Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production.

She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren’s bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year.

Oliver is a 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms.

Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Some of its recent titles include the New York Times bestseller Everless, by Sara Holland; the critically acclaimed Bonfire, authored by the actress Krysten Ritter; and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as “disturbing, hard to put down” and “not recommended…after dark.”

Oliver is a narrative consultant for Illumination Entertainment and is writing features and TV shows for a number of production companies and studios.

Oliver received an academic scholarship to the University of Chicago, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University.

www.laurenoliverbooks.com.

All Books By Lauren Oliver

Before I Fall
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Before I Fall
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: March 02, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (304265 ratings)
(304265 ratings)
Like Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End and Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person’s life can affect so many others. With this stunning debut... Read more
Broken Things
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Broken Things
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: October 02, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (11230 ratings)
(11230 ratings)
With all the intensity and whiplash turns of Sharp Objects and One of Us Is Lying, this engrossing psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled... Read more
Curiosity House: The Fearsome Firebird
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Curiosity House: The Fearsome Firebird
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Greg Steinbruner
  • Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: April 11, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (411 ratings)
(411 ratings)
In this third book in the exceptional Curiosity House mystery series by bestselling author Lauren Oliver and mysterious recluse H. C. Chester, four children must uncover the evil Nicholas Rattigan’s newest dastardly scheme, wage war with a... Read more
Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue
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Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Greg Steinbruner
  • Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: May 03, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (674 ratings)
(674 ratings)
In this second book in the exceptional Curiosity House series by bestselling author Lauren Oliver and shadowy recluse H. C. Chester, four extraordinary children must avenge their friend’s death, try to save their home, and unravel the secrets... Read more
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head
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Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Greg Steinbruner
  • Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: September 29, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (2075 ratings)
(2075 ratings)
The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans... Read more
Delirium
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Delirium
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: February 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (352876 ratings)
(352876 ratings)
Lauren Oliver’s powerful New York Times bestselling novel Delirium–the first in a dystopian trilogy–presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell’s 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet. In an alternate United... Read more
Liesl & Po
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Liesl & Po
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Jim Dale
  • Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: October 04, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (8523 ratings)
(8523 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a luminous novel that glows with rare magic, ghostly wonders, and a true friendship that lights even the darkest of places. An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, it’s perfect for fans... Read more
Pandemonium
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Pandemonium
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: February 28, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (218394 ratings)
(218394 ratings)
The second book in Lauren Oliver’s remarkable New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In this electrifying follow-up to Delirium, Lena is on a dangerous course that takes her through the... Read more
Panic
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Panic
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: March 04, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (52497 ratings)
(52497 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a captivating, thrilling novel of fear, friendship, courage, and hope that will leave readers gasping for air. Now a television series on Prime Video, starring Olivia Welch, Mike Faist,... Read more
Replica
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Replica
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: October 04, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (13355 ratings)
(13355 ratings)
Two girls, two stories, one epic novel. From Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, comes an epic, masterful novel that explores issues of individuality, identity, and humanity. Replica contains... Read more
Requiem
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Requiem
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: March 05, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (129912 ratings)
(129912 ratings)
The third and final book in Lauren Oliver’s powerful New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion has ignited... Read more
Ringer, Version 1
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Ringer, Version 1
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: October 03, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (21 ratings)
(21 ratings)
Like its ambitious companion novel, Replica, this far-reaching novel by the powerhouse author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy digs deep into questions of how to be a human being in a world where humanity cannot be taken for granted. In... Read more
Ringer, Version 2
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Ringer, Version 2
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Sarah Drew
  • Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: October 03, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (21 ratings)
(21 ratings)
Like its ambitious companion novel, Replica, this far-reaching novel by the powerhouse author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy digs deep into questions of how to be a human being in a world where humanity cannot be taken for granted. In... Read more
Rooms
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Rooms
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy
  • Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: September 23, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (13042 ratings)
(13042 ratings)
The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane–a tale... Read more
The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street
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The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Reba Buhr
  • Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: February 11, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (441 ratings)
(441 ratings)
From the bestselling author of E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book Liesl & Po comes a timely and relevant adventure story about monsters of all kinds–and a girl brave enough to save them. Cordelia Clay loves the work she and her father do... Read more
The Spindlers
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The Spindlers
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Simon Vance
  • Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: October 02, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (3176 ratings)
(3176 ratings)
Evocative of Alice in Wonderland, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is a bewitching story about the reaches of loyalty and the enduring power of hope. Perfect for fans of the author’s other middle grade novels:... Read more
Vanishing Girls
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Vanishing Girls
  • By: Lauren Oliver
  • Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
  • Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: March 10, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (27286 ratings)
(27286 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver delivers a raw and heart-pounding story, perfect for fans of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars or Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects. Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the... Read more

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The Rants There’s good news for those that rage at the  evening news, shake their heads at Washington’s  business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from  social crisis to political crisis to economic  crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the  nation by its lapels. Miller respects no  boundaries. Whether the subject is dope-addled  baseball players who can no longer ... Read Book
Bread and Roses, Too Rosa’s mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union songs. Rosa is terrified that her mother and older sister, Anna, are endangering their lives by marching against the corrupt mill owners. After all, didn’t Miss Finch tell the ... Read Book
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The Haunted House Diaries Nestled deep in Litchfield Hills, Connecticut, a 1790 farmhouse sits near the epicenter of a paranormal commotion. The family that resides there regularly encounters its own ancestors and strangers-human and non-human-who seemingly occupy the same physical space in our world while remaining in their own, parallel worlds. When famous ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated, they dubbed ... Read Book
I Want My Mummy! Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom’s class because she’s got a magic map–one that takes her students all over the world to battle mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country, and–SHAZAAM!–off they go to a place somewhere far far away. When Ms. Frogbottom whisks the class away to Egypt, they not only come ... Read Book
A Stranger in Mayfair Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers some unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated.Going into the boxing clubs and public houses, the Mayfair mansions ... Read Book
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