Elizabeth Berg





Elizabeth Berg

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in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
December 02, 1948

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Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including We Are All Welcome Here, The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY Award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Elizabeth Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.


Average rating: 3.65 · 107,315 ratings · 10,314 reviews · 42 distinct works · Similar authors
Open House
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 25,382 ratings — published 2000 — 32 editions
What We Keep
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 6,924 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions
The Year of Pleasures
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 6,298 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions
Talk Before Sleep
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 5,718 ratings — published 1993 — 28 editions
The Art of Mending
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 5,530 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions
Home Safe
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 5,768 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
We Are All Welcome Here
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 4,681 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions
Durable Goods (Katie Nash, #1)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 4,400 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions
Dream When You're Feeling Blue
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 4,845 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions
The Pull of The Moon
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 4,114 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions
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“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”
Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

“You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.”
Elizabeth Berg

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