Lionel Shriver
Goodreads Author
Born
in Gastonia, North Carolina, The United States
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June 2013
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
161 editions
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2003
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The Post-Birthday World
31 editions
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2007
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Big Brother
46 editions
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2013
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
41 editions
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2016
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So Much for That
60 editions
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2010
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Should We Stay or Should We Go
23 editions
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2021
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
27 editions
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2020
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Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
23 editions
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2018
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Double Fault
41 editions
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1997
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A Perfectly Good Family
29 editions
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2007
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“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Checker and the Derailleurs
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“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Join us on Monday, June 24th for a special discussion with author Lionel Shriver! Lionel will be discussing her new book Big Brother. Become a fa ...more