Reflections
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Text and Criticism
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Books

Novels and Novellas

  • A Fair Maiden / 2010
  • Little Bird of Heaven / 2009
  • My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike / 2008
  • The Gravedigger's Daughter / 2007
  • Black Girl / White Girl / 2006
  • Blood Mask / 2006
  • Missing Mom / 2005
  • The Stolen Heart / 2005
  • The Falls / 2004
  • Take Me, Take Me With You / 2004
  • Rape: A Love Story / 2003
  • The Tattooed Girl / 2003
  • I'll Take You There / 2002
  • Beasts / 2002
  • Middle Age: A Romance / 2001
  • The Barrens / 2001
  • Blonde / 2000
  • Broke Heart Blues / 1999
  • Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon / 1999
  • My Heart Laid Bare / 1998
  • Man Crazy / 1997
  • Double Delight / 1997
  • We Were The Mulvaneys / 1996
  • First Love: A Gothic Tale / 1996
  • Zombie / 1995
  • You Can't Catch Me / 1995
  • What I Lived For / 1994
  • Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang / 1993
  • Snake Eyes / 1992
  • Black Water / 1992
  • The Rise of Life on Earth / 1991
  • Nemesis / 1990
  • Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart / 1990
  • I Lock My Door Upon Myself / 1990
  • Soul/Mate / 1989
  • American Appetites / 1989
  • Lives of the Twins / 1987
  • You Must Remember This / 1987
  • Marya: A Life / 1986
  • Solstice / 1985
  • Mysteries of Winterthurn / 1984
  • A Bloodsmoor Romance / 1982
  • Angel of Light / 1981
  • Bellefleur / 1980
  • Unholy Loves / 1979
  • Cybele / 1979
  • Son of the Morning / 1978
  • Childwold / 1976
  • The Triumph of the Spider Monkey / 1976
  • The Assassins / 1975
  • Do With Me What You Will / 1973
  • Wonderland / 1971
  • them / 1969
  • Expensive People / 1968
  • A Garden of Earthly Delights / 1967
  • With Shuddering Fall / 1964

 

Young Adult

  • After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread my Wings, and Flew Away / 2006
  • Sexy / 2005
  • Freaky Green Eyes / 2003
  • Small Avalanches and Other Stories / 2003
  • Big Mouth & Ugly Girl / 2002

 

Story Collections

  • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares / 2011
  • Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense / 2011
  • Sourland: Stories / 2010
  • Dear Husband: Stories / 2009
  • Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway / 2008
  • The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense / 2007
  • High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006 / 2006
  • The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense / 2006
  • I Am No One You Know: Stories / 2004
  • Faithless: Tales of Transgression / 2001
  • The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque / 1998
  • Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories / 1996
  • Demon and other tales / 1996
  • Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque / 1994
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories / 1993
  • Where Is Here?: Stories / 1992
  • Heat And Other Stories / 1991
  • Oates In Exile / 1990
  • The Assignation: Stories / 1989
  • Raven's Wing: Stories / 1986
  • Wild Saturday / 1984
  • Last Days: Stories / 1984
  • A Sentimental Education: Stories / 1980
  • All the Good People I've Left Behind / 1979
  • Night-Side: Eighteen Tales / 1977
  • Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales / 1976
  • The Poisoned Kiss And Other Stories from the Portuguese / 1975
  • The Seduction & Other Stories / 1975
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America / 1974
  • The Goddess and Other Women / 1974
  • The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies / 1974
  • Marriages and Infidelities: Short Stories / 1972
  • The Wheel of Love And Other Stories / 1970
  • Upon the Sweeping Flood And Other Stories / 1966
  • By the North Gate / 1963

 

Poetry Collections

  • Tenderness / 1996
  • The Time Traveler / 1989
  • Invisible Woman: New & Selected Poems 1970-1982 / 1982
  • Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money / 1978
  • The Fabulous Beasts: Poems / 1975
  • Angel Fire: Poems / 1973
  • Love and Its Derangements: Poems / 1970
  • Anonymous Sins & Other Poems / 1969

 

Children

  • Naughty Chérie! / 2008
  • Where Is Little Reynard? / 2003
  • Come Meet Muffin! / 1998

Non-Fiction

  • A Widow's Story: A Memoir / 2011
  • In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews / 2010
  • The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 / 2007
  • Uncensored: Views & (Re)views / 2005
  • The Faith of A Writer: Life, Craft, Art / 2003
  • Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose / 1999
  • George Bellows: American Artist / 1995
  • (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities / 1988
  • On Boxing / 1987
  • The Profane Art: Essays & Reviews / 1983
  • Contraries: Essays / 1981
  • New Heaven, New Earth: the Visionary Experience in Literature / 1974
  • The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence / 1973
  • The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature / 1972

 

Drama Collections

  • Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906: Two One Act Plays / 2009
  • Dr. Magic: Six One Act Plays / 2004
  • New Plays / 1998
  • The Perfectionist and Other Plays / 1995
  • Twelve Plays / 1991
  • I Stand Before You Naked / 1991
  • In Darkest America: Two Plays / 1991
  • Three Plays / 1980
  • Miracle Play / 1974

 

Anthologies & Edited Works

  • New Jersey Noir / 2011
  • Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories / 2010
  • The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction / 2008
  • Best American Mystery Stories 2005 / 2005
  • Best New American Voices 2003 / 2003
  • Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction / 2000
  • The Best American Essays of the Century / 2000
  • The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction / 1998
  • Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers / 1998
  • Tales of H.P. Lovecraft / 1998
  • American Gothic Tales / 1996
  • The Essential Dickinson / 1996
  • The Sophisticated Cat / 1992
  • The Oxford Book of American Short Stories / 1992
  • The Best American Essays 1991 / 1991
  • Reading the Fights / 1988
  • First Person Singular: Writers On Their Craft / 1983
  • Night Walks: A Bedside Companion / 1982
  • The Best American Short Stories 1979 / 1979
  • Scenes from American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction / 1973