Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver

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born
May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, The United States

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Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 29,871 ratings · 6,190 reviews · 16 distinct works
We Need to Talk About Kevin
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 21,101 ratings — published 2003 — 51 editions
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The Post-Birthday World
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 5,138 ratings — published 2007 — 24 editions
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So Much for That
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 2,036 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions
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Double Fault
2.99 of 5 stars 2.99 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions
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A Perfectly Good Family: A ...
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
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Game Control: A Novel
3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
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The New Republic: A Novel
2.72 of 5 stars 2.72 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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The Female of the Species
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions
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Checker and the Derailleurs
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions
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The Book Club Bible: The De...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007
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April 2012, Lionel Shriver
"This envelope-pushing writer covered school shootings in We Need to Talk About Kevin and now terrorism in The New Republic, a playful take on the rise of a rookie journalist." ...More

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“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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