♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

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; preface by Frank Rich)
• Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works)
• ✔ The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) ♔/❤
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction)
• Blue Nights (2011)
• South and West: From a Notebook (2017)

Screenplays

• The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
• Play It as It Lays (1972) (based on her novel)
• A Star Is Born (1976)
• True Confessions (1981)
• Up Close & Personal (1996)
• As it Happens (2012) (with Todd Field)

Plays

• The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (based on her novel)