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Lionel Shriver
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born
May 18, 1957
in Gastonia, North Carolina, The United States
gender
female
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
   3.99 avg rating — 21,101 ratings
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published
2003
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51 editions
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The Post-Birthday World
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2007
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24 editions
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So Much for That
3.58 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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2010
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Double Fault
2.99 avg rating — 547 ratings
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1997
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12 editions
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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel
3.15 avg rating — 398 ratings
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2007
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11 editions
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Game Control: A Novel
3.13 avg rating — 175 ratings
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published
1994
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13 editions
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The New Republic: A Novel
2.72 avg rating — 137 ratings
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2012
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The Female of the Species
3.45 avg rating — 100 ratings
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published
1988
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Checker and the Derailleurs
3.51 avg rating — 61 ratings
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published
1989
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The Book Club Bible: The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs
3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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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
"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
― 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
― 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
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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| Novel Ladies: Wendy T's Reading Log for 2010 | 20 | 29 | Sep 12, 2009 05:29pm | |
| The Next Best Boo...: October's Group Reads ARE.... | 127 | 478 | Oct 01, 2009 02:04am | |
| Bookmarks Subscri...: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver | 2 | 17 | Oct 15, 2009 03:54pm | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Novembers Group Read WINNERS ARE... | 94 | 418 | Oct 27, 2009 07:19am | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Lisa's Book Blurb | 48 | 101 | Nov 02, 2009 06:26am | |
| The Next Best Boo...: December's Group Read ARE...... | 98 | 461 | Dec 02, 2009 06:36pm | |
| GR-101: Book Appr...: Wendy T's 2010 Reading Log | 19 | 8 | Dec 22, 2009 05:07pm | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Lisa's 2009 Reads | 106 | 396 | Dec 31, 2009 04:07pm | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Tani's Goals for 2009 | 25 | 250 | Jan 01, 2010 03:05pm | |
| GR-101: Book Appr...: Jan's Reading Log - 2010 | 25 | 12 | Jan 07, 2010 02:00pm |
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