Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With Shuddering Fall | 1964 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 2 | Do With Me What You Will | 1973 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 3 | The Assassins: A Book of Hours | 1975 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 4 | Childwold | 1976 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 5 | Cybele | 1978 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 6 | Son of the Morning | 1978 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 7 | Unholy Loves | 1979 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 8 | Angel of Light | 1981 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 9 | A Bloodsmoor Romance | 1982 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 10 | Mysteries of Winterthurn | 1984 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 11 | Luxury of Sin | 1984 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 12 | Solstice | 1985 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 13 | Marya: A Life | 1986 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 14 | Lives of the Twins / Kindred Passions | 1987 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 15 | You Must Remember This | 1987 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 16 | American Appetites | 1989 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 17 | Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart | 1990 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 18 | Soul/Mate | 1990 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 19 | Nemesis | 1990 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 20 | Snake Eyes | 1992 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 21 | Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang | 1993 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 22 | What I Lived For | 1994 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 23 | Zombie | 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 24 | You Can’t Catch Me | 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 25 | We Were the Mulvaneys | 1996 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 26 | Man Crazy | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 27 | Double Delight | 1997 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 28 | Broke Heart Blues | 1999 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 29 | Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon | 1999 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 30 | Blonde | 2000 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 31 | The Barrens | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 32 | Middle-Age: A Romance | 2001 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 33 | I’ll Take You There | 2002 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 34 | Big Mouth and Ugly Girl | 2002 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 35 | Freaky Green Eyes | 2003 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 36 | The Tattooed Girl | 2003 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 37 | The Falls | 2004 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 38 | Sexy | 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 39 | Missing Mom / Mother, Missing | 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 40 | Black Girl/White Girl | 2006 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 41 | After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away | 2006 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 42 | The Gravedigger’s Daughter | 2007 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 43 | Little Bird of Heaven | 2007 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 44 | My Sister, My Love | 2008 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 45 | A Fair Maiden | 2010 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 46 | Mudwoman | 2012 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 47 | Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You | 2012 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 48 | Daddy Love | 2013 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 49 | Carthage | 2014 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 50 | The Sacrifice | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 51 | Jack of Spades | 2015 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 52 | The Man Without a Shadow | 2016 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 53 | A Book of American Martyrs | 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 54 | Hazards of Time Travel | 2018 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 55 | My Life as a Rat | 2019 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 56 | The Pursuit | 2019 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 57 | Night Sleep Death The Stars | 2020 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 58 | Breathe | 2021 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 59 | Babysitter | 2022 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 60 | 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister | 2023 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 61 | Butcher | 2024 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
| 62 | Fox | 2025 | Joyce Carol Oates | Buy |
Joyce Carol Oates has published dozens of standalone novels spanning more than sixty years, from With Shuddering Fall (1964) to Fox (2025). Her standalone work ranges across literary fiction, psychological horror, young adult fiction, and social realism.
Highlights include Blonde (2000), a fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe’s life that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and We Were the Mulvaneys (1996), which became widely known after being selected for Oprah’s Book Club. She also wrote mystery and suspense novels under the pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.