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Lionel Shriver

(b.1957)

Lionel Shriver (born May 18, 1957) is an American journalist and author who lives in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name, starring Tilda Swinton.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Female of the Species (1987)
   Checker and the Derailleurs (1988)
   The Bleeding Heart (1990)
   Ordinary Decent Criminals (1992)
   Game Control (1994)
   A Perfectly Good Family (1996)
   Double Fault (1997)
   We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
   The Post-Birthday World (2007)
   So Much for That (2010)
   The New Republic (2012)
   Big Brother (2013)
   The Mandibles (2016)
   The Motion of the Body Through Space (2020)
   Should We Stay or Should We Go (2021)
   Putting Away Childish Things (2022)

Collections

Ox-Tales: Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Property (2018)

Novellas

   The Self-Seeding Sycamore (2016)
   The Standing Chandelier (2017)
   Domestic Terrorism (2018)

Non fiction

The Library Book (2012) (with Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland, Val McDermid, Lucy Mangan, China Miéville, Caitlin Moran, Kate Mosse, Julie Myerson, Bali Rai and Hardeep Kohli Singh)

Awards

	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2005) : We Need to Talk About Kevin
	BCA Crime Thriller of the Year Best Novel nominee (2006) : We Need to Talk About Kevin
	National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2010) : So Much for That
	Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2017) : The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

Lionel Shriver recommends

Harbor (2004)
Lorraine Adams
"Adams captures the souless fungibility that many an immigrant must feel, clinging to employment's lowest rungs."

Where the God of Love Hangs Out (2010)
Amy Bloom
"Unrelentingly pleasurable fiction."

The Wilding (2010)
Maria McCann
"McCann has in buckets whatever mysterious quality keeps a reader wide-eyed well after he'd planned to turn out the light."

Before I Go To Sleep (2011)
S J Watson
"A deft, perceptive exploration of a fascinating neurological condition, and a cracking good thriller."

Beautiful Animals (2017)
Lawrence Osborne
"Two young women, one under the sway of the other, holiday with their families on a Greek island. When they come to the aid of a refugee who has washed up on a deserted shore, the consequences are unforeseen and (you guessed it) dire. As a thriller, a real page-turner, and as a social commentary an astutely glancing approach to Europe's migration crisis. Rivetingly well written."

Fear (2017)
Dirk Kurbjuweit
"I'm intrigued by Dirk Kurbjuweit's novel FEAR, about a stalker living downstairs."

Outside Looking In (2019)
T C Boyle
"By far and away one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today ... A mesmerising storyteller."

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