This is a list of works by and on American author Joan Didion.

Fiction

• Run, River (1963) ISBN 978-0679752509
• Play It as It Lays (1970) ISBN 978-0374529949
• A Book of Common Prayer (1977) ISBN 978-0679754862
• Democracy (1984) ISBN 978-0679754855
• The Last Thing He Wanted (1996) ISBN 978-0679752851

Nonfiction

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) ISBN 978-0374531386
• The White Album (1979) ISBN 978-0374532079
• Salvador (1983) ISBN 978-0679751830
• Miami (1987) ISBN 978-0679781806
• After Henry (1992) ISBN 978-0679745396
• Political Fictions (2001) ISBN 978-0375718908
• Where I Was From (2003) ISBN 978-0679752868
• Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; essay first published in the January 16, 2003 issue of The New York Review of Books) ISBN 978-1590170731
• Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works) ISBN 978-1400033935
• The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) ISBN 978-1400078431
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction) ISBN 978-0307264879
• Blue Nights (2011) ISBN 9780307267672
• South and West: From a Notebook (2017) ISBN 9781524732790
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021) ISBN 978-0593312193

Screenplays and plays

• The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (with husband John Gregory Dunne and based on the novel by James Mills)
• Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel)
• A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne)
• True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel of the same name)
• Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne)
• The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (a stage play based on her book)

Biographies

• Daugherty, Tracy (2015). The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-1250105943.

Conversations and interviews

• Friedman, Ellen G., ed. (1984). Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations. Princeton: Ontario Review Press. ISBN 978-0865380356.
• Melville House, ed. (2022). Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. New York: Melville House. ISBN 978-1685890117.
• Parker, Scott F., ed. (2018). Conversations with Joan Didion. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496815514.

Critical studies of Didion's work

• McDonnell, Evelyn (2023). The World According to Joan Didion. New York: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0063289079.
• McLennan, Matthew R. (2022). Joan Didion and the Ethics of Memory. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1350149595.
• Nelson, Steffie, ed. (2020). Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books. ISBN 978-1644281673.
• Vandenberg, Kathleen M. (2021). Joan Didion: Substance and Style. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1438481388.