#1The Year of Magical Thinking
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The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion's accounts in her life following the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne, and her attempts to make sense of her grief while tending to the severe illness of her adopted daughter, Quintana.
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Ruth TaylorWritten on March 19, 2018"The geological imagery conveys the disparity of scale between any mortal intelligence and those immense, lethal gulfs and mountains"#2Play It As It Lays
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Play It As It Lays tells the story of 31-year-old actress and former model Maria Wyeth who is institutionalized in a neuropsychiatric hospital; it traces her life and how she ended up in the facility.
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#3The White Album
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The White Album is a mosaic of American life during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s exposing the realities and dreams of an age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.BooksCheck price
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#4After Henry
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After Henry is a book of essays containing Joan Didion's personal memorial for her friend Henry Robbins, who was also her editor from 1966 until he died in 1979. The essays included here were written after Henry's death.
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"The american politics and personal memoirs are the entangled parts of never ending love story. The political history and the media narrative around are always in equivalency of their intended conclusion. Didion I think makes a good portray of the media overall and their role in shaping the political and social discourse. This is mentioned by Noam Chomsky in his book called "Manufacturing Consent" where he mentions how media chooses between the worthy and unworthy victims to advance the interest of a specific group. The essays of all memoirs, including by Joan Didion, always purport unknown perspective that is worth considering"#5A Book of Common Prayer
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A Book of Common Prayer centers around the fictional Central American country of Boca Grande and American expatriate Grace Strasser-Mendana who married into the Mendanas family, one of the families that dominate Boca Grande politics.
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#6Salvador
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Salvador is a book of an essay which centers on the height of the civil war in El Salvador that took place between 1979 and 1992, wherein it deconstructs the assumption people know about the war in El Salvador is all about.
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#7Blue Nights
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Blue Nights is Joan Didion's accounts on her parenthood and aging while recounting the untimely death of her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne, as well as memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband John Gregory Dunne.
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"It's an incredibly personal moving tribute and chronicle of loss, you have to keep that in mind. It's raw and unpolished. It's not meant to have any great epiphanies or any kind of bright outlook or moving personal growth, etc. It's simply the act of and details surrounding loss, which is all very personal. So I can't say that I liked or loved it. it just is what it is. God, what Didion has been through. She has got to be the toughest broad I've ever heard of. If you haven't read 'The Year Of Magical Thinking', try to read that first, then this one."#8Where I Was From
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Where I Was From is a series of essays by Joan Didion on California's history, its civic priorities and the way it has been depicted by painters and writers, including her younger self.
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#9Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem is a collection of essays written by Joan Didion featuring topics from murder to hippies, and the meaning of self-respect to the existence of morality in the modern world.BooksCheck price
#10Political Fictions
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Political Fictions is a collection of essays by Joan Didion which centers in the American politics from 1988 through the 2000 election looking on how the press, political strategists, and opinion makers conspire to create stories.
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"While I have not read a Joan Didion book I have heard that she does create some wonderful writings. This book is more of a collection of short diary entries deatling American politics from 1988 through the 2000 election. This alternate look into american politics will give you a whole new respect for everything that goes into an election. "
