Books by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011)
- A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvan...
- My Sister, My Love (2008)
- The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving chil...
- Missing Mom (2005)
- In the aftermath of her mother's death, thirty-one-year-old Nikki Eaton comes into a startling reali...
- A Fair Maiden (2010)
- Approached by an elegant older gentleman while babysitting in Bayhead Harbor, sixteen-year-old Katya...
- The Accursed (2013)
- After a lynching in a nearby town is covered up, a horryfing chain of events begins to happen in ear...
- The Female of the Species (2005)
- A collection of short works includes "So Help Me God," in which a young wife wonders about the ident...
- Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart (1991)
- A white woman and a black woman in upstate New York during the 1950s are strangely and fatefully lin...
- Black Water (1992)
- A senator seduces young Kelly Kelleher at a Fourth of July picnic, and as they head for his hotel, h...
- American Gothic Tales (1996)
- A collection of tales of horror and suspense begins with such nineteenth-century writers as Edgar Al...
- Wild Nights! (2008)
- Reimagines the final days of five major American writers, in a collection of short works written in ...
- The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)
- The daughter of a German high school teacher who was forced to work as a gravedigger after immigrati...
- I Am No One You Know (2004)
- Oates's new collection contains 19 startling stories that bear witness to theremarkably varied lives...
- High Lonesome (2006)
- An anthology of short fiction selected by the author herself features selections from "The Wheel of ...
- The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)
- Kathleen, a nurse's aide, falls in love with a doctor who exploits her and sets the path of the rema...
- Daddy Love (2013)
- Kidnapping a latest victim in a string of young boys he tortures and rapes, a self-styled preacher c...
- The Barrens (2002)
- Haunted by the memory of a murder he witnessed as a child, Matt McBride becomes obsessed with guilt ...
- Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
- A collection of eleven stories explores the slippage between fantasy and everyday life, the commingl...
- Give Me Your Heart (2010)
- A latest collection of macabre tales by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvan...
- A Garden of Earthly Delights (2003)
- The daughter of a migrant worker finds her life in the deprived and ugly transient world shaped by h...
- Come Meet Muffin! (1998)
- When the Smith family rescues Muffin on the side of a country road, he appears to be a typical lost ...
- Bellefleur (1991)
- The first Bellefleur, Jean-Pierre, amasses a fortune, but when his namesake is accused of mass murde...
- Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
- Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national ...
- The Tattooed Girl (2004)
- When his failing health prompts him to hire an assistant, reclusive author Joshua Siegl recruits Alm...
- The Assignation (1996)
- A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stran...
- Middle Age: A Romance (2002)
- In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- th...
- Dear Husband, (2010)
- Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourtee...
- The Museum of Dr. Moses (2008)
- A collection of bloodcurdling tales by the award-winning author of The Female of the Species feature...
- We Were the Mulvaneys (1997)
- A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the ...
- Jack of Spades (2015)
- Enjoying his successful career and devoted family, a best-selling writer secretly authors a masochis...
- Black Girl/White Girl (2006)
- Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a ...
- American appetites (1990)
- Glynnis McCullough, terribly drunk, quarrels with her husband Ian and falls through a window to her ...
