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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

Shortlisted — 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

  • Simple Recipes: Stories

    Madeleine Thien

    Paperback, 2026

    A stunning collection of short stories, newly reissued, from a Booker-shortlisted and internationally best-selling author.
  • Simple Recipes: Stories

    Madeleine Thien

    E Book

    A stunning collection of short stories, newly reissued, from a Booker-shortlisted and internationally best-selling author.