Order of Joan Didion Books
Joan Didion is an American author who has written a variety of fiction and non-fiction works throughout her career. She got her start in the 1960s writing about the counterculture and the Hollywood lifestyle. She has also written extensively about politics. She is best known as the author of Play It As It Lays and The Year of Magical Thinking.
Didion has received numerous accolades throughout her career. The Year of Magical Thinking was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005 and she was also the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She was also presented the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Run River |
(1963) |
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Play It As It Lays |
(1970) |
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A Book of Common Prayer |
(1977) |
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Democracy |
(1984) |
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The Last Thing He Wanted |
(1996) |
Publication Order of Collections
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Vintage Didion |
(2004) |
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The 1960s & 70s |
(2019) |
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I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking |
(2025) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
(1968) |
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The White Album |
(1979) |
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Salvador |
(1983) |
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Miami |
(1987) |
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Some Women |
(1990) |
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After Henry |
(1992) |
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Sentimental Journeys |
(1993) |
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Perspectives on the Individual |
(1998) |
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Political Fictions |
(2001) |
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Fixed Ideas |
(2003) |
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Where I Was From |
(2003) |
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Live and Learn |
(2005) |
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The Year of Magical Thinking |
(2005) |
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live |
(2006) |
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Blue Nights |
(2011) |
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Insider Baseball |
(2016) |
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South and West |
(2017) |
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Collected Essays |
(2018) |
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean |
(2021) |
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Bonds of War |
(2022) |
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What She Means |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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The Writer on Her Work |
(1980) |
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Women Writers at Work |
(1989) |
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Florida Stories |
(1993) |
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Writing Women’s Lives |
(1994) |
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Writing New York |
(1998) |
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The Eloquent Essay |
(2000) |
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Writing Los Angeles |
(2002) |
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The Little Big Book of California |
(2005) |
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40 Model Essays |
(2005) |
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers |
(2005) |