If you like Joyce Carol Oates, read these authors
American author (born 1938)
Also known as: Lauren Kelly, Rosamond Smith, Джойс Кэрол Оутс, جويس كارول أوتس, 조이스 캐럴 오츠, ジョイス・キャロル・オーツ
Similar authors
This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Joyce Carol Oates, their data replaces the AI suggestions.
Flannery O'Connor1925–1964ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSouthern Gothic fiction steeped in violence, grotesquerie and moral reckoning (AI reason)
Shirley Jackson1916–1965ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetpsychological unease and gothic menace beneath ordinary American domestic life (AI reason)
Toni Morrison1931–2019ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetintense, lyrical novels of trauma, family and American history (AI reason)
Don DeLillo1936–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetprobing American celebrity, violence and myth in literary fiction (AI reason)
Philip Roth1933–2018ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetprolific, ambitious novels dissecting American identity and the postwar era (AI reason)
Show all 10
Cormac McCarthy1933–2023ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetdark, violent visions of American life with gothic intensity (AI reason)
Alice Munro1931–2024ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetshort fiction exploring women's lives and hidden ruptures in small communities (AI reason)
Patricia Highsmith1921–1995ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetpsychological suspense centered on obsession, crime and moral ambiguity (AI reason)
Margaret Atwood1939–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetfeminist literary fiction blending gothic, suspense and social critique (AI reason)
Carson McCullers1917–1967ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSouthern Gothic portraits of isolated, damaged outsiders and adolescents (AI reason)
Pick Joyce Carol Oates and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.
Get your own suggestionsKnown works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Fiction
- The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (2001)
- Bellefleur