This is a list of works by and on American author Joan Didion.
Fiction Run, River (1963) Play It as It Lays (1970) A Book of Common Prayer (1977) Democracy (1984) The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
Nonfiction Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) The White Album (1979) Salvador (1983) Miami (1987) After Henry (1992) Political Fictions (2001) Where I Was From (2003) Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; essay first published in the January 16, 2003 issue of The New York Review of Books under the title "Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History") The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) Blue Nights (2011) South and West: From a Notebook (2017) Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021) Notes to John (2025)
Anthologies Vintage Didion (2004; includes excerpts from previous nonfiction works) Live and Learn (2005; includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album and After Henry) We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes Didion's first seven volumes of nonfiction) I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction (2025; includes the last four books published in Didion's lifetime)
Library of America collection Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (2019; edited by David L. Ulin) Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (2021; edited by David L. Ulin) Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (2024; edited by David L. Ulin)
Uncollected essays and articles Below are essays and articles by Didion that have not been published in book form to date.
(Review of Falconer by John Cheever)
(Review of Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick)
(Review of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer)
(Review of The Golden Age of American Gardens by Mac Griswold and Eleanor Weller)
(With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from remarks delivered at a memorial service for Elizabeth Hardwick on December 16, 2007)
(With Darryl Pinckney; adapted from comments made at a symposium at the New York Public Library on November 10, 2008)
Screenplays and plays The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (with husband John Gregory Dunne and based on the novel by James Mills) Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel) A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne and Frank Pierson) True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel of the same name) Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne) The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (a stage play based on her book) As It Happens (2012) (with Todd Field; unrealized project)
Biographies of and memoirs about Didion
Below are biographies of and memoirs about Didion.
Conversations and interviews
Books on Didion's work (Companion book to the Hammer Museum exhibition of the same name)
References