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Books by Lily King
Lily King is the award-winning author of six novels. Her 2020 novel, Writers & Lovers, won the New England Society Book Awards, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was chosen as one of the best books of 2020 by The Washington Post, NPR, People Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times. Her 2014 novel Euphoria won the Kirkus Award, the New England Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. Euphoria was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review.
Interviews with Lily King
The Best Literary Love Stories, recommended by Lily King
A satisfying literary love story doesn’t need to end happily ever after—but one does need to be left with a sense that two characters belong together, advises the novelist Lily King, whose book Heart the Lover follows the long tail of a campus love triangle. Here, she selects five novels from literary writers that examine love and desire in the depth they deserve.
Interviews where books by Lily King were recommended
The Best New Novels: The 2026 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Salma El-Wardany
The Women’s Prize was set up to highlight the very best of women’s writing, whatever their subject matter. We spoke to Salma El-Wardany, one of this year’s judges, about this year’s winner—Virginia Evan’s heartwarming epistolary novel The Correspondent—plus the five books that made it onto their fiction shortlist, all skillfully told novels that should appeal to a wide audience.
