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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2009
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize, the Edmund White Award, and the California Book Award, Lori Ostlund’s “heartbreaking and wonderful” (Pulitzer Prize"winning author Richard Russo) debut collection of stories about men and women confron...



  • From Flannery O’Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into t...



  • "Once I read the first story in Are You Happy?, I put aside everything else to savor the rest. This is a wise collection, capturing its characters swimming upstream to encounter their fates. With vivid and compassionate prose that explores the countl...




Award-Winning Books by Lori Ostlund

The Bigness of the World: Stories
2010 Triangle Award -- Debut Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lori Ostlund has published 3 books.

The next book by Lori Ostlund, Are You Happy?, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World: Stories, was published in October 2009.

No. Lori Ostlund does not write books in series.