Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates has written at least 388 books. Their most popular book is We Were the Mulvaneys with 91 saves with an average rating of 3.28⭐.

Author Bio

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Her pseudonyms include Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly

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We Were the Mulvaneys
We Were the Mulvaneys
  • Joyce Carol Oates
3.2846 reads
Blonde
Blonde
  • Joyce Carol Oates
4.1523 reads
Zombie
Zombie
  • Joyce Carol Oates
3.1635 reads
Goblin Market
Goblin Market
  • Christina Rossetti
4.1526 reads
"Where are You Going, where Have You Been?"
"Where are You Going, where Have You Been?"
  • Joyce Carol Oates
4.415 reads
Butcher
Butcher
  • Joyce Carol Oates
3.636 reads
Hazards of Time Travel
Hazards of Time Travel
  • Joyce Carol Oates
2.312 reads
Stories
Stories
    3.618 reads
    My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
    My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
      3.676 reads
      A Book of American Martyrs
      A Book of American Martyrs
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      4.177 reads
      Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
      Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.88 reads
      Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
      Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
      • H. P. Lovecraft
      4.339 reads
      The Accursed
      The Accursed
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      4.177 reads
      Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
      Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.256 reads
      Them
      Them
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.675 reads
      Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
      Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.673 reads
      Babysitter
      Babysitter
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.56 reads
      The Dark descent
      The Dark descent
      • David G. Hartwell
      • King, Stephen
      • John Collier
      • M. R. James
      • Lucy Clifford
      • Russell Kirk
      • H. P. Lovecraft
      • Shirley Jackson
      • Harlan Ellison
      • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      • Ray Bradbury
      • Michael Shea
      • Edith Nesbit
      • Karl Edward Wagner
      • Robert Aickman
      • Fritz Leiber
      • Robert Bloch
      • Charles L. Grant
      • Manly Wade Wellman
      • Disch, Thomas M.
      • Theodore Sturgeon
      • Clive Barker
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
      • William Faulkner
      • Robert Hichens
      • Richard Matheson
      • Joanna Russ
      • Dennis Etchison
      • David Herbert Lawrence
      • Tanith Lee
      • Flannery O'Connor
      • Ramsey Campbell
      • Henry James Jr.
      • Gene Wolfe
      • Charles Dickens
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      • Walter De la Mare
      • Ivan Turguenev
      • Robert Chambers
      • Oliver Onions
      • Fitz-James O'Brien
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Edith Wharton
      • Algernon Blackwood
      • Philip K. Dick
      • Stephen King
      • Thomas M. Disch
      • D. H. Lawrence
      • Gene Wolfe
      • Robert W. Chambers
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
      4.54 reads
      The Falls
      The Falls
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.8612 reads
      48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
      48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      2.66 reads
      Rape
      Rape
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      4.27 reads
      Black Water
      Black Water
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.88 reads
      Beasts
      Beasts
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      36 reads
      A Garden of Earthly Delights
      A Garden of Earthly Delights
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      45 reads
      The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
      The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
      • Jean Stafford
      03 reads
      Half-Minute Horrors
      Half-Minute Horrors
      • Holly Black
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      • Neil Gaiman
      • Lesley Livingston
      • R.L. Stine
      • Margaret Atwood
      • Adele Griffin
      • Melissa Marr
      • Nadia Aguiar
      • Katherine Applegate
      • Avi
      • Pseudonymous Bosch
      • Libba Bray
      • Lisa Brown
      • Michael Connelly
      • Joseph Delaney
      • Dan Gutman
      • Erin Hunter
      • Jonathan Lethem
      • Gail Carson Levine
      • Dean Lorey
      • Gregory Maguire
      • Sienna Mercer
      • Lauren Myracle
      • Jenny Nimmo
      • Kenneth Oppel
      • Adam Rex
      • Jon Scieszka
      • Brian Selznick
      • Lemony Snicket
      • Jerry Spinelli
      • Tui T. Sutherland
      • Sarah Weeks
      • Gloria Whelan
      • Allan Stratton
      • James Patterson
      • Angela Johnson
      • Susan Rich
      • Lane Smith
      3.410 reads
      The Gravedigger's Daughter
      The Gravedigger's Daughter
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      43 reads
      Bellefleur
      Bellefleur
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      4.676 reads
      Cover 3

      Miao Dao

      Miao Dao
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.210 reads
      My Life as a Rat
      My Life as a Rat
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      43 reads
      999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense
      999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense
      • Stephen King
      • William Peter Blatty
      • F. Paul Wilson
      • Chet Williamson
      • Tim Powers
      • Nancy A. Collins
      • Ramsey Campbell
      • Edward Lee
      • P.D. Cacek
      • Thomas Ligotti
      • Rick Hautala
      • Peter Schneider
      • Ed Gorman
      • Gene Wolfe
      • Edward Bryant
      • Michael Marshall Smith
      • Joe R. Lansdale
      • Bentley Little
      • Thomas F. Monteleone
      • Dennis L. McKiernan
      • Eric Van Lustbader
      • David Morrell
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      • Kim Newman
      • Thomas M. Disch
      • T.E.D. Klein
      • Steven G. Spruill
      2.674 reads
      American Melancholy: Poems
      American Melancholy: Poems
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      34 reads
      Daddy Love
      Daddy Love
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      4.52 reads
      The Man Without a Shadow
      The Man Without a Shadow
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      31 read
      The corn maiden and other nightmares
      The corn maiden and other nightmares
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.35 reads
      Expensive people
      Expensive people
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      43 reads
      Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
      Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
      • Terri Windling
      • Deborah Eisenberg
      • Maria Flook
      • Patricia Foster
      • Vivian Gornick
      • Lucy Grealy
      • bell hooks
      • Fanny Howe
      • Fern Kupfer
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Carole Maso
      • Alice Adams
      • Jane Miller
      • Lydia Millet
      • Connie Rose Porter
      • Francine Prose
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      • Linda Gray Sexton
      • Midori Snyder
      • Fay Weldon
      • Joy Williams
      • Julia Alvarez
      • Margaret Atwood
      • Ann Beattie
      • Rosellen Brown
      • A.S. Byatt
      • Kathryn Davis
      • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
      00 reads
      The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
      The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      2.66 reads
      The Tattooed Girl
      The Tattooed Girl
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.578 reads
      Wild Nights!
      Wild Nights!
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      3.333 reads
      What I Lived For
      What I Lived For
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      41 read
      The (Other) You
      The (Other) You
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      51 read
      Fragments
      Fragments
      • Marilyn Monroe
      3.674 reads
      Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror
      Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror
        33 reads
        Jack of Spades
        Jack of Spades
        • Joyce Carol Oates
        42 reads
        A Fair Maiden
        A Fair Maiden
        • Joyce Carol Oates
        2.335 reads
        Black Heart, Ivory Bones
        Black Heart, Ivory Bones
          3.52 reads
          Cover 7

          A Darker Shade of Noir

          A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          • Yumi Dineen Shiroma
          • Megan Abbott
          • Tananarive Due
          • Cassandra Khaw
          • Margaret Atwood
          • Valerie Martin
          • Raven Leilani
          • Aimee LaBrie
          • Elizabeth Hand
          • Lisa Tuttle
          • Sheila Kohler
          • Joanna Margaret
          • Lisa Lim
          • Aimee Bender
          32 reads
          I'll Take You There
          I'll Take You There
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          34 reads
          In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
          In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          • Jonathan Santlofer
          • Jeffery Deaver
          • Kris Nelscott
          • Robert Olen Butler
          • Michael Connelly
          • Megan Abbott
          • Nicholas Christopher
          • Jill D. Block
          • Joe R. Lansdale
          • Lee Child
          • Stephen King
          • Justin Scott
          • Gail Levin
          • Craig Ferguson
          • Warren Moore
          01 read
          On Boxing
          On Boxing
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          31 read
          The Apocalypse Reader
          The Apocalypse Reader
          • H. G. Wells
          • Grace Aguilar
          • Steve Aylett
          • Robert Bradley
          • Dennis Cooper
          • Lucy Corin
          • Matthew Derby
          • Carol Emshwiller
          • Neil Gaiman
          • Jeff Goldberg
          • Theodora Goss
          • Nathaniel Hawthorne
          • Shelley Jackson
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          • Stacey Levine
          • Kelly Link
          • Garielle Lutz
          • Rick Moody
          • Michael Moorcock
          • Josip Novakovich
          • Edgar Allan Poe
          • Colette Phair
          • Terese Svoboda
          • Lynne Tillman
          • Deb Olin Unferth
          • Allison Whittenberg
          • Diane Williams
          • Adam Nemett
          • David Elliott
          • Jared Hohl
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          • H. P. Lovecraft
          • Brian Evenson
          23 reads
          American gothic tales
          American gothic tales
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          00 reads
          Wonderland
          Wonderland
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          41 read
          Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
          Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
          • Joyce Carol Oates
          03 reads
          Tails of Wonder and Imagination
          Tails of Wonder and Imagination
            3.333 reads
            The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
            The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            43 reads
            Carthage
            Carthage
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            2.52 reads
            My Sister, My Love
            My Sister, My Love
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.52 reads
            I Am No One You Know
            I Am No One You Know
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            4.53 reads
            Black Girl/White Girl
            Black Girl/White Girl
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.54 reads
            Missing Mom
            Missing Mom
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.333 reads
            Middle age
            Middle age
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.64 reads
            Cover 5

            The Sign of the Beast

            The Sign of the Beast
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.255 reads
            My Heart Laid Bare
            My Heart Laid Bare
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            31 read
            The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
            The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            32 reads
            Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
            Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.384 reads
            Pursuit
            Pursuit
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            31 read
            Little Bird of Heaven
            Little Bird of Heaven
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            2.65 reads
            Breathe
            Breathe
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            41 read
            Zero-Sum: Stories
            Zero-Sum: Stories
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.52 reads
            Mudwoman
            Mudwoman
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            3.333 reads
            Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
            Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
              52 reads
              Night, Neon
              Night, Neon
              • Joyce Carol Oates
              3.52 reads
              Cover 2

              Mysteries of Winterthurn

              Mysteries of Winterthurn
              • Joyce Carol Oates
              21 read
              Cover 4

              Dreams Fom the Witch House

              Dreams Fom the Witch House
              • Joyce Carol Oates
              • Caitlín R. Kiernan
              3.52 reads
              Dear Husband
              Dear Husband
              • Joyce Carol Oates
              32 reads
              Boston Noir 2: The Classics
              Boston Noir 2: The Classics
                31 read
                Lovely, dark, deep
                Lovely, dark, deep
                • Joyce Carol Oates
                32 reads
                The Best American Short Stories 2011
                The Best American Short Stories 2011
                  33 reads
                  The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
                  The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  3.53 reads
                  Rape: A Love Story
                  Rape: A Love Story
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  33 reads
                  You Must Remember This
                  You Must Remember This
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  00 reads
                  Freaky Green Eyes
                  Freaky Green Eyes
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  22 reads
                  Solstice
                  Solstice
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  3.52 reads
                  The best American essays of the century
                  The best American essays of the century
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  01 read
                  High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
                  High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  31 read
                  Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
                  Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  21 read
                  Uncensored: Views & (Re)views
                  Uncensored: Views & (Re)views
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  00 reads
                  I Lock My Door Upon Myself
                  I Lock My Door Upon Myself
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  42 reads
                  Cover 3

                  Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

                  Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  4.52 reads
                  The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
                  The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  42 reads
                  Son of the Morning
                  Son of the Morning
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  31 read
                  Faithless
                  Faithless
                  • Joyce Carol Oates
                  51 read
                  Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
                  Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
                    00 reads
                    Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
                    Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
                    • The New York Times
                    00 reads
                    Dark Screams: Volume Six
                    Dark Screams: Volume Six
                    • Joyce Carol Oates
                    • Norman Prentiss
                    31 read
                    Cover 7

                    A Convergence of Birds

                    A Convergence of Birds
                    • Jonathan Safran Foer
                    • Joyce Carol Oates
                    00 reads
                    Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
                    Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
                    • Joyce Carol Oates
                    3.52 reads
                    Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales
                    Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales
                      00 reads