Lydia Millet

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Dissenters

The Fires Beneath the Sea (Jul-2011)
The Shimmers in the Night (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • George Bush, Dark Prince of Love

    "Some women like muscle. Brute strength, or the illusion of it. Their idea of an attractive man is a craggy meatpacker with a squirrel brain, who likes to crush vermin with his bare fist. I call these women Reaganites....Personally, I've always prefe...

  • Everyone's Pretty

    A “supremely wacky [and] astute” novel by a PEN Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist (The Washington Post).In Los Angeles, Dean Decetes, a pornographer with messianic delusions, spins out of control, spending his time drinking himself into a ...

  • Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

    Nearly sixty years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert in 1945, scientists Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi mysteriously appear in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear lega...

  • My Happy Life

    At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator has been abandoned in a locked room of a deserted mental hospital. She hasn't seen the nice man who brings her food in days; so she's eaten the soap, the toothpaste, and even tried to eat the plas...

  • How the Dead Dream

    T. is a young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions. His orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who’s been deserted by T.’s now out-of-the-closet fath...

  • Love in Infant Monkeys

    Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer. Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants -- all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebriti...

  • The Fires Beneath the Sea

    Dissenters

    In the first of the Dissenters series, Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beac...

  • Ghost Lights

    Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T. -- the protagonist of Lydia Millet's muc...

  • The Shimmers in the Night

    Dissenters

    Cara's mother is still missing. When her brother Jax texts her from "smart kid's boot camp" in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue. But the camp is a front for Cara's mother's organization who are fighting a...



  • Magnificence

    A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy. Lydia Millet is “one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation” (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). This stu...

  • Pills and Starships

    A teenage girl and her brother fight for their family’s future in a world devastated by climate change: “Thrillingly scary . . . There is much here to enjoy” (The Washington Post).   In a dystopian future brought about by gl...

  • Pills & Starships

    Winner of the 2015 Paterson Prize for Books for Young PeopleNamed a 2015 Green Earth Honor Book by the Nature Generation"Pills and Starships, the first young adult novel by Lydia Millet, offers one thrillingly scary scenario...There is ...

  • Mermaids in Paradise

    On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip―our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault―meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef. As the re...

  • Sweet Lamb of Heaven

    Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband; a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old da...

  • The Bodies of the Ancients

    Praise for the Dissenters Series:

    "Millet's prose is lyrically evocative ('the rhythmic scoop and splash of their paddles'). A lush and intelligent opener for a topical eco-fantasy series." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    "A thought...

  • Fight No More: Stories

    Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit. In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be h...

  • A Children's Bible

    Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A ...

  • Dinosaurs

    One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far • A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • An Oprah Daily and Literary Hub...

  • Atavists

    A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.From Lydia Millet -- “the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourse...



  • Omnivores

    • / General Fiction
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    Lydia Millet’s debut novel, first published in 1996, is an explosive satire that scorches our culture’s monstrous men and institutions.In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose o...

Award-Winning Books by Lydia Millet

My Happy Life
2003 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lydia Millet has published 20 books.

The next book by Lydia Millet, Atavists, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Lydia Millet, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, was published in January 2000.

Yes. Lydia Millet has 1 series.
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