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Claire Messud
Claire Messud
Awards
Shortlisted — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2017
Longlisted — Booker Prize, 2024
Longlisted — Giller Prize, 2024
Shortlisted — American Library in Paris Book Award, 2024
Winner — American Book Award, 2025
Books by Claire Messud
The Burning Girl: A Novel
Hardback, 2017
A New York Times Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The...
The Burning Girl: A Novel
Paperback, 2018
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
"[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." —...
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays
Hardback, 2020
A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.
The Burning Girl: A Novel
E Book, 2017
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
"[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." —...
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays
E Book, 2020
A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.
The Last Life
Paperback, 2022
A “mesmerizing” novel from the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children that is “as artful as it is affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
The Last Life
E Book, 2022
A “mesmerizing” novel from the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children that is “as artful as it is affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
Hardback, 2024
This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
E Book
This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
Paperback, 2025