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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us is a lovely, remarkable book, full of people who strive mightily to believe in things -- Bigfoot, the Lochness and Lake Michigan monsters, a tunnel leading to the other side of the world, hu...



  • Laura van den Berg’s gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who as...



  • After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us FIND ME, her highly anticipated debut novel―a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her...





  • Fiction. The characters in this collection are searching for something more: in the markings on tortoise shells, on other planets, with new lovers and altered identities. These characters know there are whole worlds out there that have never been see...



  • "[A] future cult classic." -- The New York Times Book Review"There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." -- The Washington PostFinalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2...



  • I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her acclaimed and prizewinning Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant...



  • "A brilliant ghost story and a profoundly moving and atmospheric meditation on place, memory, and the very nature of reality, where everything is truly not as it seems." -- Mona Awad, author of Rouge"A wholly original and epically engaging novel fro...




Award-Winning Books by Laura Van Den Berg

The Isle of Youth: Stories
2015 Bard Fiction Prize -- Emerging Writer


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Van Den Berg has published 8 books.

The next book by Laura Van Den Berg, Florida Diary, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Laura Van Den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was published in October 2009.

No. Laura Van Den Berg does not write books in series.