American Appetites

American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, that is about a couple in upstate New York. It tells of the secrets each harbors and what will happen when they finally get exposed.

Novels by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wonderland Quartet
  • A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
  • Expensive People (1968)
  • Them (1969)
  • Wonderland (1971)
The Gothic Saga
  • Bellefleur (1980)
  • A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
  • Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
  • My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
Other novels
  • With Shuddering Fall (1964)
  • Do with Me What You Will (1973)
  • The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
  • Childwold (1976)
  • Son of the Morning (1978)
  • Cybele (1979)
  • Unholy Loves (1979)
  • Angel of Light (1981)
  • Solstice (1985)
  • Marya: A Life (1986)
  • You Must Remember This (1987)
  • American Appetites (1989)
  • Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
  • Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
  • What I Lived For (1994)
  • Zombie (1995)
  • We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
  • Man Crazy (1997)
  • Broke Heart Blues (1999)
  • Blonde (2000)
  • Middle Age: A Romance (2001)
  • I'll Take You There (2002)
  • The Tattooed Girl (2003)
  • The Falls (2004)
  • Missing Mom (2005)
  • Black Girl / White Girl (2006)
  • The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)
  • My Sister, My Love (2008)
  • Little Bird of Heaven (2009)
  • A Fair Maiden (2010)
Novellas
  • The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
  • I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
  • The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)
  • Black Water (1992)
  • First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
  • Beasts (2001)
  • Rape: A Love Story (2003)
  • The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
Short story collections
  • 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)
  • Night-Sides (1977)
  • The Assignation (1988)
  • Where is Here? (1992)
  • Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
  • Demon and Other Tales (1996)
  • Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996)
  • The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998)
  • Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)
  • I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004)
  • The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2006)
  • High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (2006)
  • The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007)
  • Wild Nights! (2008)
  • Dear Husband (2009)
  • Sourland: Stories (2010)
  • Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011)
  • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011)
  • Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
Poetry
  • Women In Love and Other Poems (1968)
  • Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969)
  • Love and Its Derangements (1970)
  • Angel Fire (1973)
  • The Fabulous Beasts (1975)
  • Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978)
  • Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970–1982 (1982)
  • The Time Traveler (1989)
  • Tenderness (1996)
Young adult fiction
  • Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002)
  • Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003)
  • Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
  • Sexy (2005)
  • After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)
As "Lauren Kelly"
  • Take Me, Take Me With You (2003)
  • The Stolen Heart (2005)
  • Blood Mask (2006)
As "Rosamond Smith"
  • Lives of the Twins (1987)
  • Soul/Mate (1989)
  • Nemesis (1990)
  • Snake Eyes (1992)
  • You Can't Catch Me (1995)
  • Double Delight (1997)
  • Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)
  • The Barrens (2001)


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