Joan Didion
Author · 34 books
Joan Didion was born in California and lived in New York City. She was best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
Books
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
Fixed Ideas
America Since 9.11
2003
The Last Thing He Wanted
1746
Joan Didion
Essays & Conversations
1984
Political Fictions
2001
Goodbye To All That
2023
Run River
1963
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Collected Nonfiction
2006
The Year of Magical Thinking Adaptation Audible Original
2020
Salvador
1983
Vintage Didion
2004
Why I Write
1976
Collected Essays
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and After Henry
2018
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
1968
New York stories
2015
Blue Nights
2011
The White Album
1979
Where I Was From
2003
Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play it as it Lays
1992
The Women's Movement
1972
Live and Learn
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, After Henry
2005
On Keeping a Notebook
1966
Play It As It Lays
1970
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Play
2007
Democracy
1984
Sentimental Journeys
1993
South and West
From a Notebook
2017
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
2021
On Self-Respect
1968
A Book of Common Prayer
1977
Notes to John
2025
After Henry
1992
Miami
1987
Insider Baseball
2016
