Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best American Short Stories 1964 | 1964 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 2 | Snow White, Blood Red | 1993 | Joyce Carol Oates | N/A |
| 3 | Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards | 1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 4 | Black Thorn, White Rose | 2008 | Joyce Carol Oates | N/A |
| 5 | Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction | 1971 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 6 | Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 7 | Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction | 1973 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 8 | Black Swan, White Raven | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 9 | Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards | 1973 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 10 | Silver Birch, Blood Moon | 1999 | Joyce Carol Oates | N/A |
| 11 | Fiction International, No.1, Fall 1973 | 1973 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 12 | Black Heart, Ivory Bones | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 13 | Women and Fiction | 1975 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 14 | Banquet: Five Short Stories | 1978 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 15 | New American Writing | 1979 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 16 | The Best American Short Stories 1979 | 1979 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 17 | Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | 1980 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 18 | Night Walks | 1982 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 19 | The Web She Weaves | 1983 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 20 | Witches’ Brew | 1984 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 21 | Fiction International 15.1: Writing and Politics | 1984 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 22 | The Dark Descent | 1987 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 23 | The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction | 1987 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 24 | First Annual Collection | 1988 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 25 | Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | 1988 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 26 | Third Annual Collection | 1989 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 27 | Women Writers at Work | 1989 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 28 | Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers | 1989 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 29 | Colors of a New Day | 1990 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 30 | Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 31 | The Picador Book of the New Gothic | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 32 | Cries of the Spirit | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 33 | The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 34 | Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 35 | The Architecture of Fear | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 36 | The Best American Short Stories 1991 | 1991 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 37 | The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | 1992 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 38 | The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | 1992 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 39 | Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories | 1992 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 40 | Sisters In Crime 5 | 1992 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 41 | Fiction International 22 | 1992 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 42 | Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 | 1993 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 43 | God: An Anthology of Fiction | 1993 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 44 | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: November 1994 | 1994 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 45 | The Missouri Review: First Kisses First Wheels First Jobs (Volume XVII Number 2) | 1994 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 46 | First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | 1994 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 47 | Deadly Sins | 1994 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 48 | Obsession | 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 49 | Bad Behavior | 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 50 | The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 51 | Murder For Love | 1996 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 52 | American Gothic Tales | 1996 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 53 | Granta 58: Ambition | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 54 | Crimes of Passion | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 55 | American Fiction | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 56 | Telling Stories | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 57 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 58 | Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers | 1998 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 59 | The Best of the Best | 1998 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 60 | Murder for Revenge | 1998 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 61 | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | 1998 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 62 | Eleventh Annual Collection | 1998 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 63 | Sex, Drugs, Rock’n’Roll: Stories to End the Century | 1998 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 64 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | 1999 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 65 | The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | 1999 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 66 | Irreconcilable Differences | 1999 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 67 | Ovid Metamorphosed | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 68 | The Good Parts | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 69 | Master’s Choice: Mystery Stories by Today’s Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 70 | The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 71 | Here to Stay: Five Plays from the Women’s Project | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 72 | The Best American Short Stories of the Century | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 73 | The Best American Essays of the Century | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 74 | The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 75 | 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 76 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 77 | Writers on Writing | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 78 | Opening Shots, Vol. II | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 79 | Tails of Wonder and Imagination | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 80 | Redshift | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 81 | The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 82 | The Dark: New Ghost Stories | 2003 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 83 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 | 2003 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 84 | More Stories We Tell | 2004 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 85 | The Future Dictionary of America | 2004 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 86 | The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | 2004 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 87 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | 2004 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 88 | Writers on Writers | 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 89 | Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules | 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 90 | Dangerous Women | 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 91 | Transgressions | 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 92 | Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female | 2006 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 93 | TwentiethAnnual Collection | 2007 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 94 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | 2007 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 95 | The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | 2007 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 96 | Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers | 2008 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 97 | Twenty-First Annual Collection | 2008 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 98 | Freedom | 2009 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 99 | First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | 2009 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 100 | Half-Minute Horrors | 2009 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 101 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 | 2009 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 102 | What’s Your Exit?: A Literary Detour Through New Jersey | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 103 | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 104 | Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 105 | My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 106 | Hint Fiction | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 107 | Kenyon Review Fall 2010 | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 108 | The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons | 2011 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 109 | What You Wish For | 2011 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 110 | Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers | 2012 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 111 | The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction | 2012 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 112 | What My Mother Gave Me | 2013 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 113 | Ploughshares Spring 1988 | 2013 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 114 | Boulevard No. 87 | 2014 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 115 | Boulevard 88 | 2014 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 116 | The Doll Collection | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 117 | Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 118 | The Best Stories from Boulevard, 1985-2015 | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 119 | Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 120 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 121 | Sleights of Hand: The Deception Issue | 2016 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 122 | Unloaded | 2016 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 123 | In Sunlight or In Shadow | 2016 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 124 | Boulevard Nos. 95 & 96 | 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 125 | Tales of Two Americas | 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 126 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 | 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 127 | Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 | 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 128 | Alive in Shape and Color | 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 129 | Uncertainties Volume III | 2018 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 130 | Simpsonistas, Vol. 1 | 2018 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 131 | Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers | 2019 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 132 | Simpsonistas, Vol. 2 | 2019 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 133 | Drawing Lines | 2021 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 134 | Five Short Stories by Women | 2021 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 135 | Collectibles | 2021 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 136 | When Things Get Dark | 2021 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 137 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen | 2021 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 138 | Screams from the Dark | 2022 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 139 | CVC10 Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Book Ten | 2022 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 140 | The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 | 2022 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 141 | Simpsonistas Vol. 4: Tales from the New Literary Project | 2022 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 142 | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-October 2023 | 2023 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 143 | A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers | 2023 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 144 | Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror | 2024 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 145 | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January-February 2025 | 2024 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
Joyce Carol Oates has contributed to an enormous number of anthologies over her six-decade career. These range from literary fiction collections like The Best American Short Stories to horror anthologies, fairy tale retellings, and mystery collections. Her short fiction appears in just about every major anthology series in American literature.