Anna Quindlen

Author · 29 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

More Than Enough

2026

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