Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet has written at least 32 books. Their most popular book is A Children's Bible with 161 saves with an average rating of 3.71⭐.

Author Bio

Born in Boston in 1968, Lydia Millet moved to Toronto, Canada with her Egyptologist father and teacher/librarian mother two years later. She received a Master's in Environmental Policy at Duke University and moved to New York in 1996, where she worked as a fundraiser for the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1999 she went freelance and moved to Tucson, where she now lives and writes full-time on an isolated spread in the desert. She is the author of Omnivores (Algonquin, 1996), George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (Scribner, 2000), My Happy Life (Henry Holt, 2002), a winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and Everyone’s Pretty (Soft Skull Press, February 2005).

A Children's Bible

A Children's Bible
ByLydia Millet

2020 • 161 Readers • 6h 3.7

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs
ByLydia Millet

2022 • 67 Readers 4

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

#1 of 2 in New Fairy Tales

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
ByBrian Evenson(Contributor),John Updike(Contributor)

2010 • 37 Readers • 576 pages 3.5

Sweet Lamb of Heaven

Sweet Lamb of Heaven
ByLydia Millet

2016 • 19 Readers • 256 pages 2.7

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

1998 • 11 Readers • 402 pages

Mermaids in Paradise

Mermaids in Paradise
ByLydia Millet

2014 • 7 Readers • 304 pages 3

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2024 • 7 Readers

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

2005 • 7 Readers • 548 pages 4

Fight No More: Stories

2018 • 6 Readers • 224 pages 4

Love in Infant Monkeys

2009 • 5 Readers • 208 pages

Ghost Lights

#2 of 3 in Trilogy

Ghost Lights
ByLydia Millet

2011 • 4 Readers • 256 pages 4

I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
ByMark Martin(Editor),Helen Simpson(Contributor)

2011 • 3 Readers • 209 pages 2.5

Pills and starships

Pills and starships
ByLydia Millet

3 Readers

How the Dead Dream

#1 of 3 in Trilogy

How the Dead Dream
ByLydia Millet

2007 • 2 Readers • 244 pages 4

Everyone's Pretty

Everyone's Pretty
ByLydia Millet

2005 • 2 Readers 4

The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate

2022 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

Atavists: Stories

Atavists: Stories
ByLydia Millet

2025 • 2 Readers • 256 pages

A Children’s Bible

A Children’s Bible
ByLydia Millet

2020 • 1 Reader 4

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#1 of 1 in Electric Literature

Electric Literature no. 1
ByMichael Cunningham(Contributor),T. Cooper(Contributor)

2009 • 1 Reader • 110 pages

George Bush, Dark Prince of Love

2000 • 1 Reader • 159 pages

Tehdy jsme žili v letní zemi

Tehdy jsme žili v letní zemi
ByAnežka Dudková(translator),Lydia Millet

2020 • 1 Reader • 200 pages

Dinosaurs: A Novel

Dinosaurs: A Novel
ByLydia Millet

2022 • 1 Reader 4

Ewangelia dzieciństwa

Ewangelia dzieciństwa
ByAga Zano(Translator),Lydia Millet

2020 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Woestijnbergen

Woestijnbergen
ByLydia Millet,Inge Kok(Translator)

2022 • 1 Reader • 224 pages 4

Prendere o lasciare

Prendere o lasciare
ByLydia Millet,Gioia Guerzoni(Translator)

2018 • 1 Reader

The Fires Beneath the Sea

#1 of 1 in The Dissenters

2011 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

Lasten raamattu

Lasten raamattu
ByLydia Millet,Arto Schroderus(Translator)

2020 • 1 Reader • 249 pages 4

Omnivores

Omnivores
ByLydia Millet

1996 • 1 Reader

Allegheny Front

Allegheny Front
ByMatthew Neill Null

2016 • 165 pages

Mermaids in paradise

Mermaids in paradise
ByLydia Millet