A Children's Bible: A Novel

Name: A Children's Bible: A Novel
Price: 13.88 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (4672 reviews)
Author: Lydia Millet

by Lydia Millet

Literary Fiction Science Fiction

4.0 (4,672)

4.0 stars from 4,672 reviews. Top 53% of Literary Fiction books we track.

232 pages~3.9 hr readPublished by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.Published 2020-01-01

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Last checked: Jun 22, 2026

Price history: $1.99 – $14.09

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Perfect for you if...

You love literary fiction that uses speculative elements to examine real social collapse and generational failure.
You're drawn to stories where children are the moral centre and adults are the ones who've lost the plot.
You appreciate Millet's precise, unsettling prose and her refusal to offer easy answers about what comes next.

Maybe not for you if...

You want a coming-of-age story with hope and redemption at the end.
You prefer plot-driven narratives over philosophical meditation on catastrophe.
You're looking for conventional family drama rather than something deliberately strange and prophetic.

About this book

A Children's Bible follows a group of twelve unusually mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous journey into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet's story explores generational divide and offers a vision of what awaits beyond catastrophic events. The novel was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. It was also recognized as one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, and BBC, among others.

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Currently around #13K in the Kindle store — a steady mid-list seller. Sales have softened 22% recently.

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Currently 4.0★ from 4,672 reviews

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