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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1996
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • The Woman Who Walked on Water is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author of The Double Life of Liliane.

    Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has...



  • Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepr...



  • In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local cu...



  • “Brimming with rich descriptions of a beautiful country….The News From Paraguay evolves from a quirky, elegant tale of an unconventional love affair into a sweeping epic.” --  Fort Worth Star-TelegramLily Tuck’s impressive novel offers ...



  • Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered pr...



  • Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. "His hand is growing cold, still she holds it" is ho...



  • Lily Tuck's The House at Belle Fontaine brings together ten of the award-winning author's most exquisitely-wrought and captivating stories. These intimate tales traverse time and continents, revealing apprehensions, passions, secrets, and tragedies a...



  • Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With "The Double Life of Liliane," Tuck ...



  • Lily Tuck’s critically-lauded, bestselling I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one couple’s marriage.” In her singular new novel SISTERS, Tuck gives a very different portrait of mar...






  • The National Book Award winner explores the hidden dynamics of relationships with “lean, intriguing, formally inventive prose” in this collection (Kirkus Reviews).A New York Times Editor’s ChoiceIn Heathcliff Redux, the novella that begins this...



  • The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo in the hands of one of our greatest novelists.First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life ...


Award-Winning Books by Lily Tuck

The News from Paraguay
2004 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lily Tuck has published 11 books.

The next book by Lily Tuck, The Rest Is Memory, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Lily Tuck, Woman Who Walked on Water, was published in March 1996.

No. Lily Tuck does not write books in series.