Yiyun Li

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Books in Order: 12 titles

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  • Wednesday's Child

  • Wednesday's Child: Stories

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus ReviewsA new ...

  • The Book of Goose

    Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book ...

  • A Sheltered Woman

  • Must I Go

    “One of our major novelists” (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.“Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an ext...

  • Where Reasons End

    A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love. The narrator of WHERE REASONS END writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of fl...

  • Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

  • The Story of Gilgamesh

    "A real friend is a companion for your heart."
    Godlike Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, has built a beautiful city, but is also a terrible tyrant. In answer to the prayers of his oppressed citizens, the gods create Enkidu, a wild man whose destiny is to ...

  • Kinder Than Solitude

    A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in t...



  • Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

    In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants, gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, ...

  • The Vagrants

    Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti-Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the ...

  • A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

    Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how m...

Award-Winning Books by Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose
2023 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2006 Guardian First Book Award -- First Book
2006 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award -- First Fiction
2006 PEN Literary Award -- Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yiyun Li has published 12 books.

Yiyun Li does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wednesday's Child: Stories, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, was published in September 2005.

No. Yiyun Li does not write books in series.
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