Order of Lauren Wilkinson Books
Lauren Wilkinson is an American author who debuted on the scene with her debut novel, American Spy. The book was highly praised ahead of release and lead to the book being selected as one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2019.
In addition to her work as an author, Wilkinson also has taught writing at Columbia University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was a fellowship recipient in 2013 when she was a 2013 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer’s Fellow, and has received support from both the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program to bring her work to life. She had previously been published as a writer of fiction and essays in Granta, The Believer, and The Millions, among other publications. Lauren lives and writes in New York City on the Lower East Side.
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| American Spy | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| A Scandal in Brooklyn | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Modern Library Torchbearers Books
| The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings | (1892) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings | (1892) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Regiment of Women | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Transformation of Philip Jettan | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Selected Poetry | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Nada | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Heads of Cerberus | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| American Indian Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lady Audley's Secret | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Transformation of Philip Jettan | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| There Is Confusion | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Return of the Soldier | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Squatter and the Don | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Daughter of the Samurai | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Passing | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Custom of the Country | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Princess of 72nd Street | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| I Am Clarence | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Quicksand | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The House of Madelaine | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Plum Bun Without a Moral | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Find Him! | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Nothing Grows by Moonlight | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Memory House | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Country Doctor | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Narrative of Sojourner Truth | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Bread Givers | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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If You Like Lauren Wilkinson Books, You’ll Love…
American Spy was Wilkinson’s debut novel that was named one of the best books of the year by multiple outlets. The book takes place in 1986 during the Cold War and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer for the FBI. She’s a young black woman working in an era that is dominated by men, mostly white. She finds herself constantly overlook for promotions and finds her days filled with more paperwork than anything. This leads her to accepting an opportunity to join a a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. Marie actually admires a lot that Sankara is doing for his country, but she is quick to accept the job. Marie is selected for her looks as much as anything as she is given the job to observe Sankara, seduce him, and bring him down. Doing her job might mean changing everything she believes about herself and her country.