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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2006
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection's title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In ...



  • From the author of the novel Swamplandia! -- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize -- comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best. Within these pages, a community of girls held ca...



  • The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Dark...



  • Newly illustrated and available for the first time in years, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go...



  • From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts o...



  • In this revelatory story about first love from Karen Russell’s Orange World, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. Through a darkly comic lens, Russell expl...



  • From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages...




Award-Winning Books by Karen Russell

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
2011 Bard Fiction Prize -- Emerging Writer


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Russell has published 7 books.

The next book by Karen Russell, The Antidote, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, was published in September 2006.

No. Karen Russell does not write books in series.