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Lily Tuck Books in Order

Lily Tuck has written 12 books, published between 1991 and 2024. The first book is Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up (1991) and the newest is The Rest Is Memory (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1991–2024
Pages on record
1,627 in 7 of 12 books
Reading time
27–41 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,627 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Lily Tuck, born October 10, 1938, is an American novelist and short story writer and a Guggenheim Fellow. The News from Paraguay (2004) won that year's National Book Award for Fiction. Siam (1999) was a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee, and Woman of Rome (2008), a biography of Elsa Morante, won the Premio Elsa Morante. The catalogue lists 12 books from Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up (1991) to The Rest Is Memory (2024).

How many Lily Tuck books are there?

Lily Tuck has 12 books, released between 1991 and 2024.

Lily Tuck Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Lily Tuck books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up by Lily Tuck (1991)
  2. Cover of The Woman Who Walked on Water by Lily Tuck (1996)
  3. Cover of Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck (1999)
  4. Cover of The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (2004)
  5. Cover of Woman of Rome by Lily Tuck (2008)
  6. Cover of The House at Belle Fontaine by Lily Tuck (2013)
  7. Cover of Heathcliff Redux by Lily Tuck (2020)
  8. Cover of The Rest Is Memory by Lily Tuck (2024)
  1. 1
    Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up1991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  2. 2
    The Woman Who Walked on Water1996 · 241 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996241
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  3. 3
    Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man1999 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999192
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  4. 4
    Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived2001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  5. 5
    The News from Paraguay2004 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004248
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  6. 6
    Woman of Rome2008 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008263
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  7. 7
    I Married You for Happiness2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  8. 8
    The House at Belle Fontaine2013 · 203 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013203
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  9. 9
    The Double Life of Liliane2015 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015256
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  10. 10
    Sisters2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  11. 11
    Heathcliff Redux2020 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020224
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  12. 12
    The Rest Is Memory2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Lily Tuck books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

12 books

12 Lily Tuck titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Lily Tuck books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 12 Lily Tuck books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Lily Tuck

Start with Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up (1991), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Lily Tuck book?

The Rest Is Memory (2024) is the newest Lily Tuck book released so far.

Is there a new Lily Tuck book coming?

No next Lily Tuck book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Lily Tuck has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Lily Tuck. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Lily Tuck at a glance

Still publishing
Lily Tuck published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Lily Tuck books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,627 pages across the 7 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 241 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Lily Tuck books, 4 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Lily Tuck books are about

10 of the 12 Lily Tuck books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.