Joyce Carol Oates's Reading List
The author, most recently, of “Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You” and “Black Dahlia & White Rose” admits that she first found Walt Whitman disappointing: “Please don’t send contemptuous e-mails.”
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NYT By the Book column (2012-09-06).
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James Joyce · 1922 · Buy on Amazon
"James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” In June of this year I reread this ever astonishing classic with my neuroscientist husband, who had not read it before, in preparation for a trip to Dublin, which overlapped, just barely, with the annual Bloomsday celebration."
Henry David Thoreau · Buy on Amazon
"I first read Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” when I was 15 years old, and if I’d been told that it was a young man’s autobiographical novel, I would not have been surprised."
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · Buy on Amazon
"Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass,” which my grandmother gave me when I was 9 years old and very impressionable. These were surely the books that inspired me to write, and Alice is the protagonist with whom I’ve most identified over the years."
Lewis Carroll · Buy on Amazon
"Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass,” which my grandmother gave me when I was 9 years old and very impressionable."
Herman Melville · 1851 · Buy on Amazon
"Our great American tragic-epic, Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” This truly contains multitudes of meanings: the Pequod is the ship of state, the radiantly mad Captain Ahab a dangerous “leader,” the ethnically diverse crew our American citizenry."
Emily Dickinson · Buy on Amazon
"And to balance this all-male adventure, “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.”"
Edgar Allan Poe · Buy on Amazon
"Probably at too young an age I was reading “The Gold-Bug and Other Stories,” by Edgar Allan Poe."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
Joyce Carol Oates · Buy on Amazon
"I’ve assembled my favorite short stories and prose pieces into several anthologies, which I often teach in my fiction workshops. These include “The Oxford Book of American Short Stories,” “The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction” and “Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers.”"
Joyce Carol Oates · Buy on Amazon
"These include “The Oxford Book of American Short Stories,” “The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction” and “Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers.”"
Joyce Carol Oates · Buy on Amazon
"These include “The Oxford Book of American Short Stories,” “The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction” and “Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers.”"
Joyce Carol Oates · 2000 · Buy on Amazon
"But I can say that the novel that exhausted me the most, wrung my emotions the most and left me determined never again to write a thousand-page novel with a sympathetic protagonist who must die on the last page is “Blonde,” imagined as a tragic-epic of the life of Norma Jeane Baker/“Marilyn Monroe.”"