American Appetites

American Appetites
First edition
Author	Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher	E. P. Dutton
Publication date	1989
Pages	340
ISBN	0-525-24725-4

American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, that is about a couple in upstate New York. It tells of the secrets each harbors and what will happen when they finally get exposed.

Works by Joyce Carol Oates

The Wonderland Quartet	A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) Expensive People (1968) Them (1969) Wonderland (1971)

The Gothic Saga	Bellefleur (1980) A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982) Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) My Heart Laid Bare (1998) The Accursed (2013)

Other novels	With Shuddering Fall (1964) Do with Me What You Will (1973) The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975) Childwold (1976) Son of the Morning (1978) Cybele (1979) Unholy Loves (1979) Angel of Light (1981) Solstice (1985) Marya: A Life (1986) You Must Remember This (1987) American Appetites (1989) Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990) Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) What I Lived For (1994) Zombie (1995) We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) Man Crazy (1997) Broke Heart Blues (1999) Blonde (2000) Middle Age: A Romance (2001) I'll Take You There (2002) The Tattooed Girl (2003) The Falls (2004) Missing Mom (2005) Black Girl / White Girl (2006) The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007) My Sister, My Love (2008) Little Bird of Heaven (2009) A Fair Maiden (2010) Mudwoman (2012) Daddy Love (2013) Carthage (2014)

Novellas	The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976) I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990) The Rise of Life on Earth (1991) Black Water (1992) First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996) Beasts (2001) Rape: A Love Story (2003) The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005) Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013)

Short story collections	By the North Gate (1963) Upon the Sweeping Flood And Other Stories (1966) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Marriages and Infidelities (1972) The Goddess and Other Women (1974) The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) Night-Sides (1977) The Assignation (1988) Where is Here? (1992) Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) Demon and Other Tales (1996) Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2006) High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (2006) The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007) Wild Nights! (2008) Dear Husband (2009) Sourland: Stories (2010) Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011) The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)

Poetry	Women In Love and Other Poems (1968) Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969) Love and Its Derangements (1970) Angel Fire (1973) The Fabulous Beasts (1975) Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978) Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970–1982 (1982) The Time Traveler (1989) Tenderness (1996)

Young adult fiction	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) Freaky Green Eyes (2003) Sexy (2005) After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)

As "Lauren Kelly"	Take Me, Take Me With You (2003) The Stolen Heart (2005) Blood Mask (2006)

As "Rosamond Smith"	Lives of the Twins (1987) Soul/Mate (1989) Nemesis (1990) Snake Eyes (1992) You Can't Catch Me (1995) Double Delight (1997) Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999) The Barrens (2001)