Joyce-Carol Oates

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences....

She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature....

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls....

Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth....

The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life....

Oates creates an unforgettable allegory about power, morals, and ambition. The ghost of an American tragedy is resurrected in order to give voice to its silenced victim - an idealistic young woman too easily seduced by a Camelot fairy tale....

In a work unlike anything she's written before, Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband and the aftermath....

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all....

The diverse stories of Beautiful Days explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves....

Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town....

Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks....

From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories....

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal....

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society.

Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the 20th century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls....

The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates’ early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state. Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances....

The first novel from New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence....

"Why do we write?" With this question Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities in this collection of essays....

In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes - the "man without a shadow"....

The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural Western New York State....