Author Spotlight

Joyce Carol Oates


Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina) and The Gravedigger's Daughter.

Joyce Carol Oates
Enlarge View
Author Alert Sign Up

Random House will keep you up to date on the works of Joyce Carol Oates! Enter your email address below to enroll. Privacy Policy.


Author Bookshelf
Sort Results By:
On-sale date Title Format Price

book cover
Expensive People
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

eBook | 256 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49536-5 (0-307-49536-1)

April 22, 2009 | $18.95



Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by...

Also available as a trade paperback.

book cover
A Garden of Earthly Delights
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

eBook | 432 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-52575-8 (0-307-52575-9)

March 25, 2009 | $17.99



Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...

Also available as a trade paperback.

book cover
Expensive People
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7654-0 (0-8129-7654-1)

September 12, 2006 | $18.95



Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by...

Also available as an eBook.

book cover
them
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-345-48440-6 (0-345-48440-1)

September 12, 2006 | $18.95



Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums...

Also available as a hardcover.

book cover
Wonderland
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7655-7 (0-8129-7655-X)

September 12, 2006 | $21.00



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, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his...


book cover
A Garden of Earthly Delights
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-6834-7 (0-8129-6834-4)

April 22, 2003 | $17.99



Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...

Also available as an eBook.

book cover
Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002
Read by Various
Selected by Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead
Edited by Larry Dark

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-7393-0075-6 (0-7393-0075-X)

August 27, 2002 | $21.00






book cover
The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
Written by Harold Frederic
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-375-76035-8 (0-375-76035-0)

May 14, 2002 | $25.00



Published in 1896, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination is a profound psychological portrait of the spiritual undoing of a guileless Methodist minister who is taken in by a rural townspeople’s various progressive ideas, from liberalism to bohemianism, only to be spurned by them for being too conventional. Described by...


book cover
them
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Afterword by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Greg Johnson

Hardcover | 576 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-679-64025-7 (0-679-64025-8)

May 2, 2000 | $29.95



Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most...

Also available as a trade paperback.

book cover
Women in Love
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Foreword by D.H. Lawrence
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-75488-3 (0-375-75488-1)

January 4, 2000 | $15.95



With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
foreword by the author
Commentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,
Aldous Huxley, and Henry Miller

It is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in [Lawrence] that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the...

Also available as an eBook, eBook and a paperback.