Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels - April 2024

My Life as a Rat: A Novel

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one’s family ever justified?  Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it?  My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07FSQSWCX
• ASIN: B07FSQSWCX
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Black Water

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys “Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates’s already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues to haunt us.”—The New York TimesKelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old “good girl” when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0452269865
• ASIN: 0452269865
• ISBN: 9780452269866
• Manufacturer: Plume

Blonde: A Novel

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist—intensely conflicted and driven—who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N979PNC
• ASIN: B01N979PNC
• Manufacturer: Ecco

A Fair Maiden: A Novel

• ASIN: B003K15INA
• ASIN: B003K15INA
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Blonde: A Novel

One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of Marilyn Monroe—aka Norma Jeane Baker—comes provocatively alive in this powerful tale of Hollywood myth and heartbreaking reality. Marilyn Monroe lives—reborn to tell her untold history; her story of a star created to shine brightest in the Hollywood firmament before her fall to earth. Blonde is a dazzling fictional portrait of the intricate inner life of the idolized and desired movie star as on... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006093493X
• ASIN: 006093493X
• ISBN: 006093493X
• Manufacturer: HarpPeren

The Man Without a Shadow: A Novel

In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives—love.In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes—the “man without a shadow”—whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences or to retrieve the old, will make him the most famous and most studied amnesiac in history. Over the course of the next thirty... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00WR12MX8
• ASIN: B00WR12MX8
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Expensive People: A Novel

Beautifully redesigned, Joyce Carol Oates's most popular earlier novel, which explores the psyche of a preadolescent killer, is now back in print, with an afterword by the author.

• ASIN: 086538116X
• ASIN: 086538116X
• ISBN: 086538116X
• Brand: Brand: Ontario Review
• Manufacturer: Ontario Review

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TO... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455563927
• ASIN: 1455563927
• ISBN: 9781455563920
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers

• ASIN: 0393971767
• ASIN: 0393971767
• ISBN: 9780393971767
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

With Shuddering Fall: A Novel

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence—now back in print for fans of America’s most prolific storyteller.Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco.Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predom... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072BFJFJ5
• ASIN: B072BFJFJ5
• Manufacturer: Ecco

I'll Take You There: A Novel

"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in exposing the follies of the time, I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks—and curious rewards—of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060501189
• ASIN: 0060501189
• ISBN: 0060501189
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates “Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062319590
• ASIN: 0062319590
• ISBN: 0062319590
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)

• ASIN: B000FC293E
• ASIN: B000FC293E
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

Middle Age: A Romance

A darkly comic novel from the author of Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-age. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human? His loss and the rumor that surface of his possible lovers plunge his friends into grief, confusion, and self-reflection. The women who loved Adam find themselves engaging i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0066209463
• ASIN: 0066209463
• ISBN: 0066209463
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Accursed: A Novel

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damnedPrinceton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton; their daug... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0089LOG2A
• ASIN: B0089LOG2A
• Manufacturer: Ecco

My Sister, My Love. Joyce Carol Oates

"New York Times"-bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime

• UPC: 321819787
• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Essays of the Century

An anthology of fifty-five essays on a variety of topics features contributions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and other notable twentieth-century literary

• UPC: 1572777
• Rating: 4.0

Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204) : The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / other stories and sketches

Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century

• UPC: 13312264
• Rating: 5.0

Dark Eyes on America : The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates

Dark Eyes on America illuminates the vision of one of America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters, Joyce Carol Oates. In this remarkable study, the author discovers in her novels an evolving consciousness that

• UPC: 11592203

Hazards of Time Travel

9780062319593

• UPC: 849343947
• Rating: 2.75

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems,

• UPC: 19511015
• Rating: 5.0

American Gothic Tales

A collection of tales of horror and suspense begins with such nineteenth-century writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and includes the works of Flannery O'Connor, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and William

• UPC: 438151
• Rating: 4.0

New Jersey Noir

Jonathan Safran Foer and Robert Pinsky join Joyce Carol Oates and other illustrious writers to explore Jersey

• UPC: 16412963
• Rating: 2.0

A Book of American Martyrs

9780062643056

• UPC: 55863317
• Rating: 4.083

Beautiful Days : Stories

"A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape"--]cProvided by

• UPC: 599190316
• Rating: 4.0