Joan Didion

Joan Didion was an American writer. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.

Books by Joan Didion

4 books available

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
3.9 (142k) average on GoodreadsPsychology
After her husband's sudden death and her daughter's critical illness, Joan Didion examines the raw, disorienting experience of grief, showing how the mind tries to make sense of the irrational.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
4.2 (37k) average on GoodreadsPolitics
Joan Didion's 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' examines the fractured American psyche of the 1960s, showing the unsettling truths beneath the counterculture's facade through personal disquiet and societal decay.
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion
3.9 (29k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In 1960s Hollywood, an ex-model uses pills, booze, and loveless encounters to cope, finding peace only in freeway driving as her life falls apart.
The White Album
Joan Didion
4.2 (17k) average on GoodreadsBiography
Joan Didion's "The White Album" looks at America's fractured mood in the late 1960s and 70s. It uses sharp, often unsettling stories to capture the era's mix of hope, fear, and cultural change, all set against California's bright but shadowed landscape.