Elinor Lipman

• Oct-1988
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1990
• / General Fiction
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April Epner teaches high school Latin, wears flannel jumpers, and is used to having her evenings free. Bernice Graverman brandishes designer labels, favors toad-sized earrings, and hosts her own tacky TV talk show: Bernice G!But behind the glitz and ...

• Feb-1993
• / General Fiction
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Melinda LeBlanc, at 30, makes an untriumphant return to Harrow, Massachusetts, her recently gentrified hometown. She’s unmarried, romanced out, designing wedding bouquets for old classmates who hadn't known a fraction of her early popularity. So wh...

• Mar-1995
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where sh...

• May-1998
• / General Fiction
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This "tale of delicious revenge" (USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners.... Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" (Chicago Tribune).It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires a...

• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction
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From the bestselling author of The Inn at Lake Devine ("Rivals her own best work for its understanding of the way smart, opinionated people stumble toward happiness"--Glamour) and Isabel's Bed ("It's Fannie Farmer for the soul . . . delivered in a de...

• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction
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With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. Everyone in King George, N...

• Jun-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman?Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, hi...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction
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Born and raised in a college dorm and chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization," Frederica Hatch is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. But then, into this cozy but claustro...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well-ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces ...

• Feb-2017
• / General Fiction
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An endearing romantic comedy from the beloved best-selling author of The Family Man and The View from Penthouse B At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her a...

• Jul-2018
• / Literary
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For longtime fans and new readers alike, Read, Love, Repeat: Three Novels by Elinor Lipman collects three beloved works (My Latest Grievance, The Family Man, The View from Penthouse B) by the “enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exc...

• Feb-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school year...

• Nov-2020
• / General Fiction
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“Readers who are hungry for heartwarming comedy and spicy D.C. gossip will find Lipman’s new novel absolutely delicious.” -- New York Times Book Review  A mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from o...

• Jan-2023
• / Literary
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Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor“Ms. Demeanor is a complete and utter delight. Of course it is. What Elinor Lipman novel isn’t?” -- Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are . . .“Who knew house arrest c...

• Feb-2025
• / Women's Fiction
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From the author of Ms. Demeanor -- one of the most beloved comedic writers of our time -- comes a charming, laugh-out-loud tale of love and criminality, a pitch-perfect romantic comedy.“Over the course of more than thirty years and at least fifteen...