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