
Anna Quindlen
Author · 28 books
Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of eight novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a number one New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.
Books

A Path to the World
2022

Object Lessons
1991

One True Thing
1994

Living Out Loud
1988

Poems for Life
Famous People Select Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
1995

Imagined London
A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
2004

Nanaville
Adventures in Grandparenting
2019

Loud and Clear
2004

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
2012

Being Perfect
2005

How Reading Changed My Life
1998

Rise and Shine
2006

Good Dog. Stay.
2007

Every Last One
2010

Being Perfect and A Short Guide to a Happy Life
2005

Black and Blue
1998

The Tree That Came to Stay
1992

Happily Ever After
1997

Still Life with Bread Crumbs
2014

Poems for Life
A Special Collection of Poetry Selected by: E. L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, David Mamet, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Vonnegut, Elie Wiesel, and Many More
2013

Write for Your Life
2022

Blessings
2002

Naked Babies
1996

Thinking Out Loud
On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
1993

A Short Guide to a Happy Life
2000

Miller's Valley
2016

Alternate Side
2018

After Annie
2024