Lionel Shriver bibliography

A list of works by or about the author Lionel Shriver.

Novels

• The Female of the Species (1987)
• Checker and the Derailleurs (1988)
• The Bleeding Heart (1990)
• Ordinary Decent Criminals (1992)
• Game Control (1994)
• A Perfectly Good Family (1996)
• Double Fault (1997)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
• The Post-Birthday World (2007)
• So Much for That (2010)
• The New Republic (2012)
• Big Brother: A Novel (2013)
• The Mandibles (2016)
• The Standing Chandelier (2017)
• The Motion of the Body Through Space (2020)
• Should We Stay or Should We Go (2021)
• Mania (2024)

Short fiction

Collections

• Property – Stories Between Two Novellas, 2018 collection ^[1]

Stories ^[2]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Kilifi Creek	2013	Shriver, Lionel (November 25, 2013). "Kilifi Creek". The New Yorker. 89 (38): 110–117.

Non-fiction

• Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction (2022)

Critical studies and reviews of Shriver's work

• Levy, Ariel (June 1, 2020). "Looking for trouble : contrarianism has made Lionel Shriver famous, but fiction is what she believes changes minds". The New Yorker. 96 (15): 40–47. ^[3]

Notes

1. McCauley, Stephen (May 21, 2018). "Review: Property – Stories Between Two Novellas". Sunday Book Review. The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2018
2. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
3. Online version is titled "Lionel Shriver is looking for trouble".