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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. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.

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
Lydia Millet
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
Lydia Millet
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
Lydia Millet
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
Lydia Millet
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
Lydia Millet
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
Lydia Millet
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