Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including The Book of Records, named one of Obama’s Best Books of 2025 and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including The Book of Records, named one of Obama’s Best Books of 2025 and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.
Awards
Winner — Giller Prize, 2016
Longlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025
Longlisted — Climate Fiction Prize, 2026
Books by Madeleine Thien

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel
Madeleine Thien
Hardback, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize
"A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" —The Guardian
Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel
Madeleine Thien
E Book, 2016
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award
Finalist for the Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
"A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes...
The Book of Records: A Novel
Madeleine Thien
Hardback, 2025

The Book of Records: A Novel
Madeleine Thien
E Book

The Book of Records: A Novel
Madeleine Thien
Paperback, 2026



