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Lydia Millet
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines…
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A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb - Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi - as they watch…
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A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother…
Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.
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As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T’s material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a…
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A fresh, sardonic riff on the George Bush years, told in the voice of a wily, off-kilter, and wholly lovable ex-con who sets her heart on capturing the attention of…
Millet’s first YA novel explores a world devastated by global warming, and two teenagers determined to survive against all odds.
A rollickingly funny yet heart-wrenching novel from one of today’s most acclaimed literary voices
Millet’s latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting the second coming of atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are…
The Sykes family is faced with revelations from without and within. Whatever happens: nothing will ever be the same again.
At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator of this bittersweet fictional memoir has been abandoned in a locked room of a defunct hospital for the mentally ill…
Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants–all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with Hollywood celebrities. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of…
Four children confront dark elemental forces in the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s first book for young readers.
The world is becoming very strange for thirteen-year-old Cara who discovers that some wonderful creatures don’t only exist in dreams.
Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.
Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound. -San Francisco Chronicle
A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy.
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick A Library Journal Best Book of 2018 Full of joys on every scale. -NPR
Lydia Millet’s debut novel, first published in 1996, is an explosive satire that scorches our culture’s monstrous men and institutions.
Hilariously funny…Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness. -Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review
The newest novel from critically acclaimed Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream is a beautiful, heart-wrenching tale and a riveting commentary on community in the modern suburban landscape and how…
A brilliant, indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in a world whose climate and culture are unravelling.
The stunning new novel from the author of the National Book Award-finalist A Children’s Bible
One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 * A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far * One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 * An Oprah…
Matthew Neill Null
PEN/O. Henry Prize-winning author Matthew Neill Null’s lyrical and disquieting stories offer a panoramic portrait of his native West Virginia.
