passion of Henry David Thoreau

### One-Act Plays

* Ontological Proof of My Existence (1970)
* The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1979)
* How Do You Like Your Meat? (1990)
* Friday Night (1990)
* Greensleeves (1991)
* The Key (1991)
* The Ballad of Love Canal (1991)
* Under/Ground (1991)
* Here I am
* Duet
* Good to know you
* Poor Bibi
* Here She Is! (1995)
* Negative (1995)
* Homesick (1995)
* The Adoption (1996)
* No next of kin
* When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Love Me (1998)
* Dr. Magic (2002)
* Wild Nights! (2009)
* Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906 (2009)

### Collections

* Three Plays (1980)
* Twelve Plays (1991)
* 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

* 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 photographs by John Ranard) (1987, revised edition 2006)
* (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"
* — (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
### Collections

* 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

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

| Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
| 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. |