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Kit Reed


Born
in San Diego CA, The United States
June 07, 1932

Died
September 24, 2017

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Genre
Fiction

Influences
Graham Greene, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fizgerald, Evelyn Waugh and ...more


Kit Reed was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.

Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at W ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 5,876 ratings · 1,108 reviews · 196 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Thinner Than Thou
3.19 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Enclave
2.73 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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The Baby Merchant
3.17 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Where
2.59 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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Mormama
2.96 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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The Night Children
2.94 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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The Story Until Now: A Grea...
4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Other Stories and ... The A...
3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1981
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@Expectations
2.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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Weird Women, Wired Women
4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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“Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.”
― Kit Reed
tags: writing
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“Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?”
― Kit Reed, Thinner Than Thou
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“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”
― Kit Reed, The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories
tags: wherein-we-enter-the-museum
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Polls

What would you like to read for a discussion opening May 1st? (Please only vote if you will follow-up if your choice wins.)

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
2014, 432 pages, 4.03 stars
Kindle $9.99, used print $4.50 and up

 
  5 votes, 33.3%

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
1990, 430 pages, 4.26 stars
Kindle $6.83, used print $2.18 and up

 
  4 votes, 26.7%

Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore
2012, 514 pages, 3.98 stars
Kindle $3.99, used print $14.18 and up

 
  1 vote, 6.7%

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
2011, 352 pages, 3.83 stars
Kindle $10.99, used print $2.04 and up

 
  1 vote, 6.7%

Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
2012, 352 pages, 3.64 stars
$9.99 Kindle, super cheap used print

 
  1 vote, 6.7%

Feed by M.T. Anderson
2004, 299 pages, 3.54 stars
Kindle $5.07, cheap print

 
  1 vote, 6.7%

Our Dried Voices by Greg Hickey
2014, 234 pages, 3.5 stars
Kindle $2.99, used print $4.99 and up

 
  1 vote, 6.7%

Thinner Than Thou by Kit Reed
2005, 336 pages, 3.2 stars
$7.99 Kindle, super cheap used print

 
  1 vote, 6.7%

Eruption by Adrienne Quintana
2015, 288 pages, 4.22 stars
$6.49 on kindle, used print $7.56 and up

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz
2013, 320 pages, 3.6 stars
$9.99 Kindle, super cheap used print

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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