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Lydia Millet
A brilliant, indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in a world whose climate and culture are unravelling.
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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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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…
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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Four children confront dark elemental forces in the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s first book for young readers.
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Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.
A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.
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.
Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit.
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.
A rollickingly funny yet heart-wrenching novel from one of today’s most acclaimed literary voices
The stunning new novel from the author of the National Book Award-finalist A Children’s Bible
Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction…
