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Crime Fiction
A female serial killer reconnects with her twin sister in this novel by an acclaimed National Book Award winner and "first-rate thriller writer" (The New York Times Book Review). Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife... See More
Short Stories
This Bram Stoker Award-winning collection is "certain to stick in your mind long after you've turned the last page" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Includes "Big Momma," a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology... See More
Short Stories
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her... See More
Literature & Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era... See More
Teen & Young Adult
Big Mouth No I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won't It anyone believe me? Ugly Girl All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what I'd heard in the... See More
Literature & Fiction
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate... See More
I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician... See More
Literary Fiction
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, "a compelling domestic horror story" of a new bride haunted by childhood nightmares (Kirkus Reviews). Less than twenty-four hours after exchanging vows with her new husband... See More
Mystery
Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her "mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness" (Kirkus Reviews). Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In... See More
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Thrillers
Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: "Oates' spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute."?Booklist In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce... See More
Horror
Seven "masterfully told" stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award-winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her... See More
Mystery
A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories... See More
Literature & Fiction
In this disturbing short story collection, Joyce Carol Oates explores the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women. Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners"... See More
Literary Fiction
In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a... See More
Literary Fiction
The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruin Jerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day... See More
Literary Fiction
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the... See More
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Oates' American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country... Martyrs is a graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history -- from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the... See More
A "sinister, edgy, delectably creepy" story of mistaken identity, murder, and madness from a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Tristram Heade is a reclusive, repressed Virginia bachelor and... See More
Thrillers
An upstanding juror becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive plaintiff in this "fast-paced, haunting" novel by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Boston Sunday Herald). Terence Greene is admired for his perfect... See More
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that... See More
Contemporary Fiction
"A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters." -- Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book... See More
Literature & Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series. Edgar Allan... See More
Literary Fiction
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce... See More
Literature & Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of... See More
