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Books by Lydia Millet
  | | A Children's Bible (Paperback or Softback) by Lydia Millet Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-86738-1, ISBN: 0-393-86738-2 "Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling ..." |
 | | Sweet Lamb of Heaven(1st Edition) A Novel by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28554-3, ISBN: 0-393-28554-5 "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.Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter fro ..." |
 | | Mermaids in Paradise(Reprint) A Novel by Lydia Millet Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35172-9, ISBN: 0-393-35172-6 "“Hilariously funny. . . . Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness.”―Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip―our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault―meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef. As the resort's "parent company" swoops in to corner the market on mythological creatures ..." |
 | | How the Dead Dream(1st Edition) by Lydia Millet, Linda Millet Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603546-0, ISBN: 0-15-603546-4 "As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his ..." |
 | | Magnificence A Novel by Lydia Millet Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34685-5, ISBN: 0-393-34685-4 "A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). Salon praised her for writing that is "always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." The Village Voice added, "If Kurt Vonnegut were still ..." |
 | | A Children's Bible A Novel (First printing) by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company (Edition ) ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00503-2, ISBN: 1-324-00503-3 "Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award-longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their parents at a lakeside mansion." |
 | | Everyone's Pretty A Novel by Lydia Millet Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2005 by Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-932360-77-6, ISBN: 1-932360-77-8 "Dean Decetes, a pornographer with messianic delusions, spins out of control in Los Angeles, where he spends his time drinking himself into a stupor, getting beaten up by strangers he's recklessly insulted, stealing credit cards to pay for sex, being arrested, begging favors, and mounting a PR campaign to make himself famous, with the help of a "loyal footsoldier" -- a porn-loving midget he met in jail. Meanwhile his pious, romantic spin ..." |
 | | Dinosaurs(First Edition) A Novel SIGNED FIRST EDITION by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2022 by Ww Norton & Co, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-324-02146-9, ISBN: 1-324-02146-2 "" --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "I loved the imagination of this book, the way it gracefully--as the title implies--tackles the divine." --Rumaan Alam, New Republic" |
 | | Omnivores(Reprint) A Novel by Lydia Millet Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-63546-1, ISBN: 0-393-63546-5 "Lydia Millet’s debut novel, first published in 1996, is an explosive satire that scorches our culture’s monstrous men and institutions.In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into sadism. As his schemes multiply, Estée’s bedridden mother, entranced by the glow of the shopping channel, remains oblivious to the escalating chaos. Esté ..." |
 | | Love in Infant Monkeys(1st Edition) Stories by Lydia Millet Paperback, 177 Pages, Published 2009 by Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-252-0, ISBN: 1-59376-252-6 "Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants -- all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture. While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but them ..." |
 | | Fight No More Stories (Paperback) by Lydia Millet Paperback, Published 2019 by Ww Norton & Co, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35704-2, ISBN: 0-393-35704-X |
 | | Fight No More Stories by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-63548-5, ISBN: 0-393-63548-1 "Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit.In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.’ ..." |
 | | Mermaids in Paradise(1st Edition) A Novel by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24562-2, ISBN: 0-393-24562-4 "Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon. On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault—meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef. As the resort's "parent company" swoops in to corner the market on mythological creatu ..." |
 | | Magnificence(1st Edition) A Novel by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08170-1, ISBN: 0-393-08170-2 "A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). Salon praised her for writing that is "always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." The Village Voice added, "If Kurt Vonnegut were still ..." |
 | | Ghost Lights(1st Edition) A Novel by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08171-8, ISBN: 0-393-08171-0 "A funny and haunting new novel from "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Los Angeles Times).Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.—the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream—who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiati ..." |
 | | George Bush, Dark Prince of Love(1st Edition) A Presidential Romance by Lydia Millet Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Touchstone ISBN-13: 978-0-684-86274-3, ISBN: 0-684-86274-3 ""Some women like muscle. Brute strength, or the illusion of it. Their idea of an attractive man is a craggy meatpacker with a squirrel brain, who likes to crush vermin with his bare fist. I call these women Reaganites....Personally, I've always preferred the underdog." Rosemary is an ex-con with no viable career prospects, a boyfriend old enough to be her grandfather, and a major obsession with our nation's forty-first president, whom ..." |
 | | I'm With the Bears Short Stories from a Damaged Planet by Mark Martin, Bill Mckibben, Paolo Bacigalupi, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Helen Simpson, Nathaniel Rich, Lydia Millet, David Mitchell, Kim Stanley Robinson, Toby Litt, Wu Ming 1., Margaret Atwood, Arno Mayer, Et. Al, Wu Ming, T. C. Boyle, Contributor-Nathaniel Rich, Contributor-Kim Sta Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-744-3, ISBN: 1-84467-744-3 "A stellar line-up of fiction writers envision the terrors of impending climate change.The magnitude of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to mankind’s unwitting creation of a tou ..." |
 | | Sweet Lamb of Heaven(Reprint) A Novel by Lydia Millet Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35418-8, ISBN: 0-393-35418-0 "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. Lydia Millet’s previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, A ..." |
 | | Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Black Sheep ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-276-6, ISBN: 1-61775-276-2 "Named a "Book that Buzzed at ALA" by Library Journal's Barbara Hoffert!"Pills and Starships, the first young adult novel by Lydia Millet, offers one thrillingly scary scenario...There is much here to enjoy."--Washington Post"A deep read, but fast; it lingers in your mind long after it's been read."--New York Journal of Books"In the remaining wilderness of the Big Island, though, lurk people and terrain that may or may not spell construc ..." |
 | | The Fires Beneath the Sea(1st Edition) by Lydia Millet Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Big Mouth House ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-71-3, ISBN: 1-931520-71-2 "Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2011Cara's mother has disappeared. Her father isn't talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was—and that the world has much stran ..." |
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