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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1998
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • "A collection of wistful, witty stories." --Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." --Harper's BazaarA grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows...



  • Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise. Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a ...



  • What would you write if no one knew who you were?In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind col...



  • "Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book ReviewAimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastic...



  • The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted pa...



  • "A real cause for celebration . . . The quality [of the stories] is uniformly very high." - Stefan Raets, Tor.comUnstuck is an independent, non-profit, nationally distributed literary annual based in Austin, Texas. We emphasize literary fiction with ...



  • The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress who...



  • A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The old man and the old woman always dreamed the same dreams. Everyone in Celia’s town knows the couple, married sixty years, with wrinkled skin down to their wrists -- but one summer, while C...



  • The Best Small Fictions is the first contemporary anthology solely devoted to honoring the best short hybrid fiction published in a calendar year. The series, which began in 2015, has featured an international group of both seasoned and emerging auth...






  • The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world....


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Aimee Bender has published 10 books.

Aimee Bender does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Butterfly Lampshade, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Aimee Bender, Girl in the Flammable Skirt, was published in July 1998.

No. Aimee Bender does not write books in series.