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Christopher Bollen is a writer who lives in New York City. He regularly writes about art, literature, and culture. His first novel, Lightning People, was published in 2011. His second novel, Orient, is out by Harper in May 2015. He is currently the Editor at Large at Interview Magazine
Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
Lightning People (2011)
Orient (2015)
The Destroyers (2017)
A Beautiful Crime (2020)
The Lost Americans (2023)
Havoc (2024)
Paris Match (2027)
Orient (2015)
The Destroyers (2017)
A Beautiful Crime (2020)
The Lost Americans (2023)
Havoc (2024)
Paris Match (2027)
Books containing stories by Christopher Bollen
Crime Ink: Iconic (2025)
An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons
edited by
John Copenhaver and Salem West
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 (2021)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
Alafair Burke
Award nominations
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Christopher Bollen recommends
Children of Wolves (2026)
Lawrence Osborne
"The inimitable genius of a Lawrence Osborne novel is that underneath the gripping plot and the dazzling, cut-crystal prose, there's always a dark truth about the world laid bare that we didn't expect to face. In Children of Wolves, perhaps Osborne's most menacing novel yet, that truth involves the privileged, cushioned lives of the children of the rich. Who has the sharper teeth, the billionaire titans of the world or their aimless, attractive offspring? Osborne paints such a gorgeous picture of louche, jet-set Istanbul, you almost forget to watch your back."
Ilium (2024)
Lea Carpenter
"Ilium goes well beyond offering an exciting take on espionage literature. Lea Carpenter has built an entirely new wing onto the genre. Intricate, propulsive, rendered with deft emotion, this female-centric spy story has a deeply human heart."
Speech Team (2023)
Tim Murphy
"Very few novelists can write with such daring, hilarity, and heartbreak as Tim Murphy. Speech Team is so wildly entertaining you don't realize its punch until it knocks you flat. The novel is an ode to growing up in the '80s and reliving those messy, uncouth years in relatively wiser adulthood. But its real subject is the wounds inflicted in our youth that become both our making and unmaking. Murphy creates characters so vivid we don't want to let them go."
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