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Amity Gaige

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Born

in Charlotte, North Carolina, The United States

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http://www.amitygaige.com/

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Fiction, Suspense, Crime

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October 2024

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Amity Gaige is the author of four previous novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife. Sea Wife was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. Her previous novel, Schroder, was named one of Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among others, and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize (now Writers’ Prize) in 2014. Her work has been translated into 18 languages. Amity is the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship, fellowships at the MacDowell and Yaddo colonies, and in 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in West Hartford, CT, with her family, and teaches creative writing at Yale.
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Average rating: 3.86 · 97,289 ratings · 11,391 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Heartwood 3.93 avg rating — 76,237 ratings — published 2025 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea Wife 3.67 avg rating — 14,836 ratings — published 2020 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schroder 3.45 avg rating — 5,018 ratings — published 2013 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Folded World 3.48 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O My Darling: A Novel 2.94 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill by Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Donald Antrim 3.85 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Providence Noir (Akashic Noir) by Ann Hood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Searles (Goodreads Author), Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are a Thunderstorm 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heartwood: 'nearly impossible to put down' Jennifer Egan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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More books by Amity Gaige…

Believe it or not, it's time once again for our annual midyear assessment of the year’s most popular books, so far, according to Goodreads...

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This month, we are reading from the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 list. The 100-book-list has been narrowed down to the list below for voting.

Since these books are not from the same genres, I have included genre as well as a link to the New York Times reviews.

Voting will be from 2/2/14 to 2/15/14, or until all 9 votes are cast. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
This book also received the 2013
Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction.
This book is also on the New York Times shortlist:
10 best books of 2013
See Life After Life: New York Times Review

6 votes, 75.0%

The Circle by Dave Eggers
Science Fiction
See The Circle: New York Times Review

1 vote, 12.5%

Doctor Sleep (The Shining #2) by Stephen King

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
(Starring a now grown Danny from The Shinning)
This book also received the 2013
Goodreads Choice Award for Horror
See Doctor Sleep: New York Times Review

1 vote, 12.5%

Schroder by Amity Gaige
Literary Fiction
See Schroder: New York Times Review

0 votes, 0.0%

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Historical Fiction
See The Luminaries: New York Times Review

0 votes, 0.0%

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
by Andrew Sean Greer
Science Fiction / Historical Fiction
See The Impossible Lives of
Greta Wells: New York Times Review

0 votes, 0.0%

8 total votes

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