NOVELS
Joyce’s writing spans fiction, memoir, true crime, and children’s books. Her novels To Die For and Labor Day were both adapted for major motion pictures.
“My to-do list had umpteen items on it, but I let them all go to hell as I tore through Joyce Maynard’s latest page-turner. . . . To-do list? What to-do list? Under the Influence is a riveting read.”
~ New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb on Under the Influence
“Joyce Maynard has, again, managed to tap flawlessly into the voice of a teenage girl: part hope, part fiction, and all heart. After Her is page-turning mystery, wrapped in a beautifully rendered story of sisterhood; and reading it is a journey through one’s own memory of what it meant to be thirteen, when the world was equally terrifying and fascinating. Books this compelling just don’t come around very often.”
~ Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author on After Her
“Maynard’s spare prose packs a rich emotional punch. A can’t-put-down mystery.”
~ People magazine.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
“A sexy, poignant, page-turning story told by a sweetly baffled young hero, perhaps the best kind of hero to narrate any tale.”
~ Jane Hamilton, author of the A New York Times bestseller A Map of the World.
Winner, Best Books of the Year, Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by the American Library Association
“Joyce Maynard has created unforgettable characters in this moving story of love and loss. It will make you laugh and cry. Be prepared -- once you pick up this book you won't be able to put it down.”
~ Judy Blume on The Usual Rules
"A splendid, heartfelt novel that knows far too much about what is going wrong between men and women in these strange and dizzying times. Joyce Maynard's subject is love, but her gift is presenting it in all its many masks and stony guises as men and women blunder toward each other with all the tenderness of their wounds open for all to see. Her book feels real enough to live in."
~ Pat Conroy, New York Times bestselling author of Prince of Tides
FILM ADAPTATION 1995
“A seductive page-turner.” ~The New York Times.
“A triumph.” ~The Boston Globe
“A powerful novel of murder and sexual obsession. . . . Chilling.”
~The Newark Star-Ledger
“Funny, sexy, and full of devastating insights.”
~New York Daily News
“Cued to the rangy, slangy rhythms of modern life . . . . It is a pleasure, almost a voyeuristic pleasure . . . . A very fine book indeed.”
~New York Times bestselling author Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
MEMOIRS, ESSAY COLLECTIONS, NONFICTION
THE 25th ANNIVERSARY COPY OF HER BEST-SELLER, AT HOME IN THE WORLD
"Riveting and disturbing."
~Katha Pollitt, The New York Times
Book Review
"Dazzling."
~Jules Siegel, The San Francisco Chronicle
A MEMOIR ABOUT DISCOVERING STRENGTH IN THE MIDST OF GREAT LOSS.
"So candid, so deeply moving, so powerful . . . a testament to human resilience. Joyce Maynard is unfathomably heroic."
~ New York Times bestselling author, Joyce Carol Oates
"This is a nice woman and a good mother and practically everything she has to say cheers, refreshes, or gives pause. Go read her book."
~ The New York Times
"What Maynard writes is an American drama – of a generation of children deprived of their childhood... A thoughtful and eloquent personal statement."
~ NEWSWEEK
THE 1972 ARTICLE THAT LAUNCHED HER CAREER.
“Wonderfully penetrating . . . The lesson of her book is that . . . the task of the times may be to close one’s mind to the flow of easy symbols and prepackaged interpretations and to try to find one’s own fresh, direct relation to the world.”
~ The New York Times
Love audiobooks?
Joyce has recorded Count the Ways, The Good Daughters, After Her, The Best of Us and Under the Influence, as well as her memoir, At Home in the World. The audiobook of Labor Day was recorded by Joyce’s son, Wilson Bethel.
All recordings available on Amazon.com and Audible.