Karen E. Bender

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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    Like Normal People (April 2000)
  • Latest Book:
    The Words of Dr. L (May 2025)
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Books in Order: 6 titles

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  • The Words of Dr. L

    National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender returns with stunning speculative stories of parents and children, together and apart, surviving near-future dystopias that feel all-too-possible -- and realities that can be even strangerGrounded in both ...

  • The New Order: Stories

    “Bender's willingness to go deep, to burrow down into what's right and wrong about 21st century America and Americans, is a mirror that draws us in and does not allow us to look away." -- Los Angeles Times on RefundThe National Book Award finalist...

  • Refund: Stories

    This collection of stories set in contemporary America--a finalist for the National Book Award--herald a work of singular literary merit by an important writer at the height of her power.We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who h...

  • A Town of Empty Rooms

    Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous first novel, Like Normal People, which garnered remarkable acclaim.A Town of Empty Rooms presents the story of Serena and Dan Shine, estranged from one another as they sepa...

  • Choice

    A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice. At a time when a woman’s most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and ...

  • Like Normal People

    A Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of the Washington Post's best books of the Like Normal People charts the lives of "three richly textured characters whose irreducible idiosyncrasies, griefs, longings, and loves will surely expand our sense of w...



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Karen E. Bender has published 6 books.

Karen E. Bender does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Words of Dr. L, was published in May 2025.

The first book by Karen E. Bender, Like Normal People, was published in April 2000.

No. Karen E. Bender does not write books in series.
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