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John Lanchester


Born
in Hamburg, Germany
February 25, 1962

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Business


John Lanchester is the author of five novels, including the best-selling The Debt to Pleasure and Capital. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the E. M. Forster Award, have been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He lives in London.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 77,713 ratings · 10,117 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors
The Wall
3.57 avg rating — 21,022 ratings — published 2019 — 47 editions
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Capital
3.71 avg rating — 15,014 ratings — published 2012 — 67 editions
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The Debt to Pleasure
3.74 avg rating — 3,222 ratings — published 1996 — 58 editions
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Look What You Made Me Do
3.61 avg rating — 3,151 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes E...
3.99 avg rating — 2,411 ratings — published 2009 — 49 editions
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Fragrant Harbor
3.82 avg rating — 2,253 ratings — published 2002 — 40 editions
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Mr Phillips
3.26 avg rating — 1,455 ratings — published 2000 — 35 editions
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Reality and Other Stories
3.27 avg rating — 1,397 ratings — published 2020 — 14 editions
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How to Speak Money: What th...
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Family Romance: A Love Story
3.87 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions
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“The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”
― John Lanchester, Capital
tags: control, love, worry
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“The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.”
― John Lanchester
tags: authors, humir, writing
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“But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.”
― John Lanchester, Capital
tags: knowing, wrong-and-right
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