Anna Quindlen

Good Dog. Stay.

by Anna Quindlen

“The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her...

Every Last One: A Novel

by Anna Quindlen

BONUS: This edition contains an Every Last One discussion guide and an excerpt from Anna Quindlen's Blessings.

Mary Beth Latham has built her life around her family, around caring for her three teenage children...

Blessings

by Anna Quindlen

This powerful new novel by the bestselling author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life begins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to...

How Reading Changed My Life

by Anna Quindlen

THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring,...

Black and Blue

by Anna Quindlen

For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father, and because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when...

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

by Anna Quindlen

"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that...

Rise and Shine: A Novel

by Anna Quindlen

From Anna Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.

It’s an otherwise...

Loud and Clear

by Anna Quindlen

In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of America’s favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize– winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and...

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

by Anna Quindlen

INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MERYL STREEP AND ANNA QUINDLEN

“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does...

One True Thing: A Novel

by Anna Quindlen

A mother.  A daughter.  A shattering choice.

From Anna Quindlen, bestselling author of Black and Blue, comes a novel of life, love and everyday acts of mercy.

"A triumph."

--San Francisco Chronicle

From the...

Living Out Loud

by Anna Quindlen

"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The voice...

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

by Anna Quindlen

"A splendid collection...Eloquent, powerful, compassionate and droll. There is considerable variety in the subjects she addresses....Compelling."

THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

Thinking out loud is what Anna Quindlen...

Object Lessons

by Anna Quindlen

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic...

Being Perfect

by Anna Quindlen

A few times in your life, someone will tell you something so right, so deeply true that it changes you forever. That is what Anna Quindlen, author of the timeless bestseller A Short Guide to a Happy Life, does...