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Rebecca Makkai



Rebecca Makkai is a Chicago-based writer whose second novel, The Hundred-Year House, will be available from Viking/Penguin in summer, 2014. Her first novel, The Borrower, is a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. Her short fiction has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), and appears regularly in journals like Harper's, Tin House, Ploughshares, and New England Review.
 

Awards: LA Times (2018)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery
 
Novels
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Collections
   Music for Wartime (2015)
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Books containing stories by Rebecca Makkai
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Growing Up Chicago (2022)
edited by
Lauren DeJulio Bell, Roxanne Pilat and David Schaafsma

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Awards
2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : The Great Believers

Award nominations
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Great Believers
2019 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : The Great Believers


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Too Soon (2025)
Betty Shamieh
"Too Soon is about what it means to leave home, what it means to return home, and what happens when home is an elusive concept. Sharp, propulsive, and irreverent, this story is profound without ever becoming ponderous - and I haven't been this excited about a debut novel in a long time."
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Sweet Fury (2025)
Sash Bischoff
"Cunningly ambitious, twisty, and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you aren't ready for the sucker-punch of its deeper truths. This is a hell of a debut."
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The God of the Woods (2024)
Liz Moore
"Riveting from page one to the last breathless word, The God of the Woods is about the many ways we find and lose both ourselves and others. This book flew by at lightning speed, but will stick with me for a very long time."

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