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Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; her second, Fight No More (2018), won an American Academy of Arts and Sciences short fiction award. Ativists is her third work of short fiction. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; her second, Fight No More (2018), won an American Academy of Arts and Sciences short fiction award. Ativists is her third work of short fiction. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.
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
Books by Lydia Millet
Ghost Lights: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Hardback, 2012
A funny and haunting new novel from "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Los Angeles Times).Ghost Lights: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Paperback, 2012
"Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound." —San Francisco ChronicleMagnificence: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Paperback, 2013
A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy.Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Hardback, 2014
Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Paperback, 2015
"Hilariously funny…Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness." —Rene Steinke, New York Times Book ReviewSweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Paperback, 2017
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.Fight No More: Stories
Lydia Millet
Hardback, 2018
Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit.Omnivores: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Paperback, 2018
Lydia Millet’s debut novel, first published in 1996, is an explosive satire that scorches our culture’s monstrous men and institutions.Fight No More: Stories
Lydia Millet
Paperback, 2019
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick
A Library Journal Best Book of 2018
“Full of joys on every scale.” —NPRA Children's Bible: A Novel
Lydia Millet
Hardback, 2020
A brilliant, indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in a world whose climate and culture are unravelling.