Publication Order of Count the Ways Books
| Count the Ways | 2021 |
| How the Light Gets In | 2024 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Baby Love | 1981 |
| To Die For | 1992 |
| Where Love Goes | 1995 |
| The Usual Rules | 2003 |
| The Cloud Chamber | 2005 |
| Labor Day | 2009 |
| The Good Daughters | 2010 |
| After Her | 2013 |
| Under the Influence | 2016 |
| The Bird Hotel | 2023 |
| In Wonderland | 2026 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Influencer | 2022 |
Publication Order of Children’s Books
| Camp-Out | 1985 |
| New House (With: Steve Bethel) | 1987 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties | 1973 |
| Domestic Affairs: Enduring the Pleasures of Motherhood and Family Life | 1987 |
| At Home in the World | 1998 |
| Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City | 2006 |
| The Best of Us | 2017 |
About Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard (born 1953) is an American novelist, memoirist and journalist. Her novels include “To Die For” (1992) and “Labor Day” (2009), both of which were made into films, and she is also known for the memoir “At Home in the World” (1998), which describes her relationship as a teenager with J. D. Salinger.
Maynard was born in Durham, New Hampshire, on 5 November 1953. Her mother was a journalist, writer and English teacher, and her father a painter who taught English at the University of New Hampshire. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy and wrote regularly for “Seventeen” magazine in her teens. In 1971 she entered Yale, and in April 1972 The New York Times Magazine published her essay “An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life”.
The essay brought a letter from Salinger, then 53. Maynard left Yale and lived with him in Cornish, New Hampshire, for eight months, during which she wrote her first book, the memoir “Looking Back” (1973). She later joined The New York Times as a reporter and feature writer, and from 1984 to 1990 wrote the syndicated weekly column “Domestic Affairs” about marriage, parenthood and family life.
Her first novel, “Baby Love”, appeared in 1981. “To Die For” drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was filmed by Gus Van Sant in 1995 with Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaquin Phoenix. “Labor Day” became a 2013 film written and directed by Jason Reitman, starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. She has also written two young adult novels, “The Usual Rules” (2003) and “The Cloud Chamber” (2005), and the true crime book “Internal Combustion” (2006), about a Michigan woman convicted of killing her husband.
The memoir “The Best of Us” (2017) is about her marriage to the lawyer Jim Barringer, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2016. “Count the Ways” (2021) won the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine in its French translation, and “How the Light Gets In” (2024) follows the same characters.
Her most recent novel, “In Wonderland” (2026), is set over one summer at a wealthy family’s lakeside home in Maine. Maynard also leads writing retreats at Casa Paloma, her home on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.