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Joyce Carol Oates Books in Order

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Updated 2026-07-11 / 535 books / 20 series

American author Joyce Carol Oates is best known for her novels *Blonde* and *We Were the Mulvaneys*, and her prolific career spanning over 60 years. A recipient of the National Book Award, she has written more than 100 books. This page provides the Joyce Carol Oates books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Joyce Carol Oates Books in Chronological Order

1852 A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev) POoAotSB / 1 Buy

1899 Disney's Have You Seen My Pot of Honey?(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 1 Buy

1963 By the North Gate POoSSC / 1 Buy

1964 With Shuddering Fall POoSN / 1 Buy

1966 The Goddess and Other Women POoSSC / 2 Buy

1966 Upon the Sweeping Flood, and Other Stories POoSSC / 3 Buy

1966 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? POoSSC / 4 Buy

1967 A Garden of Earthly Delights POoWQOEDB / 1 Buy

1968 Expensive People POoWQOEDB / 2 Buy

1969 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges POoLCB / 1 Buy

1969 Them POoWQOEDB / 3 Buy

1969 Anonymous Sins and Other Poems POoSSC / 5 Buy

1970 The General Zapped an Angel(By: Howard Fast) POoAotSB / 2 Buy

1970 The Wheel of Love and Other Stories POoSSC / 6 Buy

1970 Cupid & Psyche POoSSC / 7 Buy

1971 Wonderland POoWQOEDB / 4 Buy

1972 The Edge Of Impossibility POoNB / 1 Buy

1973 Hostile Sun POoNB / 2 Buy

1973 Do With Me What You Will POoSN / 2 Buy

1973 Angel Fire: Poems POoSSC / 8 Buy

1974 Miracle Play POoP / 1 Buy

1974 New Heaven New Earth POoNB / 3 Buy

1974 The Hungry Ghosts POoSSC / 9 Buy

1974 Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems POoSSC / 10 Buy

1975 The Assassins: A Book of Hours POoSN / 3 Buy

1975 The Fabulous Beasts POoSSC / 11 Buy

1975 The Seduction and Other Stories POoSSC / 12 Buy

1975 The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese POoSSC / 13 Buy

1976 The Triumph of the Spider Monkey POoSS / 1 Buy

1976 Childwold POoSN / 4 Buy

1976 Crossing the Border POoSSC / 14 Buy

1977 Night-Side POoSSC / 15 Buy

1978 Cybele POoSN / 5 Buy

1978 Son of the Morning POoSN / 6 Buy

1978 Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money POoSSC / 16 Buy

1978 Marriages and Infidelities POoSSC / 17 Buy

1979 Unholy Loves POoSN / 7 Buy

1979 All the Good People I've Left Behind POoSSC / 18 Buy

1980 Bellefleur POoTGSB / 1 Buy

1980 A Sentimental Education POoSSC / 19 Buy

1980 Three Plays POoSSC / 20 Buy

1981 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz POoLCB / 2 Buy

1981 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs(By: Tobias Wolff) POoAotSB / 3 Buy

1981 Contraries POoNB / 4 Buy

1981 Angel of Light POoSN / 8 Buy

1981 The Perfectionist and Other Plays POoSSC / 21 Buy

1982 A Bloodsmoor Romance POoSN / 9 Buy

1982 Invisible Woman POoSSC / 22 Buy

1983 Conversations with Graham Greene POoLCB / 3 Buy

1984 First Person Singular POoNB / 5 Buy

1984 Mysteries of Winterthurn POoSN / 10 Buy

1984 Luxury of Sin POoSN / 11 Buy

1984 Wild Saturday, and Other Stories POoSSC / 23 Buy

1984 Last Days POoSSC / 24 Buy

1985 Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 4 Buy

1985 Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 5 Buy

1985 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer POoLCB / 6 Buy

1985 The Profane Art POoNB / 6 Buy

1985 Conversations with William Styron POoLCB / 7 Buy

1985 Solstice POoSN / 12 Buy

1986 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley POoLCB / 8 Buy

1986 Conversations with Lillian Hellman POoLCB / 9 Buy

1986 Conversations with Tennessee Williams POoLCB / 10 Buy

1986 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway POoLCB / 11 Buy

1986 Marya: A Life POoSN / 13 Buy

1986 Raven's Wing POoSSC / 25 Buy

1987 Volume I: The Color of Evil POoTDDB / 1 Buy

1987 On Boxing POoNB / 7 Buy

1987 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter POoLCB / 12 Buy

1987 Truman Capote: Conversations POoLCB / 13 Buy

1987 Lives of the Twins / Kindred Passions(As: Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 14 Buy

1987 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor POoLCB / 14 Buy

1987 You Must Remember This POoSN / 15 Buy

1987 Conversations with Peter Taylor POoLCB / 15 Buy

1987 Conversations with Arthur Miller POoLCB / 16 Buy

1988 Woman Writer POoNB / 8 Buy

1988 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut POoLCB / 17 Buy

1988 Conversations with Edward Albee POoLCB / 18 Buy

1988 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell POoLCB / 19 Buy

1988 Conversations with Norman Mailer POoLCB / 20 Buy

1988 The Assignation POoSSC / 26 Buy

1989 American Appetites POoSN / 16 Buy

1989 Conversations with Robert Graves POoLCB / 21 Buy

1989 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates POoLCB / 22 Buy

1989 Conversations with Shelby Foote POoLCB / 23 Buy

1989 Conversations with Robertson Davies POoLCB / 24 Buy

1989 Conversations with James Baldwin POoLCB / 25 Buy

1989 Time Traveler POoSSC / 27 Buy

1990 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield POoTDDB / 2 Buy

1990 I Lock My Door Upon Myself POoSS / 2 Buy

1990 Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart POoSN / 17 Buy

1990 Soul/Mate(As: Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 18 Buy

1990 Nemesis(As:Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 19 Buy

1990 Conversations with John Gardner POoLCB / 26 Buy

1990 Conversations with Richard Wilbur POoLCB / 27 Buy

1990 Conversations with Tom Wolfe POoLCB / 28 Buy

1990 Conversations with Raymond Carver POoLCB / 29 Buy

1990 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill POoLCB / 30 Buy

1991 The Key & Tone Clusters: Two Short Plays POoP / 2 Buy

1991 The Rise of Life on Earth POoSS / 3 Buy

1991 I Stand Before You Naked POoP / 3 Buy

1991 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness POoTDDB / 3 Buy

1991 Heat and Other Stories POoSSC / 28 Buy

1991 Oates in Exile POoSSC / 29 Buy

1991 Twelve Plays POoSSC / 30 Buy

1991 Conversations with Reynolds Price POoLCB / 31 Buy

1991 Conversations with Bernard Malamud POoLCB / 32 Buy

1991 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer POoLCB / 33 Buy

1992 Black Water POoSS / 4 Buy

1992 Snake Eyes(As:Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 20 Buy

1992 Where is Here? POoSSC / 31 Buy

1992 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni POoLCB / 34 Buy

1992 Conversations With Thornton Wilder POoLCB / 35 Buy

1992 Conversations with Robert Coles POoLCB / 36 Buy

1992 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher POoLCB / 37 Buy

1993 For Better and for Worse POoSSB / 1 Buy

1993 Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang POoSN / 21 Buy

1993 More Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 38 Buy

1993 Conversations with Richard Wright POoLCB / 39 Buy

1993 Conversations with Paul Bowles POoLCB / 40 Buy

1994 What I Lived For POoSN / 22 Buy

1994 Haunted POoSSC / 32 Buy

1994 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris POoLCB / 41 Buy

1994 Conversations with Amiri Baraka POoLCB / 42 Buy

1994 Conversations with Toni Morrison POoLCB / 43 Buy

1994 Conversations with Saul Bellow POoLCB / 44 Buy

1994 Conversations with Henry Miller POoLCB / 45 Buy

1995 Winnie the Pooh's Valentine(By: Bruce Talkington) POoWtPB / 2 Buy

1995 The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career POoNB / 9 Buy

1995 Zombie POoSN / 23 Buy

1995 You Can't Catch Me(As:Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 24 Buy

1995 Conversations With S.J. Perelman POoLCB / 46 Buy

1995 Conversations with Ernest Gaines POoLCB / 47 Buy

1995 Conversations with Ralph Ellison POoLCB / 48 Buy

1995 Conversations with Chester Himes POoLCB / 49 Buy

1995 Conversations with Susan Sontag POoLCB / 50 Buy

1995 Conversations with Ishmael Reed POoLCB / 51 Buy

1996 Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh!(By: Bruce Talkington) POoWtPB / 3 Buy

1996 First Love POoSS / 5 Buy

1996 We Were the Mulvaneys POoSN / 25 Buy

1996 Tenderness POoSSC / 33 Buy

1996 Demon and Other Tales POoSSC / 34 Buy

1996 Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories POoSSC / 35 Buy

1996 Conversations with Derek Walcott POoLCB / 52 Buy

1996 More Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 53 Buy

1996 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop POoLCB / 54 Buy

1996 Conversations with Pauline Kael POoLCB / 55 Buy

1997 Pooh's Christmas Box(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 4 Buy

1997 Man Crazy POoSN / 26 Buy

1997 Double Delight(As:Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 27 Buy

1997 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul POoLCB / 56 Buy

1997 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday POoLCB / 57 Buy

1997 Conversations with Chinua Achebe POoLCB / 58 Buy

1998 Come Meet Muffin! POoPB / 1 Buy

1998 Even More Laughs POoSSB / 2 Buy

1998 My Heart Laid Bare POoTGSB / 2 Buy

1998 The Essential Tales of Chekhov(By: Anton Chekhov) POoAotSB / 4 Buy

1998 Pooh's Mailbox(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 5 Buy

1998 Pooh's Wishing Star(By: Bruce Talkington) POoWtPB / 6 Buy

1998 Pooh's Friends(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 7 Buy

1998 The Collector of Hearts POoSSC / 36 Buy

1998 New Plays POoSSC / 37 Buy

1998 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston POoLCB / 59 Buy

1998 Conversations with Denise Levertov POoLCB / 60 Buy

1999 Muhammad Ali: Ringside(With: Norman Mailer,Alex Haley) POoNB / 10 Buy

1999 Broke Heart Blues POoSN / 28 Buy

1999 Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon(As:Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 29 Buy

1999 Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going POoSSC / 38 Buy

1999 Conversations With William Faulkner POoLCB / 61 Buy

1999 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow POoLCB / 62 Buy

1999 Conversations With John Fowles POoLCB / 63 Buy

2000 In Shock POoSS / 6 Buy

2000 Family of Tiggers(By: Victoria Saxon) POoWtPB / 8 Buy

2000 Once Upon a Time with Winnie the Pooh(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 9 Buy

2000 George Bellows: American Artist POoNB / 11 Buy

2000 Blonde POoSN / 30 Buy

2000 Conversations with Salman Rushdie POoLCB / 64 Buy

2000 Conversations with William S. Burroughs POoLCB / 65 Buy

2000 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko POoLCB / 66 Buy

2001 Beasts POoSS / 7 Buy

2001 Disney's Winnie the Pooh Goes to School(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 10 Buy

2001 Hello, Spring!(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 11 Buy

2001 A Bear-y Good Neighbor(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 12 Buy

2001 Time For School, Pooh(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 13 Buy

2001 Here Comes Winter!(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 14 Buy

2001 Where's Pooh?(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 15 Buy

2001 Disney's Winnie the Pooh Balloon Book(By: Walt Disney) POoWtPB / 16 Buy

2001 The Barrens(As:Rosamond Smith) POoSN / 31 Buy

2001 Middle-Age: A Romance POoSN / 32 Buy

2001 Faithless POoSSC / 39 Buy

2001 Conversations with Chaim Potok POoLCB / 67 Buy

2001 Conversations with Richard Ford POoLCB / 68 Buy

2001 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood POoLCB / 69 Buy

2002 San Francisco Noir POoANB / 1 Buy

2002 The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates POoNB / 12 Buy

2002 I'll Take You There POoSN / 33 Buy

2002 Big Mouth and Ugly Girl POoSN / 34 Buy

2002 Conversations with Mary Gordon POoLCB / 70 Buy

2002 Conversations with Jim Harrison POoLCB / 71 Buy

2002 Conversations with Clarence Major POoLCB / 72 Buy

2002 Conversations with Margaret Walker POoLCB / 73 Buy

2002 Conversations with Erica Jong POoLCB / 74 Buy

2002 Elie Wiesel: Conversations POoLCB / 75 Buy

2003 Where is Little Reynard?(With: Mark Graham) POoPB / 2 Buy

2003 Seattle Noir POoANB / 2 Buy

2003 Bronx Noir POoANB / 3 Buy

2003 The Haunting POoSS / 8 Buy

2003 Rape POoSS / 9 Buy

2003 The Faith of a Writer POoNB / 13 Buy

2003 Freaky Green Eyes POoSN / 35 Buy

2003 The Tattooed Girl POoSN / 36 Buy

2003 Small Avalanches and Other Stories POoSSC / 40 Buy

2003 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations POoLCB / 76 Buy

2003 Conversations with Rita Dove POoLCB / 77 Buy

2003 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald POoLCB / 78 Buy

2003 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks POoLCB / 79 Buy

2003 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann POoLCB / 80 Buy

2004 Brooklyn Noir POoANB / 4 Buy

2004 Hasidic Noir POoANB / 5 Buy

2004 The Garden Party and Other Stories(By: Katherine Mansfield) POoAotSB / 5 Buy

2004 The Falls POoSN / 37 Buy

2004 I Am No One You Know POoSSC / 41 Buy

2004 Conversations with Gloria Naylor POoLCB / 81 Buy

2004 Conversations with Audre Lorde POoLCB / 82 Buy

2004 Conversations with Ray Bradbury POoLCB / 83 Buy

2004 Conversations With John le Carr’ POoLCB / 84 Buy

2005 Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Walter Mosley,John Farris) POoTB / 1 Buy

2005 The Cocaine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Gary Phillips,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody) POoADCB / 1 Buy

2005 Brooklyn Noir 2 POoANB / 6 Buy

2005 Chicago Noir POoANB / 7 Buy

2005 Dublin Noir POoANB / 8 Buy

2005 Uncensored POoNB / 14 Buy

2005 Winnie the Pooh Christmas(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) POoWtPB / 17 Buy

2005 Sexy POoSN / 38 Buy

2005 Missing Mom / Mother, Missing POoSN / 39 Buy

2005 The Female of the Species POoSSC / 42 Buy

2005 Conversations with Isaac Asimov POoLCB / 85 Buy

2005 Conversations with Don DeLillo POoLCB / 86 Buy

2005 Conversations with Gore Vidal POoLCB / 87 Buy

2005 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren POoLCB / 88 Buy

2005 Conversations with Jack Kerouac POoLCB / 89 Buy

2005 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez POoLCB / 90 Buy

2006 Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) POoTB / 2 Buy

2006 Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) POoTB / 3 Buy

2006 Timeless Classics POoSSB / 3 Buy

2006 Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) POoTB / 4 Buy

2006 Manhattan Noir POoANB / 9 Buy

2006 Miami Noir POoANB / 10 Buy

2006 D.C. Noir POoANB / 11 Buy

2006 Baltimore Noir POoANB / 12 Buy

2006 Twin Cities Noir POoANB / 13 Buy

2006 London Noir POoANB / 14 Buy

2006 Black Girl/White Girl POoSN / 40 Buy

2006 After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away POoSN / 41 Buy

2006 High Lonesome POoSSC / 43 Buy

2006 Conversations with Thomas McGuane POoLCB / 91 Buy

2007 Falling in Love POoSSB / 4 Buy

2007 Food Fictions POoSSB / 5 Buy

2007 Travel Tales POoSSB / 6 Buy

2007 Edith Wharton POoSSB / 7 Buy

2007 Pets! POoSSB / 8 Buy

2007 Tales of Betrayal POoSSB / 9 Buy

2007 Family Matters POoSSB / 10 Buy

2007 A Widow's Story POoNB / 15 Buy

2007 New Orleans Noir POoANB / 15 Buy

2007 Los Angeles Noir POoANB / 16 Buy

2007 Wall Street Noir POoANB / 17 Buy

2007 Havana Noir POoANB / 18 Buy

2007 Detroit Noir POoANB / 19 Buy

2007 The Gravedigger's Daughter POoSN / 42 Buy

2007 Little Bird of Heaven POoSN / 43 Buy

2007 The Museum of Dr. Moses POoSSC / 44 Buy

2007 Conversations with Larry Brown POoLCB / 92 Buy

2007 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez POoLCB / 93 Buy

2007 Conversations with Wendell Berry POoLCB / 94 Buy

2007 Conversations with Leon Forrest POoLCB / 95 Buy

2008 Naughty Ch’rie!(With: Mark Graham) POoPB / 3 Buy

2008 Continent(By: Jim Crace) POoAotSB / 7 Buy

2008 Are We There Yet? POoSSB / 11 Buy

2008 Queens Noir POoANB / 20 Buy

2008 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth POoANB / 21 Buy

2008 Toronto Noir POoANB / 22 Buy

2008 Las Vegas Noir POoANB / 23 Buy

2008 Trinidad Noir POoANB / 24 Buy

2008 D.C. Noir 2 POoANB / 25 Buy

2008 Manhattan Noir 2 POoANB / 26 Buy

2008 Paris Noir POoANB / 27 Buy

2008 Istanbul Noir POoANB / 28 Buy

2008 My Sister, My Love POoSN / 44 Buy

2008 Wild Nights! POoSSC / 45 Buy

2008 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro POoLCB / 96 Buy

2009 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One POoBHotYB / 1 Buy

2009 Tunneling to the Center of the Earth(By: Kevin Wilson) POoAotSB / 8 Buy

2009 A Touch of Magic POoSSB / 12 Buy

2009 The William Hurt Collection POoSSB / 13 Buy

2009 Whodunit? POoSSB / 14 Buy

2009 Boston Noir POoANB / 29 Buy

2009 Rome Noir POoANB / 30 Buy

2009 San Francisco Noir 2 POoANB / 31 Buy

2009 Portland Noir POoANB / 32 Buy

2009 Delhi Noir POoANB / 33 Buy

2009 Phoenix Noir POoANB / 34 Buy

2009 Dear Husband POoSSC / 46 Buy

2010 L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories POoLNTCSB / 1 Buy

2010 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two POoBHotYB / 2 Buy

2010 Fossil-Fiigures POoSS / 10 Buy

2010 Spotted Hyenas POoSS / 11 Buy

2010 American Classics POoSSB / 15 Buy

2010 In Rough Country POoNB / 16 Buy

2010 Los Angeles Noir 2 POoANB / 35 Buy

2010 Mexico City Noir POoANB / 36 Buy

2010 Richmond Noir POoANB / 37 Buy

2010 Orange County Noir POoANB / 38 Buy

2010 Indian Country Noir POoANB / 39 Buy

2010 Moscow Noir POoANB / 40 Buy

2010 Lone Star Noir POoANB / 41 Buy

2010 Philadelphia Noir POoANB / 42 Buy

2010 Haiti Noir POoANB / 43 Buy

2010 Copenhagen Noir POoANB / 44 Buy

2010 A Fair Maiden POoSN / 45 Buy

2010 Give Me Your Heart POoSSC / 47 Buy

2010 Sourland POoSSC / 48 Buy

2011 Black DahliaWhite Rose POoLNTCSB / 2 Buy

2011 The Speed Chronicles(By: Megan Abbott,Scott Phillips,Sherman Alexie,James Franco,William T. Vollmann,Jess Walter,Beth Lisick,Tao Lin,JamesGreer,Jerry Stahl,Natalie D’az,Joseph Mattson,Kenji Jasper,Rose Bunch) POoADCB / 2 Buy

2011 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three POoBHotYB / 3 Buy

2011 New American Stories POoSSB / 16 Buy

2011 A Hundred-Acre-Wood Treasury(By: Walt Disney) POoWtPB / 18 Buy

2011 Winnie the Pooh Surprise Tails(By: Walt Disney) POoWtPB / 19 Buy

2011 Party in the Wood POoWtPB / 20 Buy

2011 Pittsburgh Noir POoANB / 45 Buy

2011 San Diego Noir POoANB / 46 Buy

2011 Barcelona Noir POoANB / 47 Buy

2011 Cape Cod Noir POoANB / 48 Buy

2011 The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares POoSSC / 49 Buy

2011 New Jersey Noir POoANB / 49 Buy

2012 The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) POoBB / 1 Buy

2012 Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) POoBB / 2 Buy

2012 The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) POoBB / 3 Buy

2012 The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) POoBB / 4 Buy

2012 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four POoBHotYB / 4 Buy

2012 An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) POoBB / 5 Buy

2012 Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) POoBB / 6 Buy

2012 Monstress(By: Lysley Tenorio) POoAotSB / 9 Buy

2012 Patricide POoSS / 12 Buy

2012 The Rescuer POoSS / 13 Buy

2012 Gerald Slota: Story POoNB / 17 Buy

2012 Poe! POoSSB / 17 Buy

2012 Sweet Dreams, Roo(By: Catherine Hapka) POoWtPB / 21 Buy

2012 Pooh's Easter Basket(By: Catherine Hapka) POoWtPB / 22 Buy

2012 Pooh's Honey Trouble(By: Walt Disney) POoWtPB / 23 Buy

2012 A Gift for Pooh(By: Sara F. Miller) POoWtPB / 24 Buy

2012 Out of Bounce(By: Walt Disney,Lisa Ann Marsoli) POoWtPB / 25 Buy

2012 Mudwoman POoSN / 46 Buy

2012 Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You POoSN / 47 Buy

2012 Staten Island Noir POoANB / 50 Buy

2012 Mumbai Noir POoANB / 51 Buy

2012 Long Island Noir POoANB / 52 Buy

2012 Venice Noir POoANB / 53 Buy

2012 Kingston Noir POoANB / 54 Buy

2012 St. Petersburg Noir POoANB / 55 Buy

2012 Kansas City Noir POoANB / 56 Buy

2012 Boston Noir 2 POoANB / 57 Buy

2013 The Accursed POoTGSB / 3 Buy

2013 The Heroin Chronicles(By: Jervey Tervalon,Lydia Lunch,Erin Moon,Nathan Larson,Antonia Crane,Jerry Stahl,Eric Bogosian,Ava Stander,John Albert,Michael Albo,Sophia Langdon,Tony O'Neill,L.Z. Hansen) POoADCB / 3 Buy

2013 The Marijuana Chronicles(By: Jonathan Santlofer) POoADCB / 4 Buy

2013 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five POoBHotYB / 5 Buy

2013 The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) POoBB / 7 Buy

2013 Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) POoBB / 8 Buy

2013 The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) POoBB / 9 Buy

2013 The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) POoBB / 10 Buy

2013 Pooh's Halloween Pumpkin(By: Catherine Hapka,Disney Storybook Artists) POoWtPB / 26 Buy

2013 Daddy Love POoSN / 48 Buy

2013 Evil Eye POoSSC / 50 Buy

2013 USA Noir POoANB / 58 Buy

2013 Manila Noir POoANB / 59 Buy

2013 Buffalo Noir POoANB / 60 Buy

2013 Dallas Noir POoANB / 61 Buy

2013 Haiti Noir 2 POoANB / 62 Buy

2014 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six POoBHotYB / 6 Buy

2014 The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) POoBB / 11 Buy

2014 What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) POoBB / 12 Buy

2014 Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) POoBB / 13 Buy

2014 The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) POoBB / 14 Buy

2014 The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) POoBB / 15 Buy

2014 Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) POoBB / 16 Buy

2014 The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) POoBB / 17 Buy

2014 It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) POoBB / 18 Buy

2014 The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) POoBB / 19 Buy

2014 Carthage POoSN / 49 Buy

2014 High Crime Area POoSSC / 51 Buy

2014 Lovely, Dark, Deep POoSSC / 52 Buy

2014 Singapore Noir POoANB / 63 Buy

2014 Prison Noir POoANB / 64 Buy

2014 Tel Aviv Noir POoANB / 65 Buy

2014 Tehran Noir POoANB / 66 Buy

2014 Belfast Noir POoANB / 67 Buy

2014 Helsinki Noir POoANB / 68 Buy

2014 Rio Noir POoANB / 69 Buy

2015 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven POoBHotYB / 7 Buy

2015 Mr. and Mrs. Baby(By: Mark Strand) POoAotSB / 10 Buy

2015 Mystery, Inc. POoSS / 14 Buy

2015 The Lost Landscape POoNB / 18 Buy

2015 The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) POoBB / 20 Buy

2015 The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) POoBB / 21 Buy

2015 Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) POoBB / 22 Buy

2015 Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) POoBB / 24 Buy

2015 From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) POoBB / 25 Buy

2015 The Sacrifice POoSN / 50 Buy

2015 Jack of Spades POoSN / 51 Buy

2015 Providence Noir POoANB / 70 Buy

2015 Chicago Noir: The Classics POoANB / 71 Buy

2015 Memphis Noir POoANB / 72 Buy

2015 Zagreb Noir POoANB / 73 Buy

2015 Marseille Noir POoANB / 74 Buy

2015 Beirut Noir POoANB / 75 Buy

2016 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight POoBHotYB / 8 Buy

2016 Big Momma POoSS / 15 Buy

2016 Gun Accident POoSS / 16 Buy

2016 The Crawl Space POoSS / 17 Buy

2016 Soul at the White Heat POoNB / 19 Buy

2016 The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) POoBB / 26 Buy

2016 Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) POoBB / 27 Buy

2016 Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) POoBB / 28 Buy

2016 Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) POoBB / 29 Buy

2016 The Haze(By: James W. Hall) POoBB / 30 Buy

2016 The Man Without a Shadow POoSN / 52 Buy

2016 The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror POoSSC / 53 Buy

2016 New Orleans Noir: The Classics POoANB / 76 Buy

2016 Stockholm Noir POoANB / 77 Buy

2016 Brussels Noir POoANB / 78 Buy

2016 Mississippi Noir POoANB / 79 Buy

2016 St. Louis Noir POoANB / 80 Buy

2016 Prague Noir POoANB / 81 Buy

2016 San Juan Noir POoANB / 82 Buy

2017 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine POoBHotYB / 9 Buy

2017 The Vanishing Princess(By: Jenny Diski) POoAotSB / 11 Buy

2017 The Sign of the Beast POoSS / 18 Buy

2017 Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) POoBB / 31 Buy

2017 A Book of American Martyrs POoSN / 53 Buy

2017 Oakland Noir POoANB / 83 Buy

2017 Trinidad Noir: The Classics POoANB / 84 Buy

2017 Atlanta Noir POoANB / 85 Buy

2017 New Haven Noir POoANB / 86 Buy

2017 Montana Noir POoANB / 87 Buy

2017 Buenos Aires Noir POoANB / 88 Buy

2017 Montreal Noir POoANB / 89 Buy

2018 Hannah-Beast(By: Jennifer McMahon) POoDCB / 1 Buy

2018 The Sleep Tight Motel(By: Lisa Unger) POoDCB / 2 Buy

2018 There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed(By: Edgar Cantero) POoDCB / 3 Buy

2018 Miao Dao POoDCB / 4 Buy

2018 The Tangled Woods(By: Emily Raboteau) POoDCB / 5 Buy

2018 The Remedy(By: Adam Haslett) POoDCB / 6 Buy

2018 Oak Avenue(By: Brandi Reeds) POoDCB / 7 Buy

2018 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten POoBHotYB / 10 Buy

2018 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction POoBHotYB / 11 Buy

2018 We Are Taking Only What We Need(By: Stephanie Powell Watts) POoAotSB / 12 Buy

2018 Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls(By: Alissa Nutting) POoAotSB / 13 Buy

2018 Catastrophe and Other Stories(By: Dino Buzzati) POoAotSB / 14 Buy

2018 The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) POoBB / 32 Buy

2018 Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) POoBB / 33 Buy

2018 The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) POoBB / 34 Buy

2018 The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) POoBB / 35 Buy

2018 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) POoBB / 36 Buy

2018 Hazards of Time Travel POoSN / 54 Buy

2018 Beautiful Days POoSSC / 54 Buy

2018 Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense POoSSC / 55 Buy

2018 Dis Mem Ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense POoSSC / 56 Buy

2018 Berlin Noir POoANB / 90 Buy

2018 S’o Paulo Noir POoANB / 91 Buy

2018 Santa Cruz Noir POoANB / 92 Buy

2018 Lagos Noir POoANB / 93 Buy

2018 Marrakech Noir POoANB / 94 Buy

2018 Baghdad Noir POoANB / 95 Buy

2018 Vancouver Noir POoANB / 96 Buy

2018 Sydney Noir POoANB / 97 Buy

2018 Hong Kong Noir POoANB / 98 Buy

2019 The New Kitten POoPB / 4 Buy

2019 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven POoBHotYB / 12 Buy

2019 Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry(By: Elizabeth McCracken) POoAotSB / 15 Buy

2019 Hue and Cry(By: Edward P. Jones,James McPherson) POoAotSB / 16 Buy

2019 My Life as a Rat POoSN / 55 Buy

2019 The Pursuit POoSN / 56 Buy

2019 Amsterdam Noir POoANB / 99 Buy

2019 Milwaukee Noir POoANB / 100 Buy

2019 Houston Noir POoANB / 101 Buy

2020 The Nicotine Chronicles POoADCB / 5 Buy

2020 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve POoBHotYB / 13 Buy

2020 The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) POoBB / 37 Buy

2020 Cardiff, by the Sea POoSSC / 57 Buy

2020 Night Sleep Death The Stars POoSN / 57 Buy

2020 Nairobi Noir POoANB / 102 Buy

2020 Columbus Noir POoANB / 103 Buy

2020 Santa Fe Noir POoANB / 104 Buy

2020 Alabama Noir POoANB / 105 Buy

2020 Berkeley Noir POoANB / 106 Buy

2020 Addis Ababa Noir POoANB / 107 Buy

2020 Tampa Bay Noir POoANB / 108 Buy

2020 Miami Noir: The Classics POoANB / 109 Buy

2020 Accra Noir POoANB / 110 Buy

2020 Belgrade Noir POoANB / 111 Buy

2021 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen POoBHotYB / 14 Buy

2021 The Hurly Burly and Other Stories(By: Russell Banks,A.E. Coppard) POoAotSB / 17 Buy

2021 The Little Things in Life(By: Walt Disney,Catherine Hapka,Disney Storybook Art Team) POoWtPB / 27 Buy

2021 The (Other) You: Stories POoSSC / 58 Buy

2021 Breathe POoSN / 58 Buy

2021 American Melancholy: Poems POoSSC / 59 Buy

2021 Night, Neon POoSSC / 60 Buy

2021 Palm Springs Noir POoANB / 112 Buy

2022 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen POoBHotYB / 15 Buy

2022 Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary(By: Francine Prose,Johanna Kaplan) POoAotSB / 18 Buy

2022 33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister POoSS / 19 Buy

2022 The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) POoBB / 38 Buy

2022 The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) POoBB / 39 Buy

2022 The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) POoBB / 40 Buy

2022 Babysitter POoSN / 59 Buy

2022 Extenuating Circumstances POoSSC / 61 Buy

2022 Paris Noir: The Suburbs POoANB / 113 Buy

2022 Denver Noir POoANB / 114 Buy

2022 South Central Noir POoANB / 115 Buy

2023 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister POoSN / 60 Buy

2023 Zero Sum POoSSC / 62 Buy

2023 Conversations with Jimmy Carter POoLCB / 97 Buy

2023 Cleveland Noir POoANB / 116 Buy

2023 East Jerusalem Noir POoANB / 117 Buy

2023 West Jerusalem Noir POoANB / 118 Buy

2024 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen POoBHotYB / 16 Buy

2024 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen POoBHotYB / 17 Buy

2024 Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer(With: Greg Johnson) POoNB / 20 Buy

2024 Butcher POoSN / 61 Buy

2024 Flint Kill Creek POoSSC / 63 Buy

2024 Honolulu Noir POoANB / 119 Buy

2025 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen POoBHotYB / 18 Buy

2025 Fox POoSN / 62 Buy

2025 Sacramento Noir POoANB / 120 Buy

2025 Hamburg Noir POoANB / 121 Buy

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Short Stories/Novellas Books in Reading Order 19 books / 1976-2022

01 The Triumph of the Spider Monkey 1976 Buy

02 I Lock My Door Upon Myself 1990 Buy

03 The Rise of Life on Earth 1991 Buy

04 Black Water 1992 Buy

05 First Love 1996 Buy

06 In Shock 2000 Buy

07 Beasts 2001 Buy

08 The Haunting 2003 Buy

09 Rape 2003 Buy

10 Fossil-Fiigures 2010 Buy

11 Spotted Hyenas 2010 Buy

12 Patricide 2012 Buy

13 The Rescuer 2012 Buy

14 Mystery, Inc. 2015 Buy

15 Big Momma 2016 Buy

16 Gun Accident 2016 Buy

17 The Crawl Space 2016 Buy

18 The Sign of the Beast 2017 Buy

19 33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister 2022 Buy

Non-Fiction Books in Reading Order 20 books / 1972-2024

01 The Edge Of Impossibility 1972 Buy

02 Hostile Sun 1973 Buy

03 New Heaven New Earth 1974 Buy

04 Contraries 1981 Buy

05 First Person Singular 1984 Buy

06 The Profane Art 1985 Buy

07 On Boxing 1987 Buy

08 Woman Writer 1988 Buy

09 The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career 1995 Buy

10 Muhammad Ali: Ringside(With: Norman Mailer,Alex Haley) 1999 Buy

11 George Bellows: American Artist 2000 Buy

12 The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 2002 Buy

13 The Faith of a Writer 2003 Buy

14 Uncensored 2005 Buy

15 A Widow's Story 2007 Buy

16 In Rough Country 2010 Buy

17 Gerald Slota: Story 2012 Buy

18 The Lost Landscape 2015 Buy

19 Soul at the White Heat 2016 Buy

20 Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer(With: Greg Johnson) 2024 Buy

Short Story Collections Books in Reading Order 63 books / 1963-2024

01 By the North Gate 1963 Buy

02 The Goddess and Other Women 1966 Buy

03 Upon the Sweeping Flood, and Other Stories 1966 Buy

04 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 1966 Buy

05 Anonymous Sins and Other Poems 1969 Buy

06 The Wheel of Love and Other Stories 1970 Buy

07 Cupid & Psyche 1970 Buy

08 Angel Fire: Poems 1973 Buy

09 The Hungry Ghosts 1974 Buy

10 Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems 1974 Buy

11 The Fabulous Beasts 1975 Buy

12 The Seduction and Other Stories 1975 Buy

13 The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese 1975 Buy

14 Crossing the Border 1976 Buy

15 Night-Side 1977 Buy

16 Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money 1978 Buy

17 Marriages and Infidelities 1978 Buy

18 All the Good People I've Left Behind 1979 Buy

19 A Sentimental Education 1980 Buy

20 Three Plays 1980 Buy

21 The Perfectionist and Other Plays 1981 Buy

22 Invisible Woman 1982 Buy

23 Wild Saturday, and Other Stories 1984 Buy

24 Last Days 1984 Buy

25 Raven's Wing 1986 Buy

26 The Assignation 1988 Buy

27 Time Traveler 1989 Buy

28 Heat and Other Stories 1991 Buy

29 Oates in Exile 1991 Buy

30 Twelve Plays 1991 Buy

31 Where is Here? 1992 Buy

32 Haunted 1994 Buy

33 Tenderness 1996 Buy

34 Demon and Other Tales 1996 Buy

35 Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories 1996 Buy

36 The Collector of Hearts 1998 Buy

37 New Plays 1998 Buy

38 Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going 1999 Buy

39 Faithless 2001 Buy

40 Small Avalanches and Other Stories 2003 Buy

41 I Am No One You Know 2004 Buy

42 The Female of the Species 2005 Buy

43 High Lonesome 2006 Buy

44 The Museum of Dr. Moses 2007 Buy

45 Wild Nights! 2008 Buy

46 Dear Husband 2009 Buy

47 Give Me Your Heart 2010 Buy

48 Sourland 2010 Buy

49 The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares 2011 Buy

50 Evil Eye 2013 Buy

51 High Crime Area 2014 Buy

52 Lovely, Dark, Deep 2014 Buy

53 The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror 2016 Buy

54 Beautiful Days 2018 Buy

55 Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense 2018 Buy

56 Dis Mem Ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense 2018 Buy

57 Cardiff, by the Sea 2020 Buy

58 The (Other) You: Stories 2021 Buy

59 American Melancholy: Poems 2021 Buy

60 Night, Neon 2021 Buy

61 Extenuating Circumstances 2022 Buy

62 Zero Sum 2023 Buy

63 Flint Kill Creek 2024 Buy

Literary Conversations Books in Reading Order 97 books / 1969-2023

01 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969 Buy

02 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981 Buy

03 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983 Buy

04 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985 Buy

05 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985 Buy

06 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985 Buy

07 Conversations with William Styron 1985 Buy

08 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986 Buy

09 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986 Buy

10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986 Buy

11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986 Buy

12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987 Buy

13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987 Buy

14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987 Buy

15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987 Buy

16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987 Buy

17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988 Buy

18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988 Buy

19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988 Buy

20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988 Buy

21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989 Buy

22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989 Buy

23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989 Buy

24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989 Buy

25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989 Buy

26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990 Buy

27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990 Buy

28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990 Buy

29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990 Buy

30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990 Buy

31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991 Buy

32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991 Buy

33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991 Buy

34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992 Buy

35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992 Buy

36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992 Buy

37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992 Buy

38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993 Buy

39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993 Buy

40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993 Buy

41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994 Buy

42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994 Buy

43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994 Buy

44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994 Buy

45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994 Buy

46 Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995 Buy

47 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995 Buy

48 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995 Buy

49 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995 Buy

50 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995 Buy

51 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995 Buy

52 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996 Buy

53 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996 Buy

54 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996 Buy

55 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996 Buy

56 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997 Buy

57 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997 Buy

58 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997 Buy

59 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998 Buy

60 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998 Buy

61 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999 Buy

62 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999 Buy

63 Conversations With John Fowles 1999 Buy

64 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000 Buy

65 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000 Buy

66 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000 Buy

67 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001 Buy

68 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001 Buy

69 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001 Buy

70 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002 Buy

71 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002 Buy

72 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002 Buy

73 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002 Buy

74 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002 Buy

75 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002 Buy

76 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003 Buy

77 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003 Buy

78 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003 Buy

79 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003 Buy

80 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003 Buy

81 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004 Buy

82 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004 Buy

83 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004 Buy

84 Conversations With John le Carr’ 2004 Buy

85 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005 Buy

86 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005 Buy

87 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005 Buy

88 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005 Buy

89 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005 Buy

90 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez 2005 Buy

91 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006 Buy

92 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007 Buy

93 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007 Buy

94 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007 Buy

95 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007 Buy

96 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008 Buy

97 Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023 Buy

The Dark Descent Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1987-1991

01 Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987 Buy

02 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990 Buy

03 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991 Buy

Best Horror of the Year Books in Reading Order 18 books / 2009-2025

01 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009 Buy

02 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010 Buy

03 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011 Buy

04 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012 Buy

05 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013 Buy

06 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014 Buy

07 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015 Buy

08 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016 Buy

09 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017 Buy

10 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018 Buy

11 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018 Buy

12 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019 Buy

13 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020 Buy

14 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021 Buy

15 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022 Buy

16 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024 Buy

17 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024 Buy

18 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025 Buy

Wonderland Quartet/Garden Of Earthly Delights Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1967-1971

01 A Garden of Earthly Delights 1967 Buy

02 Expensive People 1968 Buy

03 Them 1969 Buy

04 Wonderland 1971 Buy

Bibliomysteries Books in Reading Order 39 books / 2012-2022

01 The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Buy

02 Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) 2012 Buy

03 The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Buy

04 The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Buy

05 An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Buy

06 Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012 Buy

07 The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Buy

08 Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013 Buy

09 The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Buy

10 The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Buy

11 The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Buy

12 What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Buy

13 Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Buy

14 The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Buy

15 The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Buy

16 Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Buy

17 The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Buy

18 It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 2014 Buy

19 The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) 2014 Buy

20 The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Buy

21 The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Buy

22 Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) 2015 Buy

24 Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015 Buy

25 From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Buy

26 The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Buy

27 Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Buy

28 Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Buy

29 Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016 Buy

30 The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016 Buy

31 Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Buy

32 The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018 Buy

33 Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Buy

34 The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Buy

35 The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Buy

36 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018 Buy

37 The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020 Buy

38 The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Buy

39 The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Buy

40 The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Buy

Akashic Drug Chronicles Books in Reading Order 5 books / 2005-2020

01 The Cocaine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Gary Phillips,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody) 2005 Buy

02 The Speed Chronicles(By: Megan Abbott,Scott Phillips,Sherman Alexie,James Franco,William T. Vollmann,Jess Walter,Beth Lisick,Tao Lin,JamesGreer,Jerry Stahl,Natalie D’az,Joseph Mattson,Kenji Jasper,Rose Bunch) 2011 Buy

03 The Heroin Chronicles(By: Jervey Tervalon,Lydia Lunch,Erin Moon,Nathan Larson,Antonia Crane,Jerry Stahl,Eric Bogosian,Ava Stander,John Albert,Michael Albo,Sophia Langdon,Tony O'Neill,L.Z. Hansen) 2013 Buy

04 The Marijuana Chronicles(By: Jonathan Santlofer) 2013 Buy

05 The Nicotine Chronicles 2020 Buy

Winnie the Pooh Books in Reading Order 27 books / 1899-2021

01 Disney's Have You Seen My Pot of Honey?(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 1899 Buy

02 Winnie the Pooh's Valentine(By: Bruce Talkington) 1995 Buy

03 Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh!(By: Bruce Talkington) 1996 Buy

04 Pooh's Christmas Box(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 1997 Buy

05 Pooh's Mailbox(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 1998 Buy

06 Pooh's Wishing Star(By: Bruce Talkington) 1998 Buy

07 Pooh's Friends(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 1998 Buy

08 Family of Tiggers(By: Victoria Saxon) 2000 Buy

09 Once Upon a Time with Winnie the Pooh(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2000 Buy

10 Disney's Winnie the Pooh Goes to School(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001 Buy

11 Hello, Spring!(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001 Buy

12 A Bear-y Good Neighbor(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001 Buy

13 Time For School, Pooh(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001 Buy

14 Here Comes Winter!(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001 Buy

15 Where's Pooh?(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001 Buy

16 Disney's Winnie the Pooh Balloon Book(By: Walt Disney) 2001 Buy

17 Winnie the Pooh Christmas(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2005 Buy

18 A Hundred-Acre-Wood Treasury(By: Walt Disney) 2011 Buy

19 Winnie the Pooh Surprise Tails(By: Walt Disney) 2011 Buy

20 Party in the Wood 2011 Buy

21 Sweet Dreams, Roo(By: Catherine Hapka) 2012 Buy

22 Pooh's Easter Basket(By: Catherine Hapka) 2012 Buy

23 Pooh's Honey Trouble(By: Walt Disney) 2012 Buy

24 A Gift for Pooh(By: Sara F. Miller) 2012 Buy

25 Out of Bounce(By: Walt Disney,Lisa Ann Marsoli) 2012 Buy

26 Pooh's Halloween Pumpkin(By: Catherine Hapka,Disney Storybook Artists) 2013 Buy

27 The Little Things in Life(By: Walt Disney,Catherine Hapka,Disney Storybook Art Team) 2021 Buy

The Gothic Saga Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1980-2013

01 Bellefleur 1980 Buy

02 My Heart Laid Bare 1998 Buy

03 The Accursed 2013 Buy

Picture Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1998-2019

01 Come Meet Muffin! 1998 Buy

02 Where is Little Reynard?(With: Mark Graham) 2003 Buy

03 Naughty Ch’rie!(With: Mark Graham) 2008 Buy

04 The New Kitten 2019 Buy

Art of the Story Books in Reading Order 17 books / 1852-2022

01 A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev) 1852 Buy

02 The General Zapped an Angel(By: Howard Fast) 1970 Buy

03 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs(By: Tobias Wolff) 1981 Buy

04 The Essential Tales of Chekhov(By: Anton Chekhov) 1998 Buy

05 The Garden Party and Other Stories(By: Katherine Mansfield) 2004 Buy

07 Continent(By: Jim Crace) 2008 Buy

08 Tunneling to the Center of the Earth(By: Kevin Wilson) 2009 Buy

09 Monstress(By: Lysley Tenorio) 2012 Buy

10 Mr. and Mrs. Baby(By: Mark Strand) 2015 Buy

11 The Vanishing Princess(By: Jenny Diski) 2017 Buy

12 We Are Taking Only What We Need(By: Stephanie Powell Watts) 2018 Buy

13 Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls(By: Alissa Nutting) 2018 Buy

14 Catastrophe and Other Stories(By: Dino Buzzati) 2018 Buy

15 Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry(By: Elizabeth McCracken) 2019 Buy

16 Hue and Cry(By: Edward P. Jones,James McPherson) 2019 Buy

17 The Hurly Burly and Other Stories(By: Russell Banks,A.E. Coppard) 2021 Buy

18 Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary(By: Francine Prose,Johanna Kaplan) 2022 Buy

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books in Reading Order 2 books / 2010-2011

01 L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010 Buy

02 Black DahliaWhite Rose 2011 Buy

Selected Shorts Books in Reading Order 17 books / 1993-2012

01 For Better and for Worse 1993 Buy

02 Even More Laughs 1998 Buy

03 Timeless Classics 2006 Buy

04 Falling in Love 2007 Buy

05 Food Fictions 2007 Buy

06 Travel Tales 2007 Buy

07 Edith Wharton 2007 Buy

08 Pets! 2007 Buy

09 Tales of Betrayal 2007 Buy

10 Family Matters 2007 Buy

11 Are We There Yet? 2008 Buy

12 A Touch of Magic 2009 Buy

13 The William Hurt Collection 2009 Buy

14 Whodunit? 2009 Buy

15 American Classics 2010 Buy

16 New American Stories 2011 Buy

17 Poe! 2012 Buy

Dark Corners Books in Reading Order 7 books / 2018-2018

01 Hannah-Beast(By: Jennifer McMahon) 2018 Buy

02 The Sleep Tight Motel(By: Lisa Unger) 2018 Buy

03 There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed(By: Edgar Cantero) 2018 Buy

04 Miao Dao 2018 Buy

05 The Tangled Woods(By: Emily Raboteau) 2018 Buy

06 The Remedy(By: Adam Haslett) 2018 Buy

07 Oak Avenue(By: Brandi Reeds) 2018 Buy

Transgressions Books in Reading Order 4 books / 2005-2006

01 Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005 Buy

02 Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006 Buy

03 Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006 Buy

04 Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006 Buy

Standalone Books in Reading Order 62 books / 1964-2025

01 With Shuddering Fall 1964 Buy

02 Do With Me What You Will 1973 Buy

03 The Assassins: A Book of Hours 1975 Buy

04 Childwold 1976 Buy

05 Cybele 1978 Buy

06 Son of the Morning 1978 Buy

07 Unholy Loves 1979 Buy

08 Angel of Light 1981 Buy

09 A Bloodsmoor Romance 1982 Buy

10 Mysteries of Winterthurn 1984 Buy

11 Luxury of Sin 1984 Buy

12 Solstice 1985 Buy

13 Marya: A Life 1986 Buy

14 Lives of the Twins / Kindred Passions(As: Rosamond Smith) 1987 Buy

15 You Must Remember This 1987 Buy

16 American Appetites 1989 Buy

17 Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart 1990 Buy

18 Soul/Mate(As: Rosamond Smith) 1990 Buy

19 Nemesis(As:Rosamond Smith) 1990 Buy

20 Snake Eyes(As:Rosamond Smith) 1992 Buy

21 Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang 1993 Buy

22 What I Lived For 1994 Buy

23 Zombie 1995 Buy

24 You Can't Catch Me(As:Rosamond Smith) 1995 Buy

25 We Were the Mulvaneys 1996 Buy

26 Man Crazy 1997 Buy

27 Double Delight(As:Rosamond Smith) 1997 Buy

28 Broke Heart Blues 1999 Buy

29 Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon(As:Rosamond Smith) 1999 Buy

30 Blonde 2000 Buy

31 The Barrens(As:Rosamond Smith) 2001 Buy

32 Middle-Age: A Romance 2001 Buy

33 I'll Take You There 2002 Buy

34 Big Mouth and Ugly Girl 2002 Buy

35 Freaky Green Eyes 2003 Buy

36 The Tattooed Girl 2003 Buy

37 The Falls 2004 Buy

38 Sexy 2005 Buy

39 Missing Mom / Mother, Missing 2005 Buy

40 Black Girl/White Girl 2006 Buy

41 After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away 2006 Buy

42 The Gravedigger's Daughter 2007 Buy

43 Little Bird of Heaven 2007 Buy

44 My Sister, My Love 2008 Buy

45 A Fair Maiden 2010 Buy

46 Mudwoman 2012 Buy

47 Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You 2012 Buy

48 Daddy Love 2013 Buy

49 Carthage 2014 Buy

50 The Sacrifice 2015 Buy

51 Jack of Spades 2015 Buy

52 The Man Without a Shadow 2016 Buy

53 A Book of American Martyrs 2017 Buy

54 Hazards of Time Travel 2018 Buy

55 My Life as a Rat 2019 Buy

56 The Pursuit 2019 Buy

57 Night Sleep Death The Stars 2020 Buy

58 Breathe 2021 Buy

59 Babysitter 2022 Buy

60 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister 2023 Buy

61 Butcher 2024 Buy

62 Fox 2025 Buy

Akashic Noir Books in Reading Order 121 books / 2002-2025

01 San Francisco Noir 2002 Buy

02 Seattle Noir 2003 Buy

03 Bronx Noir 2003 Buy

04 Brooklyn Noir 2004 Buy

05 Hasidic Noir 2004 Buy

06 Brooklyn Noir 2 2005 Buy

07 Chicago Noir 2005 Buy

08 Dublin Noir 2005 Buy

09 Manhattan Noir 2006 Buy

10 Miami Noir 2006 Buy

11 D.C. Noir 2006 Buy

12 Baltimore Noir 2006 Buy

13 Twin Cities Noir 2006 Buy

14 London Noir 2006 Buy

15 New Orleans Noir 2007 Buy

16 Los Angeles Noir 2007 Buy

17 Wall Street Noir 2007 Buy

18 Havana Noir 2007 Buy

19 Detroit Noir 2007 Buy

20 Queens Noir 2008 Buy

21 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008 Buy

22 Toronto Noir 2008 Buy

23 Las Vegas Noir 2008 Buy

24 Trinidad Noir 2008 Buy

25 D.C. Noir 2 2008 Buy

26 Manhattan Noir 2 2008 Buy

27 Paris Noir 2008 Buy

28 Istanbul Noir 2008 Buy

29 Boston Noir 2009 Buy

30 Rome Noir 2009 Buy

31 San Francisco Noir 2 2009 Buy

32 Portland Noir 2009 Buy

33 Delhi Noir 2009 Buy

34 Phoenix Noir 2009 Buy

35 Los Angeles Noir 2 2010 Buy

36 Mexico City Noir 2010 Buy

37 Richmond Noir 2010 Buy

38 Orange County Noir 2010 Buy

39 Indian Country Noir 2010 Buy

40 Moscow Noir 2010 Buy

41 Lone Star Noir 2010 Buy

42 Philadelphia Noir 2010 Buy

43 Haiti Noir 2010 Buy

44 Copenhagen Noir 2010 Buy

45 Pittsburgh Noir 2011 Buy

46 San Diego Noir 2011 Buy

47 Barcelona Noir 2011 Buy

48 Cape Cod Noir 2011 Buy

49 New Jersey Noir 2011 Buy

50 Staten Island Noir 2012 Buy

51 Mumbai Noir 2012 Buy

52 Long Island Noir 2012 Buy

53 Venice Noir 2012 Buy

54 Kingston Noir 2012 Buy

55 St. Petersburg Noir 2012 Buy

56 Kansas City Noir 2012 Buy

57 Boston Noir 2 2012 Buy

58 USA Noir 2013 Buy

59 Manila Noir 2013 Buy

60 Buffalo Noir 2013 Buy

61 Dallas Noir 2013 Buy

62 Haiti Noir 2 2013 Buy

63 Singapore Noir 2014 Buy

64 Prison Noir 2014 Buy

65 Tel Aviv Noir 2014 Buy

66 Tehran Noir 2014 Buy

67 Belfast Noir 2014 Buy

68 Helsinki Noir 2014 Buy

69 Rio Noir 2014 Buy

70 Providence Noir 2015 Buy

71 Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015 Buy

72 Memphis Noir 2015 Buy

73 Zagreb Noir 2015 Buy

74 Marseille Noir 2015 Buy

75 Beirut Noir 2015 Buy

76 New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016 Buy

77 Stockholm Noir 2016 Buy

78 Brussels Noir 2016 Buy

79 Mississippi Noir 2016 Buy

80 St. Louis Noir 2016 Buy

81 Prague Noir 2016 Buy

82 San Juan Noir 2016 Buy

83 Oakland Noir 2017 Buy

84 Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017 Buy

85 Atlanta Noir 2017 Buy

86 New Haven Noir 2017 Buy

87 Montana Noir 2017 Buy

88 Buenos Aires Noir 2017 Buy

89 Montreal Noir 2017 Buy

90 Berlin Noir 2018 Buy

91 S’o Paulo Noir 2018 Buy

92 Santa Cruz Noir 2018 Buy

93 Lagos Noir 2018 Buy

94 Marrakech Noir 2018 Buy

95 Baghdad Noir 2018 Buy

96 Vancouver Noir 2018 Buy

97 Sydney Noir 2018 Buy

98 Hong Kong Noir 2018 Buy

99 Amsterdam Noir 2019 Buy

100 Milwaukee Noir 2019 Buy

101 Houston Noir 2019 Buy

102 Nairobi Noir 2020 Buy

103 Columbus Noir 2020 Buy

104 Santa Fe Noir 2020 Buy

105 Alabama Noir 2020 Buy

106 Berkeley Noir 2020 Buy

107 Addis Ababa Noir 2020 Buy

108 Tampa Bay Noir 2020 Buy

109 Miami Noir: The Classics 2020 Buy

110 Accra Noir 2020 Buy

111 Belgrade Noir 2020 Buy

112 Palm Springs Noir 2021 Buy

113 Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022 Buy

114 Denver Noir 2022 Buy

115 South Central Noir 2022 Buy

116 Cleveland Noir 2023 Buy

117 East Jerusalem Noir 2023 Buy

118 West Jerusalem Noir 2023 Buy

119 Honolulu Noir 2024 Buy

120 Sacramento Noir 2025 Buy

121 Hamburg Noir 2025 Buy

Plays Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1974-1991

01 Miracle Play 1974 Buy

02 The Key & Tone Clusters: Two Short Plays 1991 Buy

03 I Stand Before You Naked 1991 Buy

Where to start with Joyce Carol Oates

What is the best order to read Joyce Carol Oates books?

Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

Are standalone books and series both included?

Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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