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Laura Sims

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Born

in Waterville, Maine, The United States

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http://www.laurasims.net/

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Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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September 2007

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Laura Sims’s third novel, THE MAN, is due out from Putnam in July of 2026. Her novels HOW CAN I HELP YOU (2023) and LOOKER (2019) have been on Best Books lists in The New York Times, Vogue, People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Publishers Weekly, and more. An award-winning poet, Sims has published four poetry collections; her essays and poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, Lit Hub, and Electric Lit. She lives in New Jersey, where she works part-time as a children’s librarian.

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Average rating: 3.3 · 22,918 ratings · 4,316 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	How Can I Help You 3.40 avg rating — 14,879 ratings — published 2023 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looker 3.07 avg rating — 7,754 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Practice, Restraint 4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger 4.41 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My god is this a man 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Staying Alive 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Marbling (Weekend Crafter) by Laura Sims (2002-09-26) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Hounding

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Laura and 5 other people liked Andrea Bartz's review of The Man: "Haunting, atmospheric, and relentlessly unnerving, THE MAN kept me up late reading...and had me looking over my shoulder on dark corners. Beneath the muscular prose and quiet sense of dread is a thoughtful exploration of power imbalances, our relatio" Read more of this review »
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Laura is currently reading The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Laura and 3 other people liked disco's review of How Can I Help You: "Pretty sure the author wrote this book exclusively for me ♡"
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Laura and 3 other people liked Subashini's review of How Can I Help You: "Some deliciously dark spinster lit. No idea where it was going; didn't expect it to end up where it did, and all done without the ridiculously overblown "twist" formula so common to contemporary thrillers. It all boils down to voice and character! "
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Laura rated a book it was amazing A CURIOUS HUNGER, poetry by Marcia LeBeau by Marcia LeBeau (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A poetry book that welcomes you in and never fails to surprise and delight with its language and insights into motherhood, marriage, grief, female desire, and so much more. I rarely read poetry books from cover to cover, but A Curious Hunger was an i ...more
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“Men can never keep their violence to themselves.”
― Laura sims, How Can I Help You

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“But wouldn't it make us sisters, the actress and me? Wouldn't it be an act of communion with her, in the end? Could I ever make her see it that way?”
― Laura Sims, Looker

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“Her look makes me feel as if she's turning me over in her hands, inspecting my spine and pages for wear, thumbing my table of contents. Or what she thinks is my table of contents.”
― Laura Sims, How Can I Help You

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Time to vote on Octobers Members Choice book. Poll will stay open until September 17th.

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Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

12 votes, 41.4%

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

8 votes, 27.6%

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

4 votes, 13.8%

The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian

2 votes, 6.9%

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

1 vote, 3.4%

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

1 vote, 3.4%

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

1 vote, 3.4%

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