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Lionel Shriver

(b.1957)

Lionel Shriver (born May 18, 1957) is an American journalist and author who lives in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name, starring Tilda Swinton.

Awards: BBC (2014), Women's Prize (2005) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction

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 (2013)
   The Mandibles (2016)
   The Motion of the Body Through Space (2020)
   Should We Stay or Should We Go (2021)
   Mania (2024)

Collections

Property (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Self-Seeding Sycamore (2016)
The Standing Chandelier (2017)

Series contributed to

Ox-Tales
Ox-Tales: Fire (2009) (with others)

BBC National Short Story Award
The BBC National Short Story Award 2013 (2013) (with others)
The BBC National Short Story Award 2014 (2014) (with others)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Lionel Shriver

Of the Flesh (2024)
18 stories of modern horror

Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier

The Library Book (2012)

More books

Awards

	2014 BBC National Short Story Prize : Kilifi Creek
	2005 Women's Prize For Fiction : We Need to Talk About Kevin

Award nominations

	2022 Prometheus Award (nominee) : Should We Stay or Should We Go
	2017 Prometheus Award (nominee) : The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
	2013 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Prepositions
	2010 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : So Much for That
	2009 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Exchange Rates
	2006 BCA Crime Thriller of the Year (nominee) : We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver recommends

For Emma (2025)
Ewan Morrison
"Hold onto your seats for a cracking good ending, which I did not see coming, yet which I felt I should have seen coming - the best kind."

The Vegan (2023)
Andrew Lipstein
"The Vegan is the weirdest novel I've read in ages. In a good way. A genre unto itself. Skillfully written and strangely addictive."

Vladimir (2022)
Julia May Jonas
"Droll, dry, and pacy, Vladimir is deliciously unsparing and enormous fun."