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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1981
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Maynard’s captivating novel of four teenage girls, bound together by early motherhood and forever changed by the arrival of two women in their small New England townIn their New Hampshire community, Sandy, Jill, Tara, and Wanda are different fr...



  • Suzanne Maretto is a beautiful, aspiring TV reporter, a golden girl with adoring parents, a loving husband, and an insatiable drive for the kind of picture-perfect life you see only on television. When her husband is shot dead by her teenage boyfrien...



  • From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America....



  • Thirteen-year-old Wendy lives with her mother, stepfather, and younger brother in Brooklyn. Her world is transformed one day in September 2001 -- her mother goes to work that morning and doesn't come back. Through Wendy's eyes, readers follow her slo...



  • When Nate Chance arrives home from school, he sees two police cars and an ambulance in his yard. Before his mother can get him and his little sister, Junie, inside, Nate and Junie witness their father, blood pouring down his face, being led by two po...



  • With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, lonely, friendless thirteen-year-old Henry spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming with only his emotio...



  • They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth Plank is an artist and a romantic with a rich, passionate, imaginative life. The last of five girls born to a gent...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters returns with a haunting novel of sisterhood, sacrifice, and suspense. I was always looking for excitement, until I found some . . . Summer, 1979. A dry, hot Northern Cal...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of "Labor Day" and "After Her" returns with a poignant story about the true meaning -- and the true price -- of friendship. Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once a...






  • In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family -- from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parent...



  • Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks i...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways -- a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.Followi...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joyce Maynard has published 12 books.

Joyce Maynard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, How the Light Gets In, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Joyce Maynard, Baby Love, was published in July 1981.

No. Joyce Maynard does not write books in series.