Yiyun Li
Author · 19 books
Yiyun Li is the author of seven books, including Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University.
Books
The Vagrants
2009
Tolstoy Together
85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
2021
This Woman's Work
Essays on Music
2022
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2005
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
2010
Things in Nature Merely Grow
2025
If You Are Lonely and You Know It
2021
Wednesday's Child
2023
The Lonely Stories
2022
Kinder Than Solitude
2013
To speak is to blunder - Choosing to renounce a mother tongue.
2017
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Ten Kafkaesque Stories
2024
Where Reasons End
2019
The Book of Goose
2022
The Story of Gilgamesh
2011
Must I Go
2020
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
2017
A Sheltered Woman
2014
When We Were Happy We Had Other Names
2018
