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 in order of publication:
Standalone Novels
| Object Lessons | (1991) | |
| One True Thing | (1994) | |
| Black and Blue | (1998) | |
| Blessings | (2002) | |
| Rise and Shine | (2006) | |
| Every Last One | (2010) | |
| Still Life with Bread Crumbs | (2014) | |
| Miller’s Valley | (2016) | |
| Alternate Side | (2018) | |
| After Annie | (2024) |
Non-Fiction Books
| Living Out Loud | (1988) | |
| Thinking Out Loud | (1993) | |
| How Reading Changed My Life | (1998) | |
| Siblings | (1998) | |
| A Short Guide to a Happy Life | (2000) | |
| Loud and Clear | (2004) | |
| Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City | (2004) | |
| Being Perfect | (2005) | |
| Good Dog. Stay. / Life with Beau | (2007) | |
| Naked Babies | (2009) | |
| Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake | (2012) | |
| Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting | (2019) | |
| Write for Your Life | (2022) |
Children’s Books
| The Tree That Came to Stay | (1992) | |
| Happily Ever After | (1997) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Secret Society of Demolition Writers | (2005) | |
| 40 Model Essays | (2005) | |
| Proud To Be Liberal | (2006) | |
| The Maternal Is Political | (2008) | |
| A Path to the World | (2022) |
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