Top Ten Joyce Carol Oates Novels
Discover the top ten Joyce Carol Oates novels you must read. Explore her best works, from haunting tales to literary masterpieces, in this curated list of essential books by the acclaimed author.
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Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
A fictional recreation of the life of Marilyn Monroe recounts the tale of her rise to stardom, as seen from Marilyn's perspective.
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My Heart Laid Bare
by Joyce Carol Oates
Mythic in scope and ballad-like in the telling, "My Heart Laid Bare" is the sweeping saga of the fortunes and misfortunes of a family of enterprising confidence artists in 19th-century America.
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Them
by Joyce Carol Oates
Loretta Wendall and her two children experience violence and poverty in Detroit from the Depression in the 1930s to the riots of 1967.
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates
From one of the greatest literary forces of our time, an intensely realized and masterful epic of a young womans struggle for identity and survival in post-World War II America.