By the North Gate 1963

Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories 1966

The Wheel of Love and Other Stories 1970

Marriages and Infidelities 1972

The Goddess and Other Women 1974

The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies 1974

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America 1974

The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese 1975

The Seduction and Other Stories 1975

Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales 1976

Night Side: Eighteen Tales 1976

Triumph of the Spider Monkey: The First Person Confession of the Maniac Bobb Gotteson as Told to Joyce Carol Oates (novella) 1976

All the Good People I've Left Behind 1978

The Lamb of Abyssalia 1980

A Sentimental Education: Stories 1981

Last Days: Stories 1984

Raven's Wing: Stories 1986

I Lock the Door upon Myself (novella) 1990

The Rise of Life on Earth (novella) 1991

Black Water (novella) 1992

Heat: And Other Stories 1992

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque 1994

Will You Always Love Me? 1995

The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque 1999

Faithless: Tales of Transgression 2001

Rape: A Love Story (short novel) 2003

Small Avalanches and Other Stories 2003

I Am No One You Know 2004

With Shuddering Fall (novel) 1964

The Sweet Enemy (drama) 1965

Expensive People (novel) 1967

A Garden of Earthly Delights (novel) 1967

Women in Love, and Other Poems (poetry) 1968

them (novel) 1969

Wonderland (novel) 1971

Angel Fire (poetry) 1973

Do with Me What You Will (novel) 1973

Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems (poetry) 1974

Miracle Play (drama) 1974

The Assassins: A Book of Hours (novel) 1975

Childwold (novel) 1976

Son of the Morning (novel) 1978

Cybele (novel) 1979

Unholy Loves (novel) 1979

Bellefleur (novel) 1980

Angel of Light (novel) 1981

Contraries: Essays (nonfiction) 1981

A Bloodsmoor Romance (novel) 1982

Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970-1982 (poetry) 1982

Mysteries of Winterthurn (novel) 1984

Solstice (novel) 1985

Marya: A Life (novel) 1986

On Boxing (essay) 1987

You Must Remember This (novel) 1987

Lives of the Twins [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1988

(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (nonfiction) 1988

American Appetites (novel) 1989

Soul/Mate [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1989

The Time Traveler (poetry) 1989

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (novel) 1990

Nemesis [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1990

I Stand Before You Naked (drama) 1991

Snake Eyes [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1992

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (novel) 1993

The Perfectionist (drama) 1993

What I Lived For (novel) 1994

You Can't Catch Me [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1995

Zombie (novel) 1995

First Love: A Gothic Tale (novel) 1996

Tenderness (novel) 1996

We Were the Mulvaneys (novel) 1996

Double Delight [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1997

Man Crazy (novel) 1997

My Heart Laid Bare (novel) 1998

Broke Heart Blues: A Novel (novel) 1999

Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon [under pseudonym Rosamond Smith] (novel) 1999

Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (essays and nonfiction) 1999

Blonde (novel) 2000

Middle Age: A Romance (novel) 2001

Beasts (novel) 2002

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (juvenilia) 2002

I'll Take You There (novel) 2002

Bad Girls (drama) 2003

The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art (nonfiction) 2003

Freaky Green Eyes (novel) 2003

Tattooed Girl (novel) 2003

Where is Little Reynard? (juvenilia) 2003