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Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet
Awards
Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2012
Shortlisted — PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, 2017
Longlisted — Story Prize, 2018
Longlisted — National Book Award, 2020
Longlisted — Aspen Words Literary Prize, 2021
Longlisted — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2025
Books by Lydia Millet
Dinosaurs: A Novel
Paperback, 2023
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 Daily Favourite Book of 2022
A stunning new novel from the author...
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Hardback, 2024
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
E Book
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy
Atavists: Stories
Hardback, 2025
A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm
Atavists: Stories
E Book
A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Paperback, 2025
This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened
Atavists: Stories
Paperback, 2026
A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm